SIGARID^. 617 



Thorax. — Pi'onotmn pitchy trown ; in the centre of the anterior 

 margin a small callosity, the latter, the posterior margin, and some- 

 times a central line, yellowish-white. Scutellum yellowish-white. 

 Elytra : Glavus ; the trapezoidal piece at the base yellowish- white ; 

 disk with a large pitchy brown patch at the base, and a small one 

 before the apex ; margin of the suture grayish-yellow or dark gray ; 

 Corium; exterior margin of the claval suture grayish-yellow or dark 

 gray ; disk at the base with a pitchy brown patch, in the middle a 

 broad, very irregular, transverse, diagonal band, generally almost 

 divided in the centre, and a small patch before the apex, pitchy 

 brown ; anterior margin yellowish-white, with 2 short, pitchy brown 

 streaks, one before, the other in the middle ; apical margin pitchy 

 brown. Leys pale yellow ; tarsi; 1st joint of the 3rd pair with a 

 brown or black streak along the outside. 



Abdomen, underside, 3 or 4 basal segments brown. 



Length, ^ line. 



Not rare in the Cambridge Fens (G. B. Crotch). 



