(32 flemiptera-fleteroptera. 
(8) 9. Sides of pronotum more or less inflated, 
the intlations reticulate. 
(15) 10. Orifice of the odoriferous sac with a 
distinct channel (Subg.Physatochila, 
Fieb.). 
(14) 11. Dise of pronotum with three carine, 
reaching to the hood of the anterior 
margin. 
(13) 12. Elytra with three to four rows of mar- 
ginal meshes in the middle : - QUADRIMACULATA. 
(22) 13. Elytra with two rows of marginal 
meshes in front, one posteriorly. + DUMETORUM. 
(11) 14. Lateral discal carina abbreviated an- 
teriorly by the lateral inflations . SIMPLEX. 
(10) 15. Sac orifice without a canal (Subg. 
Monanthia, Stal). . : 5 . HUMULI. 
(Suse, PLATYCHILA, Fieb.) 
M. ampliata, Fieb. (var. similis, D. § S.).—A large 
wide species, grey or ochreous grey, more or less _ mottled 
with black. Head black, with woolly white pubescence ; 
vertex with three long pale spines, forehead with two long 
converging pale spines, terminal joint of the antennz 
black; pronotum with the anterior margin raised, and 
hooded in the centre, lateral margins very widely dilated, 
especially in front, and raised, with four rows of fine meshes ; 
disc with three not very much elevated caring, the central 
one only showing distinct areola at its base and apex; 
elytra flat, finely reticulated, with four rows of fine meshes 
at the sides; abdomen black-brown, legs ochreous; the 
depressions of the upper surface in fresh examples are 
filled with a sort of woolly white pubescence, and the 
nervures bear very short adpressed hairs, visible only with 
a strong power. 
L, 84-4 mm. 
The var. similis, D. § W., has the pronotal margins 
less dilated in front. 
Not rare; by sweeping, Reigate, Woking, Chobham, 
Wimbledon, Hayling Island, Hastings; Battle, Barnet, 
Butler ; Bugbrooke, Northampton, Marshall; Sand-hills, 
