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or less spotted or mottled with black; membrane diapha- 
nous. Connexivum black, with yellowish spots. Legs 
and thighs black, more or less spotted, pale at the base; 
tibiz ochreous, each with three black rings. Tarsi 
ochreous, apex of Ist and 3rd joints black. Antenne: 
1st jomt bronzy, its apex and the other joints pale. 
Length 3 lines. 
Not uncommon, but local; by sweeping among nettles, 
&c. in summer, 
2. artemisia, Schill. 
Head and thorax black, covered with exceedingly short 
silvery hairs, base of latter dull ochreous. Scutellum 
black, apex ochreous. Elytra dull ochreous, covered with 
same sort of pubescence as the thorax, with a more or less 
distinct brown spot at the inner apical angle, sometimes 
extending almost across to the lateral margin. Legs 
thick and short; thighs black, apex ochreous-red; tibiz 
ochreous-red, in front legs with the base only, on the 
others also with a spot above the apex, black. Antenne: 
Ist joint black, its apex pale; other joints ochreous, with 
the extreme base black and the apex more or less dusky. 
Length 2—24 lines. 
Reigate Hill, Mickleham, &c. In moss, &c. 
IsCHNODEMUS. 
1. sabuleti, Fall. Fig. Dougl. & Scott, Brit. Hem. 
pl. vin. fig. 2. 
Elongate, parallel, much depressed ; head and thorax 
dull black, posterior angles of the latter pale. lytra 
pale ochreous, suture between the clavus and corium, a 
line on the corium parallel to it, another line parallel 
to the lateral margin joined together along the apical 
margin, thus enclosing a sort of triangular space, brown. 
Membrane white, with a brown cloud across the middle 
and the nerves brown. Femora black, their apices, tibize 
and tarsi reddish. 
Length 3 lines. 
Merton and Folkestone. 
This species is very rare in the developed form; in un- 
developed specimens the elytra are rudimentary ochreous, 
with the same arrangement of brown lines; the abdomen, 
of which five segments are visible, is black, densely covered 
with silvery hairs. 
