478 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [December, 1913. 
belong to the brachypterous form, with the elytra reaching 
about to the middle of the abdomen. 
6. Limnogonus aegyptiacus Put.—Plain of Gennesaret, 
23¢,2 929. All the specimens are apterous with the meso- 
and metanotum and the abdomen above shining black. The 
abdomen of the 9° 9 is marked above in the middle with a 
very narrow longitudinal yellow line. 
. Naboandelus bergevini Berg.—Plain of Gennesaret, 
1 ¢.91; Wad-es-Semakh, 2 9 °. 
8. Rhagovelia nigricans Burm.—Plain of Gennesaret, 
82 2; Wad-es-‘Semakh, 1 9: mouth of Jordan, 1 9. The 
two latter specimens are macropterous, the others apterous. 
. Microvelia pygmaea Duf.—Plain of Gennesaret, 1 2 ; 
Wad-es Semakh, 1 °. 
10. Patapius spinosus Rossi var. nigriceps Horv.—Edge 
of the Lake of Tiberias, under stones, 1 ¢. This variety is 
known only from Syria. 
11. Hrianotus lanosus Duf. —Edge of the Lake of Tiberias, 
under stones, 2 9 9. 
12. Acanthia variabilis H.-Sch. var. connectens Horv.—Wad- 
es-Semakh 1 g. The single specimen differs from the European 
form in the shorter hairs of the surface, the shorter antennae 
, a8 well as in the less produced membrane: the 
mesocorium, but limited to the ectocorium ; 
the black colour of the femora is more extended. 
' hierus strigicollis n. sp.—Niger, opacus; capite 
vergentibus, ab antic 
articulis duo 
atiore 
margineque angusto postico versus latera flavo-testaceis, 
macula illa nigro-punctata, marginibus lateralibus explanatis 
0 edium striola obliqua 
tt 
is ornatis, margine laterali maculis quatuor 
estaceis notato, membrana glauco-consperss ; 
anguste albido-marginatis ; pedibus albido- 
nigris, tibiie postage eee ame femorum, tibiarum et tarsorum 
srs, tiblis posticis spinulis obscure testaceis, e punctis nigris 
nascentibus praeditis, Long. 54 mill. 
ad-es Semakh, 1 9. : 
“ PP os from O. marginatus Latr. in the more prominent 
ead, the less elevated eyes, the somewhat narrower, less 
tounded margins of the pronotum, which are marked only with 
