typhlocYba tenerriMa. l39 



Typhlocyba tenerrima, H-Schaff. Plate LXXII., 

 figs. 1 to 1 6. 



Typhlocyba tenerrima, H.-Schaff. ; Kirschb. ; Sahib. ; 



Dong. ; Ferrari ; Edw. pt. ii. p. 99. 

 T. rubi, Hardy. 

 T. misella, Boh. 

 Anomia tenerrima, Leth. ; Fieb. 



Head, prothorax, and scutellnm greyish white, and 

 unspotted. Eyes white or brownish pink. Abdomen 

 dark brown, with the hind margins yellow. Legs 

 pale ; claws fnscons. Elytron whitish hyaline, with 

 three broad yellowish stripes, tapering, and finally lost 

 at the base. Apical areas pale fiiscous-brown, some- 

 times containing two or three blackish specks at the 

 angles. Nervures dark for a short distance from the 

 apex. 



Common in many places on bramble {Eubus fruti- 

 cosus), &G. Many examples were taken from bushes in 

 the neighbourhood of Huddersfield. 



Length, 0-12 inch, 3*00 millimetres. 



My figure is from specimens taken whilst in con- 

 jugation, and in a singular inverted position. The 

 genitalia are complex, both in the male and in the 

 female. The cauda is mounted on a tuberculous process, 

 having two inferior free processes. 



Sahlberg remarks, as to the last ventral segment, 

 "Postic^ fortiter rotundato-producto, vagina hoc duplo 

 longiore apice exserta." 



This species seems to be diffused over the greater 

 part of Europe. 



