216 [September, 



treated as an Athysanus or Tkamnotettitv, but in the limitation of 

 genera which I have adopted it falls readily into the genus Limotettix, 

 J. Sahl., forming with L striola, Fall , a section in that genus dis- 

 tinguished from the remaining species by having the crown broadly 

 rounded in front, but little longer in the middle than at the sides, and 

 about three times as broad as long. It has, however, no near ally 

 amongst the British Cicadina, and though its distinctive features are 

 mainly those of facies and colour-pattern, it would, perhaps, be better 

 placed in a separate genus ; in which case the name Opsins, Fieber, is 

 available. It is probable that in life all the green parts of the insect 

 are of the same tint as the elytra of the specimens before me. 



Colesborne, Cheltenham : 

 July 'AQth, 1902. 



L&MOSTENUS COMPLANATUS, Dej., IN IRELAND: AN ADDITION 

 TO THE BRITISH FAUNA. 



BY STANLEY W. KEMP, F. E. S. 



When looking over a box of beetles which T had caught during a 

 stay in Ireland, Mr. E. A. Waterhouse drew my attention to the fact 

 that some specimens which 1 had taken to be L. (Pristonychus) ter- 

 ricola, Herbst, did not belong to that species. These, on further 

 examination, proved to be Lcemostenus complanatus, D e j . , a species 

 which I am thus pleased to add to the British list. This insect 

 appears to have an extremely wide range, being recorded from S. 

 France, Portugal, Italy, Barbary, Madeira, St. Helena, Bermuda, and 

 Chili. 



It is on the whole a smaller insect than P. terricola, the thorax is 

 less contracted behind, and the elytra are more parallel-sided ; there 

 are wings under the elytra (P. terricola is apterous), and the legs are 

 considerably shorter. 



The specimens, some two dozen in number, were found under 

 the stones of a fallen wall, on sandy soil near the sea, about three 

 miles from Nelson's Pillar, Dublin, last June. I am indebted to Mr. 

 E. A. Waterhouse for assistance in identification. 



8U, Oxford Gardens, Netting Hill, W. : 

 August, 1902. 



[This 8. European insect, which appears to be almost cosmopo- 

 litan, will probably be found mixed with P. terricola in British 

 collections, as I find I have two of it from Chatham, captured by Mr. 

 J. J. Walker in IS 71. It is a common species at Gibraltar, and ou 



