Ca ips ide. 283 
wise I can see no structural characters to separate them. 
We have three out of the four known European species. 
(2) 1. Pronotum black . . , é P 7 . CARICIS. 
(1) 2. Pronotum chiefly pale. 
(4) 3. Head black . : fs : 5 . . . PYGMBUS. 
(3) 4. Head pale : : : ‘ F é . FLAVEOLUS. 
C. caricis, Fall.— ¢ Elongate, ? elongate oval; head, 
pronotum, and scutellum black, elytra green outwardly, 
brown towards their suture, legs green or brownish-green. 
Vertex with a pale spot near each eye; antenne black, 
longer than the body; pronotum trapeziform, callosities 
not prominent, sides slightly sinuate, base nearly straight ; 
elytra parallel-sided 3, sides slightly rounded ? ; clavus and 
corium on its inner margin dark in the 4, less so in the ? ; 
membrane slightly dusky, cell-nerves green; legs brownish 
green in g, green in the $, tibiae with scarcely noticeable 
spines. 
L. 4mm. 6; 34mm. 2. 
Amongst rushes, &c.; Reigate, Chobham, Wimbledon, 
Surbiton; Newcastle, Bold ; Shalford, Barnet, Tunbridge 
Wells, Butler; Norfolk, Edwards, Devon, Parfitt; Loughton, 
Champion ; Byfleet, Oxshott, Holywell, Cardiff, Billups ; 
Glanvilles Wootton, Dale ; Forres, Norman ; Colvend, Kirk- 
cudbrightshire, #. B. White ; Armagh, Johnson. 
C. pygmeus, Zett. (Tytthus insignis, D. 5° S.).—Small, 
oblong-oval, macropterous in both sexes, pale testaceous, 
clothed with very fine brownish hairs. Head, antenne 
except the apex of the first jomt,and often the pronotum 
posteriorly-black; eyes large, prominent; antenne with 
the third and fourth joints subequal, each about three- 
quarters as long as the second; pronotum transverse, 
trapeziform, sides nearly straight, base largely sinuate ; 
elytra with the sides slightly rounded, membrane nearly 
hyaline, tibie with black spines. 
L. 23-3 mm. 
At roots of rushes, &c. in marshes, Chobham, Wimbledon ; 
