254 TINGIDINA. 



larger, but flat. Sternum with a rostral channel, widest posteriorly, 

 the sides slightly produced ; Mesosternum convex ; Metasternum 

 depressed in the centre. Legs slender. 



Species 1. DEREPHYSIA EOLIACEA. 



TINGIS FOLIAOEA, Fall. Hem. Suec. 149, 12 (1829) ; H. Schf. Panz. F. G. 

 118, 18; Wanz. iv, 70, 7, t. 129, fig. D (head and 



antenna*), t. 130, figs. M & N (pronotum) (1839). 

 DEREPHYSIA Fieb. Ent. Mon. 99, 1, t. 8, figs. 2327 (1844) ; Sahib. 



Geoc. Fen. 135, 1 (1845) ; Fieb. Europ. Hem. 128, 1 



(1861). 



Brown, or black-brown, shining; reticulation transparent; side 

 margins of pronotum and elytra with 2 rows of large meshes ; 

 disk of pronotum with 3 keels ; apex of scutellar process 

 pointed. 



Head dark brown, finely punctured. Antennas red-brown; 1st 

 and 2nd joints, and end of the 4th dark brown ; 3rd t and 4th 

 closely, finely haired. Eyes black. Rostrum brownish-yellow. 

 Underside somewhat'strongly punctured. 



Thorax. Pronotum; side margins projecting in front, on each 

 side of the head, in an obtuse point, concave on the inner side ; 

 anteriorly with 3, posteriorly with 2 rows of large meshes, ending at 

 the hinder angles with a single mesh ; disk with 3 slightly divergent 

 keels, the middle one much deeper than the side ones, arising on the 

 hood and arched to the apex of the scutellar process, which is 

 pointed, and slightly raised ; the middle of the disk black, finely, 

 deeply punctured ; the scutellar process yellowish, the base brown 

 with fine meshes, posteriorly with a few large meshes. Elytra; 

 anterior margin broadest beyond the middle, with 2 rows of large, 

 irregular meshes, sometimes in the middle with only 1 row ; disk 

 with 2 rows of irregular meshes, the vertical outer side, inner margin, 

 and apex, with a single row of large quadrangular meshes. Sternum 

 brown, the sides sometimes blackish, finely punctured. Legs brown- 

 yellow. 



Abdomen beneath, brown. 



Length, If line. 



Taken casually by sweeping during autumn abundant at Mickle- 

 ham, in August, in ivy growing on palings. 



