232 L March, 



suture very narrowly black. Corium : nerves pale ; down the claval suture a 

 brown or piceous streak, widest at the apex ; anterior or costal area with a small 

 brown or piceous patch in the middle, inner nerve at the base narrowly brown ; 

 discoidal and ante-apical area, in a line with each other, brown or piceous ; central 

 ante-apical area with a brown or piceous patch near the base, its lower margin 

 frequently prolonged in the middle into a tooth ; apex with a more or less 

 defined brownish patch ; apical area, in a line with the discoidal area, brown or 

 piceous ; appendix somewhat brownish. Legs yellow ; thighs : Ist pair on the 

 inside with a row of spots next the upper and lower margins ; 2nd piceous, base 

 and apex yellow ; 3rd yellow, with a longitudinal black streak down the centre ; 

 tibicB with a brownish shade ; 1st pair : outer margin with a narrow, black, 

 longitudinal line ; 2nd with one, 3rd with two rows of black punctures set in 

 pairs down the outer margin, between which are a few smaller ones ; apex 

 narrowly brown ; spines brown ; tarsi yellow ; apex of all the joints narrowly, 

 and claws, black. 



Abdomen above, black ; posterior margin of the segments and sides narrowly yellow, 

 last segment more broadly margined than the others ; beneath yellow, anterior 

 and side margins of the segments black ; last genital segment above, black, 

 beneath and sides yellow ; the spiuose hairs brown. Length 11 line. 



"When the insect is in repose, the following greenish or pale greenish-white 

 characters are perceptible on the elytra : — Clamis : base broadly and a smaller space 

 round the apex of the central nerve, common to each elytron ; corium .- base broadly ; 

 disc posteriorly with two narrow streaks, as also the anterior or costal area. Larger 

 and stouter than C sexnotata, and with the markings on the elytra more distinctly 

 defined, somewhat as in C. variata. 



All tte specimens captured are females. They were taken by the 

 Rev. T. A. Marshall in a swampy place near Lastingham, in September ; 

 no doubt some weeks too late for the other sex. 



(To he continuedj. 



NOTES ON BRITISH HEMIPTERA. 



1. Orthostiea nioeina and maceophthalma. 



I have a British Orthostira in my collection which agrees with the description 

 of macrophthahna, given by Messrs. Douglas and Scott in your December number, 

 p. 173, in having two rows of meshes on the sutural area of the elytra, but disagi-ees 

 in having a pale 3rd joint to the antcnnte. I have also before me two specimens of 

 a species from Scotland, sent to me by Mr. Champion, agreeing with their notes on 

 nigrina, but having black or very nearly black antcnnfe. Now, the arrangement and 

 number of the meshes in my specimen with the pale antennae is not the same on the 

 two sides ; on one the sutural area has two regular rows of meshes extending almost 

 to the apex of the discoidal cell, on the other a third row is set up about the middle 

 of the suture ; this woidd suggest that the number and disposition of the meshes 

 may be a variable character. The colour of the aptennte also might depend on the 



