322 Flemiptera-Fleteroptera. 
the anterior margin being nearly three-fourths as long as 
the base ; surface clothed with fine greyish adpressed hairs ; 
eyes large, not prominent, antenne with the third and 
fourth joints and often the apex of the second pale ; pro- 
notum transverse, sides straight; elytra with the sides 
slightly rounded, scarcely widened behind the middle; mem- 
brane dusky ; femora entirely, or with the apex only, more or 
less pale, tibiae with large black spots and strong black 
spines. 
L. 24 mm. 
So far as I can see all our specimens belong to var. 
pullus, Reut. 
Not very common, but generally distributed, at the roots 
of grass in dry places. 
P. saltitans, Mall—Brownish black, elytra brown, 
paler at the base, cuneus pale at the base. Head convex, 
antenne black brown, third joint scarcely more than half 
as long as the second, second robust, shghtly thickened to 
the apex ; base of the pronotum about as wide as the head 
in the undeveloped form and not raised, considerably wider 
than it and much raised in the developed ; elytra longer 
than the abdomen in the developed form, reaching to about 
the middle of the abdomen in the undeveloped, their apices 
rounded, in this form the elytra are generally pale also at 
the apex; hind femora very wide, brown, their apices and 
the tibiz paler, the latter with fine black spines, apex of 
tibize and tarsi dark. 
L. 3 mm. (macr.), 2-2} mm. (brach.). 
Lowestoft, Coombe Wood, Hampton Wick ; St. Leonard’s, 
Shalford, Butler; Norfolk, Edwards; West Kilbridge, 
Douglas ; Chepstow, Billups; Colwyn Bay, Beawmont ; 
Perth, Reuter ; Freshwater, Isle of Wight, Dale. 
P. Wilkinsoni, D. 5 S.—Very like the preceding but 
entirely brown, without paler markings. Antenne pale, 
second joint not nearly twice as long as the third and not 
so thick as in saltitans; tarsi pale; the head also is less 
