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DISCOYEEY OF THE FEMALE 0¥ EURYBREGMA NIGROLINEATA. 



BT JOHN SCOTT. 



$ . Undeveloped. Length, Ij line (Paris). 



White, after death changing to pale yellowish, with a brown streak down each 

 side of the centre of the pronotum, scutellum and abdomen, much broader on the 

 latter than on either of the former ; margins of the abdomen black. 



Head : crown white or pale yellowish ; basal fovese deep, anterior one very 

 minute, all three brown coloured. Face convex, brown, palest down the centre. 

 Antennfe yellowish. Eyes dark brown. Pronotum white or pale yellowish, with a 

 brown streak on each side of the centre, nearly in the middle of which is a small 

 fovea. Scutellum white or pale yellowish, with a fine central keel, and a longitudinal 

 brown streak on each side. Elytra abbreviated, transparent, reaching to a little 

 beyond the base of the 3rd segment of the abdomen ; entire marginal nerve whitish. 

 Legs pale yellowish ; apex of the third joint of tarsi and claws black. Abdomen 

 white or pale yellowish, with a broad, longitudinal, pale brown band down each side 

 of the centre ; side-margins black, the pale intermediate space between the latter 

 and the brown streaks with two diagonally-placed minute brown spots on each seg- 

 ment ; viewed from behind the last segment with a black spot on each side. 



Being now for a time on tlie Solent, and finding it impossible to 

 get to Fawlcy in the New Forest, where I took the male of this fine 

 species some years ago, as mentioned in this Magazine, vol. xii, p. 92, 

 I lately made a few pilgrimages along the shore from where I am re- 

 siding, and at last, after very hard work, had the pleasure of taking a 

 single $ example not far from the mouth of the Southampton Water. 

 Since then I have taken a male at the same place. 



JuJi/ ^st, 1886. 



Lygceus eqnestris, L., at Dover. — On the afternoon of September 7th, when out 

 for a ramble on the cliffs in company with my friend Mr. J. J. Walker, I was fortu- 

 nate enough to sweep up this beautifvd bug. I at first thought I had taken Therapha 

 hyoscyami ; Mr. Walker, who was close to me at the time and saw it in my net, 

 thought the same, or else that it was something better. L'pon returning home we 

 compared it with the figure of Therapha hyoscyami in Douglas and Scott's 

 Hemiptera-Heteroptera, but found it did not agree either with the figure or with 

 the description ; nor did it with that in Mr. Saunders' Synopsis. Noticing the 

 conspicuous round white spot on the membrane, Mr. Walker suggested it might 

 be Lygceus, and as I was writing to Mr. E. Saunders the next day, I mentioned the 

 capture in my letter, witla a slight description ; in answer to which Mr. Saunders 

 said " it sounded like Lygmus." Since then I have forwarded it to him for identifi- 

 cation, and he has very kindly returned to me as the above species. 



Lygceus equestris, L., is in the List of British Heteroptera in the Entomologist's 

 Annual for 1861, jd. 47, besides L.familiaris, Fab., and ptmcium, Fab. All three 

 are also in the Reputed Species in Douglas and Scott's Hemiptera. — C. G. Hall, 

 Dover: September 12th, 1886. 



