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Fam. Nabid^. 

 Dacnister, nov. gen. 



,, fiavescens, n. sp. 



Fam. Geeeid^. 

 Gcrris 2)ahuhnn, Fab. 



Family Podopid^. 



Gemis ScoTiNOPHOEA, Stal. 



Scotiuophora scntdlata. 



Luteous, dull, somewhat thickly and irregularly brown 

 punctured. Pronotum, anterior angles produced into an 

 almost equilateral angular tooth, lateral margins sloping 

 almost evenly towards the posterior angles and termi- 

 nating in a stout tooth, disc with a small bone-white 

 elevation at the inner angle of the callosities. Scutdlum 

 with a pitchy-black funnel-shaped patch extending from 

 the base to about the centre, lateral margins slightly 

 convex, basal angles with a small bone-white spot. 

 Head black, thickly punctured. Face, central lobe 

 viewed from the side slightly concave, shorter than the 

 side lobes, which are somewhat reflexed, apex of the 

 latter scarcely acute, with an almost square notch between 

 them. Antennce piceous. Thorax. — Pronotum, anterior 

 half dull black, punctured, with a distinct callosity on 

 each side of the centre, at the inner angles of the posterior 

 margin of which is a small bone-wdiite elevation ; pos- 

 terior half luteous, somewhat thickly and irregularly 

 brown punctured. ScuteUuDi luteous, slightly shining, 

 irregularly brown punctured, with a large deeply-punc- 

 tured funnel-shai^ed pitchy-black patch extending across 

 the anterior margin and having its apex near the centre, 

 adjoining the basal angles a small bone-white callus ; 

 apical and side margins narrowly purplish brown. Elytra 

 somewhat purplish brown, irregularly punctured. Legs 

 black. Tibi(e clothed w'ith short hairs having a white 

 appearance in certain lights. Tarsi dull yellow, terminal 

 joint above brownish. Claa-s dark brown. 



Length 2^ lines barely. 



Easily separated from all the other species of the 

 genus by the two bone-white elevations on the pronotum, 

 and the pitchy-black funnel-shaped patch on the scu- 

 tellum, bounded on each side at the base by a bone-white 



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