PSALLID^E. 403 



from the latter to the apex of the anterior margin a black streak, 

 generally darkest at the base ; inner marginal nerve piceous ; cell- 

 nerves yellowish, or brownish-yellow ; apex and inner cell-nerve 

 whitish or reddish. Legs ; coxae pale-yellowish, base blackish ; 

 thighs yellowish, upper and under margins black ; upper side at the 

 apex irregularly and underneath with a longitudinal row of large 

 black spots ; tibiae yellowish, with large black spots, and longish, 

 stout, somewhat spinose, black hairs ; knees and apex blackish ; 

 tarsi and claws black. 



Abdomen underneath olive-green, piceous or black. 



Length, If 2 lines. 



A very abundant species in June and July, by sweeping amongst 

 flowers, &c., on hedge- banks at Darenth, Mickleham, Bexley, and 

 other places in the London district. 



Gerncs 2. APOCREMNUS, Fieb. 

 <$ elongate, somewhat parallel ; $ oval. 



Head almost vertical in front, 1^ times as broad across the eyes as 

 long ; Crown almost flat, very much deflected ; Clypeus almost flat, 

 base lower than the anterior margin of the eyes ; apex a little pro- 

 duced, almost in a line with the middle of the eyes ; antenniferous 

 processes short, placed near the lower margin of the eyes ; Face ; 

 central lobe longish, convex, somewhat broad ; side lobes short, 

 narrow, rounded outwardly. Antenna shorter than the body ; 1st 

 joint cylindrical, shorter than the head ; 2nd 4 times as long as the 

 1st, in the <$ stouter than in the $ , gradually thickened to the 

 apex ; 3rd and 4th filiform, 3rd about -J the length of the 2nd, 4th 

 -frds the length of the 3rd. Eyes large, somewhat prominent; 

 viewed from above almost hemispherical ; from the side, long oval. 

 Rostrum slender, reaching to the 3rd pair of coxae ; 1st joint free. 



Thorax. Pronotum trapeziform, twice as broad across the poste- 

 rior margin as long, with 2 callosities in front; anterior margin 

 straight, angles rounded ; sides straight ; hinder angles short, 

 rounded, slightly raised ; posterior margin concave across the 

 scutellum rounded towards and at the hinder angles ; disk convex, 

 deflected to the head. Scutellum triangular, almost equilateral, raised 

 above the clavus, with a transverse channel near the base ; anterior 

 portion somewhat flat, deflected to the transverse channel ; hinder 



