156 Mr. E. Saunders’ Synopsis of 
elytra more or less pitchy; antenne and legs red, apical 
joint of former dusky; membrane, when present, dusky, 
the nerves widely pale. 
Length 2—24 lines. 
Common, where it occurs, but local, on Pulicaria 
dysenterica, Cowes, September (Dougl. & Scott). 
The developed form is exceedingly rare. Chobham, 
1874, 1 spec.; Teignmouth, Wollaston (type of Stetho- 
tropis), are the only recorded instances of its capture to 
my knowledge. 
2. sabulosus, Schill. Fig. Hahn, Wanz. Ins. 1. fig. 117. 
Clear brown, covered with rather long brownish hairs, 
slightly shining; much smaller than preceding. Head 
pitchy-black; thorax very coarsely punctured and covered 
with long hairs, pitchy-brown on the disk; anterior margin 
and the base, especially the posterior angles, paler; scu- 
tellum pitchy-black, coarsely punctured ; elytra testaceous- 
brown, corium with a line along the margin widening pos- 
teriorly and becoming suffused into an irregular patch 
across the apex, piceous; membrane somewhat dusky, base 
paler. 
Length 14 line. 
Common in sandy places. 
3. arenarius, Hahn. Hahn, Wanz. Ins. 1. fig. 27. 
Dull brownish-black, covered with short adpressed 
brownish-yellow hairs. Head and thorax deeply and 
coarsely punctured, slightly paler posteriorly ; elytra more 
or less fuscous, corium with an irregular spot near the 
apex of clavus, and another covering its own apex darker ; 
membrane dusky, nerves pale; antennz and legs pitchy- 
brown, apex of former darker. 
Length 13 line. 
Common in sandy places and elsewhere. 
PHYGADICUS. 
J. Thorax with long projecting hairs .. 4c -- urtice. 
IJ. Thorax without long projecting hairs Ae .. artemisia. 
1. urtice, Fab. Fig. Dougl. & Scott, Brit. Hem. pl. vii. 
fig: 3, 
Head and thorax bronzy-black, covered with somewhat 
long whitish hairs, deeply and coarsely punctured; base 
of the latter more or less white, especially in the middle. 
Scutellum bronzy; extreme apex white. Elytra punctured 
and covered with short whitish hairs, dull ochreous, more 
