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Bead — pitchy-black, posterior margin yellowish- white. AntenncB pale yellowish, 

 1st joint at the base narrowly black, 4th at its insertion blackish. Rosti-um 

 yellowish, 1st joint and apex black. 



Thorax — Pronotum broad, callosities red, disc posteriorly inclined toreddish-yellow. 

 Scutellum red, flattish convex, anterior portion in the middle piceons. Elytra — 

 Clavus reddish-yellow, inner margin at the base narrowly blackish, sutnre at 

 the apex slightly piceous. Corium, anterior margin as far as the 1st nerve 

 red, posterior margin narrowly white, disc reddish-yellow, next the first nerve 

 very narrowly yellowish, below the centre a distinct trapeziform blackish 

 patch, its lower side almost in a line with the apex of the clavus. Cuneus red, 

 base nan-owly white. Membrane black, between the apex of the cuneus and 

 the lesser cell nerve a wJiite triangular patch, to the apex of which is attached 

 a short oblong whitish patch, in the middle of the disc, and extending from in 

 a line with the apex of the large cell to almost the inner margin, a broad, 

 curved, whitish patch ; inner marginal nerve blackish. Cell nerves red, apical 

 half of the large cell nerve black ; lesser cell almost entirely black, large cell 

 black at the apex. Legs red. Thighs, 1st pair neirrowly yellowish at the apex, 

 3rd with a blackish patch in the middle of the inner side near the apex. Tihioe 

 pale yellowish, with erect, somewhat spinose black hairs, 3rd pair in addition 

 with black spots, apex narrowly brown. Tarsi brownish-yellow, 3rd joint and 

 claivs blackish. 



Abdomen — Underneath red, with a piceous line along the sides as far as the genital 

 segments. Length If line. 



Eesembles P. varians, but is of a deeper red colour (more like 

 roseus), and the blackish patch in the corium is of a different shape to 

 that in the latter species, besides which the Hack head is sufficient to 

 enable any one to distinguish it. 



"We have only seen a single specimen ( ? ), taken by Dr. Buchanan 

 "White at Eannoch, after whom we have much pleasure in naming it. 



Family 18. — Capsidje. 



Genus 5.— Atbactotomv a. 



Species 1. — Atbagtotomus magnicoenis. 



The description (without the synonyms) at page 435 of the 

 " British Hemiptera," and figure 4, plate 14, of the same work, will 

 both require to be transferred to A. mall, Mey. The latter insect literally 

 swarmed on apple-trees during the past season, and from a careful 

 comparison of a long series of specimens with the insect described under 

 the former name we have satisfied ourselves that it is an error. 



AVith two exceptions, the distinctness of the following species, 

 determined more than a year ago, has been confirmed by Dr. Fieber. 



