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{August, 



black, not punctured, shining. Scutellum large, triangular, flattisli convex, 

 black, thickly punctured, depressed in the middle ; behind the depression a 

 round callus, to which is attached a distinct keel extending to the apex. 

 Elytra — clavus yellow ; between the inner margin and nerve (except a small 

 spot at the base) black as far as the sutural angle ; the nerves with a row of 

 punctures on each side. Corium yellow, finely punctured with black, and 

 clothed with almost erect hairs shorter than those on the pronotum ; extreme 

 base, a large round spot next the posterior inner angle, and the membrane 

 suture black, the colour in the latter widest at the apex. Membrane black ; 

 outer margin broadly white. Sternum black, thickly and deeply punctured and 

 clothed with a yellowish pile. Legs — coxa black, apex brown, at the base, 

 outwardly, a brown spot. Fulcra black. Thighs black, clothed with long, fine, 

 almost erect hairs ; 1st pair beneath with three or four small teeth, of which 

 the penultimate, from the apex, is the longest. Tibice — 1st pair brown-yellow, 

 clothed with long, fine hairs, apex black ; 2nd brown, with long, stout, spinose, 

 black hairs, interspersed with longer fine ones ; apex black ; 3rd black, the 

 hairs as in the 2nd pair. Tarsi clothed with pale hairs ; 1st and 2nd pairs 

 brownish-yellow, apex of the 1st and 2nd joints piceous ; 3rd joint of all the 

 pairs and claws black. 



Abdomen — beneath black, very thickly and finely punctured, and clothed with a 

 yellowish pubescence. 



Plains of Jordan, on low plants while sweeping for spiders and 

 Coleoptera in April. 



We have named this insect after Dr. Flor, from whom we have 

 received several acts of kindness, and whose work, the " Ehynchoten 

 Livlands," has placed him in the first rank of the authors on Herniptera. 



'This species is very closely allied to the Beosus (jeneiceps described 

 by Barensprung in the Berlin. Ent. Zeitschrift for 1859, page 333, pi. 

 6, fig. 5, but it may easily be distinguished from that insect by the 

 differences in the antennae and legs. 



(To be continued.) 



Cathormiocerus socius a true British species. — My friend Mr. Montague, in the 

 early part of the summer of last year, captured a single male specimen of a 

 Strophosomo-Trachyphloeoid Curculio (now, thanks to his liberality, in my possession) 

 at Freshwater, I. of Wight, which, on its being brought before my notice, I at once 

 felt inclined to refer to the much-vexed species above-named, but refrained from 

 bringing forward, as I was unable to reconcile it with the description in Schonherr's 

 Syn. Ins., vii. (Supp.), 121, 2, on account of its possessing certain most evident 

 characters in the structure of its antennas and the bristly clothing of its elytra not 

 referred to by that author. 



The recently published work on cei'tain of the Otiorhynchidoe by Georg 

 Seidlitz (Berlin. Ent. Zeitschr., Jahrg. xii., 1868, Beiheft), however, enables me 

 now to bring it forward without further hesitation. 



