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(3) 2. Clothed with soft pale pubescence mixed with 
fine dark hairs . : ‘ , ‘ . MOLLICULUS. 
(2) 3. Clothed with thick black hairs : : . TANACETI, 
(1) 4. Xyphus convex, immarginate, surface clothed 
with pale and dark hairs mixed. (Subg. 
Tinicephalus.) HORTULANUS. 
M. molliculus, /’0l/.—Greyish-green, clothed with fine 
soft pale and brown hairs intermixed, elongate oval ¢, or 
oval 2, second joint of the antennz thickened in the 3, 
shorter than the third and fourth together; pronotum 
transverse, sides nearly straight, base twice as wide 4, or 
once and a half 9, as the anterior margin, base nearly 
straight; elytra with the clavus cuneus, and a central band 
more or less brown, membrane slightly dusky, with a darker 
spot below the apex of the cuneus, nervures pale; tibie 
with black spines, tarsi slender, black. 
L, 4-5 mm. 
On Tanacetum and other plants, not rare, and widely 
distributed. 
M. tanaceti, Fall.—Very like molliculus, but of a 
yellower colour, as a rule, although I have males nearly as 
green as that species; the thick black hairs, however, with 
which the entire surface of the insect is densely clothed will 
at once distinguish it ; in the ? the elytra have rarely any 
darker band; the anterior cox and femora each bear a 
row of black spines, which in molliculus are represented by 
pale sete. 
L. 44-53 mm. 
On Tanacetum, Chobham; on Achillea, Surbiton ; Shal- 
ford, Butler; near Exeter, Parfitt; Instow, North Devon, 
abundant, Fowler. 
M. hortulanus, J/ey.—Smaller than either of the pre- 
ceding, brownish green, clothed with black and paler hairs 
intermixed ; head and antennz yellowish or yellowish- 
green; pronotum dull green, fading to yellowish, in the 
male with a V-shaped dark mark between the callosities, 
sides nearly straight, base slightly simuate; elytra dusky 
