150 I December, i 



AN ADDITIONAL SPECIES OF BRITISH EEMIPTERA. 



BY JAMES EDWARDS. 



On the 18th October last, I took off a spruce-fir at Stratton 

 Strawless, near Norwich, a few examples of a Lggus, which Mr. Douglas 

 has determined to be a species not hitherto recorded as British. The 

 characters given below will suffice to distinguish it from all the British 

 species of the genus ; it comes next to L. rubricatus, Fall. 



Lygus atomarius. 

 Capsus atomarius, Meyer, Schw. Ehynch., 73, 46, tab. 4, fig. 3 (1843). 

 Hadrodema atomaria, Eieb., Eur. Hem., 277, 1 (1861). 

 Lygus atomarius, id., 392, 3.* 



Long-oval. Above testaceous, more or less tinged with red, closely punctured, 

 and covered with fine pale pubescence ; sometimes more or less irrorated with black, 

 or with a black stripe on each elytron. f Head in $ black, in $ pale with three 

 black spots, the middle one V-shaped ; cuneus orange, tbe inner angle with a small 

 black spot ; membrane irrorated. Scutellum generally with a dark central stripe. 

 Intermediate and posterior thighs with two dark ante-apical rings ; posterior tibia 

 outwardly with fine, short, black spines ; last joint of the tarsi black, except at the 

 base. Antenna dingy yellowish, the 3rd and 4th joints, and more or less of the 

 apical portion of the 2nd, black. Length, 2 — 2\ lines. 



The variations in marking seem to be confined to the males. 



Bracondale, Norwich : 



5th November, 1880. 



ON THE EGGS AND JjKWVM OF SOME CERYSOMELM AND OTHER; 

 (ALLIED) SPECIES OE PEYTOPEAQA. 



BY J. A. OSBORNE, H.D. 



In the synthetic arrangement of larvae attempted by McLeay 

 and extended by Kirby and Spence, the Coleopterous larvae are 

 divided into five tribes by McLeay, one of which is — ■ 



" 4. A hexapod and distinct! g antenniferous larva, with a sub-ovate 

 rather conical bodg, of which the second segment is longer and of a dif- 

 ferent form from the others, so as to give the appearance of a thorax. 



* Fieber gives as a synonym Capsus delicatus, Mulsant [recte Perris), Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 

 1S57, p. 167, but the description in no way accords with L. atomarius, and Reuter refers the 

 species, as distinct, to the genus Ambiytylus (Hem. Gymn. Eur. ii, ;210j. — Eds. 



t Meyer's description and figure, made from a single example, show the pronotum and elytra 

 covered with scattered pitchy black atoms. Fieber, however, remarks that a fully-spotted indivi- 

 dual is represented, that such marking is exceptional, and even on the membrane is sometimes 

 obsolete. Frey-Gessner Mitth. schw. ent. Ges.,ii, 23 1 says also that Meyer's type-form rarely occurs, 

 and he had ample means of knowing, for he adds that in Switzerland, although the species is scarce, 

 yet at times, in the place where it is found, it is numerous on " Rothtannen " ( Abies picea) in 

 April and September. It is also found in Bohemia and Trance on other conifers.— Ens. 



