32 [July, 



apicalea, quarum maxima, iu apice ipso, lunata, marginem posteriorem 

 tantum obsidet : pone banc duge minimae, lineares. Long. lin. If. 



Fab., S. E., p. 83, No. 2 {Delphax). Flor, R L., 2, p. 88. 

 Asiraca pulcJiella, Curt., B. E., 445 fig. 



$ . Apterus, elyti'is immaculatis, abdomine brevioribus. 



Long. lin. 2^. 

 Asiraca duhia, Curt., B. E., 445, text. No. 2. 



This species is the largest, and apparently the rarest, British 

 representive of the minor group of Fulgorina typified by DelpJiax. It 

 has occurred in Sweden, several parts of Germany, France and Italy. 

 Spinola mentions it as rare in the neighbourhood of Genoa. Curtis 

 discovered it in the Isle of Wight, at Black Gang Chine, on rushes ; 

 and the present writer took two in a similar situation, cJ ? , in a ditch 

 about two miles from Sandwich, on the Eamsgate Road, in September, 

 1863. 



Gen. ASiEACA, Latr. 



Another section of DelpTiax, equal in value to Arceopiis, and exhi- 

 biting, together with that, two of several divisions which must ultimately 

 be marked out on similar principles. The first joint of the antennae is 

 more than three times as long as the second, and rather more than 

 twice as broad, — a character which serves at a glance to distinguish the 

 genus from either of the two preceding. Our only species is — 



1. — Asiraca clavicornis, Fab. 



Ferruginea vel ochracea. Scutellum nigricans, limbo tenuiter 

 pallido. Frons inter carinas inferius nigricans. Sternum medio, femora 

 basi, tibiae anteriores et mediae apice, albida. Pedes antici dilatati, com- 

 pressi. Hemelytra flavo hyalina, apice brunneo vittata, fortiter nervosa, 

 nervis breviter setosis, nigro granulatis. $ . Long, lin. 1\. 



Fab., S. R., p. S3, No. 1 (Belphax). Coqueb., 1, pi. 8, fig. 7. 



Germ., Mag., 3, p. 205, No. 4. Spin., Ann. Soc. Ent. de Fr., 



t. 8, p. 337. Curt., B. E., 445 text, No. 1. Cuv., R. Anim. 



Ins. Atlas, pi. 97, fig 8. 

 This pretty species is not uncommon in grassy places, clover fields, 

 &c., in spring and summer. Curtis mentions Henstead, Suffolk, as one 

 locality, and I observed them more than once during a visit to Sandown 

 some years ago. Unfortunately, I then took but a single specimen ; 

 from which circumstance I am unable to give any description of the 

 male in the present paper. Mr. Rye has taken it in June near 

 Dartford. 



