430 MR. HARDY ON DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME 
Late in Autumn, in fields near Dunston, and also in Berwick- 
shire. 
I strongly suspect that this is a dwarfed and imperfect state 
of A. rusticus, Fab., which is confirmed by finding a still less de- 
veloped form to correspond to A. cardui. To A. rusticus, also, 
from observed varieties in specimens, I feel disposed to refer A. 
sparsus, A. rugosus, A. unicolor, A. fasciatus, and A. pallidus, of 
Curtis ; and his A. bicinctus is, perhaps, not different. 
. Genus V.—PAROPIA, Germar. 
1. P. PALLIDIPENNIS. 
Megophthalmus pallidipennis, Curt. JZSS. Mus. Dom. Greville. 
Entirely pallid testaceous, in the elytra fainter, with the nerves 
and suture more dusky ; the eyes and extreme apex of the tarsi, 
black ; face and sides of the clypeus sometimes variegated with 
light ochreo-brumeous, and occasionally some dusky patches appear 
on the head and thorax, as well as a dusky spot on each side of 
the base of the abdomen; the elytra are considerably longer, 
and less gradually tapered behind than in P. scanica, Fallen, 
(Megophthalmus bipunctatus, Curtis). Length 132 2 Expansion 
of wings 3 lines. 
From the Bents, at South Shields ; a specimen likewise found 
in Berwickshire. Dr. Greville finds it near Edinburgh, and his 
specimens, named, he informed me, by Mr. Curtis, bear the appella- 
tion I have cited. 
Famity.—FULGORID A, Leach. 
Gunvus. VI.—CIXIUS, Latreiile. 
1. Crxrvs DORSALIS. 
Head, eyes, and face fulvous, the ridges fainter, the cheeks and 
the apex of the face black, two dusky patches on the crown, and 
two smaller curved ones before the ridge anterior to them, fuscous ; 
thorax black, the anterior segment, the hinder part of the ridges, 
and a fine dorsal line shortly, fulvous ; elytra white, the nervures 
formed by black punctures, a broad fuscous patch down each, 
leaving the sutural region narrowly, excepting four outlying 
patches, and the costal portion gradually extending in width to 
