272 [«v. 



There can be but little doubt that the last two classes of malfor- 

 mation are the consequences of injuries received while the insects were 

 in the penultimate state ; but for the first-mentioned kind of aberration 

 I hesitate to offer a hypothesis. I have not detected the suppression 

 of a joint of one of the antennae in any other section than the three 

 above-mentioned ; and I should be very glad to hear if it has been 

 noticed by others in these or other sections. 



(To he continued.) 



ADDITIONS TO THE BRITISH FAUNA (HEMIPTERA). 



BT J. W. DOUGLAS AND JOHN SCOTT. 



(ConUnued from page 220.) 



Pamtlt 12.— PSALLIDJE. 



Genus 4. — Sthenakus, Fieb. 



Species 2. — Sthenarus Roseri. 



Capsus Eoseei, R. Sehf. Wanz. iv. 78, fig. 407 (1839.) Mei/er, Caps. 

 105, 94 (1843). KirscU. Caps. 87, 115 (1855). 



Capsds (Capsus) Eoseei, Flor., Ehyn. Liv. i. 560, 53 (1860). 



Sthenaeus Eoseei, Fieh., Europ. Hem. 309, 1 (1861). 



Orange-yellow, clothed with fine depressed golden-yellow hairs. 



Head — black. Antennce, 1st and 2nd joints black ; 3rd and 4th reddish 

 brown, the base of each narrowly black. Rostrum black. 



Thorax — Pronotum reddish-yellow, finely wrinkled transversely, the 

 hinder margin of the callosities, a central line and the posterior 

 margin blackish-brown. Scutellum black. Elytra orange yellow ; 

 Clavus, inner margin narrowly black ; disk from thence to the 

 nerve suflused with blackish ; Gorium in the middle with a large, 

 somewhat triangular, black patch between the 1st nerve and the 

 claval suture, extending to the posterior margin ; Cuneus red ; 

 Membrane blackish brown, between the apex of the cuneus and 

 the lesser cell-nerve whitish ; cell-nerves reddish, narrowly mar- 

 gined with whitish, lesser cell white. Legs, 1st pair reddish 

 yellow ; tihi(B at the apex blackish ; tarsi yellow ; 3rd joint and 

 claws black (2nd and 3rd pair of legs of the specimen wanting). 



Length 1^ line. 

 "We have only seen a single ^ example of this species, which was 



taken by the Eev. T. A. Marshall at Battersea. It was submitted for 



determination to Dr. Fieber, who returned it as a variety of Stlieiiarus 



