2^2 ^ ; 
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towards the 2nd and then slightly towards the inner margin; the! 
4th arises near the middle of the inner margin and curves parallel! 
to the 3rd Stemuvi. each segment with a triangular x^phn-l 
meso- and metmiernnm with a central keel, the xyphns depressed,} 
Legs moderate ; thighs, 1st pair incrassated, simple, long-fusiform- J 
tarsi, 1st pair short, 1st and 3rd joints sub-equal in length; 2nd I 
very short ; 3rd pair longest, 1st joint longer than the 2nd and 3rd 
together, 2nd very short. 
Abdomen : connexivum wide, sharply reflexed. 
Species 1.— Stethotropis incana {Doug. Sf Scott), n. sp. 
Black. Read and pronotum clothed with dense ashy pubescence; 
elytra dark shaded brown, base and nerves of w^^nimwe yellowish-white'. 
Head appears ashy by reason of the dense decumbent pubescence, antenno, black 
with fine projecting hairs, apex of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd joints piceous. 
Thorax: pronotum covered like the head with dense, appressed, ashy pubescence. 
closely but distinctly deep-punctured, the callosities smooth. Scutellum less 
pubescent, with fine, less distinct punctures. Elytra dull, dark brown • dam, 
on the basal half with three rows of distinct punctures, posteriorly the puBC 
tures less distinct; corium in the inner margin, posteriorly, a longitudinal 
blackish streak, the raised course of the 1st nerve is also dark, the colour 
spreading posteriorly and outwardly into a blotch which extends narrowly on 
to the base of the membrane : memhrane fuscous, the base (except as above 
stated) yellowish-white on the outer two-thirds, on the inner 3rd broadly clear 
spothke, with a blackish streak from the corium beyond the base of the 3rd 
nerve; nerves clear yellowish-white, and a streak of the same colour, some- 
times interrupted, between the 1st and 2nd, and 2nd and 3rd. Legs : thighs 
pitchy-black, tibicB pale piceons, tarsi pale piceous, the last joint black. 
Abdomen : beneath clothed with fine, decumbent ashy pile. Length 1^ line. 
A single individual, ? , was taken by Mr. T. V. Wollaston, last 
summer, at Teignmouth, and kindly presented to us. Dr. Fieber has 
founded on it a new genus and has sent a drawing of the characters, 
from which our figure is taken. Its place is near Sfggnocoris. 
Section 9. — Capsina. 
Family II.— ONCOTTLID^. 
Gemcs 7. — Conostethus, Meb. 
Species 2.— Conostethtts geiseus, n. sp. 
c? Dark greyish-green. 
lead yellow, somewhat darker on the sides and leaving an indistinct central line; 
