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Coriiim with two narrow silvory-wliito biiiuls terminating at the olavul suture, 

 and placed, one in a line with the apex of the scutellum, the other, slightly 

 areuate, a little above the apex of tlie clavus. Clavus pitchy-brown, with a dull 

 velvety appearance, with a transverse silvery-white band a little above the lower 

 of the two on the corium ; cuneiis, a little below the base, with a fringe of 

 silvery-white hairs. Membrane velvety-brown, with a broad iridescent margin ; 

 lesser cell, and a streak at the apex of the cuneus, white. Pro.sternum, on the 

 sides, pitchy-black ; mexo.tternum : posterior margin silvery-white, iei/.s brown ; 

 cox(B and fulcra pale yellowish-white ; thir/ks brown, clearer and brighter, curved 

 afc the base and apex ; tibitv smoky-reddish-brown ; tarsi brown ; apex of the 

 3rd joint broadly black. 

 Abdomen, underneath, pitchy-brown, basal segments more or less broadly silvery- 

 white, the colour slanting towards the middle and forming a lunate band. 



Length, 11 line. 

 A trifle larger than P. cinnamopterus, and without its red colour. 

 It i3 more nearly allied to P. perplexus, the following new species, but 

 differs from both by the position of the silvery band on the clavus, 

 and the absence of the white spot on the cuneus. 



A few specimens were taken by us on sallows in a marshy place 

 at Lee, in August. 



Camaronotus clavatus, Brit. Hem., i, 3G(), 2. The description (ex- 

 clusive of the synonymy) and the figui-e must be referred to Pilophorus 

 perplexus. An amended description of this new species follows. 



Species 2. — Pilophoeus peeplexus. 



Camaronotus clavatus, Doug, and Scott, Brit. Hem., i, 3G0, 2 {ncc Lin.). 

 Olive-brown with a dull velvety appearance. Scutellum : sides 

 at the base and apex silvery-white. Elytra with two transverse silver- 

 white liands, the upper one terminating at the claval suture, the lower 

 one slightly angular, and continued across the clavus. Cuneus with 

 a silvery-white spot at the inner basal angle. 



iZead black. Face: side-lobes more or less clear brown. Aniennoi reddish-brown 

 or brown ; 2nd joint broadly shaded off into piceous or black at the apex ; 3rd 

 pale reddish, apical half darker j 4th brown, basal thii-d or half white or 

 pale yellowish-white. 



Thorax — -pronotum black, dull, with a deep gi-een appearance in certain lights, very 

 finely wrinkled transversely. Sculellum black, with a deep green appearance in 

 certain lights ; sides near the base with an elongate silvery-white spot ; apex 

 silvery-white, extreme apex black. Elytra olive-brown, with a dull velvety 

 appearance, clothed with short, apprcssed, piilisli-yellow hairs. Clavus more or 

 loss deep pitchy-brown, with a dull velvety appearance, apex from below the 

 band somewhat shining and finely wrinkled transversely. Corium more or 

 less deep olive-brown, the entire pai-t below the lower band, lying between the 

 anterior margin and the nerve, piceous, somewhat shining ; in a line with the 



