186G.] 197 



Between the times of leaf hunting I managed to resort to a good 

 thatched barn, distant about a quarter of a mile from the town, and 

 from this the following species were procured : — 



Depressaria pimpinellce (2), clicBrojpliylli (2), ultimella (4), 

 Alstrcemeriana (8), pastinaeella (7), nervosa (2,) , arenella (4<), purpurea 

 (19), alhipunctella (20), heracUana and applana (of the three last 

 named species some were allowed to escape, especially applana, but of 

 the others none were let go, except by accident). 



Laverna decorella (1). 



Anyhia Langiella (1). 



P.S. — November 10th. In Devon for one day only. The rose 

 bushes, which when I left in October contained no Nepticula larvae, 

 were now, in the garden, literally swarming with the larvae of Nepticula 

 angidifasciella. Some of the mines were already empty, and in others 

 there were full-fed larvae, often several in one leaf. 



AN ESSAY TOWARDS A KNOWLEDGE OP BRITISH HOMOPTERA. 

 BT THE BET. T. A. MARSHALL, M.A. 



(Continued from page 181.) 



B. Valvula ventralis maris externa. ^ $ coloribus subsimiles. (Subg. 

 Selenoceplialus, Burm., Strongylocephalus, Flor. 



7. — Acocepkalus agrestis, Fall. 



Pallide griseus, fronte irregulariter nigro notata ; vel niger, supra 

 griseus, plus minus atomis maculisque nigris irroratus. Supra nitidus, 

 subtus semper obscurus. Vertex planus, obtusus, longitudine vix qua- 

 drantem suae inter oculos latitudinis superans, plus dimidio brevier quam 

 prouotum. Hemelytra abdomine modo breviora, modo paulo longiora, 

 nervis hie illic albo interstinctis. Pedes testacei, unguiculis, tibiarum 

 spiuis basi, femoribus anticis plus minus, posticis intus longitudinaliter 

 vel totis, nigris. ^ plerumque nigricat, ? magis pallescit. 



Long. 1-21 ^ . 2f 3 lin. ? . 



Cicada agrestis, Fall., Hem. 2, p. 30. AcocepTi. agrestis, Plor, 

 B. L. 2, p. 210. Amlilyceplialus irroratus, Curt., B. E. 572, 

 n. 6. Euacanlhus irroratus, Lewis, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1, p. 52, 

 (fig.). Selenoceplialus ohsoletus, Germ. Mag. 4, p. 93, Burm., 

 Gen. Seleiiocephalus (fig.). lassus conspersus, H. Sch., En. 

 124, 12. ^, Fhrynomorphu^ nitidus. Curt., Ent. Mag. 1, 

 194. 



