40 Flenuptera-fleteroptera. 
the sides of the elytra, base sinuate across the scutellnm, 
anterior margin with a row of punctures parallel to it, 
behind which is a smooth transverse elevation. Scatellam 
punctured as the pronotum, greenish with a red tinge 
towards the base, apex narrowly pointed ; elytra rather 
more finely and closely punctured than the scutellum, red, 
the disc more or less green, membrane slightly dusky, with 
a dark spot on the outer margin and a more or less dark 
cloud extending from it across the entire width of the 
membrane ; abdomen above black, connexivum ochreous, 
produced at the apex into a projecting angle beyond the 
central part of the abdomen, apex of the abdomen red 
above and beneath, the rest of the underside ochreous ; 
stigmata black, legs ochreous, apex of tarsi black; meso- 
sternal] plate extending posteriorly a little beyond the inter- 
mediate cox. 
L. 8-10 mm. 
Birch and other trees, Norfolk, Zdwards ; Shirley, Plum- 
stead, Reigate, Billups; Hastings, Butler; Armagh, 
Johnson ; Glanvilles Wootton, Purley Heath, Dale ; Knowle, 
Brandon, Barmouth, Hunstanton, Llatch ; Forres, Norman. 
(Suncenuvs ELASMOSTETHUS.) 
A. interstinctum, Linn. ; (grisewm, auct. nee Linn.)— 
Shining, ochreous, more or less red towards the margins, 
strongly punctured with black, connexivum spotted with 
black. Head with the central lobe projecting as far as the 
cheeks, largely punctured with black, antenne pale, with 
the terminal joint black at the apex ; pronotum with the 
anterior angles slightly produced laterally, sides nearly 
straight, posterior angles produced but not acutely, base 
sinuate across the scutellum, surface largely punctured with 
black, dise much raised posteriorly ; scutellum punctured, 
ochreous, with a black cloud across the base ; elytra rather 
