Tingidide. 33 
Lincolnshire, Mason; Tileate, Wicken, Esher, Chatham, 
New Forest, Cowes, Champion ; Lee, Chislehurst, Bright- 
hampton Oxon, Douglas and Scott; Cowbridge South 
Wales, Ely, Billups ; Glanvilles Wootton, Dale. 
M. ciliata, Fieb. (reticulata, H. Sch.)—Somewhat of 
the same wide build as the preceding, and similar in 
colour; but abundantly distinct from it and all our other 
species, by the long ciliw of the sides of the pronotum 
and elytra, antennz, legs, and nervures. Head black, with 
a short pale hairy spine above each eye, a central one on the 
vertex, and one just below it on the forehead ; apical joint 
of the antennz black ; pronotum, anterior margin angularly 
raised and hooded in the centre, sides much dilated, widest 
near the middle, with three and a half rows of large 
meshes ; disc with three caring without areole, central one 
raised in front and cresting the hood; elytra finely reti- 
culate on the disc, the sides with three rows of large 
meshes; abdomen black ; legs ochreous. 
L. 4 mm. 
Rare, Monkswood, Huntingdon, Crotch; Scarborough, 
Lawson; Tilgate, Cobham Park, Champion; Glanvilles 
Wootton, Dorset, Dale. 
Dr. Puton gives its habitat as in the flowers of Ajuga 
reptans. 
M. cardui, Linn.—Greyish, with darker mottlings. 
Head black, with silvery downy pubescence, with a tuber- 
cular spine on the vertex, and two converging frontal 
spines, pale ; second and third joints of the antennz pale ; 
pronotum, anterior margin raised and hooded, projecting 
slightly over the head, sides rounded posteriorly, reflexed, 
with three rows of meshes posteriorly and two anteriorly ; 
the nerves black in places; dise with three strong areolated 
caring, the central one cresting the hood, the lateral ones 
interrupted by it; elytra flat, finely reticulated, the nerves 
in places black; lateral margins with three rows of meshes ; 
the dark mottlings of the elytra form a more or less definite 
