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sometimes united, aud frequently continued into a broad streak along 

 their inner margin as far as in a line with the apex of the clypeus. 

 Antennce clothed with short black hairs ; 1st and 2ud joints brownish- 

 yellow or brownish, 3rd aud 4th blackish. Rostrum brown ; 1st joint 

 brownish-yellow. 



Thorax. — Fronotum yellowish in front of the callosities, the latter 

 black or brown ; disk with a pale-yellowish or greenish-white central 

 line extending throughout the entire length ; posteriorly wrinkled 

 transversely, and somewhat thickly covered with very minute brown 

 punctures. Scutellum ; basal portion yellowish ; transverse chan- 

 nel black, or with a black spot on each side the centre ; hinder 

 poi'tion very minutely browu punctured, and with a pale-yellow or 

 greenish-white central line. Elytra ; Clavus transversely wrinkled, 

 inner margin narrowl}'- black ; nerve greenish or yellowish-white ; 

 Corium finely wrinkled transversely ; anterior margin ciliate, pale 

 yellowisli-white, with a short pale streak within the latter at the 

 apex ; 1st nerve yellowish- white, the colour extending more or less 

 towards the claval suture as it approaches the apex ; disk somewhat 

 thickly covered with very minute brown punctures ; posterior margin 

 pale ; Membrane blackish ; between the apex of the cuneus and the 

 cells a pale triangular patch ; inner marginal nerve brown ; cell- 

 nerves pale yellowish -white. Sternum: Mesosterimm; anterior margin 

 and central channel black. Legs ; coxcb pale yellow, extreme base 

 black ; thighs yellowish or brownish-yellow, clothed with short black 

 hairs, with a few brown spots on the upperside next the apex ; 

 tilicB yellowish, with fine, somewhat spino se, black hairs ; kneesgene 

 rally aud apex blackish or brown ; tarsi and claws black or brown. 



Abdomen. — Upperside black, margin of the connexivum yellow ; 

 underneath black, clothed with short black hairs ; margins of the 

 segments more or less broadly yellow. 



Length, 2 lines. 



Hitherto a scarce species with us. We have examples from Mr. 

 Harding, but without date or locality. It has also been taken by 

 Dr. Power, at Birch Wood, in July. Dr. Fieber says, " on dry 

 hilly places, overgrown with short grass, very common in June." 



Genus 7. — Conostethus, Fic^j. 

 (^ short, narrow, parallel ; $ slightly suboval. 

 Head short, almost vertical in front, twice as broad across the 



