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BRITISH HEMIPTERA: ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 

 BY J. "W. DOUGLAS AND JOHN SCOTT. 

 (Concluded from page 246.) 



The name Zamproplaa: is now submitted by us, instead of Lampro- 

 nofus, for the genus characterized at p. 243 of the present Yolume, the 

 latter name having been previously used by Curtis in the Hymenoptera. 



L. Sharpi is possibly identical with Pachymerus (P.) piceus, Flor, 

 Ehynch. Liv,. i, 251, a species which Fieber admits as distinct, and 

 refers to his genus Megalonotus {Bhyparachromus, Curtis), "Wien. Ent. 

 Monats., vii, 55 ; but it does not agree with the characters of that genus. 



Family 4. — Phytocoeid^. 



Qenus 4. — Phytocoeis, Pall. 



Species 3a. — Phytocoeis populi, Lin. 



CiMEX populi, Lin., F. S., 963 (1761) ; S. K v., 503, 110 (1767). 



Lyg^us „ Fah., E. S. iv., 174, 138 (1794) ; S. E., 237, 171 (1803). 



Phytocoeis „ Fall., Hem. Suec. i., 84, 16 (1829) ; Burm., Handb. ii., 

 268, 9 (1835) ; H. Schf., Norn. Ent. i., 47 (1835) ; Meyer, 

 Caps., 42, 1, p. 7, fig. 4 (1843) ; Sahlh., Geoc. Fen., 90, 1 

 (1848) ; KirscU., Caps., 38, 16 (1855) ; Fieh., Europ. Hem., 

 260, 8 (1861); Flor, Khyn. Liv. ii., 594, 3 (1861). 



Dark greyish-yellow, with large irregular almost black patches, 



clothed with longish, depressed, pale yellowish hairs, intermixed with 



shorter black ones ; on the corium some few of the patches of hairs are 



silvery-white ; anterior margin of the corium with long black spots of 



irregular length. 



Head brownish-yellow. Crown generally, on each side of the centre, next the 

 posterior margin, with two short slightly curved streaks. Clypeus more or 

 less fuscous towards and at the apex. Face — side lobes mai'giued with black. 

 AntenntE black, considerably longer than the entire body; 1st joint longitudi- 

 nally striped with pale yellow, the black portions with one or two yellow spots, 

 clothed with longish, erect, pale hairs ; 2nd three-fourths longer than the 1st, 

 with a narrow yellowish band about one-third of the length from the apex • 

 3rd naiTowly pale at the base, about half the length of the 2nd ; 4th three- 

 fourths the length of the 3rd. Eyes black ; on the undei'-side, below the eyes, 

 a short black streak. Rostrum yellow, apex black. 



Thorax — Pronoium black, in the middle towards the collar more or less broadly 

 brownish-yellow, sometimes with a reddish tinge ; collar brownish-yellow, on 

 each side of the centre, posteriorly, frequently a black spot ; hinder margin 

 narrowly whitish or yellowish-white. Scutellum brownish-yellow, very convex, 

 considerably raised above the clavus ; the basal angles, the middle of the 

 anterior portion, and a streak on each side before the apex, black. Elytra — 

 Clavus black, the inner margin generally yellowish, more or less interrupted 

 with black spots ; disc with one or two pale spots. Corium with large irregular 

 black patches, generally covering the entire disc, and leaving here and there a 



