32 July. ; 
Head black. Antennce black. Ocelli pitchy-rcd, sliiuiiig. Rosirum pitcliy-black. 
Thorax — Fronotum iu front with a black, lunate patch, extending to the ti-ansverse 
concave channel, behind which, on each side of the central keel, a large black 
patch ; latei-al margins broadly, posterior margin nai-rowly, and central keel I 
red, the colour continued into a spot on the anterior side of the transverse ' 
channel. Scutellum black, with an arrow-shaped red patch at the apex. 
Elytra — clavus black ; corium red ; nearly in the centre an almost square black 
spot. Membrane black ; extreme outer margin and a short narrow streak 
along the margin of the inner posterior angle white ; disc with a round w^hite 
spot a little above the centre, and from the membrane suture a little inside 
the posterior angle of the corium, a short, white, diagonal streak running . 
towards the upper margin of the central spot. Sternum, black, lateral margins 
red. Legs black. Tibke clothed with short, depressed, yellowish hairs. Tarsi 
piceous. 
Abdomen underneath black, finely punctured, clothed with short, depressed, yellow 
hairs. Connexivum, upper- and under-side red. 
A single specimen on the road from Nablous to Nazareth, in April. 
With much pleasure we name this insect after the Eev. H. B. 
Tristram, into whose possession this collection has passed, and in whose 
work on Palestine all these new species will be figured. 
24. — Caltptonotus sanguinefs, n. s. 
Buher, nit ens ; capite nigro, leviter punctata ; antennis nigris ; pro- 
noto antice nigro, postice riihro, plus minusve nigro-infuscato, marginihus 
lateralihus reflexis ; scufello nigro, suhconvexo, medio depresso, carina 
brevi posteriori ; elytris ruhris, clavo linea lata suturali nigra ; corio 
leviter nigro-punctato, macula magna suh-rhomhoidali in angulo interiori 
posteriori nigra ; membrana picea : sterno, pedihus abdomineque nigris. 
Long. 3f lin. 
Eed, shining ; corium posteriorly with a large black, somewhat 
rhomboidal spot. 
Bead and Antennce black, the former finely punctured. 
Thorax — Fronotum sides margined and reflexed ; anteiior half black ; posterior 
half red, more or less clouded with black, which appears to shine through 
from the mesonotum, the extreme marginal edge narrowly black ; hinder 
angles rounded ; posterior mai'gin concave ; disc flattish, convex, finely punc- 
tured, the punctures in the posterior portion black. Scutellum black, finely 
punctured, depressed in the centre, with a slight central keel springing from 
the base and extending to about the middle. Elytra — claims red, next the 
inner margin, which is narrowly red, a broadish black streak, minutely punc- 
tured, extending almost to the scutellar angle ; next the suture a row of 
minute black punctures. Corium red minutely punctured with black ; disc 
posteriorly at the inner angle with a large, somewhat rhomboidal black spot 
