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Head brown, margin delicately reflexed ; Crotvti witli a pale 

 luteous central keel, which joins the base of the central lobe of the 

 face ; on each side of the keel darker brown, interrupted by a pale 

 curved line; Face; central lobe raised, pale luteous, darker at the 

 sides. Underside sti'ongly and thickly black-punctured, especially 

 in front. Anfennce : 3rd joint two thirds the length of the 2nd ; 

 1st piceous ; 2nd dark yellowish ; 3rd and 4th piceous, with the base 

 and tip dark yellowish ; 5th piceous, the petiole pale. Fi/es black, 

 moderate, projecting as far as the outer angle of the pronotum. 

 Ocelli red, shining. Bostrum luteous, the last two joints black. 



Tliorax. — Pronotum with dark clouds of brown, sometimes hind- 

 wardly clearer ; sides broadly pale luteous, margins delicately re- 

 flexed ; in the centre a very slight tranverse, waved line, behind 

 which the disk is a little depressed ; within the hinder angles a dis- 

 tinct callus. Sciifelhim almost as long as the corium, the sides 

 gradually receding to the broadly rounded apex ; the centre raised 

 into a low, broad keel, exterior to which, on each side, is a depres- 

 sion ; at the base, near the sides, two whitish, shining, slightly 

 raised spots, outwardly and inwardly shaded with brown ; the inner 

 shade extends to the centre of the base, but is interrupted by a faint 

 yellowish line running diagonally to the keel. Elytra : Corium ; 

 the nerves raised ; towards the centre two or three small black spots ; 

 Membrane brown, with darker nerves. Sternum : centre and sides 

 broadly black ; prosternum strongly black-punctured. Legs luteous ; 

 tliiglis beneath, with brown punctures, which tend to form 2 or 3 

 irregular bands; t'lbioe ; spines black; tarsi piceous, the 1st joint 

 paler. 



Abdomen beneath convex, strongl}^, distantly brown-punctured, 

 rufo-luteous, centre paler, faintly bordered with rufous ; on each 

 side of the centre, but distant from it, a broad, irregularly defined, 

 black band, gradually narrower to, and ending on the 6th segment ; 

 within the limits of this band the 1st and 2nd segments are quite 

 black (the posterior margins excepted) ; on the middle of the 6th 

 segment a large subquadrangular, black spot, which does not reach 

 to the end of the longitudinal band ; or the under side is piceous, 

 with central and lateral luteous lines ; Stigmata black, with a pearly- 

 white spot and a brown shade attached to its inner side ; Conneccivum 

 above and beneath alternatel}- broadly brown and luteous. 



Length, 2^—3 lines. 



Not common. Sand-hills at Deal, in spring and aiituum. 



