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British Hemiptera-Hetero ptera. 263 
1. gothicus, Linn. Fig. Panz. Faun. Germ. 92, 15. 
Black, covered with erect black hairs; head with a 
small yellow spot near each eye; sides of the thorax in 
front yellow; scutellum with the apex red; elytra with 
the exterior margin of the corium, except at its extreme 
apex, yellow; cuneus red, with the apex and the inner 
margin black. Legs and antenne black. 
Var. superciliosus. Entirely black, except the pale 
sides to the corium. 
Length 3—34 lines. 
2. mat, Ross. Fig. (miles) Dougl. & Scott, Brit. Hem. 
pl. xv. fig. 7. 
Very similar to the preceding in colour, but at once dis- 
tinguished by the absence of the erect black hairs on the 
surface, in place of which is a fine yellow adpressed pu- 
bescence; the red colour on the sides of the thorax is 
generally wider, and the dorsal line is also in most speci- 
mens red. Thighs each with a red ring; tibiz also often 
pale in the middle. 
Length 3—3} lines. 
3. sulcatus, Fieb. 
Like the two preceding: species in colour, except that 
the markings are paler; but at once distinguishable by its 
longer form, the narrower thorax in front, with sinuate 
sides, and the sulcate scutellum. 
Length 3—3} lines. 
Portsmouth and Slapton. 
PHyYTOCORIS. 
I. Species black or grey. 
A. Lateral margins of corium dark throughout, 
without marbling or spots .. ve .- distinctus. 
AA. Lateral margins marbled or spotted. 
B. Dark bands of the intermediate tibix very 
distinct; much narrower than the inter- 
vening pale bands; basal band not wider 
than the others. 
a. Elytra very long, dull grey, very indis- 
tinctly mottled .. be ee .. longipennis. 
b. Elytra shorter, black and green, or black 
and yellow; marbling distinct .. -. tiie. 
BB. Dark bands of the intermediate tibize not very 
distinct, nearly as wide or wider than the 
pale bands; basal band generally wider 
than the rest. 
C. Basal joint of the antennz longer than the 
thorax. 
a. Larger; second and third joints of antenne, 
exceedingly narrowly pale at the base .. popwili. 
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