PSALLID^E. 415 



Abdomen piceous-red, genital segments carmine-red. 



Length, 1 J line nearly. 



Closely allied to P. salicis, but smaller, and distinguished from 

 that species by the absence of the white apex of the cuneus. Not 

 uncommon by beating alders at Lewisham, in September. 



Species 5. PSALLUS SALICIS. 



CAPSUS SALICIS, Kirschb. Caps. 97, 139 & 174, 30 (1,855). 

 PSALLUS SALICIS, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 307, 6 (1861). 



Carmine-red, clothed with fine, depressed, golden-yellow hairs, 

 sparingly intermixed with black ones.* 



Head. Crown between the eyes with a transverse row of minute 

 blackish-brown spots. Antennae yellowish ; 1st joint with 1 or 2 

 minute black spots towards the apex, in each of which is set a short, 

 stout, black hair. Rostrum reddish-brown ; 1st joint red ; tip 

 black. 



Thorax. Pronottm with several minute brown spots irre- 

 gularly disposed over the disk. Scutellwn carmine-red. Elytra: 

 Clavus ; inner margin at the apex narrowly brownish ; Oimeus ; base 

 and apex narrowly white ; Membrane blackish, iridescent ; between 

 the apex of the cuneus and the cell-nerves a whitish streak, and in 

 the centre of the disk, below the cells, a pale patch ; inner marginal 

 nerve brownish ; cell-nerves reddish-yellow, the outer one exteriorly 

 narrowly margined with white ; outer cell broadly pale at the base. 

 Sternum carmine-red. Legs whitish; thighs somewhat thickly 

 spotted with black ; on the upper margin before the apex, a large 

 black spot, in which is set a stout, erect, spinose, black hair ; tibia 

 reddish-yellow, paler towards the apex, with large, black spots, and 

 stout, erect, spinose, black hairs ; apex narrowly brownish ; tarsi 

 yellow ; 3rd joint and claws blackish. 



Abdomen underneath red, the segments more or less broadly 

 brown ; connexivum and genital segments red. 



Length, If line. 



Dr. Fieber named the insects from which the description has been 

 made, but we cannot observe the 2 transverse rows of spots on the 

 head, and the one generally on the hinder margin of the pronotum, 

 which he point* out in his diagnosis. 



