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LOctober, 



of this pair comes a white dot ; along the sides are two rows of similar 

 tubercles, the lowest being just above the legs, thickly furnished with 

 brownish-grey hairs ; a few hairs longer than the rest proceed from the 

 thoracic and anal segments ; the head itself is blackish-brown. 



This species spins up in autumn, and passes the winter in the pupa 

 state. 



Exeter : September Bth, 1868. 



P.S. — Eggs or larvse of complana or stramineola would be most ac- 

 ceptable now. 



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 68.) 



Section Capsina. 



Division Bicelluli. 



Family PITHANID^. 



Genus Pithands, Fieb. 



31. — Species Pithanus Marshalli, Doug. & Scott. 



( Forma incompleta ) Niger ; elytris membrana carentihus, clavo indis- 

 tincto, corio valde abbreviato, postice rotundato, margim antico posticoqiie 

 dilute stramineis ; pedibus dilute piceis, coxis nigris, apice fiavido ; antennis 

 nigris, articulo primOf bad excepto, dilute stramineo, secundo lurido. 



Long. 2^ lin. 



Undeveloped form black. 



Head shining ; between tlie eyes two short, transverse, oblique, brownish-yellow 

 streaks. Antennce clothed with very short hairs ; 1st joint pale yellowish- 

 white, base black ; 2nd pale fuscons -yellow, base and apex somewhat darker ; 

 3rd and 4th black, base of the 3rd fuscons-yellow ; behind each eye, on the 

 under-side, a yellowish spot. Rostrum yellowish, 1st joint and the apex nar- 

 rowly piceous. 



Thorax — Pronotum with a faint central keel, disc next the anterior margin flattened 

 into a somewhat collar shape, finely wrinkled transversely, and with a deep 

 depression on each side of the centre in a line with the inner margin of the 

 eyes, posteriorly very much constricted ; the central portion sub-globose, with a 

 puncture in the middle on each side of the central keel. Scutellum convex in 

 front, flattened posteriorly and veiy finely wrinkled transversely. Elytra 

 abbreviated, only covering the Ist segment of the abdomen. Clavus flat, not 

 distinct from the corium. Corium rounded posteriorly, the entire anterior and 

 posterior margins yellowish-white, broadest at the basal angle. Sternum 

 black. Prosternwm xyphus, at the apex brown. Legs brownish-yellow. Coxae 



