92 Mr. James Edwards' Synopsis of 



knees pale. ScutcUiim one-half lonf^er than pronotum. Elytra 

 about half as long as abdomen, truncate with rounded angles, 

 nerves non-granulate. 



$ . Whitish yellow, claws black. 



Macrojiterous form. — Elytra pellucid, longer than the abdomen, 

 slightly widened behind, their apex narrowly rounded, nerves pale 

 yellow, somewhat infuscated towards the apex, marginal nerve of 

 membrane narrowly blackish. In the male the white margin to 

 the last two abdominal segments is wanting. Length, 2^ — 3| mm. 



Stratton Strawless, Norfolk ; Shiere, near Guildford, 

 &c. ; in grassy places. 



iv. DiCRANOTROPis, Fieh. (PI. I., fig. 20). 



Fieb., Grundz. Delpli., 521, 16 (1866). 



Easily separated from the last genus by the greater 

 length of the bifurcation of the central facial keel, which 

 is equal to or exceeds one-half of its entire length. Of 

 the four described European species one only has hitherto 

 been recorded from Britain. 



1. Dicranotropis hamata, Boh. 



Deljjhax hamata, Boh., Sv. Ak. HandL, 45, 14 (1849) ; 

 Flor, Ehyn. Liv., ii., 51, 7; Marsh., Ent. Mo. 

 Mag., i., 228, 9. 

 D. notula, H.-S., F. G., 143, 19. 

 D. striatella, Stal, Ofv., 191, 19 (1854). 

 Dicranotrojns hamata, Fieb., Grundz. Delph., t. 8, 

 fig. 17 (details) ; Kirschb., Cicad., 41, 2 ; Scott, 

 Ent. Mo. Mag., vii., 73, 1 ; J. Sahl., Not. Fenn., 

 xii., 469, 1 ; Fieb., Cicad. d'Eur., pt. iv., 87, 4. 

 (J. Pale testaceous, facial keels white, more or less strongly 

 margined with black, pronotum and scutellum with a narrow 

 white central stripe. Elytra more than half as long as abdomen, 

 pellucid greyish white, hind margin white, trimcate with rounded 

 angles, inner apical angle with a short black Ime. Abdomen black 

 with a fine pale dorsal line, and occasionally some rows of pale 

 spots on each side. Pygofer black, down the middle of the upper 

 side broadly white, upper notch deep, angular, hind margin strongly 

 sinuate and directed obliquely downwards and forwards. Legs 

 pale, thighs dusky, hind pair black. 



$ . Paler than the male, abdomen pale testaceous, with the 

 sides widely, the hind margin of each segment, and a fine line on 



