244 TINGIDINA. 



than the pronotum ; anterior margin reflexed ; disk with a long 

 centra] space enclosed by prominent nerves, forming a rhomboidal 

 cell, from the end of which a nerve is produced to the apex ; sides, 

 outside the cell, deflected or vertical. Sternum with a rostral channel 

 gradually widening throughout, sometimes on the metasternum pro- 

 duced into a flat plate between the coxa3. Legs short, thin. 



Species 1. MONANTHIA HUMULI. 



ACANTHIA HUMULI, Fab, E. S. 4, 77, 43 (1794). 



TINGIS Fab.S.n. 126, 7(1803). 



MONANTHIA CONVERGENS (King), Burn. Handb. ii, 261, 5 (1 835); //. Schf. 



Wanz. iv, 15 & 58, t. 114, fig. 361 (1839). 

 HUMULI, Fieb. Ent. Mon. 84, 28, t. 7, figs. 17, 18 (1844); 



Europ. Hem. 125, 27 (1861). 



(PHYSATOCHEILA) HUMULI, Flor, Khyn. Liv. i, 335, 12 



(1860). 



Ochreous-gray, sometimes with black reticulations ; the over-lapped 

 margins of the pronotum covering ^th of the disk ; anterior 

 margin of the elytra with 2 rows of cells at the base and end, 

 and one row in the middle. 



Head black, deeply punctured ; Crown in front with 2 very short 

 yellow spines ; antenniferous processes very short, obtuse. Antenna ; 

 1st 3 joints reddish-yellow, 4th subfusiform, hairy, black, the base 

 yellow. Eyes black. Rostrum piceous, the raised sides of the rostral 

 channel pale yellow, reticulated, 



Thorax. Pronotum ; sides widened and slightly rounded to the 

 hinder angles which are broadly rounded; hood small, anterior 

 margin straight, pale; the over-lapped side margins whitish-gray, 

 broad, convex, in front joining the base of the hood, posteriorly cut 

 obliquely inwards ; the reticulation in 4 rows of round meshes, in 

 each mesh often a black spot ; disk deeply depressed at the base of 

 the hood, the highest part finely punctate-reticulate ; scutellar 

 process with larger reticulations and close to the margin a fine black 

 line ; keels yellow, not deep, the middle one passing over the hood 

 and extending posteriorly to its apex where it is black, on the de- 

 pression of the scutellar process there is but one row of small meshes ; 

 the side keels not so deep as the middle one, short, arising opposite 

 the middle of the margin and ending before the middle of the margin 



