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ments. Breast greenish. Basal portion of the thighs fulvous. 
Base of the second and third joints of the antennz pale yellow. 
In other respects like var. a. 
Var. y. Head red. Thorax and under-side of the body 
as in the preceding, Scutellum deep orange.  Coriaceous 
portion of the elytra pale olive, thickly and finely punctured 
with black with the nervures blackish; the basal.portion of the 
outer margin and a spot in the innerapical angle yellow. Margins 
of the abdomen reddish, with a black band at the posterior 
margin of each segment. Thighs orange, with the apex pitchy ; 
tibiz and tarsi .pitchy black. Rostrum orange, with the apical 
joint brown, Antennz as in var. B. 
Pl. I, fig. 5 shows a dorsal and side view of this insect. 
Life History. 
Early in February the young larve of this pest make 
their appearance and commence to feed by sucking the juices 
of the host plant. By the middle of March they are full grown 
and coupling takes place. It has not yet been recorded when 
the eggs'from these females are laid, nor how many generations 
of the insect there are between these March imagos and those 
which are to be found in November. It is stated, however, 
that both larve and imagos are to be found attacking coppice 
shoots throughout the year with the exception of a couple of 
months in the.cold weather. There is likely to be therefore 
more than one generation of the pest between the March and 
November fully-developed bugs. On the 6th November insects 
were found coupling,’and on the 13th of the month eggs were laid ; 
each @ laid from 6 to 10,and'these hatched out on the 25th. 
Unfortunatly they all died on the 7th December, the parents 
having died ‘off soon ‘aftér the young had hatched out. The 
eggs are laid deep down in the hollows of the coppice stumps, in 
crevices of bark, etc., the dead bodies of the ¢ insects being 
found in these positions after eggelaying isover. Observation has 
shown that the young ones hatched out in November spend the 
two winter months hidden away in hollows in the coppice stools 
of ‘the host plant or ‘attach themselves to the roots or hide 
under bark, pieces of ‘waste’ wood, etc, lying about on the 
