526 OCULATINA. 



Eyes black, with a yellow sinuous streak at the base. Ocelli small, 

 brown, with a black pupil. 



Thorax. — Pronotum short-trapezifonn, narrow in front, sides flat- 

 tened, raised within the hinder angles, the margins slightly rounded, 

 more so in front ; posterior margin concave across the scutellum, 

 the ends roundly produced over the base of the elytra ; the callosity 

 •frds the length of the disk, sharply defined behind, the single cen- 

 tral fovea deep. Scutellum slightly convex, basal -^ finely punc- 

 tured, apical \ finely crenate, the depression large and deep, its 

 posterior margin straight. Elytra very broad, convex ; Corimn ; 

 sides broadly flattened on the basal i; anterior margin mucli 

 rounded, but scarcely reflexed, about its middle a large yellow 

 [-formed spot, with a large black dot on its inner margin joined to 

 the 1st nerve ; further down the margin a narrower, long, yellow 

 spot, which does not extend to the black apex ; on the disk are 3 

 series of small yellow spots, in the 1st row 1 spot at the base, 

 1 before the middle, and 1 next the membrane-suture, the last pre- 

 ceded by a round loliite spot ; in the 2nd row, near the base, is a 

 large faint ocellus, formed by a fine yellow ring, and then 2 spots ; 

 the 3rd series is formed, nearer to the inner margin, by 3 spots in a 

 triangle ; often these spots are more or less obliterated, or joined 

 together ; Membrane yellow ; membrane-suture and base broadly 

 black, except on each side of the base of the 2nd nerve; nerves 

 broadly black, except the middle of the 1st, which is yellow ; in each 

 cell an oval black spot, forming a row across the middle of the mem- 

 brane, and another black spot in the 3rd cell, near the base ; margin 

 with a large, subquadrate, black spot below the apex of the corium, 

 preceded by a large, and followed by a smaller, yellow spot ; the 

 rest of the margin fuscous. Legs yellow ; thighs, on the inner and 

 outer sides a row of large brown punctures ; the 1st pair black on 

 the anterior edge ; tibicB black at base and apex ; 1st and 2nd pairs 

 with a long blackish or brown line on the middle of the outer side, or 

 on the 2nd pair forming a broad ring ; tarsi; 1st and 3rd joints piccous. 



Abdomen ; the last segment yellowish posteriorly in the $ . 



Length, 1^ line. 



Axwell Park, near Newcastle, May, and near Launercost, Cum- 

 berland, June {Bold) ; Isle of Man {Bev. H. A. StoioelT). 



" 10th June, Wareham ; 12th August and middle of September, 

 base and face of cliff, where it was wet, at Black-gang Chine " 

 {Curtis, 1, c). 



