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fascia transversa lata fusca, vittse longitudinali ejusdem coloris con- 

 juncta, iu forma criicis dispositis, ornata. Auteuna? pallidse, articalo 

 primo, apice excepto, quartoque nigris ; femora nigra, tibiae tarsique 

 ferruginei. 



Long. 1 lin. Attica. 



Oncottlus nigeicoekis, E. S. 



Yirescens, pilis nigris dense vestitus, antennis nigris, breviter 

 pilosis, articulo primo subviridi, protborace antice foveolato ; mem- 

 brana infuscata, venis albis ; subter parcius nigro-pilosus, pcdibus 

 viridi-flavis, femoribus praesertim infra nigro-guttatis ; tibiis nigro- 

 punctatis et spinosis, apieibns cum tarsis nigris. 



Long. 2| lin. La Eocbello. Ipse. 



Species distincta et formosa. 



2, Spencer Park, Wandsworth : 

 February, 10th, 1876. 



BEITISH HEMlPTERA-SETEEOPTERA—KDJilTlO^AIj SPECIES. 

 BY J. W. DOUGLAS. 



LTG^IXA. 



Teapezoxotus dispae. 

 Trapezonotus dispar, Stal, Ofv. Vet. Ak. Forb., 56 (1S72) ; Letb., 

 Hem. Nord., 2 ed. 21 (1874). 



Blact, with whitish pubescence, on the upper surface scarcely perceptible. An- 

 tenncB comparatively long, slender, 1st joint, in the $ , orange. Rostrum orange iu 

 the (? . Pronotum posteriorly much wider than in front, posterior third (except a 

 spot in the middle, a smaller one towards each posterior angle, and round punctures, 

 wliich are black), also the side margins throughout, testaceous. Scutellum immacu- 

 late. Elytra as long as the abdomen, testaceous ; clavus with three to four rows of 

 round black punctures ; corium with similar but less regularly placed punctures, and 

 at the inner posterior angle a large, rhomboidal black spot ; membrane fuscous-black ; 

 nerves whitish, broad at the base. Legs : — J , thighs orange, 2nd and 3rd pairs with 

 a broad ante-apical black ring ; tihice : 1st and 2nd pairs orange, the 2nd black at 

 the base, 3rd black : — ? , thighs black, apex orange ; tibicB : Ist pair rufous at the base 

 (I have two examples in which all the tibira are deep orange, the 2nd and 3rd pairs 

 black at the base) ; tarsi in both sexes black. Length, ^ , 2 ; ? , 2^ hues. 



I found a few examples on tbe I7tb May last, in an open space 

 among the underwood at Darentb •Wood, running swiftly in tbe 

 sunshine. 



