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third as wide again as long, extremities truncate, sides rounded and sinuate 

 ratlier before base, hind angles right and very sharp, witli a clearly-marked 

 carina ; median line not very deep, generally foveiform behind, but not as a rule 

 reaching base, front transverse impression distinct, base depressed, foveae 

 rounded and fairly deep, surface smooth, basal area coarsely punctate, a few 

 punctures near front margin. Elytra moderately convex, slightly dilated behind) 

 about half as wide again as prothorax, and as much longer than wide, shoulders 

 distinct, side border extending to stria 5 ; punctate-striate, outer striae well 

 marked on basal half, stria 1 deep to apex, the others obsolete behind, 2 visible 

 close to apex, where it joins 1, a slight ridge at this point between it and the 

 very short apical stria, scutellary stride rather short, strongly impressed at base, 

 where it joins 1-2 ; intervals slightly convex on disk, 3 with two small but 

 distinct pores at a third and two-thirds. Underside smooth. 



Resembling B. nlfiduliim Marsh., but a little smaller, the legs paler. 

 Head with deeper furrows ; prothorax a little narrower, the base more 

 I'oarsely punctate, the carina at hind angles liner ; elytra less rounded in 

 front, apical stria much shorter. 



Punjab : Simla Hills, near Matiana, 8000 ft. {Dr. S. W. Kemp — 

 Ind. Mus.) Bex.; 7000 ft. (Dr. N. Annandale—lnd. Mus.) 1 ex.; 

 Theog, 7600 ft. and Kotgarh, 7000 ft. (*S'. iV^. Ohafferjee—Fov. Res. Inst.) 

 2 ex. United Provinces : Dehra Dun, 1 ex. ; Mussoorie, Mossy Falls 

 and W. S. Palls, 2 ex. ; Chakrata, Mohna, oOOO ft., 3 ex. (all Dr. M. 

 Cameron — For. Res. Inst.). The type is in the British Museum. 



A CONTRIBUTION TOWAEDS THE LIFE-HISTORY OF 

 DICTYONOTA STBICHNOCERA Fikb. 



Br E. A. BUTLER, B.A., B.SC, F.E.S. 



Of the Tingid genus Dicfyotiota Curt, twenty Palaearctic species 

 have been catalogued, but the British representatives of this particular 

 genus of lace-bugs amount to no more than three. Of these three, in 

 my experience, the species which forms the subject of the present paper 

 is the commonest and the most widely distributed ; in fact, as one's 

 familiarity with natural associations and inter-relations increases, one is 

 more and more inclined to think that no old-established furze-bush can 

 properly be considered complete unless it has its due complement of 

 D. strichnocera Pieb. 



I have not yet been able to find the eggs in the open, and my 

 knowledge of them is derived from such as I have taken from the body 

 of the pregnant $ . Prom some specimens captured in August, I have 

 obtained in this way eggs which seemed to be quite mature and ready 



