Capside. ans 
cuneus widely pale at the base, very narrowly at the apex, 
base of the elytra paler in the ?, membrane dusky, cells 
at the base,a spot below the cuneus, and a curved band 
on the disc hyaline, legs very pale, femora freckled with 
black, tibize with strong black spines. 
L. d 5mm., ? 4mm. 
On sallows, not rare, and generally distributed. 
P, alnicola, D. 5° 8. (alni, D. 5: S.).—Very like the pre- 
ceding, but rather smaller, and of a brighter red, with the 
pubescence on the elytra collected into spots, cuneus with 
a very narrow white line atthe base near the side, apex not 
pale, membrane dusky, base of the cells, a spot below the 
cuneus anda wide band, interrupted near the side, across 
the disc hyaline; femora in the ¢ reddish at the apex, 
tibize with very strong black spines and black spots. 
L. 33 mm. 
Alders and sallows, Reigate, Esher, Chobham, Woking ; 
Bath, Blathwayt ; Norfolk, Hdwards ; Dean Forest, Blatech ; 
Hurst Green, Shalford, Butler ; Hornsey, Marshall ; Taff’s 
Well South Wales, Billups ; Forres, Norman. 
P. lepidus, Fieb. ( var. minor = roseus, D. 5. 8 ; Kirsch- 
baumi, Saund.).—Entirely brown, varying in var. minor to 
orange-yellow, with the corium and cuneus red, the latter 
in both varieties narrowly pale at the base ; vertex in the g 
rather wider than the eye, in the 9 about once and three- 
quarters as wide, or in var. minor twice as wide, antenne 
with the third joint nearly twice as long as the fourth, in 
var. minor about once and a half as long; membrane 
dusky, with a pale spot below the cuneus and a more or 
less ,distinct curved band cn the disc hyaline; femora 
brown, varying to reddish-yellow, with rather large black 
spots. 
L. 44 mm. ; var. minor, 4 mm. 
Both forms of this species occur together on ash, and are 
at first sight distinct enough; there are, however, inter- 
mediate forms uniting them, which make one believe in 
