244 TINGIDINA. 



than the pronotum ; anterior margin reflexed ; disk with a long 

 central space enclosed by prominent nerves, forming a rhomboidal 

 cell, from the end of which a nerve is produced to the apex ; sides, 

 outside the cell, deflected or vertical. Stemuni with a rostral channel 

 gradually widening throughout, sometimes on the onetasternmn pro- 

 duced into a flat plate between the coxse. Legs short, thin. 



Species 1. — Monanthia Humuli. 



AcANTHiA Humuli, Fab. E. S. 4, 71, 43 (1794). 

 TiNGis — i^«i.S.R. 126, 7(1803). 



Monanthia convergens {Klug), Burm. Handb. ii, 261, 5 (] 835); //. Schf. 

 Wanz. iv, 15 & 58, t. 114, fig. 3G1 (1839). 



— Humuli, Fieb. Ent. Mon. 84, 28, t. 7, figs. 17, 18 (1844) • 



Europ. Hem. 125, 27 (1861). 



— (Physatocheila) Humuli, Flor, Ehyn. Liv. i, 335, 12 



(1860). 



Ochreous-gray, sometimes with black reticulations ; the over-lapped 

 margins of the pronotum covering ^th of the disk ; anterior 

 margin of the elytra with 2 rows of cells at the base and end, 

 and one row in the middle. 



Head black, deeply punctured ; Croivn in front with 2 very short 

 yellow spines ; antenniferous processes very short, obtuse. Antennce ; 

 1st 3 joints reddish-yellow, 4th subfusiform, hairy, black, the base 

 yellow. JEijes black. Itostrum piceous, the raised sides of the rostral 

 channel pale yellow, reticulated. 



Thorax. — T'ronotum ; sides widened and slightly rounded to the 

 hinder angles which are broadly rounded ; hood small, anterior 

 margin straight, pale ; the over-lapped side margins whitish-gray, 

 broad, convex, in front joining the base of the hood, posteriorly cut 

 obliquely inwards ; the reticulation in 4 rows of round meshes, in 

 each mesh often a black spot ; disk deeply depressed at the base of 

 the hood, the highest part finely punctate-reticulate ; scutellar 

 process with larger reticulations and close to the margin a fine black 

 line ; keels yellow, not deep, the middle one passing over the hood 

 and extending posteriorly to its apex where it is black, on the de- 

 pression of the scutellar process there is but one row of small meshes ; 

 the side keels not so deep as the middle one, short, arising opposite 

 the middle of the margin and ending before the middle of the margin 



