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times yellowish ; Ouneus black or brown, base more or less pale ; 

 Membrane brownish or pale, slightly iridescent ; cell-nerves whitish, 

 inner cell and the exterior margin of the outer cell narrowly brown. 

 Sternum black. Legs ; coxae pale yellowish, more or less black at 

 the base ; fulcra pale yellowish ; thighs black or pitchy brown, 

 extreme base sometimes and apex yellowish ; underneath with a 

 longitudinal row of spots ; tibiae yellow, with large black spots, in 

 each of which is set a longish, stout, somewhat spinose, black hair ; 

 tarsi yellowish ; 3rd joint and claws brownish. 



Abdomen black, shining. 



Length, 1| If line. 



Variety CAPSTJS FURCATUS, H. Schf. Wanz. iv, 79, fig. 409. 



Head as in Sohemanni. 



Thorax. Pronotum in front red to behind the callosities ; sides 

 brownish ; disk in the centre with a pale longitudinal line. Scutellum ; 

 anterior portion red or reddish, basal angles a little paler ; hinder 

 portion black or brown, with a broad reddish or yellowish central line. 

 Elytra somewhat diaphanous ; Clavus ; inner margin narrowly black ; 

 suture pale ; disk, from the base to beyond the scutellar angle, pale ; 

 apex piceous, with a pale spot in the middle ; Corium at the base 

 with a large, pale, triangular patch, continued into a broad streak 

 next to and throughout the entire length of the claval suture ; apex 

 with an irregular piceous patch, the upper and lower margins 

 bilobed ; Ouneus ; apex brown, base broadly pale. Legs ; thighs 

 reddish-yellow, apex pale yellow ; 3rd pair with a few brown spots 

 next the apex ; tibia, tarsi, and claws paler than in Bohemanni. 



Abdomen red underneath ; margins of the segments more or less 

 broadly blackish. 



A very abundant species at Deal, in August, by sweeping dwarf 

 sallows, &c. It is exceedingly active in the net. The variety 

 N. furcatus is somewhat scarce, and is probably only an immature 

 form. 



Species 2. NEOCORIS SCOTTI. 



MONOSYNAMMA SCOTTI, Fieb. (MS.) (1863). 

 MICROSYNAMMA SCOTTI, Fieb. (MS.) (1863). 

 MONOSYNAMMA SCOTTI, Scott, Eat. Ann, 160, fig. 5 (1864). 



Black, shining, clothed with very short, griseous- yellow hairs. 



