British Hemiptera-Heteroptera, 653 



with a small tubercle in the middle, indicating the position 

 of the dorsal line. Elytra dull olive-brown ; corium with 

 two longitudinal darker markings. Legs ochreous. 



Length If line. 



Cambridge Fens ; near London, &c. 



SiGARA. 



1. Thorax as long or nearly as long as the head .. .. miiintisslma. 



2. Thorax uot nearly as long as the head . . . . .. Scholtzii. 



1. minutissima, Linn. 



Var. Toioeri, Dougl. & Scott. 



Head yellowish-white, with a dark spot on the vertex. 

 Thorax brown ; the base, and sometimes the dorsal line, 

 pale. Elytra yelloAvish-white ; a large triangular spot on 

 the clavus, a spot on the margin of the corium below the 

 base, an irregular band below the middle, and a spot 

 above the apex, brown. Legs pale; tarsi dark outwardly. 



Length | line. 



Fens ; near Chobham ; New Forest. 



Var. Toioeri, Dougl. & Scott, appears to me to be 

 only a darker, more strongly marked variety of this species. 



2. Scholtzii, Fieb. 



leather larger than the above and paler; the markings 

 on the elytra much smaller and not arranged in bands. 

 The short thorax, however, will at once distinguish it 

 from the preceding. 



Length 1 line. 



Littlehampton, St. Leonards Forest, &c. 



ADDENDA. 



Gen. Sehirus, p. 120, line 9 fi-om bottom, after "b. 

 About two lines long, blue black," add — 



I. Margin of elytra white; apical joint of antenna 



much longer and thicker than third .. .. alhomai'ginahis. 



II. Margin of elytra brownish; apical joint of an- 

 tennae subecjual to third .. .. .. 2^(c/^^es, Fall. 



and after '' alhomarginatus,^^ t^. 121, insert following de- 

 scription : — 



6. pivipes, Fall. 



Very like the preceding, but distinguishable at once by 

 the smaller apical joint to the antennje. The colour of 



