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with fine black punctures, anteriorly, in places, a little distant, giving the surface 

 . a marbled appearance. Scutelhim punctured like the pronotum, at the basal 

 angles a black spot divided obliquely by an oclu-eous line. Elytra : clavus and 

 cormm with black punctures, less close and regular than on the pronotum and 

 scutellum ; corium, nerves pale, with a row of the dark punctures along each, 

 anterior margin rather wide, slightly recurved, ochreous, with large, distant, 

 black punctures sometimes confluent ; membrane smoky, crenulate, nerves 

 darker, with very narrow pale margins ; in the interstices, a row of small, pale 

 spots, and in the second space at the base, a large, black spot. Sternum black, 

 posterior margin of each segment, the sides of the 1st, and a large spot on the 

 coxal sheaths, whitish. Legs ochreous ; coxcb black ; thighs all with brovm 

 spots, somewhat in rows, or with transverse streaks, closer towards the base, 

 which is black ; 1st pair beneath, on the inner edge,* with six or seven small, 

 short, black spines, of which the first three are a trifle the largest ; 2nd and 

 3rd pairs, especially on the upper and inner sides, with very short, scarcely pro- 

 jecting spines ; tibicB with distant, short, projecting black spines, the 1st pair 

 on the under-side only ; at the base, an indistinct black ring, apex infuscated ; 

 tarsi infuscated. 



Abdomen above, black, conneximom pale, with sub-triangular, black spots at the base 

 and margin of the segments ; mider-side piceous. 



Length, 3 lines nearly. 



Described from a $ found at Deal, in Marcli last, among the 

 roots of dwarf sallow, by Mr. J. Gr. Marsh, and kindly sent for in- 

 spection. 



The antennae, rostrum and legs are darker than described by 

 Fieber, but these differences do not seem to me to be material. 



The genus Emhlethis contains only one other species, Cimex are- 

 narius, Lin., which may also be expected to occur in Britain, but it 

 appears to be much rarer on the continent than verhasci. It is very 

 like it generally, but may be distinguished by the side margins of the 

 pronotum being beset with spinose hairs. 

 Lee : Uh May, 1872. 



ADDITIONS, &c., TO THE LIST OP BEITISH COLEOPTERA, WITH 



DESCRIPTIONS OF THREE NEW SPECIES. 



BY E. C. EYE. 



Leptusa testacea, Ch. Brisout, in Grren. Cat. et Mat., &c., 1868, p. 10. 



A single example of this intei-esting species, originally recorded 

 from Toulon, was taken by Mr. Gr. C. Champion on 6th June, 1870, 

 out of sea-weed on the sandy shore at Whitstable, Kent, and, when 

 alive, according to its captor, had much the fades of Phytosus nigri- 

 ventris. It has been named for me by its describer. 



* In the generic characters, Fieber says the spines are on the " outer" edge ; but, in describ- 

 ing the species, he puts, correctly, ou the " inner " edge.— J. W. D. 



