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piceis, anfennis,rostro pedibusque pallide piceis ; memhrana IuciJa,albida, 

 basi nigra. Long. 2\ Hn. 



Head delicately punctured. Antennm pale piceous, pubescent, and also with some 

 fine projecting hairs. Eyes rufous. Bostrum pale piceous. 



Thorax — Pronotum finely punctured, disc anteriorly smooth. Scutellum with ir- 

 regular punctures. Elytra dark piceous : clavus with three irregular rows of 

 punctures, posterior margin bright piceous ; claval suture broad, distinct : 

 corium, anterior and posterior margins paler piceous, the outer nerve strong on 

 the basal half, the other nerves fine ; the punctures next the claval suture in 

 two or three rows, and rather deeper than those which cover the disc, which 

 are irregular but close : membrane lustrous, whitish, diaphanous, broadly 

 blackish at the base. Sternum deeply punctured throughout. Legs piceous 

 tihioi and tarsi paler. 



Abdomen shining, longitudinally crenulate, delicately punctured. 



Described from a single specimen, ? , taken on the road from Na- 

 blous to Nazareth in April. 



30. — Lasiocoris Floei, Doug. & Scott. 



$ . JElongatus, sub-ovatus, pallide testaceus, dense diluteque fusco- 

 punctatus ; capite nigro^ capillis longis erectis instructo ; antennis crassis^ 

 capillis sub'depressis, alteris longis erectis admixtis^ arficulo ultimo exceptOy 

 dense vestitis ; articulo nigro, 2^^ testaceo, apice fusco, 3'*^ nigro, basi 

 testaceo, 4'*' brunneo ; pronoto campanulato, capillis longis erectis vestitOy 

 margine ciliato, disci dimidio antico nigro, posteriori stramineo, marginibus 

 lateralibus anguste flavis ; angulis posterioribus nigris, nitidis, impunc- 

 tatis ; scutello nigro, sub-convexo, medio depresso, carina postice instructo ; 

 corioJiavOy capillis sub-erectis vestito, macula magna, rotunda,juxta angulum 

 posterior em interiorem, necnon membrance sutura, nigris; membrana nigra, 

 margine exteriori late albo ; sterno, pedidus, abdomineque nigris. 



Long. 4 lin. 



$ . Elongate, somewhat oval. Yellow, thickly and finely punc- 

 tured with black. 



Head black, finely punctured and clothed with long, fine, erect haii's. Antennce 

 stout, the first three joints clothed with shortish sub-depressed hairs, inter- 

 spersed with long erect ones ; 1st joint black ; 2nd brownish -yellow, apex 

 fuscous ; 3rd black, base brownish-yetlow ; 4th brown. Eyes, viewed from 

 above, somewhat oval, from the side hemispheric. Rostrum pitchy-black, base 

 of each joint very narrowly brown. 



Thorax oampanulate. Pronotum clothed with long, fine, erect hairs ; ciliate ; apical 

 half black, thickly punctured ; basal half yellow, thickly and finely punctm-ed 

 with black ; extreme edge of the lateral margin yellow ; posterior angles 



