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hair ; tarsi yellowish, apex of the terminal joint black ; sometimes 

 the 1st joint is slightly piceous ; claws reddish-brown. 



Abdomen underneath dark reddish-brown. 



^ , length, 3 3i lines. 



The $ is oval in form ; the elytra extend but a little way beyond 

 the abdomen, and in consequence the insect has a stunted appear- 

 ance. 



? , length, 2| 3 lines. 



This species has, no doubt, hitherto been confounded by collec- 

 tors in this country with P. Uhni., to which it bears a great likeness. 

 The following characters will at once enable any one to separate 

 them. In P. Ulmi the antennsB are much shorter than in P. diver - 

 gens ; the head and thorax have a pale line down their centres ; the 

 corium has a distinct, large, pale, rhomboidal spot adjoining the 

 cuneus and the hinder thighs have always 2 broadish yellow-white, 

 irregular streaks, almost forming bands. 



It is widely distributed, and has been taken at Newport, South 

 Wales, Darenth Wood, amongst black-currant bushes, and other 

 places in the London district, by beating, in July and August. 



Species 7. PHYTOCORIS ULMI. 



CIMEX ULMI, Lin. S. N. 503, 110 (1767). 



Minis Fab. S. R. 256, 17 (1803). 



PHYTOCOKIS ULMI, //. Schf. Wanz. iii, 9, fig. 234 (1836) ; Meyer, Caps. 

 43, 2 (1843) ; Kirschb. Caps. 40, 20 (1855) ; Flor, 

 Rhyn. Liv. i, 416, 3 (1860) & ii, 593, 1 (1861) ; 

 Fieb. Europ. Hem. 259, 5 (1861). 



Brownish, brownish-red, or reddish-yellow, thickly clothed with short 



yellow hairs. 



Head. Crown convex, with a central line, and generally the mar- 

 gins of the clypeus and a line on the inside of each eye, pale yellow. 

 Antenna ; basal joint brown or brownish-pink, sparingly clothed 

 with short, fine, almost erect, yellow or brown hairs ; on the 

 upperside with pale yellow spots, and generally, on the under- 

 side at the base, with a short piceous streak; 2nd and 3rd joints 

 yellowish-brown ; 2nd at the base pale yellow, immediately fol- 

 lowed by a narrow blackish or brownish band ; 4th piceous ; occa- 

 sionally the apex of the 2nd joint narrowly, and the apical half 



