126 COREINA. 



but so covered with black granules in rows that they appear, like 

 the pronotum, to be dark brown. Membrane gray -brown, with dark 

 brown nerves, on which the colour is faintly interrupted with whitish. 

 Sternum ochreous, with brown lines or bands. Legs ; thighs black- 

 brown, faintly spotted with ochreous, granulated ; tibia dull ochreous, 

 except the ends, which are brown ; tarsi ; 1st joint dull ochreous, 2nd 

 and 3rd black-brown. 



Abdomen above flat, ochreous; beneath convex, ochreous, with 

 longitudinal brown lines and bands, and the margins of the segments 

 brown. Connexivum brown, with an ochreous dash on each seg- 

 ment, near the anterior margin. 



Length, 3 3J lines. 



Bare. One specimen taken on the sand-hills at Deal, in August 

 (Scott). 



Genus 8. CERALEPTUS, Costa. 



Head. Crown convex, subquadrangular, wider in front than be- 

 hind by reason of the short, obtusely-pointed, outcurving pro- 

 cesses ; Face long, convex, the central lobe longest, narrow ; the 

 side lobes wide and outwardly rounded. Antennas : tubercle large, 

 obtuse; 1st joint petiolated, longer than the Crown, cylindrical, 

 slightly curved, the base thinner than the apex ; 2nd and 3rd each 

 slightly and gradually thicken to the apex, 2nd in length subequal 

 with the 1st, 3rd a little thicker and longer than the 2nd; 4th 

 scarcely thicker than the 3rd and not so long as the 2nd, fusi- 

 form, with the base constricted into the form of a bead. Eyes 

 small, rounded. Ocelli large, prominent, distant. Rostrum reaching 

 across the mesosternum, thick ; 1st and 2nd joints longest, subequal; 

 3rd wider than the 2nd ; 4th shorter than the 2nd ; rostral channel 

 short, the sides raised. 



Thorax. Pronotwn subtrapeziform ; anterior angles with a small, 

 short, deflected spine; sides slightly constricted in the middle; 

 hinder angles obtuse, raised, with a small subdentate, projecting 

 margin beneath them ; posterior margin nearly straight ; disk almost 

 flat, narrowly and suddenly deflected to the posterior margin, with a 

 foveate depression within the hinder angles, going to the sides of the 

 base of the scutellum. Scutellum broad, triangular, the apex slightly 

 raised. Elytra as long as the abdomen, flat : Corium with the first nerve 

 strong ; Membrane, the nerves (8 or 9 on the margin) not strong but 



