British Hemiptera-LHeteroptera. 305 
12. roseus, Fall. 
= salicis, Dougl. & Scott. 
Bright red or brownish-red; ¢ with the sides of the 
elytra subparallel ; pubescence golden, mixed with black 
hairs. Elytra with a darker triangular spot above the 
cuneus. Cuneus widely pale at the base, narrowly at the 
apex. Legs pale ochreous; thighs spotted with black. 
Membrane dusky; cells, except at their extreme apex and 
two transverse spots below the cuneus, paler. 
Length 14— 13 line. 
On sallows and birches, &c , by beating; not rare. 
13. alnicola, Dougl. & Scott. 
= alni, Doug]. & Scott, nec Fab. 
Very like the preceding, but differs from it in being 
more densely pubescent, and in having the pubescence 
arranged in ‘irregular patches on the elytra : ; the cuneus 
also is only very narrowly pale at the base, and conco- 
lorous at the apex. 
Length 13 line. 
On alders ; Lewisham, Esher, &c. 
14. varians, H.-Scff. Fig. Dougl. & Scott, Brit. Hem. 
pl san. fic, 7. 
= distinctus, Dougl. & Scott. 
Orange-red, covered with deciduous golden hairs inter- 
mixed with black ones; base of the elytra often paler. 
Cuneus red; base widely, and apex white ; extreme apex 
of the corium, at its juneture with the cuneus, also some- 
times white. Membrane dusky; cells at the base and a 
spot below the apex of the cuneus clear ; below this latter 
is an irregular dusky cloud. Thighs spotted at the apex. 
_ Length 1}—2 lines. 
Very common on oaks, &c.; June and July. 
Very variable in colour and size; sometimes almost 
entirely pale flavous, at others brownish, 
Kirschbaum, Fieb. 
= roseus, Dougl. & Scott, nec Fall. 
Head, thorax, seutellen and clavus more or less ochre- 
ous, sometimes with minute red spots. Corium more or 
less red, with a darker triangular patch near the apex 
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Cuneus bright red, very narrowly pale at the extreme 
