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and almost spotless. Frons black, with a yellow 

 medial linear stripe, dilated towards the clypeus. 

 Pronotmn rather clouded on the disc ; sometimes 

 marked with a few anterior dark brown stains. Scu- 

 tellum with or without the usual basal brown spots. 

 Elytra fulvous-yellow, with paler neurations. Abdomen 

 black or brown, and somewhat shining. Legs dirty 

 yellow, with an inner brown stripe. 



A specimen in Mr. Douglas's cabinet has a yellow 

 frons, with feeble brown striations and a yellow medial 

 space. 



Male specimens sometimes occur thickly speckled 

 with fuscous, but most examples are concolorous. 



May be taken in numerous places, amongst damp 

 herbage, as early as April ; and they may also be beaten 

 out from various trees, under which they resort for 

 shelter. 



Haslemere, and elsewhere. It appears to be scat- 

 tered also over the whole of Finland during June, 

 July, and August. 



Inch. Millimetres. 



Expanse 0-42 10-67 



Length of body 0-20 5*04 



Genus XLI.— LIMOTETTIX, Sahlh. 



Body elongated. Vertex obtusely pointed, sublunate, 

 and convex above. Frons nearly straight-sided. Eos- 

 trum short. Antennae rather long. Pronotum trans- 

 verse, " lateribus teretibus." Elytra longer than the 

 abdomen, distinctly furnished with a limbus, which 

 , overlaps when the wings are closed. Wings as in 

 Thamnotettix. Legs with four setose edges ; the inner 

 one strongly spinose. 



This genus has much in common with Thamnotettix, 

 but in a general manner it may be said to show the 

 elytra longer, more lanceolate, and less rounded at the 



