248 TINGIDINA. 



terior margin of the elytra, with 2 rows of transparent meshes 

 at the base and beyond the band ; on the band itself 4 irregular 

 small, punctate, opaque meshes. 



Head black finely punctured ; Crown with 5 yellow spines, one 

 appressed on each side next the eye, one in the middle projecting, 

 and before it 2 conjoined so as to appear but 1. Antenniferous pro- 

 cesses very small, reddish-yellow. Antennas ; 1st 3 joints reddish- 

 yellow or brown ; 4th oval, hairy, black. Eyes black. Rostrum 

 light brown ; the sides of the channel yellow-brown. 



Thorax. Pronotum ; hood small, pale, slightly overhanging the 

 head ; the overlapped side margins equally broad throughout, con- 

 vex, each with 4 rows of deep honeycomb meshes ; disk on the 

 highest part finely, posteriorly largely, reticulated ; keels not deep, 

 the middle one extends over the hood, the side ones start from its 

 base, all at the middle and end with a black streak. Elytra; long- 

 oval, very broad in the middle, the sides sinuate posteriorly ; anterior 

 margin very much rounded, somewhat broad, reflexed to the middle, 

 in the middle brown, opaque, with 4 rows of indistinct, small meshes ; 

 at the base and posteriorly 2 rows of large transparent meshes with 

 dark nerves ; the margin at the apex brown ; disk ; base pale, the 

 middle with a broad, chocolate-coloured, transverse band, which ex- 

 tends across the anterior margin ; the cells flat ; outside them 

 suddenly deflected ; cell-nerves at the base and apex whitish ; the 

 reticulation as far as the posterior end of the cells small, posteriorly 

 gradually larger. Sternum light brown, sometimes with a black 

 shade, finely punctured, the margins of the segments pale. Legs 

 long, slender, reddish-brown ; tarsi, the last joint and claws black. 



Abdomen red-brown, with a dark line down each side. 



Length, If line. 



Kare. Grlanville's Wootton, Dorset, October, on apple-trees 

 (Curtis, Dale) ; and in Mr. Wollaston's collection. 



Species 5. MONANTHIA COSTATA. 



TIKGIS COSTATA, Fab. S. R. 152, 2 (1803); Fall. Hem. Suec'(>wn Panz., 

 Reaum.) 143, 1 (1829); Germ. F. E. 18, 25. 



