68 [August, 
black, not punctured, shining. Scutelhim large, triangular, flattish convex, 4 
black, thickly punctured, depressed in the middle ; behind the depression a 
round callus, to which is attached a distinct keel extending to the apex. 
Elytra — clavus yellow ; between the inner margin and nerve (except a small 
spot at the base) black as far as the sutural angle ; the nerves with a row of 
punctm-es on each side. Corium yellow, finely punctured with black, and 
clothed with almost erect hairs shorter than those on the pronotum ; extreme 
base, a large round spot next the posterior inner angle, and the membrane 
suture black, the colour in the latter widest at the apex. Membrane black ; 
outer margin broadly white. Sternum black, thickly and deeply punctured and 
clothed with a yellowish pile. Legs — coxcb black, apex bro-mi, at the base, 
outwardly, a brown spot. Fulcra black. Thighs black, clothed with long, fine, 
almost erect hairs ; 1st pair beneath with three or four small teeth, of which 
the penultimate, from the apex, is the longest. Tihice — 1st pair brown-yellow, 
clothed -with long, fine hairs, apex black ; 2nd brown, with long, stout, spinose, 
black hairs, interspersed with longer fine ones ; apex black ; 3rd black, the 
hairs as in the 2nd pair. Tarsi clothed with pale hairs ; 1st and 2nd pairs 
brownish-yellow, apex of the 1st and 2nd joints piceous ; 3rd joint of all the 
pairs and claws black. 
Abdomen — beneath black, very thickly and finely punctured, and clothed with a 
yellowish pubescence. 
Plains of Jordan, on low plants while sweeping for spiders and 
Coleoptera in April. 
We have named this insect after Dr. Flor, from whom we have 
received several acts of kindness, and whose work, the " Ehynchoten 
Livlands," has placed him in the first rank of the authors on Hemiptera. 
This species is very closely allied to the Beosus ceneiceps described 
by Barensprung in the Berlin. Ent. Zeitschrift for 1859, page 333, pi. 
6, fig. 5, but it may easily be distinguished from that insect by the 
differences in the antennae and legs. 
(To be continued.) 
Cathormiocerus socius a true British species. — My friend Mr. Montague, in the 
early part of the summer of last year, captured a single male specimen of a 
Strophosomo-Trachyphlceoid Curculio (now, thanks to his liberaUty,in my possession) 
at Freshwater, I. of Wight, which, on its being brought before my notice, I at once 
felt inclined to refer to the much-vexed species above-named, but refrained from 
bringing foi-ward, as I was unable to reconcile it with the description in Schonherr's 
Syn. Ins., vii. (Supp.), 121, 2, on account of its possessing certain most evident 
characters in the structure of its antennae and the bristly clothing of its elytra not 
referred to by that author. 
The recently published work on certain of the OtiorhynchidcB by Georg 
Seidlitz (Berlin. Ent. Zeitschr., Jahrg. xii., 1868, Beiheft), however, enables me 
now to bring it forward without further hesitation. 
