134 flemiptera-fleteroptera. 
band across their centre; abdomen black; legs with the 
femora black at the base. 
L. 3} mm. 
Very common on thistles, and generally distributed. 
M. angustata, H. Schf-—Paler and narrower than 
the preceding, to which it is closely allied, but from 
which it may be known at once by the narrow marginal 
reflection of the pronotum, which has only one row of 
meshes, and the less elevated discal carine, the lateral ones 
of which show no areole; the margins of the elytra also 
are narrower, with only two rows of meshes, and there is 
scarcely any darker mottling on the nerves; but this may 
vary, as I have seen very few continental examples, and 
have only the one British specimen; all I have seen, 
however, agree in coloration. 
L. 3 mm, 
One specimen by sweeping, near Cisbury, Worthing. 
(Suse. CATOPLATUS, Spin.) 
M. costata, Fieb—A species very distinct by the 
narrow, sinuate margins of the pronotum. Pale testaceous ; 
head brown, with two convergent frontal spines, and a 
small one adpressed to the surface above them ; antenni- 
ferous tubercles angularly produced, apical joint of the 
antenne dark; pronotum with the anterior margin very 
short, raised into a slightly elevated hood, sides nearly 
straight or slightly sinuate, narrowly reflexed, with one 
row of small meshes; disc with three longitudinal carine, 
the central one cresting the hood; elytra much wider 
than the pronotum, with fine meshes, sides rounded, with 
three rows of meshes ; abdomen black. 
L. 34-44 mm. 
Reigate; Tunbridge Wells, Caterham, Chattenden, 
Champion; Folkestone, I?ye; Bewdley, Trench Woods, 
Cannock Chase, Blutch; Langport, Somerset, Dale ; 
Bushey, Herts, Power; Headley Lane, Margate, Deal, 
