136 Hemiplera-fleteroptera. 
M. simplex, H. Sch{.—Somewhat convex, ferruginous, 
head and abdomen and thoracic segments beneath black. 
Head with an adpressed spine lying along the inner 
margin of each eye, a spine on the vertex, and two 
converging frontal spines ferruginous; antennz with the 
apex of the terminal joint black; pronotum with the 
anterior margin hooded, sides with large inflations, their 
inner margins rounded, and almost meeting in the centre, 
just leaving room for the central carina to run between 
them, but interrupting the lateral ones; elytra subconvex, 
with fine cellular meshes throughout, the lateral margin with 
a single narrow row of fine clear meshes ; legs ferruginous. 
L. 3 mm. 
Rare; Redhill, Surrey, J. Linnell ; Folkestone, Darenth, 
Chatham, New Forest, Champion ; Isle of Wight, Power ; 
Bexley, Kent, Scott; Bickleigh Woods, Lignell. 
(Suse. MONANTHIA, Stal.) 
M. humuli, /ab.—Greyish ochreous. Head black, 
punctured, with two very short pale convergent frontal 
spines; antenniferous tubercles obtuse; pronotum with 
the anterior margin hardly raised or produced in the 
middle, and therefore forming a very feeble hood, sides with 
large wide inflations, bearing four rows of cell-like meshes, 
their inner margins emarginate and subparallel to the 
lateral margins; dise reticulated, with three longitudinal 
carina, the central one entire, with its basal apex 
black, and the lateral ones interrupted by the inflations ; 
elytra finely reticulated, flat, lateral margins with two rows 
of meshes at the base, one in the centre, two in the 
subapical sinuation, and one at the apex; nerves of the 
elytra with a distinct black spot at the apex of the discoidal 
area, and another on the central nerve, near its centre ; 
many of the lateral reticulations are also black; abdomen 
black; legs ochreous, 
L. 4 mm. 
