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spot ; Memlrane white, transparent, the nerves white, interrupted 

 by black streaks. Wings white, transparent. Sternum in the 

 centre black. Legs luteous; thighs strongly granulated, and on 

 the upper and underside finely serrated, black ; tibia luteous, the 

 apex black ; tarsi ; 1st joint luteous, 2nd and 3rd piceous. 



Abdomen above, the 1st 3 segments entirely, and the sides of the 

 4th broadly, black ; the 5th and 6th segments, and the centre of the 

 4th orange or luteous. Connexivum above and beneath luteous, 

 with the junction of the segments and a spot on the centre of the 

 margin of each black. Underside luteous or reddish, with longitu- 

 dinal black lines, the posterior margin of each segment with small 

 white spots. 



Length, 3 3J lines. 



Deal; under the leaves of Er odium cicutarium, in August and 

 September. "Braunton Burrows, N. Devon, September" (Curtis). 



Species 2. PSEUDOPHLCEUS NUBILUS. 



COREUS NUBILUS, Fall. Mon. Cim. 58, 4 (1807) ; Hem. Suec. 39, 5 

 (1829); Ahrens, P. las. Eur. 6, 22; Schill. Beitr. 

 i, 47, 10, t. 4, fig. 5 (1829). 



ARENOCORIS NUBILUS, Hahn, Wanz. ii, 111, t. 63, fig. 191 (1834). 



PSEUDOPHLCEUS H. Schf. Wanz. vi, 4 (1842). 



BATHTSOLEN Fieb. Europ. Hem. 216 (1861) ; Stal, K. Vet. 

 Akad. Eorh. 206, 2 (1862). 



Dull red-brown, the sides of the pronotum nearly straight, reflexed, 

 and whitish in front. 



Head. Crown almost quadrate, the neck short, red-brown, with 

 darker brown granulations. Antennae ; 1st joint dull brown, finely 

 granulated ; 2nd and 3rd dull yellowish, almost smooth ; 4th black, 

 base very finely granulated, upper half with appressed gray hairs. 

 Eyes and Ocelli brown. Rostrum piceous ; the last two joints 

 black. 



Thorax. Pronotum subtrapezoidal ; side margins reflexed, granu- 

 lated, yellowish- white on the 1st half; hinder angles broad, obtuse, 

 raised, with a shallow channel within ; disk flat, ochreous, covered 

 with small black granules, except 4 or 5 lines of the ground colour 

 lying longitudinally. Scutellum pointed, a little constricted before 

 the apex, luteous, fading into whitish at the apex, with a dark spot 

 in the centre of the base. Elytra; Clavus and Coriwn ochreous, 



