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upper surface, especially of the clavus, which is of a 
greyish tint, freckled with darker red spots, also by the 
brown atoms with which the head and pronotum are 
sprinkled ; there is a fine pale central line to the pronotum 
and scutellum, and the hemelytra are of a deeper red than 
in diminutus, the posterior femora are more incrassated, 
and the anterior tibiz armed with more numerous and 
thicker black spines. 
L. 3} mm. 
One 2? on Salix, Chobham, July, 1892. Reuter says it 
occurs also on oaks. 
P. sanguineus, Fab. (querceti, D. § S.).—Varies in 
colour from bright red to whitish-grey, with a few small red 
spots on the elytra, cuneus always white, unspotted ; 
antennee pale, third and fourth joints together about as long 
as the second in the g, or loager than it in the 9; vertex 
once and a half ¢, twice ?, as wide as the eye; elytra with 
fine pale hairs somewhat irregularly collected in patches, 
membrane nearly clear, with a dark transverse line below 
the cuneus, femora with a few black spots, tibie pale, with 
strong black spines. 
L. 34-4 mm. 
On Suliz, common and generally distributed. 
P. salicellus, Meyer.—Subelongate, greyish, denscly 
clothed with long pale and brown hairs intermixed, elytra 
densely sprinkled with small brown spots; eyes in the ¢ 
very large and prominent, each nearly as wide as the vertex 
between them, in the ? smaller, not half the width of the: 
vertex, antennw long and slender, third and fourth joints 
together considerably longer than the second, fourth two- 
thirds as long as the third; pronotum short, sides nearly 
straight; elytra elongate and nearly parallel-sided in both 
sexes, clothed with pale hairs in patches, clavus paler, 
cuneus white, membrane dusky, the larger cell except at 
its apex, a spot below the cuneus, and a broad discal band 
hyaline, very dark between these latter; legs paler, femora 
