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ochreous, with darker longitudinal lines; autenne and tarsi 
in green examples red. Head nearly as long as its width, 
impressed down the centre, basal joint of the antenne con- 
siderably longer than the head, slightly curved, densely 
clothed with long hairs; pronotum about as long as its 
basal width, sides sinuate, with a dark line within the 
lateral margin, base nearly straight or slightly sinuate, 
dorsal line pale, raised and smooth ; scutellum punctured, 
with a slightly raised central line; elytra either entirely 
green, or with the clavus more or less brown; or ochreous, 
widely blackish grey inwardly; hind tibiew considerably 
bent inwardly, the other tibize very slightly so. 
L. 8 mm. 
Very common by sweeping grasses, etc. in summer, and 
generally distributed. 
M. calearatus, Fall.—Very like the preceding but 
rather wider, similar to it in colour, except that in the 
ochreous variety the elytra are pale throughout ; antennes 
rather shorter, the basal joint distinctly so, and the third 
and fourth together shorter than the second ; pronotum 
shorter, wider in front; posterior femora beneath with a 
large curved tooth pointing outwards, followed by a 
shorter and straighter one between it and the apex, tibiw 
curved as in lavigatus. 
L. 7 mm. 
Very common by sweeping grasses, etc., and generally 
distributed. 
MEGALOCERAA, Fivd. 
A genus closely allied to Miris, from which it differs in 
the emarginate base of the pronotum, which exposes the 
base of the scutellum, and in the surface of the scutellum 
itself, which in this genus is smooth and impunctate, whereas 
in Miris it is strongly punctured. We find in Britain 
three of the four species recorded by Puton. 
