1S75.] 79 



ill the autumn o£ 186G, wliicli is certainly Cicada ]^i7j«, Fallen. It has 

 been rarely noticed by authors ; I can only find it cited by Dr. J. 

 Sahlberg (who gives it doubtfully — " verisimiliter " — as a synonym of 

 T. blandula), and by M. Lethierry. It is all but identical in marking 

 with T. hlandula, but differs in having the tarsi of the third pair of 

 legs wholly black, giving the insect a very remarkable character. 

 Flor says (Ehyn., Livl., ii, 401) that in T. hlandula, ^ , all the three 

 joints of the hinder tarsi, except the base of the first, are often black. 

 In Dr. Power's examples the first joint like the others is wholly black. 

 Assuming for the present that it is a distinct species, the synonymy 

 will be as follows : — 



TtPHLOCTBA TILIiE. 



Cicada fiUce, Geoff., Ins., i, 426, 24 {sec. Fall., I. c. infra); Fall., Hem. 

 Suec, ii, 57, 55 (1S2G). Ti/plilocj/la llandula, var., J. Sahib., Not. 

 Fenn., xii, 184, 13 (1871). Ztjgina iilicc, Leth., Hem. Nord, 2 

 ed. 77 (1874). 



15, Belgrave Tcrr.ace, Leo, S.E. : 

 Mil August, 1875. 



Capture of Mesovelia f areata, Muls. — It has fallen to the lot of Dr. Po'wer 

 to take one of the rarest, if not the rarest, speeies of Hemiptera-IIeteroptera 

 belonging to Britain, if not to Europe. The only specimens of Mesovelia f areata 

 previously known to me were two, viz. : that described by MM. Mulsant and Rey in 

 Opusc. Ent. in 1852, and that in the possession of Mr. E. Brown of Burton-on-Trenfc, 

 captured several years ago near that town. The specimens, two in number, taken by 

 Dr. Power are without the membrane, so that the inference is the season was a little 

 too early. He has also taken a few specimens of the pupa, which at first sight I 

 thought might be the imperfect form of the creature, but subsequently, through the 

 Doctor's kindness, having been directed to the spot, I was fortunate to take it in its 

 stages of larva, pupa, and imperfect imago. It is exceedingly active in the net, and 

 what is more, it is difficult to see. — Jcn.v Scott, 37, Manor Park, Lee : August, 1875. 



Notes cm Mediterranean Hemiptera-Kctero-ptera. — While on the IVIeditcrrancnn 

 Station, on board II. M. S. "Swiftsure," I devoted most of my limited spare time to 

 collecting insects, Coleoptura being my principal quest. I did not, however, neglect 

 to secure all tlie Hcmiptem wliicli came in my way; and my somewhat unexpected 

 return home having given me an opportunity of in:*pceting my captures (consigned 

 to the care of my friend Mr. G. C. Cliampion), I have drawn up the following notes, 

 wliicli may possibly be of interest to Ileniiplcrists. My very slight acquaintance 

 with the order must be an apology for all deficiencies in this paper. 



The insects were all determined by Mr. E. Saunders, to whom I beg to tender 

 mv sincere thanks. 



