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at the lower end of the embolium ; membrane-suture obliterated by the 

 markings. Membrane covered with longer and more angular yellow lines, 

 less closely in the middle, on the inner margin the lines are straight and 

 parallel ; outer margin narrowly black. Sternum, coxce, scapulce, plexirce, and 

 pa/rapleurce entirely pale yellow. Legs pale yellow; Ist pair, <? , ti&^ce thick- 

 ened to the apex, curved ; pales long, narrow, round-cultrate j 9 > tibico not 

 thickened, pala narrower than in the S ', 2nd pair, end of the thighs, tihicB, 

 and tarsi brown or blackish ; 3rd pair, cilia of the tarsi black. 

 Abdomen pale ochreous, first 3 segments fuscous-black, posteriorly pale. 



Length 3i lines. 



Three ^ and one ? taken by Dr. Power, in Loch Gelly, Fifeshire, 

 August, 1868. 



Allied to 0. German, Fieb,, which is 4 lines long, has the facial 

 depression extending scarcely beyond the angles of the eyes, the 

 middle of the sternum and the inner side of the scapulfe and pleurfc 

 black, the anterior tibiae swollen, the hairs of the posterior tibiae 

 (? tarsi) yellowish, the membrane suture yellowish, &c. 



Family 2.— SiGAEiDiB. 

 Gemis 1. — Stgaea, Fab. 

 Species 2. — Sigaea PowEEi, n. sp. 

 Ochreous, with well-defined black-brown markings, dull. 

 Head ochreous ; crown, in the middle, with a large wedge-shaped brown mark, its 

 widest part at the base of the head. 



Tliorax — Pronotum brown-black, in the middle an ochreous line widened posteriorly 

 into the pale hinder margin, the sides also broadly pale ochreous. Scutellum 

 black. Elytra — clavus black -brown, a small spot posteriorly, and the entire 

 inner margin, ochreous ; claval suture narrowly pale. Corium ochreous, at 

 the base a dentate patch, across the middle another, more iiTcgularly dentate, 

 the longest lobe on the inner side, followed by two curved, sublinear spots, 

 all brown-black ; marginal channel pale, with two long, dark streaks opposite 

 the large brown patches. Membrane infuscated, gradually darker to the 

 apex. Legs yellow. Length 1 line. 



Yery like S. minutissimn, but by its general habit, larger bulk, and 

 definite markings, appears to be distinct, 



A single specimen was captured by Dr. Power, in the New Forest, 

 in 1866, in company with Agahus hrimneus. 



Species 3. — Sigaea Scholtzi. 

 Sigaea Scholtzi, Fieh., Europ. Hem. 90, 4 (1861). 



Pale ochreous with ill-defined fuscous spots, shining. 

 Head, including the large black eyes, wider than the pronotum ; crrown in the 

 middle of the posterior margin raised to a point, which is brown ; front, on 

 the curve, with 3 brown longitudinal streaks. 



