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of hie subgenus Nasipa, which closely resembles A. flava, but differs 

 in having the fourth segment of the abdomen in the male furnished 

 ■with appendages which are longer than in any other species of Anaspis, 

 and reach to the apex of the appendages of the third segment ; it has 

 also the thorax a little broader and the antennae more evidently rooni- 

 liform, but these are scarcely appreciable differences. 



A. SUBTESTACEA, Steph. 



Testaceous or fusco-testaceous, with the apex of the antenna?, or the whole of 

 the antennae, except base, and also the abdomen and sometimes base and apex of 

 elytra, dark ; occasionally the abdomen is in part, or wholly, testaceous ; pubescence 

 fine and rather close ; antennae rather long, not moniliform, with all the joints 

 evidently longer than broad ; thorax nearly as long as broad, very finely sculptured, 

 posterior angles not obtuse, almost right angles ; elytra rather long, somewhat pointed 

 at apex, very finely strigose transversely, the sculpture being nearly as fine as on 

 thorax ; legs testaceous. Length, 3 — 3£ mm. 



Male characters peculiar, the second ventral segment of the abdomen being 

 furnished with two linear appendages^which are very long; from the apex of the 

 third segment there arises a vertical plate, furnished with a tooth beneath, and 

 divided behind into two lobes, which reach the apex of the fifth segment ; the fourth 

 segment bears two short appendages, and the fifth is deeply cleft and bilobed ; the 

 anterior tarsi are dilated. ~~ 



On flowers, and by sweeping herbage ; local, but not uncommon 

 in many-districts ; London district rather common ; Suffolk ; Hastings ; 

 Glanvilles Wootton ; Devon; South "Wales; Tewkesbury; Birming- 

 ham district ; Leicestershire ; Kepton ; Dunham Park ; Manchester ; 

 Northumberland and Durham District, rather uncommon; it has not 

 apparently been found in Scotland or Ireland. 



A. MACCLATA, Fourc. 



(rnelavopa, Porst., obscura, Marsh., bipunctata, ^on.,pallida i Marsh.). 

 Pale testaceous, clothed with fine, silky, yellowish-grey pubescence, with the 

 apex of the antennas, breast and abdomen black ; the scutellary region, a common 

 sutural spot at apex, and a round or transverse patch on the disc of each elytron 

 before middle, are more or less plainly fuscous ; in some specimens the spots before 

 middle are alone present (v. bipunctata, Bon.), and in others all the spots are absent 

 (v. palllida, Marsh.) ; the antennae are considerably thickened towards apex, with 

 the penultimate joints moniliform and transverse or subtransverse ; thorax a little 

 broader than long, very finely sculptured, with the posterior angles almost right 

 angles ; elytra very closely and finely strigose transversely ; legs pale testaceous. 



Length, 2g- — 3 mm. 



Male with the anterior tarsi dilated, and with the third segment of the abdomen 

 produced in middle, and furnished with two appendages, which are approximate, 

 and reach the apex of the abdomen ; fourth segment short, emarginate in middle ; 

 fifth segment foveolate in the middle and slightly emarginate at apex. 



On flowers of whitethorn, &c. ; it has also been bred from woody 

 excrescences on the trunks of birch trees ; common and generally 

 distributed throughout the kingdom. 



Lincoln : June. 1889. 



