Tingiadide. 131 
This lovely little species is far from rare, and is generally 
distributed ; it occurs in ivy, moss, etc. 
MONANTHIA, Lep. 
A genus all of whose species have a sort of common 
facies, and yet differ in strong structural peculiarities, 
which have given rise to several well-marked sub-genera, 
which in some other families would be treated as generic- 
ally distinct. As characters belonging to the whole genus 
the following may be given :— 
Rostral channel closed in front, i.e. the laminal production 
of the cheeks beneath are united in front ; anterior margin 
of the pronotum with a more or less distinct hood ; pro- 
notum, on its basal half at least, with three keels, its base 
produced into a long acute angle; elytra with the internal 
nerve distinctly angulated just at the side of the apex of 
the base of the pronotum ; surface reticulate, or very largely 
and reticulately punctured. 
There are fifty-five species given in Puton’s Catalogue, 
and others have been added since: these are nearly all 
of southern distribution. 
(7) 1. Sides of the pronotum flat and foliaceous, 
more or less rounded and dilated with 
rows of clear areole (Subg. Platychzla, 
Fieb.). 
(6) 2. Lateral margins of pronotum not pilose. 
(4) 38. Sides of pronotum with two and three, 
elytra with three rows of meshes .« CARDUI. 
(3) 4. Sides of pronotum with one row, of elytra 
with two rows of meshes . ANGUSTATA. 
(3) 5. Sides of pronotum and elytra with four rows 
of meshes . AMPLIATA. 
(2) 6. Lateral aba of pronotum and elytra 
pilose CILIATA. 
(1) 7. Sides of the pronotum not dilated and 
rounded, 
(9) 8. Sides of pronotum straight, or slightly 
sinuate, narrowly reflexed, costate (Subg. 
Catoplatus, Spin.) . ‘ : : . COSTATA. 
K 2 
