140 fTemiptera-fleteroptera. 
scutellum brown; elytra whitish, dilated at the base, the 
dilatation covering the first and two-thirds of the second 
abdominal segments; nerves brown towards the apex; 
membrane smoky white at the base, and more or less 
reticulated with white throughout; abdomen red-brown, 
with a whitish spot at the base of each segment of the 
connexivum ; legs pale ochreous. 
L. 5-6 mm, 
Not rare; under bark, on old stumps, etc.; Reigate, 
Coombe Wood, Woking, Bromley; Darenth Wood, Pack- 
wood Park, Warwickshire, Abergavenny, Marshall ; Salford 
Priors, Malvern, Tonbridge, New Forest, Blatch; Well 
Vale, Lincolnshire, J. H. Mason; Hastings, Guestling, 
Battle, Butler ; Chatham, Sevenoaks, Loughton, Caterham ; 
Champion ; Cardiff, Billups; Glanvilles Wootton, Dor- 
chester, Dale. 
A. aterrimus, D. § S.—Deep black. Head with the 
antenniferous tubercles acute, the points turned slightly 
inwards; antenne thin, second joint not quite so long as 
the third and fourth together, third three-quarters the 
length of the second, fourth half the length of the third ; 
pronotum with the side margins narrow, but rounded at the 
anterior angles, widening posteriorly, sinuate in front of 
the posterior angles; posterior margin slightly sinuate ; 
disc with four keels, and an oblong tubercle near each 
posterior angle ; scutellum long, narrow, side margins much 
raised, apex obtuse; elytra not much dilated at the base, 
with strongly raised nerves; connexivum with a yellow 
angular spot at the posterior angle of each segment; legs, 
femora black, tibiz and tarsi rather paler. 
L. 6 mm. 
One ? specimen, ‘‘ Darenth Wood, among chips on the 
stump of a felled oak, 30th May, 1861, Douglas ; another, 3, 
from Mr. J. H. Harding’s collection, without note of its 
locality,” Douglas and Scott. 
