120 Flemiptera-Feteroptera. 
P. apterus, Linn.—Above flat oblong ovate, bright 
scarlet, punctured. Head, dise of pronotum, scutellum, a 
round spot in the centre of the corium, a very small one 
near its base and the membrane black, this last usually 
abbreviated ; abdomen black ; connexivum and apex of 
sixth segment red; basal genital segment red beneath ; 
thoracic segments beneath black, their posterior margins 
and the anterior margin of the prosternum red ; a spot near 
each coxa red; lees and antennz black. 
L. 8 mm. 
Torquay, Teignmouth, “in abundance, 1865,” Parfitt ; 
Barmouth Sands, Blatch ; Cowbridge and Taff’s Well, South 
Wales, Billups. 
TINGIDIDZ. 
A family of small, mostly oval-shaped, species, peculiar 
by the very large puncturation or reticulation of the upper 
surface, the integument is often very thin, and more or less 
membranous; the membrane is punetured or reticulated 
much like the rest of the elytra, and the clavus is wanting, 
except in Piesma. Another strongly-marked character is 
the great length of the third joint of the antenne, and the 
shortness of the second; the ocelli are absent, except in 
Piesma ; and the scutellum is covered, except in that genus, 
by the long angularly produced base of the pronotum; 
anterior coxze inserted at the base of the prosternum ; the 
tarsi are two-jointed; the rostrum is three-jointed, received 
when at rest into a deep channel, formed by the under 
margins of the cheeks and elevated ridges on the pro- and 
mesosternum, and sometimes also on the metasternum. 
There are two subfamilies, which may be thus cha- 
racterized :— 
1. Seutellum visible, clavus defined, membrane de- 
3 fined, ocelli present . E . PiresMina. 
2. Secutellum covered, clavus and membrane un- 
defined, ocelli wanting. ‘ , ; . Trneipina. 
