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black, apex yeUow. Thighs, 3rd pair at the base on the nnder-side piceoua, 
j each pair with two longitudinal row3 of piceoua spots on the upper, and one 
^ on the under-side. Tihia yellowish, clothed with long, fine, erect, brown 
hairs ; apex of all the pairs very narrowly brownish. Tarsi, lat and 2nd 
I joints yellowish, 3rd and claws piceous. 
;io;n^— above black, underneath black, the centre, as far as the genital segments, 
• broadly yeUowish white. Connexivum yeUow. 
Taken at Nazareth at the roots of a dwarf thorny plant, where it 
(8 abundant in April. 
^e Extremely like P. Mdrkeli, but easHy separated from that species 
^che differences in the antennse, and the rounded and entirely pale 
ggin of the elytra. 
g We have named it after the Eev. T. A. MarshaU, whose coUection 
^(^lemipera has been always at our service. 
^'^OTE.— At page 37, for Pithanus Flori, read Pithanm Marshall. 
Family DER^OCOEID^. 
33.— Species Dee^ocoeis amcekus, Doug. & Scott, 
c? . Straminens et niger, dilute pulescens ; capite nigro, linea media 
maculam parvam postice crescente straminea ; antennis piceis ; pronoto 
TO, collari nee non fascia pone callum, stramineis ; corio dilute stramineo, 
a magna triangulari maculaque interiari piceo-nigris ; cuneo Icete sfra- 
\eo, apice anguste nigro, memhranapiceo-nigra, extus saturatiari ; sterno 
JO-rufo; pedibus ru/o-hrunneis,fuleris, nee non femorum apice, piceis ; 
is luridis, hasi apiceque piceis ; abdomine siibtus stramineo, segmentibus 
"^'^ ^W^s- Long.°8^ lin. 
c? . Pale yellow and black, somewhat sparingly clothed with short, 
ressed, pale hairs. 
i black, shining. Crown with a small yeUow 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, ^ntouue piceous ; 1st joint pitchy-brown. Rostrum pitchy-red, 
apex piceous. 
•ax—Pronotum black, shining, collar and an irregular broad band behind the 
callosities yellow ; disc posteriorly convex. ScuteUum convex, yellow, considera- 
bly raised above the clavus, anterior portion concealed beneath the posterior 
margin of the pronotum. EJiitra— Clavus pitchy-black, between the inner 
margin and the nerve almost flat, disc very finely wrinkled transversely, the 
sutui-al nerveat the apex, and the apex itself, very narrowly pale yellow, c'orium 
pale yeUow, almost white, anterior margin piceous, except the basal portion, disc 
with a lai-ge triangular pitchy-black patch extending to the anterior margin, its 
inner margin convex, apex abrupt, sHghtly concave, its base occupies the entire 
width of the cnneus sutui-e ; on the margin at the inner posterior angle a small 
black spot. Cuneits bright yellow, apex narrowly black. Membrane pitchy- 
