KLEDITOMA PICICRUX. 229 



thorax ; the hair-fringe moderate, griseous. Radial cellule elongate, 

 closed at base and apex, the first abscissa of radius nearly twice the 

 length of the second. 

 Length If mm. 



Easily known from the preceding by the much 

 stouter antennae, shorter radial cellule, and almost 

 truncated apex of wings. 



Clydesdale, Dumfries, Linlithgowshire. 



06s. I formerly distinguished what I thought were two species 

 pentatoma and albipennis, of the Fauna of Scotland, but I now think, 

 notwithstanding some differences, that they represent only one. 



iv. Antennal club six-jointed. 



Antennae with a 6-jointed club. Scutellum with the cup large ; meta- 

 pleuras glabrous. Second abdominal segment with a large hair-fringe 

 (=Hexacola, Foerster, Yerh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, x, 359). 



20. KLEDITOMA PICICRUX. 

 PL XI, fig. 8. 



Eucoela picicrux, Giraud, Yerh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, x, 143. 



Black, shining, the knees and tibiae inclining to piceous, the tarsi to 

 fuscous ; wings hyaline with a smoky tinge, the nervures black. 

 Antennae not much longer than the head and thorax united, stout ; the 

 third joint more than one-half longer than the fourth ; the club abrupt, 

 the last two joints subequal. Scutellum finely punctured, the cup 

 minute. Abdomen as long as the thorax ; the hair-fringe large, grise- 

 ous. First abscissa of radius a mere stump, the third one-half longer 

 than the second; cubitus completely obsolete. (In figure the wings 

 should be incised). 



Length 1^ mm. 



Clydesdale, Sutherlandshire, Manual, Gloucester. 

 Continental distribution : Sweden. 



