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Species 7. MONANTHIA CARDUI. 



CIMEX CARDUI, Lin. F. S. 920 (1761) ; S. N. ii, 718, 21 (1767) ; De G. 



Mem. iii, 309, 38, t. 16, figs. 16 (1773). 

 ACANTHIA Fab. E. S. iv, 77, 42 (1794); Wolff, Ic. Cira. 45, 42, t. 5, 



fig. 62 (1800). 



CLAVICORNIS, Panz. E. G. 3, 24. 



TINGIS CAKDUJ, Fab. S. K. 125, 3 (1803) ; Fall. Hem. Suec. 1, 143, 2 

 (1829); Zett. Ins. Lap. 269, 2 (1840). 



MONANTHIA H. Schf. Wanz. iv, 61, t. 127, fig. A (1839) ; Burm. 

 Handb. ii, 260, 2 (1835); Am. et Serv. Hem. 298, 2 

 (1843) ; Fieb. Ent. Mon. 61, 3, t. 5. figs. 18 (1844) ; 

 Sahib. Geoc. Fen. 131, 1 (1845) ; Fieb. Europ. Hem. 

 120, 4 (1861). 



(PHYLLONTOCHEILA) CARDUI, Flor, Rhyn.Liv. i, 345,7 (1860). 



Ochreous-gray, with small black spots ; the projecting side margins 

 of the pronotum and the anterior margin of the elytra with 3 

 rows of reticulation. 



Head black with gray scales, between the eyes two small, short, 

 grayish contiguous erect spines, and behind them another still 

 smaller. Antenna finely granulated and pubescent ; 1st and 2nd 

 joints black or piceous, or only at the apex piceous or yellowish ; 

 3rd yellow or brown ; 4th black. Eyes black. Bostrum reaching 

 to the 2nd pair of coxae, black. 



Thorax. Pronotum ; the hood slightly overhanging the head ; 

 side margins broad, reflexed, of equal width throughout, except that 

 at the hinder angles they are broadly rounded off; with 3 rows of 

 large meshes, of which some of the posterior ones are black ; the 

 keels reticulated, of equal depth throughout, each with some of the 

 apical meshes, and the central one with 2 of the central meshes 

 black ; the base of the keels and side margins usually with a black 

 line ; the reticulation fine on the front and disk, larger posteriorly. 

 Elytra ; anterior margin broad, reflexed, with 3 rows of large meshes, 

 of which, in the middle, a few are smaller and black, and the black- 

 ness often extends inwards as far as the first nerve of the elytron ; 

 through the marginal network at regular intervals is also a series of 

 black transverse streaks; disk flat, outside the cell vertical; the 

 outer marginal nerve of the large cell with 2 or 3 black streaks and 

 a similar streak at the apex of the cell ; the reticulation gradually 



