Lyveaide. TTI 
S. pictus, Schill—Head black, with a few large punc- 
tures; antennz entirely testaceous, long and slender ; pro- 
notum trapezoidal in the developed form (I have never seen 
a brachypterous one), anterior margin very narrowly con- 
stricted, red, sides very slightly sinuate, pale, widely folia- 
ceous and pale behind the middle, posterior angles brown, 
base sinuate ; disc black in front, ochreous, punctured with 
brown posteriorly, with a brown cloud on each side of the 
pale baso-dorsal line; scutellum black; elytra with the 
corium and clavus ochreous, punctured with brown in lines, 
a broad band at the apex of the corium, a spot on its lateral 
margin, and a dark line just within the latero-discal nerve, 
dark chocolate brown; membrane milky white, nervures 
brown; legs testaceous, anterior femora with the large 
tooth situated about its middle, between which and the apex 
s a row of small, very fine ones, tibize curved, in the ¢ con- 
siderably, with a few denticulations near the apex in- 
wardly. 
L, 5 mm. 
Rare. Horning Fen, Brewer; Littlngton, Cambridge- 
shire, February, Power; Glanvilles Wootton, July, and 
Charmouth, Da/e. 
S.affinis, Schill. (adjunctus, D.§ S.).—Like the preceding 
in general colour and pattern, but with the antenne shorter 
and thicker, the third and fourth joints black ; the mem- 
brane often undeveloped, and the wings curtailed, the mem- 
brane being scarcely produced beyond the apex of the 
corium, and the pronotum in consequence being narrower 
posteriorly; the anterior femora with the large tooth nearer 
the apex, and with a broad black band; posterior femora 
also occasionally with a black apical ring; mesosternum 
beneath with two curved horn-like tubercles, in the ¢ 
blunt at the apex, in the 2 with two small raised points. 
L. 4-44 mm. 
Common in rubbish, by sweeping nettles in summer, etc. 
Ss. grandis, Horv. ( punctatus, Edw.), ditfers from the 
