104 fTemiptera-Fleteroptera. 
brown, posterior angles black, a spot in front of them 
white; scutellum black, corium and-clavus ferruginous, 
punctured with brown, a line down the centre of the latter, 
and the former outwardly and apically white, with a round 
black spot near the apex, membrane black, white at the 
apex; abdomen black; posterior margins of the thoracic 
segments beneath pale, abdomen beneath clothed with fine 
hairs; legs testaceous, a band at the apex of each femur, 
the apex of the anterior tibie, the base and apex of the 
others and all the tarsi at the apex black; anterior femora 
with a strong spine towards the apex and two smaller ones 
on its proximal side, intermediate and posterior femora with 
a small tooth close to the apex. 
L. 5-6 mn. 
Not common, Chobham, running among dead leaves, etc., 
ona dry sandy bank; dead leaves, Ashford, Kent, Marshall ; 
not uncommon under bark of whitethorns, etc., Norfolk, 
Edwards ; Colchester, Walton-on-Naze, Croydon, Blatch ; 
Stoke Wood, Devon, Pavfitt ; Gravesend, Southend, Lee, 
Darenth, Chatham, Champion; Cardiff, Billups; Portland, 
Dale. 
BEOSUS, Am. S. 
(Dieuches D. & S., Saund. ete.) 
Allied to Aphanus, but easily distinguished by its nar- 
row form, the prominent eyes, which project beyond the 
anterior margin of the pronotum, and the longer, thinner 
basal joint of the antennz. 
There are three European species, of which we have only 
one in Britain. 
B. luscus, /ub—Elongate pale ochreous, punctured 
and spotted with black. Head black, clothed with a silvery 
adpressed pubescence, eyes not quite touching the pronotum, 
antenne, first joint black, pale at the extreme base, second 
and third ochreous, black at the apex, fourth black, ochre- 
ous at the base; pronotum with the sides very shghtly 
