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Thorax. — l^roiiotuiii with a more or less iutemipted channel 

 behind the colkir; sides slightly eoucMve ; hinder angles raised ; pos- 

 tei'ior margin convex, indented in the middle ; disk convex, trans- 

 versely wrinkled, black, with a more or less large central streak 

 sometimes extending from the transverse channel to the posterior 

 margin, and the latter within the angles yellowish, or the disk 

 yellow ; the space between the collar and the transverse chauuel, 

 2 large somewhat triangular patches, often extending from the 

 latter to the posterior margin, and the hinder angles, black. 

 i^cutelhiin yellowish, transversely wrinkled, transverse channel 

 black : or entirely black, with the basal angles, and sometimes the 

 apex, reddish yellow. Elytra : Clavus ; inner margin and apex 

 narrowly black ; between the nerve and the suture somewhat pale ; 

 CoriiDii ; anterior margin narrowly black, within the latter pale ; 

 beyond the middle, and between the 1st nerve and the anterior 

 margin, a large, somewhat triangular, fuscous white patch, the colour 

 having the appearance of being rubbed or washed out ; Cuneus ; at 

 the base a triangular patch, its apex on the inner margin brownish, 

 or brownish-orange near the outer basal angle; inner margin piceous ; 

 apex broadly black ; centre with a yellow trapezoidal patch, more 

 or less broadly orange-yellow towards and at the inner margin ; 

 Memlrane blackish ; below the apex of the cuneus a somewhat 

 lozenge-shaped, yellowish patch, followed by a large triangular black 

 one extending to the apex of the anterior margin ; inner marginal 

 nerve brown ; cell-nerves brownish-yellow or reddish, exteriorly 

 with a yellowish margin; cells yellowish, hiteniunt ; sides reddish 

 or brow^n-red. li^g^s ■ co.i\e and fulcra yellowish, the latter brown- 

 ish posteriorly ; tliiylis reddish-yellow, w^ith longitudinal rows of 

 bi"own spots extending throughout their entire length, the spots 

 largest on the underside of the 3rd pair ; towards the apex of the 

 latter, one or more irregular brown bands ; tibice yellowish, with 

 minute brown spots and short, stout, somewhat spinose, brown 

 hairs; apex blackish; tami brownish-yellow; 1st joint brown, 8rd 

 at the apex black ; flaws black or brown. 



Length, 3] lines. 



A ])lentiful species at Darenth. on black-currant bushes, and 

 occasionally on birch trees, in June. 



