DEGEERIA. 163 



The antennge have the two first segments pale at the 

 base, dark at the apex, third segment dark, apical 

 rather lighter. Legs yellowish ; saltatory appendage 

 white. 



This species most nearly approaches the B. platani of 

 Nicolet, but may be at once distinguished by the colour 

 of the first abdominal segment, which in the latter 

 species is pale. 



It has no scales. Each leg has a tenent hair ; and 

 the large claw is provided with two teeth. It occurs 

 on the bark of trees, and under logs of wood. 



Length '05 of an inch. 



Found during spring and summer, in Kent and 

 Lancashire. 



The foreign species which have been described are 

 as follows : 



Degeeria disjuncta, Nicolet. 



Degeeria disjunda, Nic. Mem. Soc. Helv., 1842. 

 — — Gervais. His. Ins. Apteres. 



" D'un jaune sale lave de gris, avec le dessous du 

 corps, les pattes, la queue et les antennes beaucoup 

 plus pales, ces dernieres annelees d'un gris legerement 

 plus fence. Yeux noirs. Trois bandes longitudinales 

 de taclies triangulaires et noires sur le dos ; ces bandes 

 s'etendent de la partie anterieure du thorax au bord 

 posterieur du troisieme segment abdominal ; celui-ci 

 borde de noir posterieurement ; quelques taches noires, 

 dont le nombre et la disposition varient sur le sixieme 

 segment du corps ; poils gris. 



" Longeur : 1^ a 2 millimetres. Dans les forets, sous 

 les mousses, assez commun ; vit solitaire." 



I have never met with any specimens answering 

 exactly to this description. 



