1868.] 



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LIST OF CAPTURES OF HEMIPTERA IN PALESTINE AND SYRIA; 

 TOGETHER WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF SEVERAL NEW SPECIES. 



BY J. W. DOUGLAS AND JOHN SCOTT. 



{Concluded from page 118.) 



Family LYGID^, 

 Genus Camptobeochis, Eieb. 

 37. — Camptobeochis seeenus, Doug. & Scott. 



$ . Cinereus, nitidus ; capite ocTiraceo, linea media necnon margine 

 postico stramineis. Antennis nigris articulis primo et secundo medio 

 hrunneis aut rujis ; pronoto nigro, margine antica maculaque conjuncta 

 palUde stramineis ; scutello nigro, apice pallide stramineo ; clavo griseo- 

 hrunneo, apice piceo-nigro ; corio dnereo, postice fascia lata picea ; cuneo 

 apice late piceo-nigro ; membrana pallida, nervis hrunneis ; pediius rufo- 

 hrunneis. Long. 1\ lin. 



? . Greyish-white, shining, with remote black punctures, those 

 on the pronotum deeper than those on the corium. Thighs not banded. 



'Read brownish-yellow. Crown with a pale yellow central streak, posterior margin 

 pale yellow, widest in the centre. Face, central lobe with a pale yellow cen- 

 tral streak. Antenncs, 1st joint red, base and apex narrowly pitchy -black ; 

 2nd, 3rd, and 4th pitchy-black, 2nd with a broad brown band in the middle. 

 Eyes pitchy-brown. Rostrum brownish-yellow, apex piceons. 



Tliorax — pronotum black, collar and a triangular spot behind it, separated by a nar- 

 row transverse black line, pale yellowish-white ; lateral margins broadly 

 brownish-grey, widest at the posterior margin, the latter narrowly pale yellow, 

 disc convex, callosities not punctured. Scutellum raised above the clavus, 

 black, convex, sparingly punctured in the centre, sides and a diamond shaped 

 patch at the apex pale yellowish-white. Elytra, clavus pale brownish-grey, 

 inner margin narrowly, as far as the scutellar angle, pitchy -black, from the 

 latter to the apex a narrow triangular patch, pitchy-black. Corium, extreme 

 anterior margin piceous, posteriorly with a broad piceous band, its posterior 

 margin lun'ate, its anterior margin with a tooth in the middle, extending for 

 some little distance along the centre of the disc. Cuneus punctured, apex 

 broadly pitchy-black. Membrane pale, iridescent, cell nerves browTi, at the 

 apex broadly margined with brown interiorly. Sternum — Prostemum xyphns 

 and inner margin pale yellowish-white, sides black, punctured. Mesosternvm 

 piceous, punctured exteriorly, margined with pale yellowish-white. Meta- 

 sternum piceous. Legs reddish-brown. Thighs red-brown, paler towards and 

 at the apex. Tihioe yellowish ; Ist pair, from the base a brown streak extends 

 about half-way down their length, apex brown j 2nd pair, at the base with a 

 brown streak on the outside, terminating in a half-band, apex brown ; 3rd with 

 a broad band in the middle and the apex brown. Tarsi and claius piceous. 



