1898.] 15 



in Epping Forest, September 14th and 25tb, in company with the 

 commoner A. interstinctum ; Nahis hrevipennis, several out of oak, and 

 one from horiibeam, Loughton ; I mention this merely because Mr. 

 Saunders only gives it in his work as on Coryhos ; as N. hrevipennis, 

 like the rest of the genus Nahis, is insectivorus in its habits, there 

 seems to be no reason why it should be attached exclusively to one 

 kind of tree ; Salda cincta (1), on a ditch bank at Cheshunt, Lea 

 Valley, October 24th. 



152, Silver Street, Tipper Edmonton, N. : 

 December 1st, 1897. 



[I have taken Gonocerus on two occasions on box trees at Box 

 Hill, in July and August, 1868 ; as these are intermediate dates to 

 those given by Mr. Jennings, I think it may be worth while to men- 

 tion them. — E. S.] 



F(ECILOSCTTUS VULNERATUS, WOLFF, AN ADDITION TO THE 

 LIST OF BEITISH BEMIPTERA. 



BT H. J. THOULESS. 



On September ] 7th last I took on the sand hills at Yarmouth 

 some Hemiptera which did not appear to answer the description of 

 anything in the British list. I sent a pair to Mr. Saunders, who has 

 been kind enough to examine them, and finds them to be Pceciloscytus 

 rulneratus, "Wolff, a species which occurs in Sweden, Denmark, 

 Germany, France, Switzerland, and all over South Europe, but which 

 has not previously been recorded from Britain. 



All I saw were on the patches of Galiwin verum growing among 

 the short grass, but on the continent, according to Dr. Renter, it has 

 also been found on Galium MoUucjo, Achillea, JEchium, Artemisia, 

 Plantago, and Arenaria. 



It is a very pretty and conspicuous species, somewhat like P. unifaseiatus , but 

 considerably smaller than that insect, and at once distinguishable by its paler color, 

 being scarcely marked with black, and by the shorter and stouter third and fourth 

 joints of the antennae, which taken together do not equal the length of the 2nd. 

 In unifaseiatus the head and thorax are nearly entirely black, the scutellum black 

 except at the apex, and the elytra have the clavus and a wide band on the corium 

 black. 



It was not common, and I was only able to obtain just over a 

 dozen specimen. Probably it was rather too late in the season as 

 most of my examples, especially the males, were rather worn. 



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 JJecember '6rd, 1807. 



