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at tlie apex piceous or brown and with a short longitudinal row 

 of brown spots; tarsi,- 1st and 2nd joints pitchy-brown ; 3rd and 

 claws black. 



Length, 2| lines. 



A single <$ and 2 or 3 $ examples of this insect were taken by 

 the Rev. T. A. Marshall in the New Forest, and at Birchwood in 

 July and August of the present year Dr. Power took several 

 $ specimens. 



Genus 3. LOPOMORPHUS.* 



Linear elongate, more or less parallel; $ frequently undeveloped. 



Head. Crown horizontal, flattish convex ; Clypeus very convex ; 

 apex rounded, overhanging the face, in a line with the lower half of 

 the eyes, with short, lateral, lobe-like processes, at the end of which 

 is a tubercle bearing the antenna ; Face almost vertical ; central 

 lobe long, broad, convex ; side lobes short, narrow, rounded out- 

 wardly. Antenna variable in length ; 1st joint stout, longer than 

 the head ; 2nd not so stout as the 1st, and 3 times longer ; 3rd and 

 4th together shorter than the 2nd, and perceptibly thinner. Eyes 

 large, prominent. Rostrum reaching to or beyond the 3rd pair of 



COX83. 



Thorax. Pronotum trapezoidal, broader than long, with 2 cal- 

 losities in front ; posterior margin at least double the length of the 

 anterior one ; anterior margin concave ; sides margined to behind 

 the callosities ; hinder angles short ; posterior margin almost straight, 

 rounded towards and at the hinder angles ; disk convex. Scutellum 

 large, triangular, with a transverse channel a little before the 

 middle ; anterior portion flattish, deflected to the transverse channel ; 

 hinder portion convex. Elytra; Clavus convex, deflected to the 

 corium ; nerve stout, prominent ; Cerium flattish convex, horizontal 

 as far as the junction with the cuneus and membrane, which are 

 deflected ; nerves stout and prominent ; Cuneus in developed ex- 

 amples long, narrow, triangular ; in undeveloped examples short ; 

 Membrane in undeveloped examples very short and narrow, with or 

 without a short cell. Sternum: Prosternum ; xyphus triangular, 

 concave, sides margined ; Mesosternum convex, rounded posteriorly, 

 with a central channel; posterior margin slightly indented in the 



f LopnS) a genus of Hcmiptera; f-iop^Ij, a form, shape. 



