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brown, membrane hyaline clouded with brown; legs very 
pale ochreous, finely pubescent. 
Undeveloped form narrow, widened posteriorly, ochreous, 
head and sometimes the pronotum and scutellum darker ; 
elytra punctured, convex, its sides rounded, membrane 
wanting, 
L. 53-4 mm. (developed), 24-3 (undeveloped). 
On Pteris and other ferns. Dr. F. B. White finds it in 
Scotland “always on Athyriwm filix feminw and Lastrea 
dilatata,” 
MONALOCORIS, Dahil. 
Not dimorphous, broadly ovate, shining, punctured, con- 
vex, face subvertical, rostrum reaching to the posterior 
cox ; pronotum with a very narrowly raised anterior collar, 
sides very slightly rounded, base rounded; elytra short, 
their sides rounded and narrowly reflexed, cuneus with its 
external margin rounded, constricted at its union with the 
corium, membrane with only one cell; apical joint of the 
tarsi slightly incrassated, arolia very long and divaricate. 
There is only one species of the genus. 
M. filicis, Linn.—Ochreous brown, shining, head, legs 
and the base of the antenne paler. Head shining, im- 
punctate, eyes touching the pronotum and _ projecting 
beyond the sides of its anterior margin, antenne with the 
basal joint slightly longer than the head, second about 
twice and a half as long as the first, dark at its apex, third 
and fourth dark, fourth about two-thirds as long as the 
third, vertex divided from the neck by a rounded ridge ; 
pronotum strongly punctured, much raised posteriorly, 
with a transverse anterior impression on each side, its 
anterior raised collar pale, sides nearly straight, base 
rounded ; elytra punctured, finely pubescent, their margins 
pale, membrane smoky; legs very finely pubescent. 
L. 24-3 mm. 
On ferns; generally distributed and common. 
