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of the scutellar process. Elytra oval ; anterior margin posteriorly 

 very slightly sinuate, reflexed from the base to about the middle, 

 thence gradually becoming flat ; in the middle narrowed, with 

 one row of meshes ; at the base and beyond the middle with 2 rows 

 of larger meshes ; disk flat within the cells, outside them broad, 

 deflected to the anterior margin ; the outer nerves of the cells in the 

 middle and at the apex with a long, black streak ; the inner nerve 

 in the middle usually with a black or piceous streak ; the meshes 

 about the same size as on the scutellar process, posteriorly gradually 

 larger. Sternum deeply punctured, the raised sides of the rostral 

 channel reticulated, pale yellow ; margins of all the segments and 

 the base of the coxge pale yellow. Legs reddish-yellow ; tarsi ; end 

 of the 2nd joint and the claws black. 



Abdomen black, shining, delicately crenate. 



Length, 1^ line. 



Not very common. On Myosotis palustris (Burmeister) . Damp 

 places in tufts of grass; Lee, April; Dorset (WoUaston). 



Species 2. MONANTHIA SIMPLEX. 



TINGIS SIMPLEX, H. Schf. Panz. F. G. 118, 21 (1830). 

 MONAKTHIA H. Schf. Wanz. iv. 59, 1. 125, fig. F (Pronotum), (1839). 

 SCAPULARIS, Fieb. Ent. Mon. 80, 23, t.. 6, figs. 3840 (1844) ; 

 Europ. Hem. 125, 24 (1861). 



Pale, reddish-brown, convex ; head with 5 short yellow spines ; the 

 overlapped side margins of the pronotum very convex, ovate, 

 their edges meeting in the centre ; side keels short, divergent ; 

 the reticulations small, deep, rounded, equal throughout. 



Head black ; Crown with a pustule ; of the 5 spines 1 lies depressed 

 on the inner margin of each eye, 1 in front of and attached to the 

 pustule, the other 2 on the extreme front, contiguous to each other 

 and apparently united. Antenniferous processes, short, yellowish. 

 Antennae; 1st 3 joints yellowish-brown ; 4th not much thickened, 

 and, except the base, black. Eyes black. Eostral channel yellowish. 



Thorax. Pronotum ; anterior margin nearly straight ; hood 

 small, triangular, with small, punctured reticulation ; the over- 

 lapped side margins oval, pointed in front, broadly rounded behind, 

 forming two bladder-like excrescences, the inner margin of each at 



