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1 do not know the (^ of fctsciaf a, hut in the other species the (^ (^ 

 may be told from the ? ? instantly by a curious pilose (velvety) 

 stripe which runs longitudinally down the middle of the dorsal surface 

 of the abdomen. It starts at (not counting the propoiieum) the third 

 segment and runs to the apex. 



Sericen is a widely distributed and fairly common species. Lnni- 

 certs I have several times taken in this neighbourhood. Candens I 

 owe to Colonel Terbury, who took it at Barmouth. These three 

 species, apart from their antennsp, might easily be confused ; but 

 fasciata, at least in the $ , has a conspicuously different appearance. 

 The latter species is very much at home in the New Forest, where (at 

 Lyndhurst) Miss E. Chawner has repeatedly taken and bred it. All 

 my own British specimens were kindly sent to me by her, either as 

 imagines or as larvae. 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OP THE QEffUS GLOBICEPS 

 [CAPSIDJS^ FROM SPAIN. 



BT PROF. O. M. EEUTEB. 



Globiceps parvultts, sp. n. 

 Niger, squamulis argenteis faciliter divellendis hie illic vestitis ; femina capite 

 basi pronoti circiter 5 angustiore, vertice poiio ociilos ne minime qiiidem prolongato, 

 oculo baud altiore, ante marginem posticiiiTi acute eariiiatum transversim impresso ; 

 antennis nigris, articulo primo apicem clypei subsupcrante, secundo latitudine 

 capitis paullo longiore et margini basali pronoti fere fcqiie longo, versus apicem 

 sensim sat incrassato ; pronoto versus basin sat fortiter ara]iliato, basi longitiuline 

 paullo minus quam duplo latiore, lateribus late sinuatis, disco subhorizontali, sulco 

 transversali medio delete, callis distinguendis sed vix elevatis ; hemielytris expli- 

 catis abdominis longitudine, corio cuneoque albidis, illo macula magna apicali 

 subtriangulari medium corii subattingente, hoc apice sat late nigris, femoribus 

 nigris, ipso apice tibiiaque ferrugineis, his apice tarsisque nigris. Long., 9 > 3 mm. 



Hah. : Soria (Champion). 



01. pictefi, May. et Fieb., aflBnis, sed multo minor, femina anten- 

 nis multo brevioribus, pronoto magis transverse, postico fortius dilatato, 

 lateribus minus fortiter sinuatis, sulco transversali minus profundo. 

 Etiam 01. sordido, Rent., minor, femina capite a supero vise multo 

 magis transverso, vertice acute marginato, structura pronoti hemi- 

 elytrisque explicatis mox distinguenda. Caput latum, nigrum, a supero 

 visum pronoto paullo minus quam duplo brevius et longitudine sua 

 fere triple latius, vertice oculo circiter duplo latiore, fronte verticali, 

 leviter convexiuscula. Oculi nigri. Eostrum nigro-piceum, coxas 

 posticas subattingens. Antenna) totsD nigrse, articulo secundo primo 



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