120 Mr. James Edwards' Synopsis of 



examined one female from coll. Capron which is possibly 

 a variety of this species, but, in addition to the pale 

 band across the apex of the elytra, both the transverse 

 nerve and the apex of the anal nerve are white and stand 

 in a round white spot, and the upper side of the abdomen 

 has the basal half black and the apical half brownish 

 yellow. This example was beaten from fir in March or 

 April, 1885. 



8. Idiocerus laminatus, Flor. 



Idiocerus laminatus, Flor, Ehyn. Liv., ii., 171, 5 ; 

 Marsh., Ent. Mo. Mag., ii., 104, 3; Kirschb., 

 Cicad., 162, 21 ; J. Sahl., Not. Fenn., xii., 118, 

 9 ; Scott, Ent. Mo. Mag., x., 28, 5. 



(^. Crown and face greyish yellow. Pronotum dirty greyish 

 yellow, more or less suffused with fuscous. Scutellum greyish 

 yellow, a black triangle on each side at the base and generally a 

 pair of black points on the disc. Elytra pale brown, a spot at the 

 apex of the anal nerve, the costal, first subapical, and the greater 

 part of the first apical area and a wide band across the apex of the 

 coriuni, white ; nerves punctured, dark brown except in the white 

 parts, where they are coneolorous, first subapical area narrow- 

 triangular, very small and indistinct. Abdomen above black, hind 

 margins of the segments narrowly pale. Legs pale, claws black. 



? . Similar to the male, but larger and paler, with some fuscous 

 markings on the middle of the crown. Length, 5f — 6 mm. 



On poplars ; not common. 



9. Idiocerus lituratus, Fall. 



Jassus lituratus, Fall., Hem. Suec, ii., 60, 2. 

 Bijtlioscopus lituratus, H.-Scff., Deuts. Ins., 143, 13. 

 Idiocerus maculipennis, Curt., Brit. Ent., 733, 3. 

 I. lituratus, Flor, Khyu. Liv., ii., 168, 4 ; Marsh., 

 Ent. Mo. Mag., ii., 103, 2; Kirschb., Cicad., 154, 

 5; J. Sahl., Not. Fenn., xii., 141, 3; Scott, Ent. 

 Mo. Mag., X., 25, 2. 

 (J . Crown greyish yellow, more or less clouded with rust-yellow, 

 with a pair of black punctures (frequently united by a brown line) 

 placed one near each eye. Face greyish yellow, in its upper half a 

 large blackish grey triangle which frequently bears a black central 

 stripe, frons and clypeus reddish yellow. In life the face is dull 

 white with a wide greenish yellow central stripe. Pronotum 

 greyish yellow clouded with fuscous and spotted vnth bluish white, 



