42 rjuly, 



almost from side to side beyond tlie hinder angles, gradually becoming shallower as 

 it approaches them ; hinder angles slightly raised, produced into a long acute tooth ; 

 hinder sides waved, narrowly black, toothed ; posterior margin across the scutellum 

 straight, with a sliglit tooth at the extremities of the latter. Scutellum pale brownish- 

 yellow, sides narrowly margined ; disc, apical two-thirds coarsely wrinkled trans- 

 versely, basal one third finely wrinkled and regularly waved from the centre to the 

 sides, down the middle a somewhat obscure fuscous streak, terminating before reaching 

 the apex. Elytra ochreous-drab, except the nerves, very finely and iri'egularly punc- 

 tured ; corium, side-margins almost parallel, sliglitly concave from near tlie base 

 to in a line with the apex of the scutellum, marginal nerve at the base fuscous, within 

 the latter a narrow, fuscous longitudinal streak, terminating about in a line with the 

 apex of the clavus ; disc with two short brownish or fuscous streaks, the upper one 

 running parallel with the margin of the inner nerve of the exterior basal cell, the 

 lower one below the apex of the exterior nerve of the same : memhrane pitchy or 

 slightly olive-brown, shining. Stcnutm ochreous-drab, rugulose-punctate. Legs 

 ochreous-yellow ; coxcb, 1st and 2nd pairs, the apex on tlie inside, narrow!}' black, 

 3rd brownish-yellow, apex more or less fuscous. Thighs, 1st and 2nd pairs, the 

 apex with a narrow black margin, underneath with two rows of four or five teeth 

 placed at irregular intervals, and not opposite to each other, the 2nd next the apex 

 longest, tip narrowly black, 3rd pair fuscous-brown, shining, with three pairs of 

 teeth next the apex, not placed opposite to each other, near the base a long curved 

 black tooth, its base and apex brown ; tibicB, 1st and 2nd pairs piceous, apex brown, 

 with two teeth on the under-side towai'ds the latter ; 3rd pair piceous, sides brownish- 

 yellow, witli a long curved tooth in the middle on the under-side and thi-ee smaller 

 ones next the apex ; tarsi pitchy-black, with short yellowish or reddish-yellow hairs 

 on the under-side. 



Abdomen above, brownish-yellow : connexivum black, with an almost square, red- 

 dish-yellow spot on each segment before the apex, last segment reddish-yellow, apex 



black ; underneath brownish or slightly fuscous-brown. 



Length, 1 in. 3 lin. (Paris). 



Although I have placed the above-described insect in the genus 



Mictis ?, I have merely done so to enable uie to investigate more fully 



certain characters, whereby, if found sufficient, I may characterize it 



under the name of Apodesmitts. 



It (a (J ) was sent by me some considerable time ago to the late 



Dr. C. Stal, who returned it as unknown to him. It was taken by the 



late Mr. E. M. Janson (after whom I have named it), at Chontales, 



Nicaragua. 



Lee : 2(Mh Fehruary, 1882. 



Capture of Aphalara nebulosa, Zett. — Following up my note on this species 

 (Vol. xviii, page 275) and believing that the plants of " Epilohium angiistifolium," 

 on Boxhill, must now have grown to some considerable height, I started, on the 

 morning of the 29th ult., fully equipped and determined to work out Dr. O. M. 

 Keuter's announcement that this plant was the head-quarters of the insect in ques- 



