263 TINGIDINA. 



Length, | — 1 line. 



In moss on the trunks of oak trees, in winter and spring ; Scar- 

 borough {T. WilJcinson') ; Darenth Wood. 



Species 2. — Orthostira cervina. s 



TiNGis CERVINA, Germ. F. Ins. M(^p. IS, 22. 



MoNANTiiiA — B. Schf. Wanz. iv, 26 & 53, t. US, fig. 375, t. 129, 



fig. G (1S39). 

 OuTiiosTEiKA — Ficb. Eiit. Moii. 48, 2, t. 4, figs. 1—3 (1844) ; Sahib, 



Geoc. Fen. 129, 1 (1848). 

 MoNANTHiA (Orthosteira) CERVINA, Flor, Rliyn. Liv. i, 341, 5 (18G0), 

 Orthostira cervina, Fleb. Europ. Hem. 130, 2 (1861). 



Light or dark brown ; side margins of ])ronoium reflexed, broad, 

 parallel, with 3 rows of meshes ; discoidal side keels curtailed at 

 base ; anterior margins of the elytra broad, with 2 rows of 

 large meshes. The reticulation throughout stout and dark. 



Head brown or black ; frontal spines long, strong, pointed, 

 divergent, ajDex yellowish-brown ; anteuniferous spines long, strong, 

 projecting outwards, apex usually yellowish-brown. AntennoB ; 1st 

 3 joints yellow-brown or ferruginous ; 3rd finely granulated, not 

 thickened at the base, blackish on its anterior 3rd ; 4th long- 

 fusiform, base not thicker than the 3rd, black, with fine short hairs. 

 Eyes brown. Rostrum light brown, apex black ; sides of the rostral 

 channel yellowish. 



Thorax. — Pronotum broad, short ; hood in front obtuse, the sides 

 sinuate, narrowly extended along the anterior margin of the pro- 

 notum and joined to the side margins, each side with 3 rows of deep 

 meshes ; side margins broad, reflexed, on the edge straight, angles 

 obtuse, the anterior ones a little produced forwards, the posterior 

 ones right angled ; disk at the base of the hood depressed, smooth, 

 black ; scutellar process short, its apex acute ; keels 3, straight, the 

 middle one strong, deep, horizontal on the edge from the front of 

 the hood to the apex of the scutellar process, with 7 transverse, 

 brown meshes largest in the deepest part of the discoidal depression ; 

 side keels shallow, with 5 transverse meshes, divergent, arising 

 abruptly in the depression and not joined to the hood, highest in 

 front but also prominent at their exit on tlie hinder side margins ; the 



