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Section 6. — Tingidina. 



Oenus 3. — Dicttoxota, Curf. 

 Species 1*. — Dtcttonota Fieberi (pi. 2, fig 2). 

 DiCTTONOTA FiEBERi, {Forst.) Fiel., Europ. Ilein., 127, 4 (1861). 



Above pale ochreous, without hairs, the reticulation brown, in 

 places black. Head black, with four ochreous spines. Antennce ferru- 

 ginous, closely covered with darker granules, each ending with an 

 extremely fine hair ; 1st and 4th joints black. Pronotum brown, side 

 margins broad, widened to the front, there broadly rounded, reticulation 

 anteriorly in three rows. Legs ferruginous. Body black, covered with 

 a whitish gloss. 



Head — black, finely granulated ; crown and round the eyes whitish ; the two basal 

 spines ochreous, the two anterior darker. AntenncB ferruginous, closely 

 covered with small, somewhat pointed, darker granules, each ending with an 

 extremely fine hair ; 1st and 4th joints black, on the last the granulation very 

 small ; sides of the rostral channel ochreous. Eyes black. 

 Thorax — PronoiMm light brown, anterior angles black ; hood short, prominent, but 

 little produced in front ; disc distinctly punctured, apical portion ochreous, 

 witli black reticulation ; keels parallel, the middle one deepest, scarcely deeper 

 behind than in front, with square meshes; the outer keels dwarf; side margins 

 much reflexed, broad, rounded, widened gradually to the front, where the 

 angles are produced and broadly rounded, pale ochreous, reticulation pale 

 brown, black in places, on the anterior half in three rows, the meshes of the 

 inner one small, of the 2nd largest, irregular, of the outer row sub-quadrate. 

 Elytra pale ochreous, reticulation brown, in places black; anterior margin 

 with two rows of large meshes, the inner one larger and less regular than the 

 outer one. Sternum black, punctured, with a whitish gloss ; posterior margin 

 of the segments pale ochreous. Legs ferruginous ; thighs darkest, very finely 

 granulated ; tarsi, 1st joint ferruginous, 2nd black. 

 Abdomen — Beneath, black, punctured, with a whitish gloss. Length 2 lines. 



Prolessor Westwood has two or three specimens, taken by himself 

 many years since (he believes at Coombe Wood) ; and a single specimen 

 was taken by Dr. Power at Weybridge, in August last, by sweeping, 

 and is now in his collection. 



Comes next to D. crassicornis, Fall., from which it differs in being 

 larger and lighter in colour, with longer, more slender and ferruginous 

 antennae, the side margins of the pronotum rounded in front, not straight, 

 and having three rows only of meshes ; in the reticulation of the anterior 

 margin of the elytra being in two rows throughout, and less regular in 

 form, &c. 



Note.— Fieber's description of D. Fieberi fits so extremely 



