170 Flemuptera-lleteroptera. 
and a wider greyer one on each side; connexivum slightly 
reflexed, foliaceous, narrow in the ¢, wide and rounded at 
the sides in the ?, and often with a red longitudinal streak 
down its middle; legs pale ochreous, long and slender, 
femora spotted with small brown spots. 
L. 8-9 mm. 
Common and generally distributed, by sweeping amongst 
grass, ete. Developed form exceedingly rare. 
N. lineatus, Dah/b. (Powerit, Saund. Synopsis)—Much 
longer and narrower than limbatus. Head longer and 
narrower, with the sides behind the eyes more swollen ; 
pronotum longer and more regularly trapezoidal, the sides 
being practically straight ; scutellum larger than in Zim- 
batus, with a dark dorsal line and a larger fovea at each 
side of the base ; elytra in the undeveloped form (the only 
one I have seen) short and truncate, reaching to the apex 
of the first abdominal segment; abdomen very long and 
narrow, quite parallel-sided in the male, and only very 
slightly widened in the centre in the female; both sexes 
have the connexivum quite narrow and costate, not folia- 
ceous; legs very long, pale ochreous, the femora with small 
brown spots. 
L, 11-12 mm. 
By sweeping, at the roots of grass, etc., generally in 
damp situations ; Chobham, Southwold, Herne Bay; Horn- 
ing, Surlingham, Cley, Hdwards; Trustthorpe Sand- 
hills, Lincolnshire, J. EH. Mason; Oxshott, Billups ; 
Camber Sandhills, #. P. Collett; Fritton near Lowestoft, 
Butler. 
N. ferus, Zinn.—Pale greyish ochreous. Head about 
twice as long as the width between the eyes, with a dark, 
wide central line narrowing to the base; antennz with the 
basal joint shorter than the head, second joint about as 
longas the pronotum ; pronotum much widened posteriorly, 
base three times as wide as the anterior margin, sides 
