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MONANTHIA COSTATA, H. Schf. Wanz. iv, 55, t. 123, fig. 390 (1839) ; 



Fieb. Ent. Mon. 72, 15, t. 6, figs. 1012 



(1844); Sahib. Geoc. Fen. 132, 2 (1845); 



Fieb. Europ. Hem. 123, 14 (1861). 



(TROPIDOCHEILA) COSTATA, Flor y Rhyn. Liv. i, 347, 8 (1860). 



Pale ochreous, finely reticulated ; head with 5 spines ; hood long ; 

 pronotwn very narrow in front, sides sinuate, the margins ver- 

 tically reflexed. 



Head small, black ; Crown with 5 yellow spines, 2 in front very long, 

 conjoined into one, 1 short, at their base and a very short obtuse one 

 at the base of each eye. Antenniferous processes stout, obtuse, 

 brownish-yellow. Antennae short, stout, finely granulated and haired ; 

 1st 3 joints brownish-yellow ; 3rd stout ; 4th short, obtuse, but little 

 thicker than the 3rd, black. Eyes small, not prominent, black. 

 Rostrum yellow. 



Thorax. Pronotum narrow and elongated in front ; hood long, 

 wide, rounded behind; sides sinuate, the margins not very broad, 

 thick, vertically reflexed, in front sloping a little inwards, at the 

 hinder angles prominent, suddenly rounded off; disk at each side of 

 the hood black ; keels strong. Elytra broad-oval ; anterior margin 

 broad, with 3 rows of meshes, at the base small, gradually larger 

 beyond the middle to the apex, with 2 single brown streaks on the 

 1st 3rd, and 2 or 3 contiguous, transverse brown streaks before the 

 middle and at the apex ; disk deflected inwardly from the 1st nerve, 

 which is highly raised, outside the cell broad, deeply deflected to the 

 anterior margin, at the base with rather large reticulations, the 

 meshes as far as the end of the cells small and regular, beyond the 

 cells gradually larger to the apex ; the cells clear, beyond them 

 several isolated, short, brown streaks. Wings with a violet gloss. 

 Sternum ochreous-brown ; Metasternum black in front ; rostral 

 channel black, on the metasternum broad and flat, the margin pale 

 ochreous. Legs brownish-yellow ; tarsi; end of the 2nd joint and 

 the claws black. 



Abdomen beneath, finely punctured and haired, piceous-brown, apex 

 brownish-yellow. 



Length, nearly 2 lines. 



Bare. A few examples taken by Mr. Dale at Langport, Somerset, 

 in June ; and by Dr. Power on the railway bank, Bushey, Herts, in 

 May. 



