ZYGINA SCUTULARIS. 151 



Affects damp places, and is usually beaten out of 

 rushes or long grass. Not common. 



I have a specimen in my possession with a large 

 blackish grey sac attached to the third ring of the ab- 

 domen, doubtless made by some species of Gonatopus. 



On Plate LXYI., fig. 7, will be found a drawing of 

 an insect in the Douglas collection, labelled, "Eupteryx 

 parvulus, Marshall." Its colour certainly differs much 

 from the descriptions given by others of Zijgina parviila ; 

 but, although I have not been able to make out the 

 wing neuration of this specimen, I have no doubt 

 that its fitter place is with Zygina, rather than with 

 Typhlocyba. 



Zygina scutellaris, H.-Schdff. Plate LXXIV., fig. 3. 



Typhlocyba scutellaris, H.-Schsifi.; Flor ; Sahib. 



,, pullula, Boh. 



Eupteryx scutellaris, Marsh. 

 Zygina pullula, Leth. 

 ,, scutellaris, Ferrari. 



General colour of the body pale ochreous. Crown 

 with a vertical line, with its ends dilated, joining the 

 point and fore border of the pronotum. A spot on the 

 disc of the crown, on each side of the vertical line. 

 Eyes brown. Pronotum divided by a horizontal straight 

 line, dilated in the middle towards the fore-margin. 

 Scutellum large, with two black basal triangles, and 

 the apex black. Legs pale yellow. Elytron delicate, 

 hyaline, with a yellow border to the apex, the costa, 

 the claval suture, and down the middle of the mem- 

 brane. Abdomen black or dark brown. Hind margins 

 narrowly yellow. 



Obtained by sweeping fine grasses towards autumn. 

 Dunston Common, near Norwich, &c. October. 

 "Eather local." 



