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sometimes the apex of the side keels, clear brown, or frequently all the three 
keels brown. Elytra: marginal nerve fuscous or yellowish, inner nerves pale 
yellow, granules black, of an elongate shape, deposited irregularly, two or 
three occasionally confluent where the transverse band passes across, and also 
at the bifurcations of the nerves, each granule bearing a short black hair ; 
from the transverse nerves to the apex the granules on all the nerves are 
frequently confluent, so that the nerves appear black, transverse nerves black , 
margined on one or both sides with fuscous-brown ; clavus, marginal nerve 
next the apex with six or seven granules, or the granules confluent, and form- 
ing two short streaks. Wings pale, transparent, or more or less fuscous, 
marginal and inner nerves black, bases of all yellow. Legs yellowish or fus- 
cous; thighs next the apex frequently dark brown; tibie sometimes with a 
blackish patch at the base, on the outside; tarsi, lst and 2nd pairs brownish- 
yellow or fuscous, 3rd joint black, 3rd pair yellowish, 3rd joint sometimes 
brown. 
Abdomen black, margins of the segments on the sides very narrowly orange-reddish ; 
genital segment black, or occasionally chestnut-brown ; “ claspers ” fuscous. 
Length, 3—33 lines. 
This is our commonest species, and is to be met with everywhere, 
by beating trees and bushes, from June to September. 
Species 3.—CIXIUS INTERMEDIUS. 
Cixius intermedius, Fieb. (M.S.). 
Head and face yellow, or pale brownish-yellow; pronotum pale chestnut-brown, 
darker on the sides. Elytra: marginal granules somewhat square. Genital 
organs pale brownish or yellowish. 
Head : Face, lower portion next the clypeus, with a more or less axe-shaped pitchy 
patch on each side of the middle keel. Antenne black, apex of the 2nd joint 
brown. 
Thorax: pronotum yellow. Scutellum clear brown, darkest on the sides from 
beyond the side keels, apex depressed, and very finely wrinkled transversely. 
Elytra somewhat of a chalky or milky hue, or with a slight brownish ,shade, 
anterior marginal nerve yellowish-white as far as the cuneate patch, from 
thence round the apex fuscous, granules along the marginal nerve somewhat 
square, and placed at different intervals in different individuals, granules on 
the inner nerves of a somewhat loose appearance, somewhat thickly disposed, 
and placed more or less in pairs, one granule on the right hand side of the 
nerve, and the other on the left, each granule bearing a short black hair ; 
transverse band generally of an almost uniform width, more or less dark 
brown, and more or less distinct, it curves slightly outwardly, and reaches the 
inner margin nearly in the middle of the clavus, transverse nerves very nar- 
rowly black. Wings pale, transparent, nerves black. Legs yellow; thighs of 
all the pairs fuscous-brown ; tibiw sometimes with a fuscous shade. 
Abdomen black, margins of the segments on the sides slightly reddish or yellowish ; 
genital segment brown ; “claspers,” &c., yellowish. Length, 2—3 lines. 
