274 [May^ 



Grey or greyish black, with longish, depressed, silvery white hairs. 



(^ narrower and more elongate than the ^ . Tihice with large black 



spots. 



Head — black. Groxmi ; hinder margin broadly brownish yellow. An- 

 tenncB, 1st and 2nd joints black, the apical half of the latter yellow ; 

 3rd and 4th yellow. Rostrum, yellow or brownish yellow, tip 

 black. 



Thorax — Pronotum pale or dark grey, more or less suffused with blackish 

 gray on the sides and in front to behind the callosities. Scutellum 

 black, basal angles orange yellow or yellow. Elytra — clavus inner 

 margin fi'om the scutellar angle to the apex black, the colour 

 extending for a little way upon the disk ; disk blackish gray. 

 Corium, anterior margin pale grey, or with the apex more or less 

 blackish gray ; disk between the 1st nerve and the inside of the 

 anterior margin white, occasionally more or less suffused with 

 blackish grey ; towards, and at the apex, between the 1st nerve and 

 the claval suture blackish grey, darkest towards the apex ; Guneus 

 white at the base, the apex broadly black ; Membrane blackish, 

 iridescent, between the apex of the cuneus and the lesser cell a 

 somewhat triangular white patch ; cell nerves white, cells brown ; 

 inner marginal nerve brown-black. Le^s — thiglis black ; 1st and 

 2nd pairs at the apex frequently piceous ; tibics brownish-yellow 

 with large black spots, and long, erect, somewhat spinose, black 

 hairs, the base narrowly black ; tarsi brownish yellow ; 3rd joint 

 and claws piceous. 



Abdomen — black. Length <^ 1|, $ 1-| line. 



"Several examples taken at the side of the bridge between Havant 

 and Hay ling Island, on Artemisia maritima, in September (^Douglas'). 

 Immature specimens are of a uniform pale gray colour. 



Family 14a.— BOTHYNOTIDJE. 



Qenus — Bothtnottjs, Fieb. 



(J Longish oval, sides almost straight ; $ broad oval, with unde- 

 veloped elytra. 



Head — viewed from above short, vertical in front, 2| times wider across 

 the eyes than long, posteriorly produced into a short neck, its 

 sides very convex. Crown almost horizontal, flattish-convex. 

 Olypeus convex, nearly parallel with the anterior margin of the 

 eyes ; apex in a line with the base of the antennae ; antenniferous 



