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queutly the band next the apex is obsolete, and the entire apical 

 portion from the 2nd pale band brownish-yellow ; outer margin with 

 several small brown spots throughout its entire length ; tarsi 

 brownish-yellow; 3rd joint piceous ; claws reddish-brown. 



Length, 3 3 lines. 



The P. saturate, Fieb. (MS.), has somewhat of a reddisli tinge, 

 and the markings browner and more decided than in the typical 

 specimens. 



Not an uncommon species, and has, perhaps, hitherto been mis- 

 taken for gray examples of P. Tiliae. It is, however, narrower, 

 more parallel, with much longer antennae, and generally yellower 

 than the palest examples of that species. 



We have found it on palings at Blackheath, and elsewhere in the 

 London district, in August. 



Species 5. PHYTOCOUIS CRASSIPES. 



PHYTOCORIS CRASSIFES, Flor, Rhyn. Liv. ii, 606, 8 (1861). 



Dark gray or dark grayish -yellow, clothed with depressed, curled, 

 white hairs, intermixed with somewhat erect black ones. 

 Antenna; 2nd joint in the middle more or less distinctly pale ; 

 tibia with 3 blackish or brownish bands, frequently with a 

 brown-pink tinge. 



Head grayish or brownish-yellow ; Crown sometimes with a 

 reddish tinge, or with a few minute reddish or brownish spots; 

 Clypeus brownish, with several minute and narrow transverse lines 

 on either side the centre ; side lobes immediately in front of the 

 antenniferous processes with a round white spot; Face; central 

 lobe black or brown-pink, the base with a triangular whitish or 

 yellowish- white patch ; side lobes with a pink line along their upper 

 margin. Antenna ; 1st joint black, grayish-black, or with a brown- 

 pink tinge, clothed with long, erect, silver-white hairs, and with 

 several large, more or less confluent, white spots, giving it a marbled 

 appearance ; 2nd black, with a more or less distinct white band be- 

 yond the middle, or the middle more or less indefinitely pale 

 brownish-yellow ; base narrowly white ; 3rd and 4th black, 3rd 

 narrowly white at the base. Eyes black. Rostrum yellow ; 4th joint 

 black. 



