32 



July. 



Ilead black. Anteimce black. Ocelli pitchy-red, sliiuing. Rostnivi pitcliy-black. 



Thorax — Pronotum in front with a black, lunate patch, extending to the transvei-se 

 concave channel, behind which, on each side of the central keel, a large black 

 patch; lateral margins broadly, posterior margin narrowly, and central keel 

 red, the colour continued into a spot on the anterior side of the transverse 

 channel. Scutellum black, with an arrow-shaped red patch at the apex. 

 Elytra — clavus black ; corium red ; nearly in the centre an almost square black 

 spot. Membrane black ; extreme outer margin and a short narrow .streak 

 along the margin of the inner posterior angle white ; disc with a round white 

 spot a little above the centre, and from the membrane suture a little inside 

 the posterior angle of the corium, a short, white, diagonal streak running 

 towai'ds the upper margin of the central spot. Sternum black, lateral mai-gins 

 red. Legs black. Tihioi clothed with short, depressed, yellowish hairs. Tarsi 

 piceous. 



Abdomen underneath black, finely punctured, clothed with short, depressed, yellow 

 hairs. Connexivum, upper- and under-side red. 



A single specimen on the road from Nablous to Nazareth, in April. 



With much pleasure we name this insect after the Eev. H. B, 

 Tristram, into whose possession this collection has passed, and in whose 

 work on Palestine all these new species will be figured. 



24. — Calyptonotus sanguineus, n. s. 

 Ruber, nit ens ; capite nigro, leviter punctato ; antennis nigris ; pro- 

 noto antice nigro, postice ruhro, plus minusve nigro-infuscato, marginihus 

 lateralihus reflexis ; scutello nigro, suhconvexo, medio depresso, carina 

 hrevi posteriori ; elytris ruhris, clavo linea lata suturali nigra ; corio 

 leviter nigro -punctato, macula magna suh-rhomhoidali in angulo interiori 

 posteriori nigra ; memhrana picea : sterno, pedihus abdomineque nigris. 



Long. 3f I'm. 



Red, sliining ; corium posteriorly with a large black, somewhat 

 rhomboidal spot. 



Head and Antenna} black, the former finely punctured. 



Thorax — Pronotum sides margined and reflexed ; anterior half black ; posterior 

 half red, more or less clouded with black, which appears to shine through 

 from the mesonotum, the extreme marginal edge narrowly black ; hinder 

 angles rounded ; posterior margin concave j disc flattish, convex, finely punc- 

 tured, the punctures in the posterior portion black. Scutellum black, finely 

 punctured, depressed in the centre, with a slight central keel springing from 

 the base and extending to about the middle. Elytra — claxms red, next the 

 inner margin, which is narrowly red, a broadish black streak, minutely punc- 

 tured, extending almost to the scutellar angle ; next the suture a row of 

 minute black punctures. Corium red minutely punctured with black ; disc 

 posteriorly at the inner angle with a large, somewhat rhomboidal black spot 



