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yellow ; scapulae pale yellow outwardly ; pleurae obscure yellowish posteriorly, 

 parapleural obscure yellowish (in the $ the light colour on all these sternal 

 lobes is more obsoure than in the <J ). Legs : 1st pair black above > clingy 

 whitish beneath ; $ , thighs beneath, on the lower margin, with a pale, 

 rounded, foliaceous enlargement, which is suddenly contracted at the apex 

 (in the $ this enlargement is less) ; tibiae arcuate, on the upper side com- 

 pressed into an angular, longitudinal ridge : palm very long, cultrate, curved 

 above to a long point, the inner margins with very long, strong, projecting 

 brown hairs ; seen from the side the base seems widened on the upper-side in 

 a semi-oval form, seen from above this enlargement has the form of a long- 

 cordate hollow with raised edges, projecting at its base roundly on the outer 

 side, and extending nearly half the length of the pala (looking as if a small 

 open shell had been affixed) ; in the ? the palce are narrower, sub-aculeate, 

 and without the basal enlargement : 2nd pair, thighs fuscous, pale on the basal 

 third and beneath, tibia and tarsi fuscous, posteriorly black, claws fuscous, 

 posteriorly yellowish : 3rd pair, thighs and tibial obscure yellowish, broadly 

 black on the margins ; tarsi yellow with black margins, overlaid with very 

 long, black cilia. 



Abdomen above, black ; connexivum yellow with black margin ; under-side, in the $ , 

 the straight segments black with the posterior margin distinctly dingy white, 

 the border broadest in the last of these segments, the contorted segments 

 dingy white with fuscous shades ; in the ? all the segments, dingy whitish 

 with narrow paler margins. Length, <J , 3J, $ , 4 lines. 



For this fine and remarkable addition we are iudebted to the 

 enterprise of Dr. F. Buchanan White, by whom several examples of it 

 were found last July " in a small loch at an elevation of about 2,000 

 feet on Ben Hearag, Strathglass, Inverness-shire, in company with 

 Dytiscus laipTponicus" 



In the " British Hemiptera," tbe following corrections are re- 

 quired : — 



Page 57. — Sehirus albomarginatus : the lateral margins of the pronotum 

 and elytra are stated to be yellowish- white, whereas this colour 

 exists on the latter only. Mr. Eye pointed this out to us just 

 after he made the captures noted ante p. 183. 



Page 225. — Nysius : ''the 3rd, 4th, and 5th nerves connected beyond 

 the base by a cross-nerve forming two cells," should be "the 4th 

 and 5th nerves connected beyond the base by a cross-nerve form- 

 ing one large cell." 



Page 299. — Miridus : " longish-oval ; viewed from the side almost a 

 parallelogram," — insert "head" before "viewed." 



Lee : February, 1870. 



