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P. nubilus, /all.—Rather paler in colour than the 
preceding. Head finely punctured; antennz longer, en- 
tirely black; eyes not prominent ; pronotum much widened 
posteriorly, nearly twice as wide as long in some ? speci- 
mens, sides narrowly reflexed, with a very small white 
patch behind the middle, surface punctured, black in front, 
posteriorly ochreous, with black punctures; scutellum 
black, with an impressed dorsal line, and a pale V-shaped 
spot at the apex; clavus with rows of black punctures, 
corium ochreous, irregularly punctured and spotted with 
black, leaving the nerves pale; membrane greyish brown, 
nerves and an indefinitely-shaped basal spot white; legs 
black; apices of the femora, the anterior tibiw, and the 
apices of the other pairs, as well as the bases of all the tarsi, 
ferruginous. 
L. 5-5} mm. 
Herne Bay, at roots of maritime plants in a salt 
marsh; Whitstable, Deal, Southend, Champion ; Norfolk, 
Edwards; Penarth, South Wales, and Ashdown Forest, 
Billups. 
P. gracilicornis, Put.—Like the preceding, except 
that the head is strongly punctured, the eyes are larger 
and more prominent, the pronotum rather longer, and 
less widened posteriorly, and all the tibia and tarsi 
testaceous. 
L. 5 mm. 
Hastings, Douglas. 
P. geniculatus, Hahn. (puncticeps, Thoms.).—Like the 
two preceding, but differing from both in the decidedly 
thicker antenne; from gracilicornis also in having the 
bases of the second and third pairs of tibiae dark, and in 
the slightly longer pronotum ; and from nuli/us in the large 
prominent eyes, strongly punctured head, and much longer 
pronotum. 
L. 5 mm. 
In rubbish, moss, dead leaves, at roots of grass, etc., 
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