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with one large spine, the outer edge finely dentate ; tihioe testaceou?, the extreme 

 base, and the apex broadly, black ; tarsi black, the basal half of the 1st jomt more 

 or less obscurely testaceous. 

 AMomen — Beneath densely clothed with very fine whitish pubescence, which shines 

 with a metalhc lustre. Length 2i— 2i lines. 



Five specimens in Dr. Power's collection, taken by Mr. Side- 

 botham, at Llandudno, in June, 18G7. The species was reputed to be 

 British, but until now we knew of no authentic examples. 



Note. — The lighter coloured portions of the upper-surface and the 

 legs appear to be darker in the examples before us than in those 

 described by continental authors, except Dr. Stal, otherwise there is no 

 difterence. 



Genus 4. — Ebemocoris, Fieb. 

 Species 2. — Ebemocoris plebejus. 



LxGiEus plebejus, Fall., Hem. Suec. 59, 18 (1829). 

 Ltg^us siltestbis, Panz., P. G. 92, 10 (nee Lin.). 

 Pachtmeeus siltestbis, Schill., Beitr. 73, 14, t. 6, fig. 1 (1S29) ; 



Burm., Handb. ii, 296, 8 (1835). 

 Pachtmebus stlvestbis, Halm, "Wanz. i, 54 (1831). 

 Pachtmeeus stlvaticus, Rahn, Wanz. i, t. 9, fig. 33 (1831). 

 Pachtmeeus plebejus, H. Schf., Nom. Ent. i, 44 (1835). 

 Rhtparochbomus plebejus. Sahib., Geoc. Fen. 61, 11 (1845). 

 Pachtmeeus (Pachtm.) plebejus, Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 249 (1860). 

 Eremocoeis plebejus, Fieb., Europ. Hem. 188, 2 (1861); Sial, (Jfv. 



K. Vet. Akad. Handl. 219, 2 (1862). 

 Black, dull; body with long projecting hairs, seen especially at 

 the front and sides of the pronotum. Fronotum — Sides straight, the 

 margins scarcely widened inwardly at the middle, disc punctured only 

 posteriorly. Elytra red-brown, with an elongate, central black spot ; 

 membrane fuscous, with a white lunate spot at the outer basal angle, 

 and a round one on the anterior margin. Tibice piceous, pilose, not 

 spined. 



Head — with a few scarcely perceptible punctures. Antennce black, scarcely pubescent. 

 Eyes black. Rostrum piceous, the junction of the joints pale. 



Thcn-ax — Pronotum, front and sides with long, fine, projecting hairs, sides straight, the 

 margin narrow, brown, very slightly widened inwardly beyond the convexity of 

 the disc ; disc anteriorly smooth, posteriorly finely but distinctly punctured. 

 Elytra red-brown ; clavus with three rows of fine black punctures ; corivMi, the 

 nerve adjoining the clavus on its hinder half, an elongate spot near to it, the 

 posterior margin and round the apex, and a dash within the posterior outer angle, 



