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a band across the cuneus near its apex, one or two 
bands on the posterior femora, and two narrow bands on 
all the tibiae, brown; the darker varieties are generally 
males. Head short, transverse, antennz with the apex of 
the second, third, and fourth joints brown, third and fourth 
subequal, and about as long as the first; pronotum very 
clearly and remotely punctured, sides nearly straight, base 
rounded; scutellum impunctate, very shining; elytra 
punctured, more largely and deeply so on the clavus, 
its sides slightly rounded, membrane slightly smoky, ner- 
vures dark; tibize not spinose, beneath dark brown ; orifice 
of odoriferous sac large, and surrounded by pale foliaceous 
plates much as in Peciloscytus Gyllenhalit. 
L. 4 mm. 
By sweeping and beating Limes and other trees and 
plants ; Douglas and Scott record it from Pteris ; I have 
beaten it from Maples ; Reuter mentions it as occurring 
on Tanacetum and Achillea ; Reigate, Woking, Chobham, 
Bromley ; Limes, Norfolk, Hdwards; Hale End, Epping 
Forest, Butler; Nunton and Surbiton, Marshall; very 
common on Limes, Bath, Bblathwayt; London district, 
Champion ; Barry Island and Taft’s Well, South Wales; 
Byfleet, Billups. 
LIOCORIS, /icb. 
Oval, convex, glabrous, finely and remotely punctured ; 
antenne longer than the body, head ecarinate on the 
vertex, rostrum reaching to about the posterior coxze ; 
pronotum very convex, anterior margin callosely raised ; 
scutellum flat, sides of elytra rounded ; tibize with black 
spines, second tarsal joint longer than the first. There is 
only one European species. 
L. tripustulatus, /ab.—Head shining, impunctate, 
brown or entirely pale, antennze testaceous, second joint 
more or less black at the base and apex, third and fourth 
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