256 TINGIDINA. 



TiNGis PiLicoRNis, H. Schf. Panz. F. G. 118, 17 (1830). 

 PiESMA MARGINATUM, Bumi. Handb. ii, 258, 3 (1835). 

 DiCTYONOTA PILICORNIS, H. ScJif. Wauz. iv, 74, t. 129, fig. 401 (1839). 

 TiNGis (Derephysia) PILICORNIS, Kolen. Mel. Ent. vi, 14, 215 (1857). 



Black ; the hood, margins of pronotum, elytra, and their margins, 

 pale gray-ochreous with brown reticulations ; the hairs of the 

 anteniKB long, projecting ; the side margins of the pronotum in 

 front straight,projecting, and with 3 or 4 rows of meshes. 



Head finely granulated ; the 2 frontal spines long, thick, con- 

 tiguous but separate ; antenniferous processes thick, crooked, point- 

 ing outwards. Antennce, 1st and 2nd joints smooth ; 3rd and 4th 

 densely clothed with projecting hairs, which are very thick at the 

 base. Eyes black. Underside of head black-brown, with deep reticu- 

 lations which are larger on the whitish sides of the rostral channel. 

 Eostrum brown. 



Thorax. — Pronotum ; hood obtusely pointed ; side margins wider 

 in front than behind, in front straight, projecting forward, at the 

 sides broadly rounded to behind the hinder angles, anteriorly with 3 

 or 4, posteriorly with 2, rows of large irregular meshes ; disk in the 

 middle black, punctured, the rest pale gray-ochreous ; the edge of 

 the keels brown. Elytra ; anterior margin rounded, broad, much 

 reflexed, with 2 rows of meshes, the inner one rather the larger ; 

 the meshes of the disk of nearly equal size throughout. Sternum 

 with large deep punctures, the edge of the rostral channel brown. 

 Legs ; thighs piceous ; tihm, tarsi SiH^ claws brown, the last joint of 

 the tarsi piceous at the apex. 



Abdomen black, delicately, transversely crenate. 



Length, l^ line. 



Among grass and moss in dry, sandy places ; Eltham and Plum- 

 stead, July to September; under a stone near Bognor, Sussex, 

 August {Curtis). 



Species 2. — Dicttonota strichnocera. *^ 



DiCTYONOTA Eryngii, Curt. B. E. iv, p. 154 (1827), non Latr. 



— CRAssicoRNis, //. Sclif. Waiiz. iv, 74, t. 129, fig. B, head 



(1839), non Fall. 



— STRICHNOCEBA, Fieb. Ent Mon. 95, 3, t. 8, figs. 4—7 (1844) ; 



Europ. Horn. 127, 6 (ISGl). 



