February, 1874.] 193 



more or lees liable to vary in this respect, and as all the other charac- 

 ters agree so well with his description, I consider the difference of 

 minor importance. 



I possess a single ? example, taken some years ago on Plumstead 

 Heath, in August, and which was sent to the late Dr. Eieber for deter- 

 mination, who returned it with the above name attached. From the 

 green colouring on the insect, I believe it to be somewhat immature. 



Species 8. — Pediopsis nassatus, Germ. 



lassus nassatus, Germ., P. Ins. Eur., fase. 17, 13. 



Bytlioscopics marginata, H.-Sch., D. I., 143, 8. 



Pediopsis nassatus, Flor, Ehyn. LivL, vol. ii, 189, 4 ; Marshall, Ent. 



Mo. Mag., vol. ii, 124, 1 ; Kirschb., Cicad., 174, 6 ; J. Sahlberg, 



Not. Fenn., part 12, 131, 11. 

 Pediopsis marginatus, H.-Sch., D. I., 143, 7 (var.) ; Kirschb., Cicad., 



174, 7 ; J. Sahlberg, Not. Fenn., part 12, 13?, 12. 

 Pediopsis planicoUis, Thomson, Opusc. Ent., 320, 8 (1870). 



^ and ? more or less brownish-testaceous or yellowish. Head 

 yellow or yellowish-white. Face with four or five black spots, and 

 frequently the margin of the ocelli narrowly black. Pronotum with 

 four or five more or less confluent black spots next the anterior 

 margin, sometimes one or more wanting. Scutellum more or less 

 clear yellow, with a triangular, black spot near each basal angle. 

 Elytra pale brownish-testaceous or yellow ; nerves piceous or black. 



Head yellow or yellowish-white. Face generally with five black spots, placed three 

 next the crown, and two (frequently comma-shaped) about in a line with the 

 lower margin of the eyes ; the central spot of the three, next the crown, is 

 often changed into a short, longitudinal streak, divided by a very narrow, 

 yellow, central line. Lores sometimes narrowly margined with black internally. 

 Antennae yellow ; setae fuscous, base yellow. 



Thorax : pronotum more or less brownish-testaceous, or the disc somewhat fuscous- 

 yellow, leaving the anterior portion yellowish, and with four or five black spots 

 more or less large and confluent. Scutellum more or less clear yellow, with a 

 triangular, black spot near each basal angle. Elytra pale browiaish-testaceous 

 or yellow, almost transparent. Clavus—irmev marginal nerve piceous ; between 

 the base, where it is widest, and the scuteUar angle, black ; nerves of the disc 

 brown or fuscous. Corium — nerves piceous or black, paler from the first pair 

 of transverse nerves to the apex of the membrane. Sternum yellow. Leya 

 yeUow ; tibicE — 3rd pair at the base, exteriorly, with a black spot ; tarsi yellow, 

 apex and claivs dark brown. 



Abdomen above, black, posterior margin of the segments narrowly yellow, except in 

 the two last, which arc broadly so on the sides ; beneath yellow ; last genital 



