532 OCULATINA. ^ 



Head witliout projecting hairs ; constricted behind the eyes into 

 a short neck. Antennae black, very finely haired ; 1st joint yellow 

 at the apex ; 3rd and 4th joints not thicker than the 2nd. Eyes 

 and Ocelli black. Bostrum piceous ; lahrum black. 



Thorax. — Pronotum long-trapezoidal, smooth, constricted in front ; 

 anterior margin punctured ; sides narrowly flattened in the middle, 

 at the hinder angles incrassated, with a furrow internally, running 

 out on the posterior margin, the side margins narrowly reflexed ; 

 hinder angles obtuse ; posterior margin slightly concave across the 

 scutellum, at the ends straight ; disk, the callosity extending nearly 

 ^ the length, the central fovea large and deep, the posterior furrow 

 very deep. Scutellum convex, the central depression large, straight 

 behind. Elytra convex ; Clavus and Corium with fine, scattered, 

 yellow pubescence ; Clavus with a small, narrow, yellow spot near 

 the apex J claval suture punctured; Corium; anterior margin flat- 

 tened throughout, yellow, the base, a long spot beyond the middle, 

 and the aj)ex black, the edge brown ; disk with a large, conspicuous, 

 clear-white spot close to the posterior margin, and 4 or 5 very small 

 whitish spots, 2 or 3 are on the basal i towards the anterior margin, 

 and 2 posterior near the inner angle (these small spots are some- 

 times more or less obscure), on the middle of the disk a large, 

 divided, bluish-gray blotch, and another, smaller, at the end of the 

 clavus (these blotches are sometimes very clear, sometimes indis- 

 tinct) ; membrane-suture black, with a yellow streak ; Memlrane 

 ochreous ; nerves (except the 1st) black ; between the nerves a pos- 

 terior, transverse row of long brown spots ; the base more or 

 less clouded with brown ; anterior margin yellow, with a large black 

 spot at the end of the 1st nerve, followed by a small yellow sj)ot, the 

 rest of the margin fuscous, lighter along the 5th nerve. Legs 

 ochreous ; tliighs paler towards the base, on the inner and outer sides 

 with indistinct brown punctures, the 3rd pair on the inner side with 

 a black line on the apical -^ ; tihice narrowly black at base and apex, 

 1st and 2nd pairs with a faint, central, brown ring ; 3rd pair with a 

 few short, projecting, black hairs; tarsi; 3rd joint on the apical \, 

 or entirely, fuscous ; claws brown. 



Length, IJ — 1^ line. 



Not very scarce in damp places, in tufts of grass, &c., in winter 

 Lee and Eltham. 



