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the median line ; thence the thinner ridge runs out- 

 ward and shghtly forward, until it nearly touches the 

 pseudo-stigma, then it turns sharply inward and for- 

 ward at an angle of about 45° with its former course, 

 and terminates in a very short piece bent forward, or 

 slightly outward, between the commencement of the 

 lamellae. Pseudo-stigmata large and lateral. Pseudo- 

 stigmatic organs with long filiform peduncles, and very 

 short, fusiform (pointed) heads. Interlamellar hairs 

 shortish and setiform. Second tectopedium well deve- 

 loped; the others small. Apodemata joined to the 

 sternum. 



Legs rather short, the hind pair not i^eaching the 

 posterior margin. Femora without blades. Glaivs 

 monodactyle. There are a few fine hairs on each of 

 the three central joints of each leg; large tactile hairs 

 on the tibise, and the usual fine hairs on the tarsi. 



Abdomen truncated anteriorly, rounded posteriorly. 

 Progaster almost straight. Antero-lateral angles 

 slightly produced so as to form small, chitinous, blunt 

 points. There are two longitudinal rows of sparse 

 fine hairs on the notogaster, and a series of similar 

 hairs round the margin. Genital and anal plates 

 rather small, pentagonal, far apart. 



Distribution. — I have found this principally in 

 Epping Forest. 



NOTASPIS SPLENDENS* (Kocli). Pi. XXXIII, figs. 10, 15. 



Opjpia eplendens, Koch, Hft. 32, pi. vi. 



Damcetis splendens, Michael, Joui-n. Roy. Microsc. Soc, ser. i, 



vol. ii, p. 247. 



Average length about '31 mm. 



Average breadth about '15 mm. 



Average length of legs (first pair) about '14 mm. 



Average length of legs (second pair) about '13 mm. 



* Splendens, shining. 



