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LYGAUS, Fab, 
We have only one species of this genus out of the sixteen 
recorded palasarctic species, and it must be confessed that 
it is but a doubtful native. Its claim to a place in our list 
rests on only two captures of late years, one taken by the 
late Mr. Sidebotham at Devizes, in June, 1864, the other 
by the late Mr. C. G. Hall, at Dover on the 7th September, 
1886. It used to be in the older lists, but it was placed by 
Messrs. Douglas and Scott im their lists of “ Reported 
British Species,” and since re-admitted as native by them 
on Mr. Sidebotham’s capture (H. M. M. iv. p. 2). I had 
such doubts myself of its being otherwise than an intro- 
duced species that I omitted it from my “ Synopsis,” but 
this second capture seems to me to give it a right to be 
considered at any rate as an “ occasional visitant.” It can- 
not be confused with any other British genus of the 
Lygeide, although it resembles Therapha, a genus of the 
Coreidx, from which its spotted membrane and its eyes, 
which touch the anterior margin of the pronotum, wilt 
separate it at once, 
Colour red and black ; head short, triangular, eyes touch- 
ing the pronotum, antenniferous tubercles rounded ; pro- 
notum with the sides slightly rounded, disc nearly flat ; 
scutellum simple ; elytra parallel-sided ; legs simple. 
L. equestris, Linn.—Bright red ; posterior angles of the 
head, a bilobate spot in front of the pronotum, and a 
narrow band along the base, the scutellum, a round spot on 
the clavus, a central transverse band on the corium, a spot on 
each segment of the connexivum, four rows of spots on 
the abdomen beneath, the antennz and legs black ; mem- 
brane black ; a narrow basal band and a round central spot, 
its apical margin and a short streak, near the centre of the 
apical margin of the corium, white. 
L. 10 mm. 
Very rare. Bath, Mitford, 1837, fide 0. W. Dale ; Devizes, 
1864, S¢debotham ; Dover, 1886, C. G,. Hall. 
