178 LTemiptera-fTeteroptera. 
elytra with the spots, when present, placed, one on the 
clavus, and three or four along the inner nerve of the 
corium; membrane very short, smoky, nervures thick, 
black ; legs brownish ochreous, a line under each femur, 
and a few spots, blackish ; apex of the tarsi black. 
L. 6-7 mm. 
_ Common and generally distributed, in salt marshes. 
_~ §. morio, Zeit.—Black, shining, glabrous, legs piceous 
or testaceous, darker in the 9. Hyes very large; antennze 
finely pilose, third and fourth joints together distinctly 
longer than the second, second and the first in the ¢ above 
more or less piceous ; pronotum with the sides behind the 
anterior constriction straight, or in the @ very slightly 
curved, widely reflexed; posterior angles acute, blunt at 
the apex; disc narrowly impressed at the base, raised, 
rounded, and shining in front, with a small rounded central 
fovea near the anterior margin; scutellum with a central 
impression, punctured in front, shining and somewhat 
wrinkled behind; elytra very shining in the @, less so in 
the ¢, their sides rounded; membrane black, very short, 
sometimes slightly paler between the nervures ; legs testa- 
ceous or pitchy, with the femora widely black in the ?; 
apices of the tibize and tarsi black. 
L. 6-7 mm. 
On the moors, near Buxton; Scarborough, Lawson ; 
Whittlesea Mere, Dale ; shores of Loch Rannoch, Marshall ; 
Brumstead Common, Norfolk, Hdwards; Horning, Avie- 
more, Champion. 
J §. C. album, Fieb. (stellata, Curt.) —Short oval, black, 
clothed with fine golden pubescence ; elytra with grey and 
yellow markings, with a conspicuous reniform yellow spot 
in the centre of the lateral margin. Head with the mouth 
parts yellow; antennz with the first and second joints 
pale, the second sometimes blackish towards the base ; 
pronotum short, transverse, sides behind the anterior con- 
striction straight, widely impressed and reflexed, base deeply 
