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Size of deltoidata . Superior wiuga entire, the terminal margin straight, not 

 falcate ; wood-brown, traversed by a multitude of slender undulated brown lines ; 

 the median space circumscribed by two narrow bands of a dirty white, each divided 

 in the middle by a brown line ; this space, which includes several dark lines (of 

 which the exterior two tend to form rings), encloses, in the cellule, an ashy-grey 

 spot, prolonged and constricted on the costa, and marked in its centre by a black 

 dot ; the sub-terminal line is whitish, but very irregular, thickened in its lower 

 portion, and divided above by an oblique black mark ; the fringe is preceded by 

 black festooned marks, regular, but isolated by the nervures : inferior wings ochreous- 

 yellow, somewhat shining, also bordered by black festoons, but with only faint 

 traces of lines ; beneath they are whitish-yellow, with the same faint traces of lines 

 formed by brown dots, and with a black cellular mark. Palpi rather broad, the 

 second joint flattened and securiform, the third forming a very short tubercle. 

 Abdomen marked with a row of geminated black dots. I have seen only the ? . 



(To 1)6 concluded^ in owr next.) 



LIST OF CAPTURES OF HEMIPTERA IN PALESTINE AND SYRIA; 

 TOGETHER WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF SEVERAL NEW SPECIES. 



BY J. W. DOUGLAS AND JOHN SCOTT. 



(Continued from page 33.) 



25. — Caltptonotus jethiops, Doug. & Scott. 

 ? . Niger ^ opacus, dense Icevissimeque punctatus ; elytrorum mem- 

 brana picea, hasi extus striga hrevi pallida notata. Long. 3 J lin. 



? . Entirely black, not shining, very finely and thickly punctured 

 throughout. 



Head — Antenna, insertion of each of the joints piceous, extreme apex of 1st, 2nd, 

 and 3rd joints with a few short, erect, piceous hairs. 



Thorax — Pronotum with a narrow, transverse channel behind the anterior margin ; 

 side margins reflexed ; disc convex. Scutellum convex, slightly depressed, and 

 transversely wrinkled towards the apex. Elytra less finely punctured than the 

 pronotum. Claims with three rows of punctures between the inner margin and 

 nerve, the central one somewhat irregular, and between the nerve and the 

 suture a single row ; nerves somewhat prominent and unpunctured. Mem- 

 hrane piceous, with a short pale streak next the posterior margin of the corium 

 at the outer angle. Sternum and Legs black. Thighs with a bent tooth on the 

 under-side near the apex. Tihice, 2nd and 3rd pairs with black spinose hairs. 



Aldomen, underneath black, in certain lights having a piceous appearance. 



The description has been drawn up from a single $ specimen, 



taken by sweeping low plants on the plains of Jordan in April. 



Genus Mimictjs, n. g., Doug. & Scott. 

 Corpus oblongum, depressum. Caput mediocre, porrectum, ad oculot 



