220 [Marcli, 



Head — Black ; crown with a yellow spot adjoining each eye behind the 

 transverse channel. Antenn(S dusky-reddish, 1st joint pale yel- 

 lowish, baser narrowly black, apex red. ^ye^ red-brown. Rostrum 

 yellow, tip black. 



Thorax -Proi^otumhlvbck; hinder angles somewhat yellowish; callosity 

 sometimes brownish, shining, with 4 punctures in the inverted 

 cordate depression, two close together, and one at each extremity ; 

 the posterior portion of the disc transversely wrinkled. Scutellum 

 black. Elytra yellowish or greenish-white. Clavus, inner margin 

 narrowly black, base on each side of tbe nerve narrowly reddish, 

 apex as far as tbe scutellar angle black-brown, the colour continued 

 more or less along the nerve. Corhim with a broadish black-brown 

 longitudinal streak next the suture, extending from the apex to the 

 apex of the clavus, about f the distance from the base it becomes 

 contracted, and then branches out for a short distance towards the 

 outer basal angle. Mertibrane black-brown. Legs pale yellowish- 

 white ; iJiiglis at the apex, especially the 3rd pair, bright red ; tibicB, 

 apex of the 1st and 2nd pairs narrowly brownish-yellow, 3rd 

 sometimes red ; tarsi yellowish, occasionally the 1st joint red ; 



3rd at the apex blackish. Clavus reddish. 



Length l\-% lines. 



The markin':;s on the elytra are variable, as will be seen by referring 



to fig. 4* on the plate of Ent. Ann. One or two specimens were taken 



by Dr. Power at Wicken Feu in June. 



{To he continued!) 



AN ESSAY TOWARDS A KNOWLEDGE OF BRITISH ITOMOrTEBA. 



BY THE HEV. T. a. MAHSHALL, M.A. 



(Continued from page 199.) 



Gen. lASSTJS, Fab. 



A numerous and difficult group, offering a wide field for the 



researches of a monogi-apher. Confining myself necessarily to those 



s])ecies which I have seen or captured, and ignoring those found only 



in catalogues, I shall here speak of three of its sub-divisions, upon the 



principles marked out by Burnieister, Flor, and Kirschbaum. 



* Vertex aculanguluH. pronoto plerumque longior. 



[Subg. Deltocephatais, Bvirm. 

 ** Vertex rotundatua vcl obtusangulus, pronoto brcvior. 



