98 NYSSONID&. 
irregular; the wings with the nervures black, and having a 
broad dark band commencing at the end of the marginal and 
submarginal cells, decreasing in colour towards the apex ; legs 
robust, pubescent, the extreme joints of the tarsi generally 
piceous, the anterior pair ciliated on the outside, and the inter- 
mediate and posterior tibize and tarsi very spinose. 
The abdomen with the segments depressed at the margin, and 
the first, second, and base of the third, red ¢. 
The ¢ differs in having the dorsolum punctured throughout 
and the base of the first segment of the abdomen black, the 
~ legs less spinose, and the cilia to the tarsi wanting; and in the 
colour of the wings, which generally covers the whole space 
occupied by the nervures, their edges being hyaline, the colour 
in the ¢ thus commencing where that of the g ceases; some- 
times, however, the whole wing is hyaline, which I have never 
observed to be the case in the 9. 
4 9 in most Cabinets. 
+4+ I possess a singular variety of the zg, in which the 
dorsolum and scutellum are divided by a deep longitudinal 
central impression. This insect, even long after Mr. 
Curtis figured it, was a desideratum to many Cabinets. 
The oldest British specimen known, is recorded by Dono- 
van to have been taken at Coombe; it is now in Mr. 
Stephens’ Cabinet. Mr. Westwood has taken a single 
specimen in the same locality this year. When I first took 
it at Hampstead I saw a few specimens only. This was in 
1832. The next year I discovered its “‘ Metropolis,” about 
a quarter of a mile from where I first caught it, and here it 
absolutely swarmed, which I have found to be the case ever 
since. The ¢ are innumerable compared with the ¢, and, 
whenever I have succeeded in capturing the latter with its 
prey I have always found it to consist of the larva of 
Pentatoma bidens, whereas Mr. Curtis took it in the Isle 
of Wight with the larva of P. prasina ; and my friend Mr. 
