^2 L March, 



Occasionally these species feed upon the " hop lice," and so do good 

 as well as harm, but from personal observations I find they are often 

 terribly destructive, and have been so for some years. The Calocoris 

 if, however, a new hop-pest, and by far the most destructive. 



Wye Court, near Ashford : 

 January 3rd, 1896. 



ON A NEW SPECIES OF STERNOC(ELIS. 

 BY G. LEWIS, F.L.S. 



This is the fourth species of Sternocoelis described in the pages of 

 this Magazine, and it is the twenty-fifth species known of the genus. 



Sternoc(elis Vaucheki, sp. n. 

 Breviter ovalis, hrunneo-testaceus, convexus, liirsutus ; capite grosse 

 punctata sed punctis minime profundis, utriiique carinato ; prosterno 

 carinis sinuatis, antice conjunctis. Long., \\ mm. 



Shortly oval, brownish-testaceous, convex, with rather long fulvous hair ; the 

 head, surface with large shallow punctures, not closely set, distinctly carinate on 

 either side ; the thorax laterally somewhat widely sinuous, widening out from the 

 anterior angle to the base, anterior and lateral borders punctate like the head, 

 punctures gradually becoming sparse posteriorly, leaving the ante-scutellar region 

 free of all but a few fine points ; the scutellum smooth and triangular ; the elytra 

 finely and very sparsely punctulate with three striee, first and second complete, 

 third dimidiate, with fulvous hairs set in rows at intervals; the propygidium and 

 pygidium very evenly punctured, punctures smaller than those of the head and 

 more distinct and more circular in outline ; the prosternum, antei'ior lobe coarsely 

 and thickly punctate, prosternal carinse well marked, widening out at the base, 

 feebly sinuous before the coxae, joining anteriorly and forming a somewhat sharp 

 point, intervening space visibly concave and punctate, punctures more shallow and 

 smaller than those on the lobe ; the legs rather strongly dilated (corresponding in 

 this respect to S. Marseuli), intermediate pair angulate on the middle of the outer 

 edge. 



The only known species of Sternocoelis which resembles the above 

 in the form of the prosternum is *S^. Marseuli, but in the last the in- 

 tervening space between the carinse is flat, and the carinse much less 

 strong. IS. VaucTieri and S. 3Iarseuli are the only species of the genus 

 at present known in which the prosternal carinse meet anteriorly, and 

 correspond in form to those of Gnathoficus rotundutus, Kugel. 



Hah. : Tangier. I have named the species after its discoverer, 

 Mona. Henry Vaucher, who was fortunate enough to find it in a nest 

 of Aphcenogaster crocea, Andre, last January. 



Southampton : February 5th, 1896. 



