496 ANTHOCORINA. 



the transverse depression. Scutellum smooth, posteriorly crenate. 

 Elytra smooth, without perceptible hairs except on the cuneus, pale 

 yellowish- white ; Corium ; anterior margin, as far as the cuneus, 

 much reflexed, incrassated at the end of the embolium ; Clavus on 

 the inner margin piceous, more broadly towards the apex ; Embolium 

 towards the end piceous, on the apex inwardly, usually a yellowish 

 spot ; Cuneus delicately punctured, finely pubescent, the outer 

 margin orange, the posterior margin broadly piceous, or sometimes 

 the entire surface suffused with pitchy black ; Membrane yellowish- 

 white, the posterior 3rd fuscous-black, the colour extending broadly 

 up the centre, but leaving the base and a large spot on each side 

 clear. Sternum delicately crenate ; margin of the segments yel- 

 lowish. Legs pale orange ; thighs ; 1st pair sometimes with a black 

 streak on the upper side ; 2nd and 3rd pairs, sometimes black, 

 except the base and apex ; sometimes 3rd pair only with a black 

 ring ; tibiae brown or black at the base ; tarsi ; 3rd joint piceous or 

 black. 



Abdomen beneath pitchy black, delicately crenate, with fine yel- 

 lowish pubescence. 



Length, 1| 2 lines. 



Common on trees and bushes from June to October, also among 

 dry leaves in winter and spring. 



Individuals of this species, and also of A. nemoralis, are often 

 found in the bladdery mines made on the leaves of oaks by the larvaB 

 of the genus Lithocolletis (Lepidoptera) ; and Mr. Stainton once saw 

 an Anthocoris outside one of such mines, with its rostrum thrust 

 through the loosened lower cuticle of the leaf, sucking the juices of 

 a larva within. 



Species 2. ANTHOCORIS NEMORALIS. 



ACANTHIA NEMORALIS, Fab. E. S. iv, 76, 35 (1794). 



CIMEX (GALLARUM ULMI), De G. M&n. iii, 279, 23 (1773). 



SALDA NEMORALIS, Fab. S. R. 116, 15 (1803). 



LYGJSUS AUSTRIACUS, Fab. S. R. 239, 181 (1803). 



ANTHOCORIS NEMORALIS, Fall. Hem. Suec. 67, 2 (1829) ; Flor, Rhyn. 



Liv. i, 650, 4 (1860); Fieb. Europ. Hem. 



137, 2 (1861). 



Black, with fine appressed, yellowish hairs ; 2nd joint of the antennae 

 broadly yellow-brown in the middle ; side margins of the 



