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220. Notice of Capttires. If the following memoranda of captures 

 are worth msertion in ' The Entomologist,' they are at your service. 

 July 24. Lepidocera Birdella : marshes on the north side of the 

 Grand Surrey Canal, near the Croydon Railway : I obtained them, 

 about 12 o'clock, by sweeping the grass ; I have since been to the 

 same spot between 8 and 9 o'clock, but could not find a single speci- 

 men ; it is probable they do not fly till about noon. July 25. Agrotis 

 Radiola : on the trunk of a poplar near the Albany Road. Micro- 



setia ? (an apparently undescribed species) : on the trunks of 



poplars near the Albany Road. — Geo. Bedell ; 4, Waterloo Place, 

 Coburg Road, Old Kent Road, July 29, 1842. 



221. Description of a new Sctitelleridous Hemipterous Insect, from 

 Sierra Leone.* Probmnops Dromedarins, White. — Head rather long 

 and narrow; eyes projecting from adilated portion of the head ; stemmata 

 distant ; neck very distinct, bulging slightly behind the eyes ; antennae 

 longish, four-jointed, joints cylindrical, second joint minute, third 

 longer than, or as long as, the other three taken together, fourth gra- 

 dually thickened towards the tip, (the antennae arise from a point on 



the under side of the face) : beak long, extending 

 beyond the insertion of the hind legs, second joint 

 considerably swollen, third slightly so, terminal 

 joint slender : thorax (measured across the poste- 

 rior angles) rather wider than the scutellum behind, 

 in front it is narrowed, excised and margined ; be- 

 hind, it is sinuated in the middle, the very broad 

 scutellum being slightly depressed in that part; 

 the scutellum is as long as the abdomen ; the se- 

 cond and third pairs of legs are rather long, the 

 tibiae somewhat angular, not spined, but with some 

 short stiffish hairs, especially near the tarsi, which seem two-jointed, 

 (first pair of legs mutilated) : the dorsal part of thorax projects some- 

 what as in the male of Notoxus monoceros. I have seen only one 

 specimen of this singular Hemipterous genus, which seems to me to 

 partake of the characters of Laporte's genera Coptosoma and Podops, 

 near which Scutelleridae, I am disposed, for the present, to place it. 

 When I get another specimen, I may give a more detailed account of 

 its beak and legs, as well as of its wings and heraelytra, which most 

 probably resemble those of Coptosoma in being elbowed. I should 

 be induced to regard this as a, preeminenlly hlooA-^wcking Scutellera, 



* Read before the Entomological Society of London, September, 1842. 



