ATHYSANUS BREVIPENNIS. 31 



Athysanus BREVIPENNIS. Plate XLVI., figs. 3 

 to 3 c. 



Athysanus hrevipennis, Kirschb. ; Flor; Sahib.; Edw. 



pt. ii. p. 36. 

 A. depressus, Scott. 

 Jassus porrectus, Thorns. 



Male. Small, oblong, fulvous-yellow. Vertex rather 

 longer than the pronotum, with an mterrupted line be- 

 tween the eyes. Pronotum gibbous, and almost spot- 

 less. Scutellum small. Abdomen yellow, with sundry 

 obscure brown spots on the somites. Pygofer doubly 

 notched at the apex. Elytra two-thirds only of the 

 length of the abdomen ; nervures much raised above 

 the olive-brown coloured membranes. The elytra are 

 much more rudimentary in some examples than in 

 others, and then they are very simple in their 

 neuration. Frons yellow, and barred with brown. 

 Clypeus long-trapezoidal, with a faint enclosed mark. 

 Rostrum small. Basal antennal joint the largest, and 

 swollen. 



In fig. 3 a the genital plates are probably expanded 

 through pressure. This insect was taken by Mr. 

 Mosley at Huddersfield, in July. 



Mr. Douglas's cabinet contains an example which 

 partly differs in form from the above. The head and 

 pronotum are not so broad, the elytra are less rugose, 

 and the legs are spotted with black. The hind tibia 

 has also a black stripe. I figure both these forms. 



The macropterous form has not been described. 



Length, 0-14 to 0-16 inch, or 3*50 to 4-00 mini- 

 metres. 



Localities : — Braemar, Pitlochry, Huddersfield, and 

 Haslemere. 



