SCIOCORHLE. 63 



Head brown, margin delicately reflexed; Crown with a pale 

 luteous central keel, which joins the base of the central lobe of the 

 face ; on each side of the keel darker brown, interrupted by a pale 

 curved line ; Face ; central lobe raised, pale luteous, darker at the 

 sides. Underside strongly and thickly black-punctured, especially 

 in front. Antenna : 3rd joint two thirds the length of the 2nd ; 

 1st piceous ; 2nd dark yellowish ; 3rd and 4th piceous, with the base 

 and tip dark yellowish ; 5th piceous, the petiole pale. JEyes black, 

 moderate, projecting as far as the outer angle of the pronotum. 

 Ocelli red, shining. JRostrum luteous, the last two joints black. 



Thorax. Pronotum with dark clouds of brown, sometimes hind- 

 wardly clearer ; sides broadly pale luteous, margins delicately re- 

 flexed ; in the centre a very slight tranverse, waved line, behind 

 which the disk is a little depressed ; within the hinder angles a dis- 

 tinct callus. Scutellum almost as long as the corium, the sides 

 gradually receding to the broadly rounded apex ; the centre raised 

 into a low, broad keel, exterior to which, on each side, is a depres- 

 sion; at the base, near the sides, two whitish, shining, slightly 

 raised spots, outwardly and inwardly shaded with brown ; the inner 

 shade extends to the centre of the base, but is interrupted by a faint 

 yellowish line running diagonally to the keel. Elytra: Corium; 

 the nerves raised ; towards the centre two or three small black spots ; 

 Membrane brown, with darker nerves. Sternum : centre and sides 

 broadly black ; prosternum strongly black-punctured. Legs luteous ; 

 thighs beneath, with brown punctures, which tend to form 2 or 3 

 irregular bands; tibia; spines black; tarsi piceous, the 1st joint 

 paler. 



Abdomen beneath convex, strongly, distantly brown-punctured, 

 rufo-luteous, centre paler, faintly bordered with rufous; on each 

 side of the centre, but distant from it, a broad, irregularly denned, 

 black band, gradually narrower to, and ending on the 6th segment ; 

 within the limits of this band the 1st and 2nd segments are quite 

 black (the posterior margins excepted) ; on the middle of the 6th 

 segment a large subquadrangular, black spot, which does not reach 

 to the end of the longitudinal band ; or the under side is piceous, 

 with central and lateral luteous lines ; Stigmata black, with a pearly- 

 white spot and a brown shade attached to its inner side ; Connexivum 

 above and beneath alternately broadly brown and luteous. 



Length, 2^3 lines. 



Not common. Sand-hills at Deal, in spring and autumn. 



