294 Flemiptera-Feteroptera. 
rare on hazel; it occurs also on ash, alder, elm, lime, 
birch, and sallows, fide Reuter ; it is generally distributed. 
LOXOPS, Fieb. 
Oval, flat, broader than the allied genera, and in form 
more like a Psallus. Head with the eyes small and not 
prominent, projecting very little beyond the lateral mar- 
gins of the pronotum, antennie with the first joint rather 
densely hairy, second very long, once and three-quarters as 
Jong as the third and fourth together; rostrum reaching to 
the intermediate cox, pronotum trapezoidal, transverse, 
elytra parallel-sided, tibi with very long hair-like spines. 
There is only one species. 
L. coccineus, Mey.—Ochreous, mottled with red or in 
some specimens mostly red. Head ochreous, a line down 
the centre red, antennee reddish; pronotum ochreous, the 
sides red or brown, and a narrow dorsal line red, lateral 
margin straight, base shghtly sinuate; scutellum ochreous, 
its sides red; elytra ochreous with red markings, or red 
with ochreous spots, or in some dark males almost entirely 
brownish red, the lateral margin always darkest, mem- 
brane slightly dusky, cell nerves red; beneath and legs 
ochreous, femora red at the apex. 
L. 44 mm. 
On Ash, Reigate, Hastings, Chobham; Barnet, Shalford, 
Sevenoaks, Butler ; Norfolk, Edwards ; St. Albans, Mar- 
shall; Hxeter, Parfitt; Oxshott, and Tatt’?s Well, South 
Wales, Billups ; Walkham Valley, Bickleigh Vale, Shaugh- 
bridge, Devon, Bignell. 
HETEROTOMA, Latr. 
Subelongate, rather flat, eyes large, basal joint of the 
antenne swollen, densely hairy, but not compressed, 
second compressed, densely hairy along the sides, and very 
wide, about one-fifth as wide as its length, and wider than 
the vertex between the eyes, and lke the vertex wider in 
