48 TTemiptera-lfeteroptera. 
darker, about half as long as the third; pronotum con- 
siderably raised posteriorly, especially at the angles, sides 
sinuate, margins finely rugose, posterior angles produced, 
acute, base produced, slightly sinuate across the scutellum, 
and with a strongly raised line parallel to it; scutellum 
faintly wrinkled transversely ; connexivum only slightly 
produced laterally, evenly rounded to the base and apex, 
disc of abdomen above black, with a pale central spot and 
pale at the apex ; beneath and legs pale ochreous. 
L. 11-12 mm. 
On Box-trees at Boxhill Surrey. 
PSEUDOPHLADUS, Burm. 
A very distinct genus, which may be known at once by 
the tubercular surface of its head and pronotum; the 
basal joint of the antenne is short and thick and very 
rugose ; the anterior cox in the ¢ have a spinose tooth 
posteriorly, the genital segments are shaped much as in 
the preceding genus. ‘The posterior femora in our British 
species are simple ; there are two other Huropean species, 
but they are both from the South, and therefore not likely 
to occur in England. 
P. Fallenii, Schill—Greyish ochreous, very rugose, 
irregularly mottled with black. Head very rugose and 
tuberculous, antenniferous tubercles large, blunt, basal 
joint of the antennz short, about one half as long as broad, 
very rugose, second and third thin and finely granulated, 
fourth ovate, black ; pronotum much raised posteriorly, 
lateral margins tuberculously spinose, deeply sinuate, pos- 
terior angles largely rounded, with their margins reflexed 
and rugose, base nearly straight across the scutellum, with 
a strongly raised line on the disc just within it; disc with 
three anterior impressions, of which the centre one is the 
deepest and best defined, and in which are some short erect 
black spines, the interstices of these impressions run up as 
