272 CM;iy, 



Very pale 0('lirc'ous--\vhitc or sometimes with a faint fuscous shade. 

 Elytra v<\i\\ four or five spots and two streaks on each elytron. 



Head — croion frequently pale brownish-yellow, with a short, slightly curved, brown 

 streak on each side of the apex, two triangular spots in a line with the anterior 

 margin of the eyes, and tM'o short oblique streaks near the posterior margin, 

 these characters are more or less obsolete in different individuals. Face brown, 

 with a whitish or white central, longitudinal streak unequal in breadth ; 

 apical one-third whitish or white ; sides with about four transverse white lines. 



Thorax — pronotum pale, sometimes with four longitudinal yellowish lines. Scutellum 

 sometimes with a dark fuscous triangular spot at each basal angle. JElytra very 

 pale ochreous-wliite or sometimes with a fuscous shade ; nerves pearl-white. 

 Clavus : inner margin between the 1st and central nerve, and between the latter 

 and the apex, with a black streak ; space between the anal nerve and the suture 

 at the base white, followed by an oblong black patch. Corium .- central area, with 

 a round black spot at the base ; central apical area and the anteapical one in a 

 line with it, more or less black ; apex of the discoidal area with a black patch ; 

 not unfrcquontly these black characters fill the areas, which are then separated 

 only by the white nerves whicli liavo a cruciform appearance. Legs pale. Tarsi : 

 3rd pair, apex of 2nd and 3rd joints fuscous. Length, I5 — 2 lines. 



12. SABULICOLA, Curt. 



Although the characters on the elytra are very variable, the forms 

 which appear to be most common have five black spots and two streaks 

 on each elytron, thus approaching some of the varieti'es of D. striatus, 

 with which, however, it can never be confounded by the difference in 

 the genitalia in both sexes. 



A common species on sandy places on the sea coast from July to 

 November. 



Greyish-testaceous. Elytra : nerves of the two inner ante-apical 

 and two inner apical areas narrowly margined with black ; central 

 apical area black. Sometimes, with the exception of the last, the whole 

 of the characters are obsolete. 



Head — crown in ordinaiy types, with characters similar to those on D. sahiilicola. 

 Face brown, lower half with a pale longitudinal central line, and six or seven 

 transverse lines on each side. 



Thorax — pronotum greyish-testaceous. Scutellum with two black punctures, above 

 the transverse cliannel and generally a brown triangular spot at each basal angle. 

 Elytra greyish or whitish ; nerves white. Clavus : characters almost as in D. 

 sabiilicola. Corium : nerves of the two inner anteapical and two inner apical 

 areas narrowly margined with black ; central apical area black, sometimes, with 

 the exception of the last, the whole of the characters are obsolete, or the whole 

 of the areas are suffused with black, leaving the costal and ante-apical area 

 immediately below it always pale. In the last case the crown has two lon- 

 gitudinal black lines and the pronotum four. Length, li — 1 J line. 



• 13. STBiATrs, Lin. 



