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Head— pitchy-blaok, posterior margin yellowiBh-wMte. Antennes pale yellowish, 
1st joint at the base narrowly black, 4th at its insertion blackish. Rostrum 
yellowish, 1st joint and apex black. 
Thorax— Pronotum broad, callosities red, disc posteriorly inclined to reddish-yellow. 
Scutellum red, flattish convex, anterior portion in the middle piceons. Elytra— 
Claviis reddish-yellow, inner margin at the base narrowly blackish, suture 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 aline with the apex of the clavus. Cuneus red, 
base narrowly white. Memlrane black, between the apex of the cuneus and 
the lesser cell nerve a white 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 narrowly yellowish at the apex, 
3rd with a blackish patch in the middle of the inner side near the apex. TiUce 
pale yellowish, with erect, somewhat spinose black hairs, 3rd pair in addition 
with black spots, apex narrowly brown. Tarsi brownish-yellow, 3rd joint and 
claws blackish. 
Ibdomen— Underneath red, with a piceous line along the sides as far as the genital 
segments. I^^^gth U line. 
Eesembles P. varians, but is of a deeper red colour (more like 
roseus), and the blackisb patch in the corium is of a different shape to 
that in the latter species, besides which the Mack 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 13. — Capsid^. 
Genus 5.— AinACTOTOMVS. 
Species 1. — Ateactotomus 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 undei 
the former name we have satisfied ourselves that it is an error. 
With two exceptions, the distinctness of the following species 
determined more than a year ago, has been confirmed by Dr. Fieber. 
