1874.J ^47 



nerves red, after death brownish. Legs brownish-pink, after death luteous ; 



tihicB yellowish, with a few fine dark hairs down the outer margin ; tarsi yellow, 



ajx?x of the 3rd joint and claws black. 

 $ . Ovate. Sead more convex than in the (? , distance between the eyes about 



equal to the length of the head ; transverse channel at the base distinct. 

 Thorax — ^ronotum : callosities distinct, generally darker than the disc. Elytra 



clothed as in the other sex. Membrane slightly paler than in the $ , and barely 



reaching to the apex of the abdomen. Remaining characters as in the other sex. 



(J , ? . Length 1^ line. 



A\^e have also what we considered to be a green form of the fore- 

 going insect, and in this idea we are borne out by Dr. Puton, who, 

 however, had not, until the other day, seen an example. " Curiously 

 "enough," as he observes in a letter, the original captor (in Erance), 

 " M. Bellevoye, of Metz, arrived at the same time as your box, and 

 " brought with him a green example." "We subjoin a short diagnosis : 



Yar. MoxcEEAFFi. 



Qreen in both sexes and clothed as in A. rubidtis. Head yellow ; pronotum in front 

 yellow, more or Jess broadly green posteriorly. Scutellum yellow. JElytra — 

 corium green, clothed as in rubidtts, but with minute green punctures, in which 

 the black hairs are set ; in the (J , cuneus paler than the corium. Membrane 

 pale fuscous, iridescent; cell-ncrvcs yellowish or brownish-yellow. All the other 

 cliaracters as in A. rubidtis. 

 We have also one fuscous-black example, S ■ 



Taken at Lumps' Pond, Portsmouth, by Mr. II. Moncrcaff, upon 

 or under Salicornia radicans (creeping, jointed glass-wort), from 

 August up to the middle of October. ANTo have named this variety, if 

 variety it be, after its captor, who has added to our fauna so many 

 good things from his locality. 



(To be contintiedj. 



ON CERTAIN BRITISH HEMIPTERA-UOMOFTERA. 



BY JOHN SCOTT. 



(continued J'rom Fb^ x, 2^. 242.) 



DORATUHA, J. Sahlberg. 



This genus was founded by the above author, in 1871, for the 

 reception of the only two known European species which had been 

 doing duty in genera with which they have but little in common. Only 

 one of these species is as yet known to bo British, but I believe the 

 other wall be found in Scotland, if not in England also, as its capture 

 is recorded by Flor, Kirschbaum, Thomson, and J. Sahlberg. 



