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rows of large depressed meshes ; disk at the base of the hood de- 

 pressed, black ; the scutellar process with a transverse, pale, band-like 

 shade, widening alittle outwards, extending over the base of the elytra ; 

 the keels follow the undulation of the pronotum, the middle one 

 extending over the hood, its apex with a long dark streak ; on each 

 keel at the highest part of the disk a brown streak. Elytra ; sides 

 gradually, roundly widened to the middle, then sinuate to the broadly 

 rounded apex ; anterior margin narrow, with 2 rows of transparent 

 meshes to beyond the middle, then with 1 row of large meshes ; in the 

 middle the meshes are smaller and opaque ; disk flat to the exterior 

 of the cells, then vertical ; across the middle a broad chocolate coloured 

 band, extending across the anterior margin ; cell nerves at the apex 

 of the cell whitish ; reticulation fine, the meshes larger posteriorly. 

 Sternum finely punctured ; sides of the rostral channel pale yellow ; 

 Prosternum reddish-yellow, piceous in the centre, Meso- and Meta- 

 sternum black ; margin and base of all the coxae reddish-yellow. 

 Legs reddish-yellow ; tarsi, except the base, black. 



Abdomen beneath, red-brown with a black line on each side, and 

 clothed with extremely short, distant hairs. 



Length, 1| line. 



Varies considerably in colour from light cinnamon to chocolate- 

 brown, the darker specimens being usually ^, but in all there is the 

 still darker transverse band of the elytra. 



On old whitethorns ; Grlanville's Wootton, Dorset, May (Dale) ; 

 Brighthampton, Oxon, May (Stone) ; Lee, Kent, June ; Southamp- 

 ton Common, September, abundant (Douglas). 



Species 4. MONANTHIA QUADRIMACULATA. 



ACANTHIA 4-MACTJLATA, Wolff, Ic. Cim. 132, t. 13, fig. 127, 0, b (1804). 



TINGIS Fall. Hem. Suec. 144, 4 (1829). 



CORTICEA, H. ScJif. Panz. E. G. 11 8,' 22. 



MONANTHIA 4-MACULATA, Burm. Handb. ii, 261, 6 (1835) ; H. Schf. 

 Wanz. iv, 58, t. 125, fig. A (1839) ; Web. 

 Ent. Mon. 81, 24, t. 7, figs. 13 (1844) ; 

 Europ. Hem. 124, 22 (1861). 



(PHYSATOCHEILA) 4-MACULATA, Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 550, 9 



(1860). 



Cinnamon-brown, or lighter or darker, lighter across the base of the 

 elytra, with a broad dark chocolate-coloured band beyond ; an- 



