76 Llemiptera-[eteroptera. 
and finely pubescent. Head more or less mottled with black, 
the eyes produced on very long narrow pedicels, which are 
slightly inclined upwards and forwards ; the distance be- 
tween the eye and the pronotum is considerably longer 
than the eye itself ; antennee with the basal joint mottled 
with black, apical joint dark brown or black, rather shorter 
than the third in length; pronotum considerably widened 
and raised behind, its sides nearly straight, dise punctured 
with black with a pale central line, which has a small im- 
pression on each side of it in front of the middle, closely 
punctured with black ; scutellum with a pale central keel 
posteriorly and a small pale elevation at the base on each 
side ; elytra punctured with black, and generally with a 
small ocellate spot near the base of the posterior margin ; 
membrane opaque, white, unspotted at the basal angle, 
but granulated and streaked with black on the disc ; abdo- 
men above black in the ? ; legs testaceous spotted with 
black. 
L. 5-53 mm. 
Teignmouth, Dawlish, Hastings ; Bexhill, Butler ; Deal, 
Billups ; Budleigh Salterton, Portland, Lulworth, Seaton, 
Charmouth, Dale; Clacton-on-Sea, latch; 8. Devon 
and Cornwall coasts and Milford Haven, Marshall. 
H. halophilus, Burm.—Hasily distinguished by the 
shape of the head, the eyes being less produced, and on 
wider pedicels, which are not inclined upwards, but shghtly 
backwards ; the distance between the eye and the pronotum 
is not nearly as long as the eye, and the eyes somewhat 
embrace the anterior margin of the pronotum ; the antenne 
have their apical joints longer than the third ; pronotum 
much shorter and squarer than in laticeps and less raised 
posteriorly. In colour the whole insect is generally darker, 
sometimes nearly black, but I have someas pale as laticeps, 
which also varies a good deal in this respect. 
L. 54 mm. 
Herne Bay, in a salt marsh near Hampton ; Whitstable 
