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entirely, base of the membrane next the inner margin, a small, some- 

 what triangular spot a little below the apex of the cuneus, and the 

 apex of the anterior margin pale blackish ; disk thickly powdered 

 with pale blackish atoms more or less confluent ; cell-nerves, apical 

 third of the nerve green or pale. Legs pale yellowish ; apical third 

 of the 1st and 2nd pair of thighs on the upper and under edges more 

 or less spotted with black ; 3rd pair at the apex broadly, and an 

 oblique band, black ; the upper edges spotted with black throughout 

 nearly their entire length ; the lower side of the apex more or less 

 pale ; tibiae with small brownish or blackish spots, in each of which is 

 set a long, white, somewhat spinose hair ; 1st pair with 2 bands and 

 the apex black ; base pale ; 2nd with 3 black bands ; base and apex 

 pale ; 3rd with 3 black bands, the base narrowly pale and the bands 

 generally spotted with white ; tarsi brownish ; 1st and 3rd joints 

 piceous or black ; claws brown. 



Length, 2f 3 lines. 



Not an uncommon species, on palings, <fcc., throughout the 

 London district, in July and August. 



Species 3. PHYTOCORIS DUBIUS. 



Grayish-yellow, clothed with short silver-white hairs. Antennae; 

 2nd joint black ; base and a narrow band beyond the middle 

 white ; tibia with 3 blackish bands. 



Head. Clypeus with 4 pairs of narrow, transverse, dark streaks on 

 each side, between the eyes, the upper one frequently connected in 

 the middle ; apex of the side lobes black ; Face pale ; central lobe 

 with a black V-shaped patch at the base, and another towards the 

 apex, its extremities in a line with the black apex of the side lobes 

 of the clypeus ; side lobes along the upper margin broadly black. 

 Antennae black ; 1st joint with long, fine, erect, pale hairs, base 

 narrowly and several spots of irregular size, white ; 2nd, at the base, 

 and a narrow band beyond the middle, white; 3rd, at the base 

 narrowly white, or reddish- white. Eyes black. Rostrum pale ; tip 

 piceous. 



Thorax. Pronotum ; sides broadly black ; posterior margin white, 

 in the middle with a small triangular patch ; within the posterior 

 margin 2 somewhat lunate black patches, extending from the black 



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