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Head thickly and finely punctured, black, with long, light, pro- 

 jecting hairs. Antenna; 1st joint black, apex piceous; the other 

 3 joints piceous, the ends paler. Eyes black. Ocelli reddish. Ros- 

 trum piceous. Underside black, strongly punctured. 



Thorax. Pronotum rather finely punctured, black, with fine 

 prominent hairs ; anterior margin narrowly ochreous ; lateral mar- 

 gins and posterior callus ochreous ; disk posteriorly more or less 

 tinged with ochreous, sometimes in a bidentate form. Scutellum 

 black ; apex whitish ; disk finely, the sides strongly, punctured. 

 Elytra; Clavus ochreous, punctured in rows; apex broadly pitchy - 

 black ; Corium distinctly, rather finely punctured, shining, ochreous, 

 with short hairs ; anterior margin clear, with a brown line on the 

 edge ; posterior margin (except in the centre) strongly black-punc- 

 tured ; on the 1st nerve of the disk 2 longish, broad, black streaks, 

 and on the 3rd 2 smaller ones, one in the centre, the other at the 

 posterior margin ; Membrane diaphanous ; near the base, exterior 

 to the 3rd nerve, a large black spot ; between the nerves a trans- 

 verse row of faint, much suffused, fuscous spots. Sternwn black ; 

 sides with short hairs. Legs with long, projecting hairs ; Coxce 

 ochreous ; thighs black ; apex and spots on the edges ochreous ; basal 

 3rd of the 2nd and 3rd pairs ochreous ; tibia yellow, with 3 broad 

 pitchy-black rings, 1st close to the base, 2nd in the middle, 3rd 

 before the apex ; tarsi yellow ; 1st joint narrowly pitchy-black at the 

 base and apex, and the 3rd at the apex on the upper side. 



Abdomen above black ; Gonnexwum black, with a large subquad- 

 rate yellow spot on each segment. Underside shining, black (the 

 centre beyond the first 2 segments more or less ochreous), finely 

 punctured, with fine, short, whitish hairs. Genital segments with 

 long, prominent hairs. 



Length, 2| 3 lines. 



Not rare in dry or sandy places, under thistles, nettles, and other 

 plants. Deal and Charlton, Kent, in August ; Brighthampton, Oxon. 

 (8. Stone). 



