194 Flemiptera- Heteroptera. 
. 2-22 mm. 
Under bark, Reigate; Knowle, Bewdley Forest, Need- 
wood Forest, Sherwood Forest, Blatch ; Milford, Marshall ; 
Devon, Parfitt; Hast Grinstead, Loughton, Champion ; 
Glanvilles Wootton, Dale; Headley Lane, Chobham, Wey- 
bridge, Billups. 
P. formicetorum, Poh.—Much smaller than either of 
the preceding, and one of our smallest Hemiptera, shaped 
something like cursitans, but with the head wider and the 
eyes less prominent; pronotum wider in front, its apical 
margin about three-fifths the length of the base, sides 
slightly rounded; elytra dull ochreous, finely pubescent, 
puncturation very fine and shallow; legs pale ochreous, the 
femora slightly darker. 
L. 14 mm. 
In nests of Formica rufa, Braemar, F’. B. White. 
TEMNOSTETHUS, Feb. 
Head and pronotum dull, the former not quite twice as long 
as the forehead between the eyes; ocelli placed just behind 
the eyes, in a line with their inner margins, eyes situated 
at some distance from the pronotal margin; head, behind 
them, slightly narrowed; antennze with the second joint 
almost as long as the third and fourth together; rostrum 
long, reaching to the intermediate coxee ; pronotum with a 
narrow anterior collar, sides carinated, rounded thence in 
very divergent lines to the posterior angles, base deeply 
and widely sinuate ; scutellum impressed towards the apex ; 
elytra sometimes developed, sometimes abbreviated ; in the 
developed form with the membrane complete, extending 
beyond the apex of the abdomen; in the undeveloped the 
elytra are scarcely more than twice as long as the scutellum ; 
legs simple, tibize not spinose; canal of the odoriferous sac 
straight. 
There is only one species in the genus. 
Lh, pusillus, H, Schff—Head and pronotum black, the 
