collected in Corsica by Mr. Champion. 247 
Orthocephalus championt, sp. n. 
Piceo-niger nitidiusculus, levis, pilis nigris, pilisque squami- 
formibus albis, facillime divellendis, vestitus ; capite transverso, 
oculis rotundatis, prominulis, vertice inter eos quam oculo ( ¢) fere 
duplo, (2) duplo et dimidio latiore, postice acute carinato, autennis 
pilosulis, articulis primo et secundo incrassatis, testaceis, hoc versus 
apicem piceo nigro, duobus sequentibus simul sumptis longiore, 
maris lateribus subparallelis, femine fusiforme ; tertio quartoque 
filiformibus, tertio basi testaceo, quarto duplo longiore ; prothorace 
levi, trapezoidale, planiusculo, angulis anticis rotundatis, lateribus 
rectis, callis discretis ; scutello Jeevi ; hemielytris (¢) corio interne 
plus minus late pallido-testaceo, membrana infumata, venis nigro- 
piceis, basi areolisque pallidis, (? brach.) abdomine brevioribus, 
apicibus oblique truncatis, corio margine interno basi arcte pallido ; 
pedibus testaceis, femoribus piceo nebulosis, tibiis nigro punctatis, 
setis spiniformibus ornatis ; subtus nigropilosus et albo squamiger, 
Long.: ¢ 44 mm., 9 4mm. 
Hab. Bocognano, Corsica, on aromatic plants. 
This is a beautiful addition to the Huropean fauna, 
which I have pleasure in naming after its discoverer. 
I have sent examples of it to Dr. Reuter, who has kindly 
examined them, and agrees in considering them as 
belonging to an undescribed species allied to bivittatus, 
Fieb., though at once distinguishable by the form, etc., 
of the antenne, 
