Head dark clay-coloured. Antennæ clay-coloured, with black rings, and about the length of the insect. Thorax cylindrical and clay-coloured, without any spines or risings on it. Scutellum nearly square. Elytra dark clay-coloured, and margined along the sides; when viewed through a microscope they appear to be covered with a great number of small black pustules. Abdomen and breast clay-coloured; as are the legs, on each of which is a small spine at the tip of the tibiæ. This fine insect has, within a few years, been found in considerable abundance in the fenny districts of Cambridge and Huntingdonshire, upon low sallows. STENOCORUS ATOMARIUS. Plate XLI. fig. 6. ORDER: Coleoptera. SECTION: Longicornes. FAMILY: Cerambycidæ, _Leach._ GENUS. STENOCORUS, _Fabr._ Cerambyx p. _Linn._ STENOCORUS ATOMARIUS. Nigricans, sericie luteâ indutus; thorace cylindrico nec tuberculato nec spinoso; elytris fusco cinereoque variegatis. (Long. Corp. 8 lin.) SYN. Cerambyx atomarius, _Drury, App. vol._ 2. (nec _De Geer_, 5. _p._ 65. 4. nec _Fabr. Syst. El._ 2. 287. nec _Oliv._ 4. 67. _t._ 9. 59. d.) Stenochorus marylandicus? _Fabr. Syst. Ent._ 179. 5. _Syst. Eleuth._ 2. 306. 4. _Oliv. Ent._ 4. 70. _t._ 1. _f._ 5. HABITAT: New York. Head brownish black, covered with short yellowish grey pile. Thorax dirty black, covered with yellow grey pile; cylindrical, and without any spines or risings. Antennæ dusky brown; having a spine on each joint, except that next the head, and about the length of the insect. Scutellum very small. Elytra black, mottled with yellow grey; being margined at the sides and suture, and not reaching or covering the anus, each having two spines at the extremity. Abdomen and breast greyish brown, as are the legs, each of which is furnished with a spine at the tip of the tibiæ. {89}PLATE XLII. [Illustration] SCUTELLERA DRURÆI. Plate XLII. fig. 1. 5. ORDER: Hemiptera. SUBORDER: Heteroptera. SECTION: Geocorisa. FAMILY: Scutati, _Burmeister._ GENUS. SCUTELLERA, _Latreille_, _Burmeister_. Tetyra, _Fabr._ Cimex. _Linn._ SCUTELLERA DRURÆI. Supra rufa, capite, pronoti maculis duabus, scutelli fasciis duabus irregularibus maculisque duabus subapicalibus nigris. (Long. Corp. 7½ lin.) SYN. Cimex Druræi, _Linn. Mant._ 534. _Fabr. Ent. Syst._ 4. 83. 13. _Syst. Rhyng._ 132. 17. (Tetyra D.) _Sulzer Hist. Ins. t._ 10. _f._ 5. HABITAT: China (_Drury_). America (_Fabricius_, incorrectly).