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base. Eyes brown. Pronotum and scutellum nearly 

 spotless. Elytra ample, with all, or nearly all, the 

 borders of the cellules marked with fuscous-brown, 

 somewhat similar to that seen in Paramesus. Apical 

 membrane verynarrow. Legs pale, with yellow bristles. 

 Frons with a double stripe, and with curved lines down 

 the sides. The frontal side-sutures black. Abdomen 

 rust-red. 



Size, 0*13 inch, or 5'50 millimetres. 



My figure is from an insect taken by Mr. Douglas on 

 the Addington Hills. It has since been taken by Mr. 

 Norman at Pitlochry, Perthshire. 



Said to inhabit heaths in July and August. 



The brachelytrous female has no limbus. The 

 brachelytrous male is unknown. 



Athysanus Sahlbergi, Beut. Plate XLV., fig. 3, 

 and Plate XLYI., fig. 5. 



Athysanus Sahlbergi, Kent., Medd. Faun. ; Flor, 



Fenn. 1880. 

 A. cemulans, Sahib. ((?), and A. confusus ( ? ). 



Form more robust, larger, and browner than Athij- 

 sanus sordidus, which it much resembles. 



Male. Vertex variegated, with two indistinct rows 

 of brown spots. Length about half that of the pro- 

 notum and scutellum taken together. Elytra short, 

 and rounded at their apices ; nervures raised above 

 the fuscous membrane. Last abdominal ring obtuse 

 and strongly setose. Valvular plates forming a deep 

 notch, within which the anal process appears some- 

 thing like a truncated cone with a wide, square, 

 opening. 



Sahlberg remarks, with reference to A. cemulans, 

 Kirschb. : — " Hypopygio fere usque ad basin sinuato ; 

 lobis laminis genitalibus brevioribus, postice rotundato 

 obliquatis, ante apicem obtusEe apiculato-productam 



