2i8 I April, 



black. Legs — Goxce and Fulcra yellowish- white. Thighs and 

 Tibice yellow, the latter with a few erect, somewhat spinose, brown 

 hairs. Tarsi yellow ; apex of the 3rd joint narrowly darker. 

 Abdomen — Above pitchy-brown; underneath yellowish-white, the sides 

 with a broad piceous streak. Length \\ line. 



Two examples taken by the Eev. T. A. Marshall, at Esher, in 

 September. 



Family 9.— GLOBICEPID^. 



Species *.— Globiceps atee, Douglas and Scott. 



Black, shining, clothed with sub-depressed yellow hairs. Antennce, 



apical half of the 2nd joint fusiform. Legs yellow. 



jETeat?— black. Antennae, 1st and 2nd joints black, clothed with fine, 

 short, black hairs ; 3rd and 4th blackish, basal half of the 3rd 

 yellow. Rostrum brown, apex black. 



Thorax — Pronotum black, callosities distinct, hinder angles somewhat 

 raised, posterior margin slightly concave across the scutellum. 

 Scutellum black, c'onvex, the anterior portion deflected to the 

 transverse channel. JElytra longer than the abdomen, horizontal 

 as far as the jiinction with the cuneus and membrane, which are 

 deflected. Glavus pitchy-black. Gorium, anterior margin black ; 

 disc pitchy-black at the base, within the anterior margin a short 

 whitish streak, claval suture very narrowly whitish ; posterior 

 margin black. Guneus black ; base next the inner angle with a 

 pale brownish-white patch. Membrane pale brown, iridescent ; 

 cell nerves pitchy-brown. Legs — Thighs pale brownish-yellow or 

 reddish-brown yellow, near the base on the outside a somewhat 

 undefined dark patch. Tibice dusky -yellowish, apex very narrowly 

 brownish. Tarsi dusky yellow ; 1st joint brownish, apex of the 

 3rd and Glaws piceous. 



Abdomen — Above and underneath, black. Length If line. 



The description is drawn up from a single $ example taken by 

 the Eev. T. A. Marshall, at Leicester, in August. Dr. Fieber, who has 

 seen this insect, thinks it may be the ? of Q. dispar];h\xi as he writes 

 to us that he does not know the ? of the last-named species, we prefer 

 for the present leaving it under the name of G. ater. Dr. Flor, in the 

 Rhyncoten Livlands, i. 472, 3, describes the ? of O. dispar in its unde- 

 veloped form as being black, but he says of the antennae, " 1st and 3rd 

 joints bright yellow, 2nd, 4th, and apex of the 3rd brown, apical half 

 of the 2nd spindle-shaped, thickened, black," whereas the 1st and 2ud 

 joints in our species are entirely black. 



* This species Eliould stand first in tlie genuB. 



