1G2 HEMIPTERA. 



verse channel and the basal angles occasionally piceous ; the 

 apical portion very finely cross-wrinkled. Elytra finely sha- 

 greened. Claws brown, with a pale spot at the apex of the 

 piceous inner margin. Corium bi'own ; anterior margin 

 pale yellowish white ; at the base and apex, with a pale yel- 

 lowish white, triangular patch, the basal one largest, and 

 sometimes extending a little way in upon the clavus ; the 

 space between piceous at the first nerve, and shaded off as it 

 extends across the disc ; posterior margin broadly pitchy 

 black, the nerve slightly paler. -Legs red, clothed with 

 longish golden yellow or red hairs, especially on the tibiae ; 

 apex of the hinder thighs broadly, and the apex of all the 

 tibiae narrowly, pitchy black. Tarsi and claws brown-red, 

 terminal joint of the tarsi piceous. 



Length IJ lines. 



All the specimens which have hitherto been taken in this 

 country are undeveloped. Herrich-Schaffer, VVanz. Ins. 

 iv. 35, fig. 387, has figured the developed form, and states 

 as follows: — "This pretty creature, which evidently ap- 

 proaches to the species of the genus Coriza, was captured 

 by Herr Cantor Markel, in Saxon Switzerland, and sent to 

 me through Herr Professor Kante. Yellow red. Antennce : 

 2nd joint at the tip, 3rd and 4th at the base, brown j base, 

 and a cross-band of the whitish elytra, brownish ; a triangular 

 patch on each side of the scutelluui and the cuneus dark 

 brown. Membrane pale brown ; 3]'d and 4th joints of the 

 antennae somewhat thinner than the 2nd. 



About thirty specimens were taken by Mr. Douglas and 

 myself at the end of August, on Piumstead Common, at the 

 roots of heather. 



