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the ? than intheg. Gradually narrowed at the base and 
apex, third and fourth very slender and short, subequal ; 
pronotum subtrapezoidal; elytra with the membrane to- 
wards its outer edge dark and subrugose, and the wing 
also rugose in the same relative position. [am not aware 
of this character occurring in any other genus. 
We have only one species in England; three occur on 
the Continent. 
H. merioptera, Scoy.—Shining, brown, clothed with 
fine brown hairs intermixed with short white pubescence, 
easily rubbed off, vertex in the dslightly wider than either 
eye, in the $ once and a half as wide, for form of antennz 
see generic characters; pronotum with the sides slightly 
sinuate ; elytra parallel-sided in the J, sides shghtly rounded 
?, membrane dusky, a white spot below the cuneus, 
followed by the dark rugose stripe mentioned above ; legs 
green or yellowish, apex of tarsi black. 
L. 5 mm. 
Common on nettles, ete., and generally distributed. 
HETEROCORDYLUS, Fed. 
Oblong-oval or oval, black, clothed with very short 
black-brown hairs, and with white scale-like pubescence. 
Vertex of the head carinated, antennew with the second 
joint elongate, fusiform in the ? of genistw, third and 
fourth together shorter than the second; pronotum 
trapeziform, its posterior angles rounded ; elytra with the 
sides subparallel 3, or rounded ? ; tibize outwardly with 
hardly-perceptible spines: We have two British species 
of the seven European. Parvulus, Rewt., has occurred in 
the Channel Islands, and should be looked for here ; it may 
be known by its smaller size. 
(2) 1, Entirely black ; female, second antennal joint 
fusiform . . GENISTE. 
(1) 2. Tibize testaceous; female, second antennal 
joint simple , : ‘ ‘ : : . TIBIALIS. 
