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band near each end is an elongate depression. Sctitelhcm black, 
with a deep, narrow, transverse furrow at the base, the middle 
slightly raised lengthwise, and a corresponding depression on each 
side. Elytra — clavus red, in the middle a large, round, velvety 
black spot, posterior to which the colour is more or less infuscated; 
corium red like the clavus, across the middle, opposite to the end 
of the scutelluin, a broad black band, slightly undulating on its 
upper side, and on the lower side outwardly much and squarely 
extended downwards ; memhrane black or fuscous, margined with 
white or whitish, a band near the base, a triangular spot near the 
apes of the corium, and a large central spot (on the 4th nerve) 
clear white. Sternum dull gray-black, each segment on each side 
with an outer and an inner velvety deep black spot, forming two 
rows. Legs black, clothed with very fine yellow pubescence. 
Abdo7nen red, dull ; beneath, on the anterior margin of each abdominal 
segment except the first, a subangular shining black spot on each 
side, and a larger one on each side of the middle, except the sixth, 
of which the middle is entirely black and dull. Genital segments 
black in both sexes. 
Length 5|-6 lines. 
A single specimen in Dr. Power's collection, captured at Devizes 
by Mr. Joseph Sidebotham, in June, 1864. 
Curtis has figured this species in his " British Entomology," but 
the account he gives of its capture in Britain seemed so dubious, that 
we placed it among the " Eeputed British Species." Abroad it is 
common on Asclepias Vincetoxicum and Seseli Hippoviarathrum, neither 
of Avhich are British plants. 
Section 7. — Hebeina. 
Family 2. — MESovELiiDiE. 
Elliptic, stout. Head very long, widened in front. Antennos 
long, subfiliform, 4-jointed. Ocelli large, prominent. Bostrum free, 
apparently 4-jointed, 1st and 2nd joints very short, 3rd very long. 
Pronotmn long, subtrapezoidal, in front depressed, hindwardly very 
convex. Scutellum large, formed as if in two plates, the 1st convex, 
rounded behind, the 2nd smaller, concave, truncate. Elytra — clavus 
broad, membranous ; corium with two principal nerves, posteriorly 
furcate and forming cells ; meinirane without nerves. Legs long, thin ; 
coxce, 1st pair inserted anteriorly on the presternum ; tarsi trimerous, 
1st joint very short. 
