272 Mr. P ssnaers Synopsis of 
gate, East Dereham and Woolmer Forest. July and 
August. 
Smaller than preceding, more rugosely punctured, and 
with the scutellum impunctate and more shining. 
Boruynortus. 
1. ptlosus, Boh. Fig. Ent. Ann. 1866. Frontisp. fig. 3. 
$ black-brown, covered with long brownish-grey hairs. 
ily tra punctured, brown, subtransparent, with the cuneus 
darker. Thorax very deeply and coarsely punctured. 
Legs pale brown. 
@ generally apterous, black. Thorax and elytra ru- 
gosely punctured. Head, legs, and first and second joints 
of antenne, except the apex ‘of the latter, red. Head 
generally w ith two brown frontal spots. 
Length $ 3 lines; ¢ 23 lines. 
Very rare ; on the hills between Loch Long and Loch 
Lomond. July, 1865. 
Liocoris. 
1. 3-pustulatus, Fab. Fig. Dougl. & Scott, Brit. Hem. 
1. xv. fig. 4. 
Black or luteous, shining, glabrous; in the black var. 
with the head, except Just above the mouth, a dorsal line 
to the thorax widening in front, the scutellum, a very 
small spot behind each siealders a wide band near the 
middle of the corium, a very small spot on each just above 
the angle of the membrane and the cuneus, except at the 
base and apex, flavous or reddish-yellow. | Membrane 
dusky, with a clear spot below the apex of the cuneus. 
Legs pale, two rings on each thigh; the base and apex of 
each tibia, and a ring below the base, as well as the apex 
of tarsi, black. Antenne black: base of the first joint, 
middle of second, and the third and fourth, brownish. 
In the pale variety, a spot in the front of the head, a 
spot at each posterior angle of thorax, a wide band behind 
the middle of the corium, the base and apex of cuneus, and 
the markings on the leg es, as in the dark form, are alone 
black. Beneath black, “with the sides widely pale. An- 
tenn with the apex of second joint narrowly black. 
This very pretty species varies so much that it is useless 
to attempt to give all its varieties; two of the more usual 
ones are above given. 
Length 24 lines. 
Very common by sweeping amongst nettles, &c. 
