Reduvude, 169 
apex; pronotum with its sides slightly rounded in the 
middle, base straight, anterior constriction and base smooth 
and pale, centre with darker markings and more or less 
cicatricose, dorsal line throughout, and a wider lateral line 
in front, black ; scutellum black, with a pale spot on each 
side near the apex ; elytra reaching to the third segment, 
ochreous, nerves slightly paler ; developed form rare, but 
with the membrane reaching to the apex of the abdomen, 
whitish, its nervures brown; abdomen finely pubescent, 
black, with two narrow pale lines down its centre; 
connexivum pale, foliaceous, narrow in the d, wide 
in the 3, divided from the rest of the abdomen beneath 
by a distinct furrow; legs pale ochreous spotted with 
brown. 
L. 8-9 mm. 
Deal, Herne Bay, Chobham, Woking; Reigate, Cow- 
bridge and Taff’s Well, South Wales, Billups; Grange, 
Lancashire, B. Covke ; Norfolk, Edwards ; Loch Rannoch, 
Marshall; Pitlochry, Norman ; Sandhills, Lincolnshire, J. 
E. Mason ; Bath, Bluthwayt ; Armagh, Johnson ; Guestling, 
E. ae Collett. 
N. limbatus, Dahll.—Narrower, paler, and more de- 
pressed than the preceding. Head very long and narrow, 
ochreous, its sides in front of the eyes subparallel, eyes 
large; first joint of the antennw longer than the head; 
pronotum ochreous, narrow, and collar-like in front, sides 
slightly rounded in the middle, base in undeveloped speci- 
mens twice as long as the anterior margin, nearly straight, 
disc raised across the middle with darker markings and 
more or less cicatricose, dorsal line grey; scutellum 
ochreous, with a grey dorsal line and a small basal fovea 
on each side; elytra in the undeveloped form very short, 
not longer than wide, ochreous, membrane very small, 
almost linear ; abdomen ochreous, subparallel-sided in the 
male, dilated in the ?, with a narrow black central stripe 
