258 ' October, 



notwithstanding I watched them every day early and late : they 

 gradually died one after the other, so that by the middle of July I had 

 lost them all. 



It would appear from the fact of finding larvre, or the majority 

 of them, so very small early in August, there must be two broods, but 

 I am inclined to think there is a continuance of emergence from the 

 beginning of May till the first week in July, which would apparently 

 account for larvae being found in all stages of growth in the month of 

 August, but I have not been able to verify this at present, mainly, 

 from the locality being so many miles away ; I have been unable to 

 observe them in their native haunts during the whole of one season. 



122, Shepherdess Walk, London, N. : 

 September 11th, 1892. 



PSALLUS ALBICINCTUS, KBM., 

 A NEW BRITISH SPECIES OF HEMIPTERA. 



BY EDWARD SAUNDERS, F.L.S. 



On the 13th of July of this year I beat a single female example 

 of this species off a sallow at Chobham. Although I went again 

 repeatedly to the same spot, I failed to secure any more ; possibly I 

 was too late in the season for it, and if so, have little doubt I shall 

 find more next year. Kirschbaum quotes oaks, and Reuter oaks, 

 beeches and sallows as its habitats ; there were some oaks close to the 

 sallows where I was collecting, but I could get nothing off them except 

 Fsallus varians and diminutus ; still I think it is not improbable that 

 oak may be its food-plant there, as the oak trees, although on the 

 opposite side of a narrow lane, almost overhang the sallows. 



PsALLUS ALBICINCTUS, Kbm., 



Jahrb. Yer. Naturk. Herzog. Nassau, Heft x, p. 332. 



About the size of diminutus, Kbm., but rather shorter and broader, and the 

 pronotura more convex. It may be known from any of its allies by its rather wider 

 pronotum in front, and by the colour of the upper surface, especially of the clavus, 

 which is of a greyish tint, being freckled with darker red spots, and also by the 

 brown atoms with which the head and pronotum are sprinkled ; there is a fine pale 

 line down the middle of the pronotum and scutellum, and the hemelytra are of a 

 deeper red than in diminutus or varians ; the posterior femora are more incrassated, 

 and the anterior tibise are armed with more numerous and thicker black spines. 



One specimen (?) on Salix, Chobham. 



St. Ann's, Woking : 



September 12th^ 1892. 



