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curved, widely foliaceous and raised, ochreous and impunc- 
tate ; a large subquadrate spot on the front of the disc 
black and clothed with silvery pubescence, except a spot 
on each side of its centre, which is glabrous ; the disc pos- 
teriorly is ochreous, punctured with black, posterior angles 
black ; scutellum black with a pale line on each side of the 
apex; elytra with the clavyus and corium ochreous, punc- 
tured with black, a large band near the apex and the apical 
margin of the latter black; abdomen black, clothed with 
silvery hairs, posterior margin of the pro- and metasternum 
and a spot near each coxa pale; legs ochreous, femora 
with a broad black band, anterior pair with a sharp tooth 
beneath. 
L. 6-64 mm. 
This beautiful insect is generally rare, I have found it 
near the Land’s End and at Dawlish, Devon. The Rev. 
T. A, Marshall observes, “ Rather common on the Cliffs of 
Milford Haven, under tufts of Silene maritima, on which it 
appears tofeed; by searching the same plant on the Cornish 
coast, I have found two or three here ;” St. Ives, Cornwall, 
J. HE. Mason ; Whitsand Bay, near Plymouth, J. J. Walker ; 
Parley Heath, Dale; Bridgend, South Wales, Billups ; 
Portlemouth, Wembury, Bignell. 
EMBLETHIS, Ficeb. 
A genus easily known by its uniform pale ochreous black- 
punctured surface and bristly legs and antenne. Head 
short, eyes touching the pronotum, antenniferous tubercles 
obtuse laterally, first joint of the antennz scarcely extend- 
ing beyond the apex of the face ; pronotum broad, flat, sides 
widely foliaceous ; elytra with the sides slightly rounded ; 
legs and antenne bristly, the anterior femora beneath with 
a row of very short spine-like hairs. 
There are nine recorded Palearctic species. 
E. verbasci, fad.—Oval, ochreous, finely and closely 
