190 [January, 



Tllytra white, clear, almost transparent ; nerves bright green ; membrane appendix 

 fuscous, the colour sometimes extending for a little way into the adjoining areas. 

 Legs green ; HMcb, at the base, frequently with a small black spot exteriorly, 

 and sometimes another on the inner margin. 



Abdomen above, green, with a broad black streak dovm the centre, leaving the 

 posterior margin of the segments narrowly green ; beneath green ; last genital 

 segment pale green or greenish-yellow, base above, black ; external processes 

 green or greenish-white, clothed with long, fine, white hairs. 



Length, li — 2;^ lines. 



AltBougli Fieber, in tlie Yerhandl. d. k. k. zool.-bot. GeselL, 459, 

 7 (186S), describes the P. prasina, Boh., as a distinct species, I cannot 

 at present arrive at the same conclusion, as the differences he gives 

 appear to nae to be of too trivial a character to lead to their separation. 



Not an uncommon species around London and at Deal on sallows, 

 in July and August. 



Species 5. — Pediopsis imptjea, Boh. 



lassiis impurus, Boh., Nya Sv. Homop., 37, 9 (1847). 

 Pediopsis imjmtnis, J. Sahib., Not. Penn., 133, 13. 



B. Face sjjotted tvitli hlach. 



1. Neeves palee than the Elytea. 



(^and$. Pale sordid yellow, with a brownish tinge or fuscous-grey, 

 slightly shining ; nerves of the elytra jmle. 



Head luteous or pale ochreous-white. Face with five black spots placed in the form 

 of an irregular pentagon, the two lowest of which are the largest, and generally 

 somewhat rhomboidal in shape ; the space enclosed by the spots more or less 

 tliickly and finely brown punctured. Ocelli sometimes with a narrow black 

 margin. 



Thorax : pronotum somewhat coarsely crenulated, the interstices sometimes faintly 

 brown punctured ; anterior margin with a short, black, shining, transverse 

 patch, centre sometimes with a black spot. Scutellmn pale luteous, or more or 

 less brown ; basal angles with a triangular black spot, sometimes the apex, 

 from the transverse channel, black. Elytra pale sordid yellow with a brownish 

 tinge, somewhat darker round the apex, or fuscous-grey ; nerves pale ; claval 

 suture narrowly brownish. Sternum of the $ black, margins of the segments 

 luteous or yellowish ; $ entirely luteous or yellowish, or sometimes as in the $ . 

 Legs yellow ; thighs — 1st and 2nd pairs more or less brown, 3rd with a dark 

 brown or piceous streak along the upper side ; tibia — 3rd pair, at the base, 

 with a black spot exteriorly ; inner margin, from the base to the apex, more or 

 less broadly black ; tarsi yellow or sometimes faintly brownish, apex of the 

 3rd joint narrowly, and claivs black. 



Abdomen of the $ black, margins of two or three of the last segments, on the sides. 





