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Ochreous-gray, with dusky spots. PronoUtm trapezoidal ; side 

 margins slightly concave, anterior part of the disk with 2 short 

 keels, not reaching the anterior margin. 



Head ochreous, very finely punctured ; Grown narrowly black at 

 the base ; Face ; central lobe with a black line on each side ; side 

 lobes longest in the ^, their ends sometimes dusky, meeting. 

 Aniemice yellowish-brown. Fi/eshlack or piceous. Rostrum yellow 

 brown, end piceous. 



Thorax. — Pronotum trapezoidal ; the foliaceous sides beginning 

 very narrow before the hinder angles, moderately and gradually 

 widened to the front, their margins slightly concave, narrowly 

 reflexed ; anterior angles broadly rounded ; disk ochreous, with 3 or 

 5 longitudinal brown stripes, or unicolorous light brown, except on 

 the anterior raised part, which is always pale, and has on its surface 

 2 very short keels arising within the anterior margin ; the trans- 

 verse depression at its base deep, depressed outside the keels into a 

 fovea, which is black ; the punctures anteriorly small and confluent, 

 posteriorly larger and distinct. Scutellum black, apex raised, obtuse. 

 Elytra ; Clavus and Corium ochreous-gray, very finely reticulate- 

 punctate ; Clavus black at the apex ; Corium clouded, or indistinctly 

 spotted with fuscous, usually pale at the base ; Membrane ; the 

 basal reticulated portion coloured like the corium, the remainder 

 whitish ; nerves yellow-brown, with a black spot on the base. 

 (Sometimes the Membrane is not developed beyond the basal reticu- 

 lated pprtion, and the wings are wanting. — Z. anticus.') Sternum; 

 sides whitish, deeply punctured ; mesosternal channel ochreous ; 

 metasternal plate white. Legs concolorous with the antennae ; 

 Claios black. 



Abdomen beneath, ochreous-brown, spotted or clouded with 

 fuscous or black. 



Length, li- line. 



Extremely like Z. Laportei, the greatest point of distinction being 

 the form of the pronotum. 



On banks, and dry places under plants ; Lee, April ; Bickley, 

 May ; Foots Cray, June. 



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