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DER/EOCOR1D.E. 



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anterior margin throughout its entire length broadly yellow ; widest^ 



opposite to the apex of the clavus, and gradually narrowing as it 

 reaches the cuneus ; at the inner angle a narrow yellowish streak, 

 carried for a little way up the outside of the claval suture ; Cuneus 

 yellow ; slightly rounded at the base, and leaving a small but dis- 

 tinct notch ; Membrane blackish ; cells and a triangular patch on the 

 anterior margin extending to the apex, darker ; inner marginal nerve 

 black ; cell-nerves brownish ; apex white ; exterior margin of the 

 outer cell darker. Legs reddish or brownish-red ; apex of all the 

 tliiglis narrowly black ; tiUce with short, black, spinose hairs ; apex 

 of all the pairs black ; tarsi and claws brown or black. 



Abdomen ; underside black ; stigmata white. 



Length, 3J 3| lines. 



We have seen but two examples of this species ; one in the collec- 

 tion of Mr. Marshall, of Leicester, and the other received from 

 Mr. S. Stevens ; neither dates nor localities are known. Kirschbaum 

 (Caps. 11, 38) says, " Common in June and July on various plants," 



Species 11. DER.EOCORIS FORNICATUS. 



Elongate, oval. Eeddish-yellow, clothed with short, yellow hairs. 



Head with a brownish-red central streak, extending from between 

 the eyes to the apex of the clypeus, and one on each side curving 

 round, and approximating immediately behind the central one ; Face 

 vertical ; central lobe longish, convex, stout ; with a reddish or red- 

 dish-brown streak down the centre ; side lobes short, somewhat, 

 stout ; reddish at the base. Antennce yellowish ; apex of the 2nd, 

 and base of the 3rd joint black. Rostrum reaching to the 3rd pair of 

 coxae, yellowish ; tip piceous. 



Thorax. Pronotum behind the collar, with a large, deep, somewhat 

 lunate fovea on each side the centre ; sides straight ; hinder angles 

 rounded ; posterior margin convex, indented in the middle ; disk 

 convex, thickly and finely punctured. Scutellum yellowish, finely 

 wrinkled transversely ; base, as far as the lunate fovea and a central 

 streak, reddish. Elytra; Clavus somewhat convex, finely punc- 

 tured ; inner margin piceous ; Corium ; anterior margin and the 

 inner margin of the 1st nerve, at the base, narrowly black ; Cuneus 

 slightly rounded at the base, leaving a very small but distinct notch ; 



