THAMNOTETTIX DILUTIOK. 77 



large and two smaller black oblong spots on the disc. 

 Pronotum about one-third longer than the vertex, with 

 four pale brown vertical bands. Scutellum with two 

 basal triangular marks and the mask-like punctuation. 

 Frons densely barred with brown. Eostrum black. 

 Abdomen fusiform, pointed, and black, with golden- 

 yellow segmental edgings and apex. Legs pale orange. 

 Hind tibiae flavo-setose, each with a fine inner stripe. 

 Elytra long and iridescent, with paler neurations. The 

 areas in some specimens are deeply, in others obso- 

 letely, marked with rich fuscous-brown. Wings 

 subhy aline and greyish. 



Some specimens are more gaily marked than others. 



Fairly common at Haslemere and other places. 



Size, 0*22 inch, or 6*59 millimetres. 



Thamnotettix dilutior, Khm. Plate LYI., fig. 2. 



Thamnotettix dilutior, Kirschb. ; Edw. pt. ii. p. 64. 

 Athysanus dilutior, Scott. 



General colour pale ochreous, with pale brownish 

 indistinct tintings in the neighbourhood of the elytral 

 areas. Vertex short and spotless. Pronotum with a 

 greyish patch on the disc. Scutellum with two dots and 

 the usual transverse line. Abdomen pale yellow, with 

 numerous brown and greyish marks, which are broadest 

 at the sides. Apex pale. Legs yellowish, generally 

 concolorous and spotless. Wings ample, with coarse 

 brown nervures. Sometimes there is a black spot at 

 the apex of the clavus. 



Bather common on the oaks round Haslemere. 





Inch. 



Millimetres. 



Expanse 



0-46 



11-68 



Body 



0-19 



4-80 



