CAPSIM:. 429 



tennce ; 1st and 2nd joints black, extreme apex of the 2nd generally 

 reddish ; 3rd and 4th piceous, 4th palest. Hostrum brown-black. 



Thorax. Pronotum behind the anterior margin, with 2 callosities ; 

 disk behind the latter, very finely wrinkled transversely. Scutettum ; 

 the transverse channel generally interrupted in the middle by a 

 somewhat indistinct longitudinal keel. Elytra finely wrinkled 

 transversely, not covering more than half the abdomen, rounded at 

 the apex ; pitchy brown, gradually become paler towards and at the 

 apex, the latter frequently pale-yellowish ; before the apex of the 

 anterior margin a small, round, pale spot ; the base with a large, 

 somewhat triangular, yellowish or yellowish- white patch. Legs 

 black or brown-black ; thighs at the apex reddish or reddish-yellow ; 

 tibiae brownish-yellow, with fine, somewhat spinose, black hairs, base 

 frequently, and apex blackish; tarsi; 1st joint brownish-yellow; 

 2nd and 3rd, and claws, black. 



Abdomen ; upperside pitchy brown or blackish, clothed with short 

 yellow hairs ; margin of the conuexivum frequently reddish or 

 reddish-yellow; underside black, clothed with fine, short, yellow 

 hairs. 



Length, j 1 line. 



This species has not been detected by us as yet. The specimens 

 from which the above description is made were captured by Mr. 

 Crotch, but we have neither date nor locality given. Dr. Flor says, 

 " not particularly common on dry sandy places, in June and July." 



Genus 3. ORTHOCEPHALUS, Fieb. 



$ developed; Elytra parallel; ? undeveloped; Abdomen pos- 

 teriorly oval ; Cuneus and Membrane wanting. 



Head stouter in the ? than the <, short, vertical; in the 1|, 

 in the $ 2^- times as broad across the eyes as long ; Crown flat, con- 

 siderably deflected to the base of the clypeus ; Clypeus very convex ; 

 apex and antenniferous processes in a line with the lower margin of 

 the eyes ; Face ; central lobe long, stout, convex, side lobes short, 

 narrow. Antenna stouter in the <$ than the ? , almost as long as 

 the body ; 1st joint clavate, rather shorter than the head ; 2nd 3|- 

 times longer than the 1st, stout, thickened to the apex in the < , in 

 the ? somewhat clavate ; 3rd and 4th filiform, 3rd frds of the 2nd, 



