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Agramma l.eta, Fieb. Ent. Mon. 37, 1, t. 2, figs. 22—28 (1844) ; Europ. 

 Hem. 119, 4 (18R1). 

 — LJ5TUM, Flor, Uhyn. Liv. i, 324, 1 (1860). 



Black, the anterior margin and scutellar process of the pronotwn, 

 and the elytra wholly pale ochreous ; legs yellow-brown. 



Sead finely punctured. AntenrKe finely granulated, the upper 

 part of the 3rd and base of the 4th joints generally red. Rostrum 

 piceous ; the edges of the rostral channel ochreous. 



Thorax. — Pronotum strongl}'", distinctly punctured ; a fine raised 

 line down the middle ; anterior margin and scutellar process pale 

 ochreous. Elytra oval, convex, pale ochreous, with fine, distinct, 

 granulated punctures ; anterior margin delicately reflexed. Sfernv/ni 

 strongly punctured, anterior margin of prosternum and the edges of 

 the central channel narrowly ochreous. Legs yellow-brown ; end of 

 the last joint of the tarsi brown. 



Abdomen beneath, delicately punctured. 



Length, 1\ line. 



Local ; Box Hill, Surrey, by Sweeping grass, May ; Deal, July ; 

 Tunliridge Wells, August. 



Family 2.— TINGIDID^. 



Genus 1. — Monanthia, Le P. et Serv. 



Long-oval, reticulated. 



Head short, transverse-quadrangular, furnished with spines ; sides 

 produced in front to form short antenniferous processes ; Face 

 vertical. Underside with a deep rostral channel of which the sides 

 are much produced. Antennce short ; 1st joint short and thick ; 2nd 

 short, subcordate ; 3rd long, thin ; 4tli thick. Eyes small, more or 

 less prominent. Rostrum (apparently 5 jointed) reaching to the 

 end of the meso- or metasternum. 



Tliorax. — Pronotum rhomboidal, in front truncate ; anterior 

 margin raised into a hood ; the scutellar process long, pointed, its 

 base depressed ; side margins projecting or lapped over and appressed 

 to the disk, which is more or less convex across the middle, deflected 

 before and behind, and with 3 longitudinal keels. Elytra longer and 

 broader than the abdomen, the base broadly rounded, but narrower 



