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Ochreous-gray, with dusky spots. Pronotum trapezoidal; side 

 margins slightly concave, anterior part of the disk with 2 short 

 keels, not reaching the anterior margin. 



Head ochreous, very finely punctured ; Crown narrowly black at 

 the base ; Face ; central lobe with a black line on each side ; side 

 lobes longest in the <, their ends sometimes dusky, meeting. 

 Antenna yellowish-brown. Eyes black or piceous. Rostrum yellow 

 brown, end piceous. 



Thorax. Pronotwn trapezoidal; the foliaceous sides beginning 

 very narrow before the hinder angles, moderately and gradually 

 widened to the front, their margins slightly concave, narrowly 

 reflexed ; anterior angles broadly rounded ; disk ochreous, with 3 or 

 5 longitudinal brown stripes, or unicolorous light brown, except on 

 the anterior raised part, which is always pale, and has on its surface 

 2 very short keels arising within the anterior margin ; the trans- 

 verse depression at its base deep, depressed outside the keels into a 

 fovea, which is black ; the punctures anteriorly small and confluent, 

 posteriorly larger and distinct. Scutellum black, apex raised, obtuse. 

 .Elytra; Clavus and Corium ochreous-gray, very finely reticulate- 

 punctate ; Clavus black at the apex ; Corium clouded, or indistinctly 

 spotted with fuscous, usually pale at the base; Membrane; the 

 basal reticulated portion coloured like the corium, the remainder 

 whitish; nerves yellow-brown, with a black spot on the base. 

 (Sometimes the Membrane is not developed beyond the basal reticu- 

 lated portion, and the wings are wanting. Z. anticus.) Sternum; 

 sides whitish, deeply punctured ; mesosternal channel ochreous ; 

 metasternal plate white. Legs concolorous with the antennae ; 

 Claws black. 



Abdomen beneath, ochreous-brown, spotted or clouded with 

 fuscous or black. 



Length, 1J line. 



Extremely like Z. Laportei, the greatest point of distinction being 

 the form of the pronotum. 



On banks, and dry places under plants; Lee, April; Bickley, 

 May ; Foots Cray, June. 



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