British HemiiJtera-Heteroptera. 627 



tlieir apices extending to about the middle of the body. 

 Abdomen above black, pubescent, with a central vitta, 

 and the connexivum pale ; down the middle of the central 

 vitta is a narrow dark line. Legs testaceous, thighs 

 spotted with brown; 1st joint of the anteuna3 considerably 

 more than half the length of the second. 



Length 4 — 4 J lines. 



Chobham, Reigate, Aberdeen, Rannoch, Manchester, &c. 



5. limbatus, Dahlb. 



Pale ochreous; head, thorax and scutellum with a dark 

 central line; the thorax also with several brown markings 

 about the middle. Elytra short and rudimentary, consi- 

 derably rovmded at the apices outwardly; body Avith three 

 dark lines down the middle, the central one the narrowest 

 and darkest; connexivum pale and foliaceous, sometimes 

 with a reddish line on its inner margin ; legs ochreous ; 

 thighs spotted with brown, apex of tarsi black; antennge 

 ochreous. 



$ differs from the $ in having the body suboval. 



Length 4 — 4^ lines. 



Not rare by sweeping, &c. 



6. Poioeri, E. Saund. 



Kather larger than the preceding and paler. Head, 

 thorax, scutellum and body with a dark central line 

 obscurely marked on the head and nearly black on the 

 body. Thorax much longer than in limbatus and propor- 

 tionately rather narrower in front; rudimentary elytra 

 longer and truncate, and only slightly rounded at the 

 exterior angles; body pubescent, rather more elongate; 

 connexivum narrow and not foliaceous, pale or reddish. 

 On each side of the black dorsal line of the body is a 

 narrow pale line, outside which is another dark one, narrow 

 in the $ , wide in the ?. Legs and antennje ochreous; 

 thighs spotted with browm, considerably longer than in 

 limbatus. $ and $ alike in having the body elongate and 

 narrow. 



Length 4| — 5^ lines. 



In a marshy place near Chobham, Surrey, by sweeping. 



7. ferns, Linn. Fig. Hahn, Wanz. Ins. iii. tab. 83, 



fig. 252. 

 Pale greyish-ochreous ; head with a dark longitudinal 

 spot between the eyes, ocelli red; thorax much narrowed 



