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[December, 
AN ADDITIONAL SPECIES OF BRITISH HEMIPTERA. 
BY JAMES EDWARDS. 
On the 18th October last, I took off a spruce-fir at Stratton 
Strawless, near Norwich, a few examples of a Lygus, which Mr. Douglas 
has determined to be a species not hitherto recorded as British. The 
characters given below will suffice to distinguish it from all the British 
species of the genus ; it comes next to L. rubricatus , Fall. 
Lygus atomarius. 
Capsus atomarius, Meyer, Schw. Ehynch., 73, 46, tab. 4, fig. 3 (1S43). 
LLadrodema atomaria , Fieb., Eur. Hem., 277, 1 (1861). 
Lygus atomarius , id., 392, 3.* 
Long-oval. Above testaceous, more or less tinged with red, closely punctured, 
and covered with fine pale pubescence ; sometimes more or less irrorated with black, 
or with a black stripe on each elytron. f Head in S black, in 7 pale with three 
black spots, the middle one V _8 ^aped ; caneus orange, the inner angle with a small 
black spot ; membrane irrorated. Scutellum generally with a dark central stripe. 
Intermediate and posterior thighs with two dark ante-apical rings ; posterior tibia 
outwardly with fine, short, black spines ; last joint of the tarsi black, except at the 
base. Antenna dingy yellowish, the 3rd and 4th joints, and more or less of the 
apical portion of the 2nd, black. Length, 2 — lines. 
The variations in marking seem to be confined to the males. 
Bracondale, Norwich : 
5 ih November, 1880. 
ON THE EGGS AND LARViE OF SOME C1IR YS 0MEL2E AND OTHER 
(ALLIED) SPECIES OF PHYTOPHA GA. 
BY J. A. OSBORNE, M.D. 
In the synthetic arrangement of larvae attempted by McLeay 
and extended by Kirby and Spence, the Coleopterous larvae are 
divided into five tribes by McLeay, one of which is — 
“ 4. A hexapod and distinctly antenniferous larva , with a sub-ovate 
rather conical body , oj which the second segment is longer and of a dif- 
ferent form from the others , so as to give the appearance of a thorax. 
* Fieber gives as a synonym Capsus delicatus, Mulsant ( recte Perris), Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 
1857, p. 167, but the description in no way accords with L. atomarius, and Reuter refers the 
species, as distinct, to the genus Amblylylus (Hem. Gymn. Eur. ii, 210).— Eds. 
t Meyer’s description and figure, made from a single example, show the pronotum and elytra 
covered with scattered pitchy-black atoms. Fieber, however, remarks that a fully-spotted indivi- 
dual is represented, that such marking is exceptional, and even on the membrane is sometimes 
obsolete. Frey-GessneriMitth. schw. ent. Ges., ii, 23; says also that Meyer’s type-form rarely occurs, 
and he had amx>le means of knowing, for he adds that, in Switzerland, although the species is scarce, 
yet at times, in the place where it is found, it is numerous on “ Rothtannen ” (Abies piceaj in 
April and September. It is also found in Bohemia and France on other conifers.— Eds. 
