AGALLIA BRACHYPTERA. 123 



AgALLIA BRACHYPTERA, Boh. 



Athysanus hrachypterns, Boh. 



Agallia hrachyptera, Flor ; Kirsclib. ; Sahl. ; Scott ; 

 Edw. pt. i.^p. 128. 



Dirty oclireous or white. Vertex rounded. Eyes 

 brown. Two brown spots on the vertex. Pronotum 

 with a fine brown hne, with two oblong spots on each 

 side. Abdomen with dark margins to the segments. 

 Legs pale brown ; claws black. The two fore pairs of 

 legs darker than the hind legs. Hind tibiiie finely 

 fringed, the outer edges more coarsely so. Elytra 

 about half the length of the abdomen, with three 

 broad stripes on each. Hind margins narrowly black. 

 Frons dirty white, marked with two smaller and two 

 larger brown spots, succeeded by two fine wavy lines. 

 Antennae of the males clubbed like those of Idioccrns. 



My drawing is from a specimen in Mr. Douglas's 

 cabinet. Mr. Edwards notes that the antennae are not 

 clavate in Agallia : this specimen appears to show them 

 such. 



North Cliff, Scarborough, on grass ; June. 



In reviewing these three last genera it may be seen 

 that the general appearance of Pediopsis is much that 

 of Idiocerus. The ocelli are almost identically placed 

 on the vertex. The antennae of the former, Sahlberg 

 describes " in foveis obsoletis inserts," but in the latter 

 "in foveis profundis insertae." The neuration of the 

 elytra is variable, particularly in Pediopsis, which 

 pretty constantly shows five apical cells ; whilst Idiocerus 

 shows but four, with the addition of a limbate edge. 

 The wing-veining, also, is practically the same in all 



