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Species 4. — Globiceps dispae. 



Ctllecoeis dispajb, Boh., Nyn Svenska Hem. 20, 28 (1849). 

 Capsus (Capsus) dispak, Flor, Ehyu. Liv. i. 472, 3, ^ (1860). 

 GrLOBicEPS DispAR, Fieh., Europ. Hem. 283, 3 (1861). 



Black, strongly clothed with very short, somewhat depressed, pale 

 yellowish hairs. Guneus, apex pale pitchy-browu. 



Head — Black, shining. Antennce clothed with short, somewhat erect 

 black hairs ; 1st and 2nd joints black, base of the former yellowish ; 

 3rd and 4th pitchy-yellow. Bostrum yellow, tip black. 



Thorax — Pronotum black, very finely punctured behind the callosities ; 

 the latter somewhat distant and prominent ; hinder angles elevated ; 

 posterior margin straight. Scutellum black; transverse channel 

 concave. Flytra considerably longer than the abdomen. Clavtis, 

 between the inner margin and the nerve pitchy-brown, darkest 

 towards the apex ; between the nerve and the suture white, almost 

 transparent. Corium, anterior margin pale pitchy-brown ; on the 

 inside, at the apex, a small dark spot or very short longitudinal 

 streak ; basal half of the disc white, almost transparent, continued 

 as a narrow line next the claval suture, apical half pitchy-brown, 

 leaving a sublunate white patch over the base of the cuneus ; 

 posterior margin narrowly darker. Cuneus white ; anterior margin 

 and apex narrowly pale pitchy -brown. Memlrane brown, iri- 

 descent, almost transparent ; between the apex of the cuneus and 

 the lesser cell nerve a small white patch, below which is a trian- 

 gular dark brown one extending to the apex ; inner marginal and 

 cell nerves dark brown, the latter narrowly margined internally 

 and externally margined with dark brown. Legs — Coxce black at 

 the base, apex pale yellow. Fulcra pale yellow. Thighs and 

 Tihice pale brownish-yellow. Tarsi, 1st joint brownish-yellow ; 

 2nd yellow ; 3rd and Claws somewhat piceous. 



Abdomen — Underneath black, clothed with pale yellow hairs. 



Length 1^ line. 



The smallest species of the genus with which we are acquainted. 

 The description is drawn up from two specimens, ^ 's, taken by the 

 Eev. T. A. Marshall, at Leicester. Mr. Marshall, in a communication 

 to us, says : — " These were found on the ground, at the roots of grass 

 from which the hay had been taken, in a small ditch draining a meadow 

 on the banks of the canal, Aylestone, at the end of August." 



(To he continued.) 



