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front, and convex behind. Sides sinuate, narrowly and 
sharply reflexed, a single row of meshes visible by looking 
sideways at the reflexed edge. Disk with three straight 
coste. Hlytra much wider than thorax. Sides rounded, 
with three rows of meshes, with occasional brown trans- 
verse streaks crossing them. 
Length 2 lines. 
Not common; Somerset; Bushey, Herts; Reigate; &c. 
5. qguadrimaculata, Wolff. Fig. H.-Scf Wanz. Ins. iv. 
125, fie. A. 
Brown or reddish-brown. Llytra with an elongate 
marginal spot at the base, and a second near the apex on 
each side, white. ‘Thorax with three well-marked longi- 
tudinal carine. Sides slightly inflated with honeycomb- 
like meshes. Elytra with three rows of meshes at the 
sides in front; four in the middle on the brown portion, 
and two behind. Apex of discal carina white. Legs and 
antenne reddish. Apical joint of latter darker. 
Length 1? line. 
Rare. Dorsetshire, on old apple trees. 
6. dumetorum, H.-Scfi. Fig. H.-Seff. Wanz. Ins. iv. 
fig. 391. 
Brown or reddish-brown. Elytra with a basal spot, and 
a marginal spot near the apex, white. 
Very like the preceding, but differs in having the in- 
flations on the margins of thorax narrower, and their inner 
margins parallel to the sides, and in having only two rows 
of meshes on the sides of the elytra in front and one row 
behind ; its size is also smaller. 
Length 14 line. 
Old whitethorns, widely distributed; Oxfordshire, Lee, 
Southampton, Glanvilles Wootton, Chobham. 
7. humuli, Fab. Fig. H.-Sceff. Wanz. Ins. iv. fig. 361 
(convergens). 
Ochreous with occasional black markings. Head black. 
Thorax with the inflated meshed portions wide, their inner 
edges parallel to the lateral margins; disk with three 
keels, the side ones interrupted at about half their length 
by the lateral inflations. Elytra more or less marbled 
with darker colour, exterior discal carina with two black 
spots, one in the middle and one near the apex; lateral 
