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ON CERTAIN BRITISH EEMIPTERA-HOMOPTERA. 



BY JOUX SCOTT. 



[Description of a neiv species of the genus ATnTSA>'US.] 



ATHTSA]*fTJS YeEBALLT, «. sp. 



^. Brownish-yellow, eliiuing. Crown with a black transverse 

 streak on the anterior margin extending from eye to eye. Face black, 

 towards the ajDcx dusky-brown, with 6-7 fine yellow transverse lines, 

 the upper throe joined at the base. Elytra : nerves pale, finely mar- 

 gined with dark brown on both sides ; apical areas fuscoiis-black. 

 Legs sordid yellow ; thighs : 1st and 2nd pairs with two narrow black 

 rings at the apex. Abdomen beneath black. 



? . Face dusky-brown with the transverse streaks somewhat as in 

 the other sex. Elytra : apical areas ocellate, or sometimes faintly 

 margined with brown. Ahdonien beneath yellowish, with a large, 

 somewhat trapeziform, black patch down the centre of each segment ; 

 lateral valves next the ovipositor brownish, finely spotted with yellow. 

 The other characters generally as in the male. 



Length, cJ, 2\, ?, 2^ lines. 



Head — crown brownisli-jcllow, with a black transverse streak on the anterior margin, 

 slightly widened in the middle, and extending from eye to eye ; extreme edge 

 yellow ; across the middle a brown streak, in which are two large shallow fovese ; 

 the space enclosed between the transverse streaks paler than the basal portion ; 

 J'ace black, with 6-7 fine, yellow, transverse lines, the upper three springing from 

 a common base near the antennae ; above the latter and adjoining each eye a 

 small yellow spot ; antenncB brown, apex of the joints paler ; setce black. 



Thorax — -pronoiiim brownish-yellow, with a sliglit fuscous shade; next the anterior 

 margin a transverse channel, in which is a very fine short streak about in a line 

 with the inner margin ; the space enclosed between the channel and the anterior 

 margin paler than the posterior portion, wliich is finely wrinkled transversely ; 

 scutellum pale yellowish, after death slightly wliitish-yellow with a more or less 

 distinctly defined darker line down the centre, and a short, brownish, longitu- 

 dinal streak about midway between the centre and the basal angles. Elytra 

 brownish-yellow, shining, nerves paler than the disc, and narrowly margined 

 on each side with dark brown ; clavus : inner margin between the apex and the 

 central nerve with a narrow dark brown streak ; suture very narrowly black ; 

 corium : ante-apical area adjoining the anterior margin dark brown, sometimes 

 blackish, and frequently with a palish centre ; apical areas dark fuscous, some- 

 times paler in the centre; wings dark fuscous, nerves black. Legs sordid yellow : 

 thighs : Ist and 2iid pairs with two narrow black rings, the inner one sometimes 

 interrupted at the apex ; 3rd, at the base, with a black dash down the middle ; 

 tibi(B : Ist and 2nd pairs with 2-3 small black spots on the outer margin ; 3rd, 

 •inner margin black, towards the apex brokeij into elongated spots, outer margin 



