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ADDITIONS TO THE BRITISH FAUNA (HEMIPTERA). 

 BY J. W. BOUGLAS AND JOHN SCOTT. 



The descriptions of the following species were to have been in- 

 serted in the Entomologist's Annual for this year, but o^^^ng to a ple- 

 thora of matter they were excluded. We now, therefore, avail ourselves 

 of the pages of the Entomologist's Monthly Magazine for their ap- 

 pearance. 



GYMNOCERATA. 



Section 6. — LT0JEINA. 

 Family 4.— CYMIDJE. 



Genus 2. — Ischnobiiynchus, Fieb. 



By a singular error in " The British Hemiptera," p. 233, the name 

 and synonyms of I. resedce, Panz., are followed by the description of 

 I. gcminatus, Fieber, and the description of the former species is omitted. 

 To rectify this we supply the following description of 



ISCHNOEHYNCHUS BESED^. 



Yellowish-red, inclining to brown ; head, 2nd and 3rd joints of the 



antennee, scutellum, and legs, red. 



Head — red, sides next to and behind the eyes black, dull, distinctly 

 punctured. Antennae, 1st and 4th joints black, 2nd and 8rd light 

 red, base and apex black, of the 2nd more broadly than of the 3rd ; 

 the base of the 4th is also sometimes red. Eyes pitchy-black. 

 Rostrum black, 1st joint more or less piceous. 



Thorax — Pronotum narrow and constricted to a collar in front, ochreous 

 or red-brown, shining, with somewhat fine and close black punc- 

 tures, the base of the collar or the whole of it, and sometimes the 

 whole or the middle only of the posterior margin, black. Scutellum 

 in the middle bright red with a few punctures, the basal depression 

 and sometimes the sides black, with large deep punctures. Elytra 

 shining, ochreous. Clavus with a pink line down the centre, on 

 each side of which is a row of distinct dark punctures, and another 

 row on the inner margin. Corium outwardly clear ochreous, in- 

 wardly with a reddish flush ; behind the middle two contiguous 

 narrow black spots, each on a nerve, posterior to them and extend- 

 ing to the posterior margin a triangular space is distinctly punctured 

 brown or black ; inner margin with a carmine line, posterior margin 

 reddish, piceous or blackish, interrupted by a yellowish spot near 

 the inner angle, a black one at the end of each of the two nerves, 

 and one at the apex ; sometimes by the junction of the black spots 



