MACROPSIS MICROCEPHALA. 95 



Genus XX.— MACROPSIS, H.-Sch'aff. 



Crown with the eyes not wider than the pronotum. 

 Antenna in a deep cavity. Pronotum horizontally 

 striated. Elytra with a thickened apical border, and 

 no true limbus. Punctured with fine black dots. 



From Maxpog and aKO'jrEu, " Big-face." 



MaCROPSIS MICROCEPHALA, H.-ScJuiff, 



Plate XXVII., fig. 1. 



Bythoscopus microccphala, H.-S., Faun. Germ. 164, 8. 

 Batracomovphus iiroratus, Lewis, Trans. Ent. Soc. 



Lond. i. 51, pi. 7, fig. 5. 

 Jassus punctulatus, Kirschb. 

 Macropsis piuictuosus, Kirschb. 



,, m/t'roc'(;jj/ia/a, Fieb., Eur. Bythosc. ; Scott; 

 Edw. pt. i. p. 104. 



Pale bluish green. Pronotum and elytra darkly and 

 finely punctured. Vertex short, but more acute at the 

 front than in the next described species. Scutellum 

 triangular. Hind tibiae fringed with stiff green spines. 



This insect seems to be rare. It affects Rock Cistus, 

 HeUanthemum, vulgare, on Mickleham Down, Surrey. 

 My figure is from an example taken in the Isle of 

 Wight. 



Length, 4 to 5 millimetres, or 0*15 to 0*20 inch. 



Macropsis lanio, Liiifi. Plate XXVII. , fig. 2 to 2 c. 



Cicada lanio, Linn. 



Jassus lanio, Fab. ; Germ. ; Fall. 



Bythoscopus lanio, Burm. 



Cicada hninnca, Fab. 



Jassus hrunncus, Fab. 



Macropsis lanio, Am. et. Serv. ; Flor ; Marsh. ; 



Kirschb.; Fieb., E. Bythos. 450, 3; Sahl.; Scott; 



Edw. pt. i. p. 105. 



