BLATTIDE ECTOBIUS. 4^ 



elytra longer than the abdomen, pellucid-yellow, thickly sprinkled with 

 numerous minute dusky atoms, and with a few larger spots disposed longi- 

 tudinally ; wings slightly brownish ; abdomen black, with the lateral mar- 

 gins yellow ; femora slightly spined ; legs posteriorly with the tibiae and 

 tarsi frequently paler, and the tips of the latter dusky or blackish. The 

 female is rather less, shorter and paler, head obscure ; base of the antennae 

 sometimes pale ; thorax with the disc testaceous, the margins yellow ; 

 elytra scarcely as long as the abdomen, with the spots rather more distinct 

 than in the male; abdomen broadish, pitchy or black, with the sides and 

 margins of the segments yellow; legs yellow, with the apex of the tarsi, 

 the claws and pulvilli black. 



This appears to be a rare species in England : I once (in July 

 1 827) took a pair in a wood near Albury in Surrey, and obtained it 

 in the same season from the vicinity of Lyndhurst ; and I do not 

 remember to have seen other specimens elsewhere. 



Sp. 4. perspicillaris. Ovatus,Jlavescens, thoracis disco testaceo, elytris atomis, 

 abdomineque supra fuscis, antennis pallidis. (Long. corp. 6 — 7 lin.) 



Bl. perspicillaris. Fuesly ?—Steph. Catal. 304. No. 3359. 



Ovate, yellowish; thorax with the disc testaceous, the margins pellucid 

 yellow ; elytra with some distinct dusky spots disposed longitudinally, and 

 numerous blackish atoms on the surface ; abdomen above fuscous, with 

 pale lateral margins, beneath blackish ; legs pale yellowish-pitchy, with the 

 knees paler ; femora with a few spines within ; wings fuscescent, darkest 

 at the apex. 



Of this insect (which is supposed by Charpentier to be a variety 

 of Ec. lapponicus) I have two examples — one taken in the neigh- 

 boiurhood of Lyndhurst ; the other I obtained from the Marshamian 

 collection. 



Sp. 5. Panzeri. Elongatus, pallide-ochraceo-flavescens, thoracis disco testaceo 

 Jusco, elytris pallidis laterihus membranaceo-pellucidis, disco fere immaculato, 

 antennis pedihusque piceis. (Long. corp. 5 — 6 lin.) 



Bl. Panzeri. Steph. Catal. 304. No. 3360. — Bl. germanica. Panzer Faun. 

 Germ. u.f. 16. 



Slightly elongate, or elliptic ; of a pale ochreous yellow ; head dusky ; mouth 

 pale ; thorax with its disc testaceous-brown, sometimes a little blackish, 

 the margins pale and pellucid ; elytra also pale, the lateral margins pellucid 

 brownish-yellow, the disc with a few minute brownish atoms ; abdomen 

 beneath pitchy, above pale testaceous-brown ; legs pale pitchy, the femora 

 palest and without spines ; antennae also pitchy. 



Found not uncommonly on the coast of Devonshire, near Kings- 



