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at the anterior margin ; extreme apex yellowish- white ; Membrane 

 somewhat iridescent, blackish, anterior margin, narrowly darker; 

 between the apex of the cuneus and the inner cell-nerve a narrow 

 pale streak ; cell-nerves reddish. Legs ; thighs brown, with a broad 

 ring towards the base, and a narrow one before the apex, yellowish- 

 white, extreme apex frequently yellowish- white ; tibia yellowish, 

 basal half reddish or brownish ; apex narrowly brown ; tarsi yellow ; 

 apex of the 3rd joint, and claws, black. 



Length, 1^ line. 



An abundant species everywhere, from July to September, by 

 beating and sweeping Galium, and other plants growing on hedge- 

 banks, &c. 



Genus 2. CAMPTOBROCHIS, Fieb. 

 Short, broad, oval. 



Head short, vertical in front, almost twice as broad across the pos- 

 terior margin as long ; Crown convex, deflected to the clypeus, a 

 little raised above the upper margin of the eyes ; Clypeus convex ; 

 very little in front of, and forming a curve parallel with the anterior 

 margin of the eyes ; apex and short antenniferous processes in a line 

 with the middle of the lower half of the eyes ; Face ; central lobe 

 shortish, very convex, prominent ; side lobes short, narrow, some- 

 what parallel, rounded outwardly at the apex. Antennae short ; 

 about \ the length of the body, stouter in the $ than the ? , in 

 the former thickened ; 1st joint somewhat cylindrical, shorter than 

 the head ; 2nd stouter in the $ than in the ? , in the former 

 thickened to the apex, in the latter clavate, 3 times as long as the 

 1st ; 3rd and 4th together shorter than the 2nd, 3rd about equal 

 to the 4th. "Eyes large, prominent ; viewed from above almost hemi- 

 spherical, from the side long oval. Rostrum reaching to the end of 

 the mesosternum ; 1st joint stout, scarcely reaching to the base of 

 the xyphus of the prosternum. 



Thorax. Pronotum short, trapezoidal, obscurely hexagonal, If 

 times as broad on the posterior margin as long ; with a collar and 

 2 callosities in front, the latter joined by a short, broad, transverse 

 keel ; anterior margin constricted ; sides almost straight, consider- 

 ably rounded to the collar ; hinder angles rounded ; posterior margin 

 convex, or slightly concave across the scutellum ; disk very convex, 



