246 TINGIDINA. 



the widest part touching the middle keel ; scutellar process paler 

 than the disk, whitish at the apex ; keels strong, the middle one ex- 

 tending over the hood and not quite to the apex of the pronotum ; 

 the side keels divergent, starting from under the overlapped margins 

 near the middle keel, and ending on the middle of the side of the 

 scutellar process. Elytra regularly convex, sides beyond the cells 

 narrow ; cells large, wide, their inner nerve strong, not angled in the 

 middle, the outer nerve slight ; anterior margin narrow, with 1 row 

 of small meshes. Sternum black. Legs ; thighs brownish ; tibia 

 and tarsi yellowish-brown, end of the latter and the claws black. 



Abdomen beneath, black. 



Length, 1 line. 



Eare. One specimen taken in the Isle of Wight (Power) ; two by 

 sweeping among underwood at Bexley, Kent, in May and June 

 (Scott) ; and one in Mr. T. Marshall's collection. 



Fieber says, "In sandy places under Senecio Jacobea." 



Species 3. MONANTHIA DUMETORUM. 



MONANTHIA DTJMETOEUM, H. Scfif. Wanz. iv, 57, 1. 124, fig. 391 (1830) ; 



Fieb. Ent. Mon. 82, 25, t. 27, figs. 46 (1844) ; 



Europ. Hem. 125, 23 (1861). 

 TINGIS OXTACANTHJS, Curt. B. E. xvi, pi. and fig. 741 (1839). 



Cinnamon-brown, base of the elytra and across the scutellar process 

 broadly whitish-brown ; across the middle of the elytra a broad 

 chocolate-coloured band ; anterior margin of the elytra at the 

 base with 2 rows, at the apex with 1 row of meshes. 



Head black ; Crown brown, depressed in the centre, from which 

 springs a short spine, a long appressed spine on each side, black at 

 the base, and 2 contiguous ones in front forming apparently but one. 

 Antenna thin, finely pubescent, reddish-yellow ; 4th joint black. 

 Eyes black. Rostrum reaching to the 3rd pair of coxae, piceous j 

 sides of the rostral channel yellow. 



Thorax. Pronotum in front narrow, elongated, sides sinuate, broad 

 and rounded at the hinder angles ; hood small, anterior margin in 

 the middle slightly angulated and produced over the head ; the over- 

 lapped side margins convex, at first narrow, then broader and of equal 

 width throughout, the end broadly rounded, the reticulation with 2 



