190 (January, 
ON CERTAIN BRITISH HEMIPTERA-HOMOPTERA. 
(Revision of the Family Ciaiide). 
BY JOHN SCOTT. 
(Continued from page 148). 
Species 5.—C1IxiUs CONTAMINATUS. 
Flata contaminata, Germ., Mag., ii, 196, 7 (1818); Thon Archiv., 
ii, 49, 29 (1829). 
Flata albicineta, Germ., Mag., ii, 199, 9 (1818). 
Cixius contaminatus, Burm., Handb., ii, 157, 4 (1885); Flor, 
Rhyn. Liv., ii, 24, 2 (1861) ; Marshall, Ent. 
Mo. Mag., i, 155, 2 (1864); Kirschb., Cicad., 
49, 9 (1868). 
Cixia albicincta, Burm., Handb., ii, 158, 6 (1835). 
Head black, keels broadly pale brownish-yellow. Face brownish-yellow. Hlytra 
almost invariably with three short black streaks along the anterior margin, 
and a short transverse fuscous streak midway betwen the cuneate patch and 
the apex. 
Thoraz: pronotum clear brown, or brown, or brownish-yellow; on the sides 
between the keels and the posterior margin, narrowly black. Scutellum black, 
keels and the side margins more or less reddish-brown. LElytra pale, greyish 
or dark grey, granules on the interior nerves somewhat minute, thickly dis- 
posed and placed irregularly, generally in pairs, sometimes placed from left to 
right, sometimes from right to left, and with an occasional single granule 
between them, towards the apex; anterior margin almost constantly with 
three short black streaks, from the first of which a more or less distinct brown 
band passes across to near the apex of the clavus; cuneate patch brown, in 
which is a few black granules; and midway between this and the apex is a 
short transverse fuscous streak. Wings pale, nerves piceous. Legs yellow, or 
with a fuscous shade; thighs pitchy-black. 
Abdomen black ; genital segment in the middle underneath, “claspers,” &c., 
yellowish. Length, 2—24 lines. 
In the variety albicincta, the inner longitudinal half of the elytra 
are dark brown, the outer half pale, with the usual specific characters. 
This is our smallest species, and is at once to be recognised from 
all the others by the three short black streaks on the anterior margin, 
The dark grey form, on first sight, very much resembles stigmaticus. | 
Widely distributed, although the varieties appear to be confined 
to the south. It occurs from June to September, on various trees 
and bushes. 
