248 Mr. Saunders’ Synopsis of 
meshes. Side margins with fine projecting hairs. Legs 
and antenne hairy. 
ean 2 lines. 
Very rare; Monkswood, Huntingdon. 
2. ampliata, .-Seff. Fig. Dougl. & Scott, Brit. Hem. 
pl ax. tie. 3. 
Grey, very finely pubescent. Thorax with the lateral 
margins largely expanded, especially in front, with five 
rows of small irregular meshes; disk with three nearly 
straight coste. Elytra with five rows of very small 
meshes at the sides, and with a wide black band crossing 
them a little above ‘the middle, and with numerous other 
black spots and lines. Antenne red, apex black. 
Length 2 lines. 
Not 1 rare, by sweeping, &c. 
Var.? similis, Dougl. & Scott. 
Shorter than typical form. Antenne shorter. Sides 
of the thorax rounded to the hood in front, instead of 
being angulated. These characters, however, are not to 
my mind sufficient to establish a species on only two 
examples, as in all other respects their form is identical 
with ampliata. 
3. carduc, ion.”  “Hies H.-Scit. ‘Wanz.' Ins. av. 127 
fig. A. 
Grey, more or less spotted, and mottled with black. 
Thorax raised in front, with the sides gradually rounded 
to the anterior margin, with three rows of very small 
meshes; disk with three nearly straight longitudinal 
carine, spotted with black; on the meshes there are also 
some black spots. Elytra: disk with fine meshes more or 
less clouded with brown or black; sides with three rows of' 
meshes, traversed by a wide spot just above the middle, 
and several narrow line-like spots along their entire 
length; the wide spot at the middle often joins the dark 
colour of the disk, making a sort of transverse band. 
Antennee red, apex black. 
Length 14 line. 
Very common on thistles. 
4. costata, Fab. Fig. H.-Scff. Wanz. Ins. iv. fig. 390. 
Pale ochreous ; legs and antenne rather of a browner 
tint, apex of latter black. Thorax much narrowed in 
