BrltisJi Ilemiptera-IIcteruptera. 623 



Thorax flat, miicli widened posteriorly. Elytra with the 

 nerves very strongly marked; sides subparallel; base of 

 the cuneus very narrowly paler; apex widely rounded. 



Length 1^ line. 



On the banks of streams, &c.; Scarborough, North 

 "Wales, Kerry (Ireland), South Devon, Edinburgh, &c. 



REDUVIDiE. 



A. Legs cxcecdiugly long and slender . . .. .. Plolaria. 



AA. Legs not very long and slender. 



B. Head much produced in front ; antennae inserted at 



a considerable distance in front of the eyes . . F<jgolami)is. 

 BB. Head not much produced in front; autennie inserted 

 just in front of the eyes. 



a. Antenna3 very thin ; filiform at the apex . . Reduvhis. 



b. Antennie not thin ; not filiform at the apex . . Coratms. 



Ploiaria. 



L Larger, legs and antenna; with long hairs . . .. vagahunda. 



II. Smaller, legs and antennas not hairy . . . . . . culiciformis. 



1. vagahunda, Linn. Fig. Dougl. & Scott, Brit. Hem. 



pi. xviii. fig. 1. 



Elongate, pale ochreous ; head and thorax with darker 

 markings near the margins ; the margins of the thorax 

 narrowly white ; posterior angles produced slightly back- 

 wards and somewhat lobate; scutellum with a spine at the 

 base. Elytra mottled with brown, with two dark-brown 

 spots near the extremity at the sides of the membrane ; 

 membrane brown, finely reticulated with white. Legs 

 and antenna3 extremely long and thin, whitish, finely 

 hairy and banded with narrow brown bands. 



Length 3^ lines. 



In ivy, &c., by beating ; local. 



2. culiciformis, De G. Fig. De Geer, Mem. iii. pi. xvii. 



fig. 1-8. 



= erratica, Dougl. & Scott. 



Very like the above, but much smaller, Avith slightly 

 shorter antennae, and more distinctly marked elytra, and a 

 shorter, almost obsolete spine on the scutellum. The legs 

 and antennae also have no long hairs, as in P, vagahunda. 



Length 2 2 lines. 



In thatch, &c. ; not rare. 



