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extending for a little distance on either side of the central nerve ; corium, in 

 the middle, between the 1st and 3rd longitudinal nerves, with a transverse 

 brown band ; beyond the apex of the clavus generally a more or less defined 

 brown patch ; membrane apex more or less brownish. Legs pale brownish- 

 yellow ; thighs — 3rd pair generally with a longitudinal, black streak on the 

 upper margin next the apex. 



Abdomen (^) above, black, posterior margins of the segments very narrowly yellowish, 

 sides of the three last segments broadly yellowish ; beneath black, posterior 

 margins of the segments pale brownish-yellow ; terminal segment black ; last 

 genital segment black, apex ajid lower margin yellowish ; external processes 

 curved, yellowish, clothed with fine white hairs. Length, 2 lines. 



Easily separated from P. tilice by the absence o£ tlie green or 

 yellowisli-green bead and pronotum. 



Tbe only specimens I have seen are tbose taken by Mr. Douglas 

 and myself in tbe sallow pit, Lee, in August, and at Dunoon, Scot- 

 land, in September. 



{To be continuedj. 



NOTES ON ANISOTOMID^, WITH DESCRIPTION OF THREE NEW 

 SPECIES (TWO FROM JAPAN, and ONE FROM GT. BRITAIN). No. 1. 



BY E. C. EYE. 



AnISOTOMA MULTIPFNCTATA, sp. 11. 



Ohlovgo-ovalis, convexiuscula, testacca, ant cnn arum clavd latiore fused, articulo 

 apicali hrevi, quam prcecedens angustiore ; prothorace transversa, crehre fortiter 

 punctata, lateriius fere a hasi truncato apicem versus angustatis, leviter rotundatis, 

 apice levissime bisinuato, angulis anticis rotundatis, posticis rotundato-oitusis ; elytris 

 longiorihus, lateribus parce ciliatis, fortiter punctatis, striis quasi irregulariter gemel- 

 latis, interstitiis punctis multo minorihus impressis ; strid suturali ah apice fere ad 

 scutelluvi prnfunde inipressd, e pxmctis minorihus, crehris, regulariter dispositis for- 

 matd : fihiis anticis linearibus. Long. carp. 1^ lin. (Anglic.J. 



Mas ignotus. 



Fern, pedibus simplicihus, femorum posticaricm angulo exteriore suhtus rotundato, 

 hand prominulo. 



Hab. Hiogo, Japan. 



Somewbat of tbe size and facies of an ordinary pale example of 

 A. ovalis, but witb tbe antennal club of calcarata, and of more elon- 

 gate-oval sbape ; tbe punctuation of tbe elytra is, bowever, different 

 from tbat of any of tbe genus known to me, most nearly resembling 



