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DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF EEMIPTEBA (NYSIUS SOOTTIJ 

 OCCURRING IN BRITAIN. 



BY EDWARD SAUNDERS, F.L.S 



Nysius Scotti, n. s. 



Pale ochreous-brown. Head with a fuscous spot on each side on the inner mar- 

 gin of the eye, and extending to the base. Antennce : 1st joint with a narrow 

 brown ring near its middle ; 2nd joint at its apex, and 4th joint slightly, 

 darker than the rest. Thorax very largely and deeply punctured, with a raised 

 pale central keel ; posterior angles produced and rounded, flavous, with a 

 brown spot above and below them. Scutellum fuscous near its base, deeply 

 and largely punctured, with a strongly marked flavous central keel. Clavus 

 and corium covered with short, fine, adpressed golden hairs ; their junction 

 with the membrane narrowly fuscous ; apex of corium with a small brown 

 spot. Membrane purely transparent. Beneath : the first abdominal seg- 

 ment black in the middle ; 2nd segment also black in the middle, but with 

 two spots of the ground-colour on each side ; 3rd with two brown stripes on 

 each side ; 4th and 5th ochreous. Thighs with round brown spots : inter- 

 mediate and posterior tibise slightly fuscous at the apex : tarsi with the end 

 of the first joint, and the two apical ones wholly, fuscous. Length 2^ lines. 



I took three examples of this very distinct species by sweeping 

 heather on Eeigate Heath, in August of last year. Of the continental 

 species it appears nearest allied to iV. senecionis, from which it may be se- 

 parated by the narrower membrane, the differently coloured antennae, 

 and other structural characters. I have named it after Mr. J. Scott, 

 who has so long devoted himself to the British insects of this group, 

 and to whom I am greatly indebted for much valuable information and 

 assistance. 



Hillfield, Reigate : 8th May, 1869. 



TWO NEW SPECIES OF DIPTEBA (SOATOPSE PLATYSGELIS AND 



THRIPTI0U8 BELLUS, LOEW) INHABITING ENGLAND. 



BY G. H. VERBA.LL. 



The above two species having just been described by Loew, in his 

 Supplement to Meigen, from a specimen of each taken by me in 

 England, I think a few notes on them may have some interest. 



June, 1869. 



