1863. 



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black, apex yellow. Thighs, 3rd pair at the base on the undor-side piceous, 

 each pair with two longitudinal rows of piceous spots on the upper, and one 

 on the under-side. Tihice yollowisli, clothed with long, fine, erect, brown 

 hairs ; apex of all the pairs very narrowly brownish. Tarsi, 1st and 2nd 

 joints yellowish, 3rd and claws piceous. 



Abdomen — above black, underneath black, the centre, as far as the genital segments, 

 broadly yellowish white. Connexivum yellow. 



Taken at Nazareth at the roots of a dwarf thorny plant, where it 

 was abundant in April. 



Extremely like P. Mdrkeli, but easily separated from that species 

 by the differences in the antennse, and the rounded and entirely pale 

 margin of the elytra. 



We have named it after the Rev. T. A. Marshall, whose collection 

 of Hemiptera has been always at our service. 



Note. — At page 37, for Fithanus Flori, read FitJianus MarsJiali. 



Family DEE^OCORID^. 



33.— Species Der^ocoeis amcenus, Doug. & Scott. 



^ . Stramineiis et niger, dilute pui esc ens ; capite nigro, linea media 

 in maculam parvam postice crescente straminea ; antennis piceis ; pronoto 

 nigro, collari nec non fascia pone callum, stramineis ; corio dilute stramineOy 

 vitta magna triangulari maculaque inter ior i piceo-nigr is ; cuneo Icste stra- 

 mineo, apice anguste nigro, memhr ana piceo-nigr a, extus saturatiori ; sterno 

 piceo-rufo ; pedihusrufo-hrunneis^fulcris, nec non femorum apice, piceis ; 

 tihiis luridis, hasi apicegue piceis ; ahdomine suhtus stramineo, segmentibiis 

 ultimis nigris. Long. 3^ lin. 



^ . Pale yellow and black, somewhat sparingly clothed with short, 

 depressed, pale hairs. 



Head black, shining. Crown with a small yellow spot in the middle of the poste- 

 rior margin, to which is joined a fine central line, extending to the central lobe 

 of the face. J.nie7incB piceous ; 1st joint pitchy-brown. Rostrum pitchy-red, 

 apex piceous. 



Thorax — Pronotvm black, shining, collar and an irregular broad band behind the 

 callosities yellow ; disc posteriorly convex. Scutellum convex, yellow, considera- 

 bly raised above the clavus, anterior portion concealed beneath the posterior 

 margin of the pronotum. Elytra — Clavus pitchy-black, between the inner 

 margin and the nerve almost flat, disc very finely wrinkled transversely, the 

 sutural nerveat the apex, and the apex itself, very narrowly pale yellow. Corium 

 pale yellow, almost white, anterior margin piceous, except the basal portion, disc 

 with a large triangular pitchy-black patch extending to the anterior margin, its 

 inner margin convex, apex abrupt, slightly concave, its base occupies the entire 

 width of the cuneus suture ; on the margin at the inner posterior angle a small 

 black spot. Cimeus bright yellow, apex narrowly black. Membrane pitchy- 



