DER^IOCORID^E. 319 



leaving a small but distinct notch ; Membrane gray, with a large, 

 square, pale spot below the apex of the cuneus ; between the under- 

 side of the cells and the pale spot, the inner margin of the latter, 

 and a triangular patch on the anterior margin reaching to the apex, 

 blackish ; inner marginal nerve black ; cell-nerves yellow ; large cell 

 pale ; base narrowly, and the apex more or less broadly, blackish. 

 Legs yellow, clothed with very short black hairs ; thighs more or 

 less red ; 1st and 2nd pairs generally with 2 pale bands ; 3rd with 

 a single band before the apex ; tibice with fine, black, spinose hairs ; 

 3rd pair bent below the base ; apex of all the pairs black ; 2nd and 3rd 

 frequently reddish at the base ; tarsi and claws blackish. 



Abdomen. ^, underside black, with a yellow streak along the 

 sides ; ? yellow ; sides and middle reddj sh-brown. 



Length, 3-J- lines. 



A common species, on trunks of trees and palings, in May and 

 June. It has occurred at Lewisham, Bexley, Darenth Wood, and 

 other places. 



/Species 3. DER^EOCORIS BIPUNCTATUS. 



CIMEX PABULINUS, Scop. Eat. Cam. 132, 384, var. 2 (1763). 



LYG^US BIPUNCTATUS, Fab. S. R. 235, 158 (1803). 



PHYTOCORIS Fall. Hem. i, 78, 2 (1829) ; Burm. Handb. ii, 270, 



14 (1835) ; Zett. Ins. Lap. 271, 1 (1839). 

 CAPSUS H. Schf. Wanz. iii, 79, fig. 298 (1836) ; Meyer,- 



Caps. 51, 10 (1843); Sahib. Geoc. Fen. 101, 



20 (1848). 



(DEJELEOCORIS) BIPUNCTATUS, Kirschb. Caps. 60, 58 (1855). 

 CAPSUS (CAPSUS) Flor, Rbyn. Liv. i, 498, 17 (1860). 

 CALOCORIS Fieb. Europ. Hem. 254, 10 (1861). 



elongate, somewhat narrowed at the membrane ; $ longish oval. 

 Green, or yellowish-green, clothed with fine, short, black hairs, 

 sparingly intermixed with pale ones. 



. Antennae; 1st and 2nd joints clothed with very short 

 black hairs; 1st joint green; 2nd, 3rd, and 4th more or less 

 brownish yellow. Rostrum reaching to the 2nd abdominal seg- 

 ment ; pale brownish-yellow ; tip piceous. 



Thorax. Pronotum with 2 callosities behind the collar ; hinder 



