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towards the 2nd and then slightly towards the inner margin ; the 

 4th arises near the middle of the inner margin and curves parallel 

 to the 3rd Sternum, each segment with a triangular xyphus ; 

 meso- and meta&ternum with a central keel, the xyphus depressed. 

 Legs moderate ; thighs, 1st pair incrassated, simple, long-fusiform ; 

 tarsi, 1st pair short, 1st and 3rd joints suh-equal in length; 2nd 

 very short ; 3rd pair longest, 1st joint longer than the 2nd and 3rd 

 together, 2nd very short. 



Abdomen : connexivum wide, sharply reflexed. 



Species 1. — Stethotbopis rare ana {Doug. Sf Scott), n. sp. 



Black. Head and pronotum clothed with dense ashy pubescence ; 

 elytra dark shaded brown, base and nerves of membrane yellowish- white. 



Head appears ashy by reason of the dense decumbent pubescence, antenna black 

 with fine projecting hairs, apex of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd joints piceous. 



Thorax .- pronotum covered like the head with dense, appressed, ashy pubescence, 

 closely but distinctly deep-punctured, the callosities smooth. Scutellum less 

 pubescent, with fine, less distinct punctures. Elytra dull, dark brown ; clavus 

 on the basal half with three rows of distinct punctures, posteriorly the punc- 

 tures less distinct ; corium in the inner margin, posteriorly, a longitudinal 

 blackish streak, the raised course of the 1st nerve is also dark, the colour 

 spreading posteriorly and outwardly into a blotch which extends narrowly on 

 to the base of the membrane : membrane fuscous, the base (except as above 

 stated) yellowish-white on the outer two-thirds, on the inner 3rd broadly clear, 

 spotlike, with a blackish streak from the corium beyond the base of the 3rd 

 nerve ; nerves clear yellowish-white, and a streak of the same colour, some- 

 times interrupted, between the 1st and 2nd, and 2nd and 3rd. Legs : thighs 

 pitchy-black, tibia pale piceous, tarsi pale piceous, the last joint black. 



Abdomen .- beneath clothed with fine, decumbent ashy pile. Length 1-g line. 



A single individual, $ , was taken by Mr. T. V. "Wollaston, last 

 summer, at Teignmouth, and kindly presented to us. Dr. Fieber has 

 founded on it a new genus and has sent a drawing of the characters, 

 from which our figure is taken. Its place is near Stygnocoris. 



Section 9. — Capsina. 



Family II.— ONCOTYLIDiE. 



Genus 7. — Conostethus, Fieb. 

 Species 2. — Conostethtis gbiseus, n. sp. 

 $ Dark greyish-green. 

 Head yellow, somewhat darker on the sides and leaving an indistinct central line ; 



