316 flemiptera-Fleteroptera. 
their specific identity. Not rare and apparently generally 
distributed, 
P. varians, H. Sehf. (distinctus, D. 5 S8.).—Varying 
from pale straw colour to orange-red, clothed with brown, 
and deciduous golden hairs, but never of the deep brick- 
red colour of Fallenii or the brighter red of alnicola, nearly 
always paler on the head and pronotum, scutellum and base 
of the elytra; cuneus widely white at the base, narrowly at 
the apex, membrane dusky, the base of the cells and a spot 
below the cuneus hyaline, sometimes a hyaline round spot 
near the outer margin anda vague band on the disc are more 
or less discernible; femora slightly reddened or darkened 
at the apex and spotted. Vertex in the male wider than the 
eye, pronotum without brown atoms; antennee with the 
third joint in both sexes quite half as long as the second, 
apical joint hardly more than half as long as the third ; 
elytra in the ¢ only slightly more parallel-sided than in 
the 2. 
L, 4-42 mm. 
Very common on oaks, and also on other trees. 
P. diminutus, Adm—tIn general appearance exactly 
like varians in miniature, from which it differs structurally 
in having the apical joint of the antennze two-thirds as long 
as the third, and the genital segment of the male beneath 
not carinated ; this latter character is strongly marked, but 
the females are very difficult to distinguish, except by 
size. 
L. 31 mm. 
Not rare, but probably overlooked ; on oaks, Woking, 
Chobham ; Hastings, Barnet, Hwhurst, Butler ; Oxshott, 
Billups ; Norfolk, Edwards; Perth, Reuter ; Forres, Nor- 
Mun. 
P, albicinctus, Abm.—About the size of the preceding, 
but rather shorter and broader, and with the pronotum 
more convex. It may be known from any of its allies by 
its rather wider pronotum in front, and by the colour of the 
