292 flenuptera-Heteroptera. 
and short silvery ones which are easily rubbed off. Head 
and pronotum wide and transverse, antennee with the 
third and fourth joints together longer than the second, 
third about three-quarters as long as the second; rostrum 
reaching to the posterier coxe. Hlytra with its sides 
rounded, membrane slightly dusky ; legs with the posterior 
femora thickened, tibiz with fine spines. 
L. 3-5} mm. 
In salt marshes, on Arenaria, Sulsola, etc., Hayling 
Island; Portsmouth, Moncreaf ; Lymington, Salterns and 
Chesil Beach, Dale; Dawlish Warren, Bignell ; Yarmouth 
and Wells, Norfolk, Hdwards ; Rye, Pegwell Bay, Butler. 
O. ericetorum, /all.—Bright green, shining, clothed 
with black hairs, sides of the corium, cuneus, and nervures 
of membrane yellow ; antennz long, third joint about three- 
quarters as long as the second, fourth about half as long 
as the third, rostrum reaching to beyond the posterior 
coxee; pronotum short, callosities strongly marked; elytra 
parallel sided g¢, sides rounded, converging to the apex of 
the membrane which is narrow, giving the elytra rather an 
acuminate shape in the ?, membrane dusky, cell nerves 
yellow ; posterior femora strongly incrassated. 
L. 3-3} mm. 
Common on Hrica and generally distributed. 
HYPSITYLUS, Fieb. 
Closely allied to Orthotylus, but distinguished by the 
peculiar form of the rostrum, the third joint of which is 
widened at its apex, and the fourth widened at its base, 
so as to give the organ a club-shaped appearance. There 
are only two European species, of which we have one. 
H. bicolor, D. § S. (Orthotylus chloropterus, Saund. 
Synopsis.).—Dull greyish-green, clothed with black and 
silvery hairs intermixed, silvery hairs dense on the head ; 
head, pronotum, clavus, and corium at its inner apical angles 
