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on each nerve at its base a very minute light-brown dot ; between 

 the 3rd and 4th nerves, at the base, a large, oval, black-brown spot, 

 and between the 2nd and 3rd, and 3rd and 4th nerves, on the pos- 

 terior margin, a short, black-brown dash, broad outwardly and 

 diminishing inwardly to a point ; in the ? these dashes are 

 scarcely perceptible. Sternum brown-ochreous, or dark brown finely 

 punctured. Legs pale ochreous ; tliighs strong, gradually clavate, 

 the club thick, black, the apex piceous; the 1st pair sometimes 

 piceous only on the sides ; tarsi; 1st and 2nd joints deep ochreous, 

 3rd black. 



Abdomen above dusky; beneath strongly punctured; in the ^ 

 dark brown, with a central line and the sides pale ; in the $ pale 

 ochreous, with a paler central line. Genital segments beneath, in 

 the <$ the side processes short, curved inwards so that the inter- 

 vening space appears round ; in the $ the processes form a longish 

 broad, obtuse point, with a notch just perceptible at the slightly 

 narrower end ; the outer sides almost imperceptibly constricted. 



Length, 22^ lines. 



Bare. On bare, sloping ground at Mickleham, in moss at the 

 roots of Teucrium scorodonium, and in tufts of grass, and at Bexley 

 "Wood (Scott) in October. 



Species 6. BERYTUS MINOR. 



BERYTUS MINOR, H. Schf. Norn. Ent, i, 43 (1835) ; Panz. F. G. 135, 7 ; 

 Fieb. Wien. Ent. Monats. iii, 206, 7 (1859); Europ. 

 Hem. 211, 7 (1861). 

 (NEIDES) MINOR, Flor, Rhyu. Liv. i, 204, 1 (1860). 



Ochreous. Frontal process above obtusely pointed, sideways semi- 

 circular. Antenna ; 1st joint, club rather gradual, stout, short, 

 black ; 2nd brownish towards the apex ; 3rd black at the apex. 

 Pronotum flat, depressed in the middle ; side keels continued 

 round the hinder angles, which are rounded and depressed ; pos- 

 terior margin nearly straight. Thighs gradually clavate, the club 

 blackish-brown, generally on the sides only. Genital segments, 

 in the , the processes stout, obtuse, parallel. 



Head ochreous-brown, finely punctured ; Frontal process seen from 

 above, narrow, slightly convex, obtusely pointed, and with fine white 

 downy hairs ; viewed sideways almost semicircular ; the side processes 



