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margined by a deep black line ; the prominent middle lobe margined by a lilaek line; 

 tlie sides of the head before and behind the prominent black eyes, broadly fuscous. 

 Rostrum testaceous with a black line outside. AntenncB testaceous, 1st joint with a 

 fine black line on the inner side, 2nd black at the extreme base, the apex, and the 

 3rd and Ith joints, wholly fuscous -black. 



Pronotum long- trapezoidal, anteriorly annuliform ; the middle portion long, 

 convex ; the posterior tliird on its front somewhat depressed, then slightly convex 

 transversely ; down the middle tliroughout is a fuscous vitta which, on the middle 

 portion only, is widened and has a fine yellow line down its centre, the exterior being 

 sharjily defined by a fine deep black straight line which begins and ends with a black 

 dot ; from the lower end a thin black line curves upwards and outwards, and defines 

 a conspicuous pale spot, and, generally, another similar, but darker, one exterior to 

 the first, thus forming a figure somewhat like oo : and sometimes the whole of the 

 middle portion of the disc is also enclosed within a continuous, irregidarly angulatcd, 

 delicate black line : the short anterior annulus has also a rather broad fuscous vitta 

 close to the sides, and the posterior portion a similar vitta (sometimes two) between 

 the middle one and the posterior angles. Scutellum black, with a long comma-shaped 

 pale spot on each side of the middle, but leaving the small basal angles black. lElj/tra 

 as long as the abdomen in the ^ , scarcely so long in the $ ; davits more or less 

 iiifuscated ; corium long, nerves prominent, pale, margined more or less with fuscous ; 

 on the 1st, beyond the middle, a long black spot, another at the posterior junction of 

 the 1st and 2nd nciTcs, and a third, smaller, on the membrane-suture : membrane 

 short, pale, with broad fuscous nerves. Wings (in my examples) rudimentary. Sternum 

 black in the middle. Legs testaceous ; thighs, on the sides, with black dots in rows, 

 the first pair, outwardly, having also transverse brown lines ; joints of the tarsi at 

 the extreme apex, and the claws, black. 



Abdomen, above, reddish-fuscous, the conncxivum pale, with a basal pale red 

 streak ; beneath, clothed with fine whitish pubescence, a middle line and the sides 

 broadly fuscous-black. Length, 3— 3i lines. 



In colour like iV. ferus, but broader, shorter, elytra not so long, 

 antenna) much longer, &c. 



Distinguished from N. ericetoriim by the pale testaceous colour, 

 the broader form, the conspicuous light nerves of the corium, the 

 slightly longer antenna;, &c., and the different habitat. According to 

 Kcuter's figure, there is also a slight difference in the form of the 

 Jiamus of the genitalia of the male. 



I have only recently found this species among herbaceous plants 

 at Lee and Darenth Wood, but I have no doubt it is generally distri- 

 buted. I have never found it among heath, Avhere only JV. cricctorum 

 plentifully occurs. 



In tlie "British IIcmi[)t(i'a," N. ericetornm, Scholz, was described, 

 following Fieber's suggestion, under the prior nwraa N. dor salt >i, Diif. ; 

 but, as it has since aj)peared th;it there are two distiiict species indi- 

 cated by these names, and dorsnlis (which Renter, I. c, has given valid 

 reasons for considering to be Cimcx rur/osus, Lin.) is I]ritish, it is 

 necessary now to describe it. 



Lee : \sl November, 1875. 



