British species of Psi/Uidce. 5G5 



both knew it as mentioned by Forster, but I have seen no 

 recent specimens, except those taken by myself by sweeping 

 heather in a portion of the New Forest near Fawley, in 

 June last. 



Species 2. Rliinocola aceris. 



Chermes Aceris, Lin. F. S. 264, 1014; S. K ii. 739, 16. 



Green or yellow. Antennce pale green or yellow, apical 

 joint brown. Ehjtra testaceous, scarcely transparent, finely 

 Avrinkled transversely. Head : croicn almost horizontal ; 

 much broader than long; posterior margin straight. An- 

 teunce pale green or yellow, apical joint brown. 



Thorax: pro- and meso-notiim green or yellow. Ehjtra 

 testaceous, scarcely transjjarent, finely wrinkled transversely; 

 radius extending to the middle of the narrowly-rounded 

 apex. Legs pale green or yellow. Claws brown. 



Abdomen green; ? genital segments yellow. 



Length 1^ line. 



Nearly one-half as large again as i?. ericcs; without 

 brown particles on the elytra, and with the apex much 

 more narrowly rovmded. 



I have only seen a single ? example taken by Dr. Power. 

 IMr. Douglas informs me that on JMonday evening last, 

 12th June, he met with it plentifully in Farm Lane, Lee, 

 on the common maple (^Acer camjjestris). 



Genus LiviA, Latr. 



//ecr*;/ horizontal; as long as the breadth on the posterior 

 margin. Crown in front divided into two lobes by a deep 

 valley, with a channel down the centre. Face not lobate. 

 Antenna shoi't, 10-jointed; 2nd joint somewhat pyiiform 

 or conate, apex truncate, much longer than the 1st; 3rd 

 stouter than the remainder, which are filiform. 



Thorax: pronotum lemniscular. Elytra longish oval, 

 coriaceous; radius reaching the apex above the middle; 

 upper branch of the bifurcation of the cubitus adjoining 

 the radius terminating in the middle. 



Species 1. Livia juncorum. 



Liria Juncorum, Latr. Gen. Crust, et Ins. iii. 1 70, 399, 1 

 Enc. Meth. x. 225, 1 ; Germ. F. E. fasc. vi. t. 21 

 Burm. Hdb. ii. 97, 1 ; Cuv. E. A. t. 99 bis, fig. 2 



