108 Flemiptera-FTeteroptera. 
scutellum, clavus and corium clothed with fine semi-erect 
pubescence like the pronotum, the scutellum black, the 
clavus and corium ochreous at the extreme base, more or 
less mottled with black and brown, no distinct central spot, 
membrane dark fuscous, a small transverse spot on each 
side and the nervures pale; legs clothed with fine semi- 
erect hairs, anterior femora with two longer spines, their 
tibiz: much curved, mesosternum with a tubercle in front 
of each coxa, largest in the 3. 
L, 56-6 mm. 
Littlington, Cambridge, under dead leaves at the bottom 
of a hedge, J. A. Power. 
E. plebeius, Mull.—Very like an obscurely coloured 
podagricus, the hemelytra being entirely of a uniform 
brown, paler at the base, with a very small black spot near 
the centre, membrane dark with three paler spots at the 
base ; mesosternum simple, tibiz, especially the posterior 
pairs, with long erect hairs as well as the shorter semi-erect 
ones. 
L. 5-6 mm. 
Forres, G. Norman; Taff’s Well, Billups. 
SCOLOPOSTETHUS, Fed. 
About this most difficult genus a great deal has been 
written, and different authors have put value on different 
classes of characteristics as affording specific distinctions. 
Mr. Edwards relies on the colour of the antenna, etc., as 
offering stable characters, and on the form of the genital 
styles in the g. Dr. Horvath relies on the form of the 
pronotum, the pubescence of the surface and the develop- 
ment of the membrane; he admits the value of the form of 
the styles, but thinks it unnecessary to employ a character 
so difficult to examine. Personally I attach little value to 
colour when it is a question between testaceous and black, 
as it is in this genus, as I feel convinced that an 
unusually rapid passage through the pupal or nymph state 
