320 Hlemiptera-Fleteroptera. 
antennee with the first joint dark, second dark at the 
base, gradually paler to the apex, and slightly thickened 
apically in the @, third and fourth joints pale; pronotum 
very transverse, sides slightly rounded; elytra with the 
corium inwardly, and generally the cuneus, except at its 
base, slightly darker, membrane dusky, nervures and a spot 
below the cuneus white ; femora brownish grey, tibie pale, 
with black spots and spines. 
L.¢4mm 2? 3mm. 
On Artemisia absinthium and abrotanwm ; Reigate, 
Southwold, Hayling Island, Woking; Norfolk, Edwards ; 
Devon, Parfitt; Lastingham, Marshall; Colwyn Bay, 
Beaumont ; Sheppey, Champion ; Deal, Billups ; Portland, 
Dale; Eltham, Lee, Bignell. 
P. arbustorum, /0b.—¢ oblong oval, ? oval, both 
sexes varying from nearly entirely black to ochreous yellow 
or greyish green, but through all its varieties known by 
the black first and second joints of the antenne, and the 
black margins of the femora; the surface is clothed with 
black hairs ; inthe paler varieties the head is always more or 
less black, and in the darkest the vertex is more or less 
pale, the membrane is dusky with a clear spot below the 
cuneus; the femora are ochreous, spotted and margined 
with black, the tibize ochreous with black spots and spines, 
their extreme base and apex black, tarsi black. 
L. 4-44 mm. 
Very abundant on nettles, etc., and generally dis- 
tributed. 
P. viridulus, Fall.Like the preceding in shape, and 
clothed with black hairs, but always green or ochreous, or 
grevish green, sometimes with a brownish tinge, head con- 
colorous; it may always be known by the basal joint of the 
antenne, which is pale at its extreme apex, with a dark ring 
below it, and black at its extreme base, the whole joint 
except the extreme apex is sometimes black in the d, 
the second joint is black only at the extreme base, the 
