NEW BRITISH HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS, - 427 
3. A. MELANOPSIS. 
Minute; head moderately pointed ; face entirely bluish black ; 
top of the head, whitish, with an arched row of six fuscous spots 
round the apex, followed by two larger ones united at the tip of. 
the sunk vertical line, and behind these four others, two on each 
side, betwixt this line and the eyes; eyes subtestaceous ; antennz 
moderate, greyish; ground colour of the thorax dirty white, 
occupied on the hinder part by two lateral, and two middle 
darker patches, the last disposed in thickish lines, bluish fuscous; 
scutellum white, a fuscous spot at its base, and another near its 
tip, behind the transverse impressed line; viewed from before, 
these form a cross; elytra glossy with fuscous or purplish-fuscous 
patches, one large near the base, and two others divided by 
narrow lighter spaces, with a few more minute, the remainder 
sub-hyaline, and diversified by the pearly whiteness of the ner- 
vures, more particularly at the junctions; wings slaty with dusky 
nervures ; breast and abdomen beneath, black, the segments of 
the latter bordered posteriorly with delicate white lines ; legs, 
base of the fore coxe, and of all the femora, base of the tibiz 
narrowly, their tips, and a line of dots, and the tarsal claws, 
black, the remainder, yellowish; hinder tibie, with the base 
narrowly, and the spines, as well as the basal joint of the tarsi, 
dirty yellow, the remainder, black. Length 1 line. 
Among short herbage, on barren banks, in Berwickshire. It 
comes nearest to A. nitida, of Curtis. 
4 A. MARMORATA., 
Shining and polished, elongate ; face broad, somewhat flattened, 
yellow, an elongated spot on the clypeus, the margins of the 
compartments, an oblique dash across the cheeks, the under 
margin of the eyes, and two spots on their anterior edge, and the 
hollow whence the antennx originate shining black or fuscous, 
the central plate ribbed with black and yellow, representing in 
the contour the trunk of a skeleton, towards the lower part of 
which lies a halbert-shaped yellow space; ocelli remote, placed 
near the eyes, and within a dark spot, almost on the line of the 
forehead ; the upper part of the head is narrow, almost transverse 
