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middle of the disk piiuctured, the seutellar process with rather 

 small meshes. Elytra broad, oval, convex, the base wider than the 

 pronotum at its hinder angles ; anterior margin rounded at the base, 

 broad, regularly rounded, but a little narrower in the middle, deeply 

 reflexed throughout, with 2 rows of large irregular transparent 

 meshes, sometimes dark brown at the middle ; inner margins straight, 

 not overlapping, rounded off and divergent at the apex ; disk with 

 large, subeqiial meshes throughout ; cells extending -Sths of the 

 length of the elytra, concave, with 3 — 4 rows of meshes ; nerves 

 strong, raised, the outer one sinuate, the inner one straight, the 

 apical nerve very short, pointing inwards ; outside the cells 3 or 4 

 rows of meshes. Sternum brown, the margins of the segments and 

 the sides of the rostral channel yellowish. Legs yellowish-brown. 



Ahdomen beneath brown. 



Length, 1 — \\ line. 



Eather scarce and local. In moss, on a bank under bushes, 

 Coombe Hurst, Croydon, May. 



Species 3. — Orthostira OBSCURA. , ^ nf) 



MoNAjy'TUU PUSiLLA, Bumu Ilaudb. 0/262, 8 (JS35) (nou Tall). 



— OBscuPvA, II. Sclif. Wanz. iv, 23, t. 118, fig. 372 (1839). 

 Orthosteira — lieb. Eiit. Mon. 54, 7, t. 4, fig-s. 22—25 (1841) ; 



Saldb. Geoc. Fen. 130, 4 (1848). 

 Orthostira — Fieb. Europ. Hem. 131, 7 (1861). 



Black-brown, ovate ; side margins of the pronotum pale brown, with 

 darker reticulations ; in front with 2 rows, posteriorly with 1 

 row of meshes. (Exceptionally there are 8 rows in the front.) 



Developed Form. — Head black, finely punctured ; the 2 frontal 

 spines brown, short, obtuse, straight ; 'antenniferous spines small, 

 obtuse. Antenna; 1st 3 joints light yellowish-brown, the 1st some- 

 times darker ; 3rd filiform, at the base abruptly swelled into a bulb 

 as thick as the 2nd; 4th short-fusiform, black. Ej/es red-brown. 

 Host rum piceous, 1st joint luteous ; sides of the rostral channel 

 luteous. 



Thorax. — Pronotum ; hood whitish-brown, projecting far over the 

 head, in the middle a keel, on each side 2 rows of large, deep reti- 

 culation, the base prolonged narrowly on the anterior margin of the 

 pronotum : sides rounded at the anterior angles, side margins pale 



