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Genus 3. DICTYONOTA, Curt. 

 Oval, transparently reticulated on the upper surface. 



Head ; from the side half-oval, from above nearly 5-sided; Crown 

 in front with 2, parted, projecting spines ; antenniferous processes 

 pointed; Face vertical. Antenna stout; 1st joint short, cylindrical; 

 2nd shorter, obconic ; 3rd very long, densely clothed with strong 

 hairs ; 4th conical, about as long as the 1st and 2nd together, with 

 finer hairs than the 3rd. Eyes prominent. Rostrum reaching to 

 the end of the metasternum, thin, 4-jointed, the joints in length 

 subequal ; rostral channel deep, narrow, the sides thin, raised and 

 reticulate. 



Thorax. Pronotum subrhomboidal, the fore part shorter than 

 the scutellar process ; anterior portion with a hood, short, rounded, 

 or obtusely pointed in front ; side margins broad, projecting, 

 rounded, transparent, in front joined to the sides of the hood ; disk 

 transversely convex before the hinder angles, deflected in front and 

 behind, and depressed at the base of the scutellar process ; with 3 

 straight, deep, thin, parallel keels, the middle one deeper behind 

 than in front, each with 1 row of large meshes. Elytra broad, 

 oval, longer and wider than the abdomen ; sides posteriorly, within 

 the anterior margin, slightly sinuate ; anterior margin broad, rounded, 

 greatly reflexed ; disk with a lanceolate, deeply concave cell, f the 

 length of the elytra, from its lower end a nerve goes to the apex of 

 each elytron ; the disk outside the cell suddenly deflected, almost 

 vertical. Sternum with a rostral channel, widest and deepest on the 

 metasternum. Legs rather long ; tarsi, 2-jointed.* 



Species 1. DICTYONOTA CRASSICORNIS. 



TINGIS CRASSICORNIS, Fall. Mon. Citn. 38, 8 (1807) ; Hem. Suec. 147, 



10 (1829). 

 DICTYONOTA Curt. B. E. iv, fig. 154 (1827) ; Fieb. Ent. Mon. 



92, 1, t. 7, figs. 4247 (1844) ; Sahib. Geoc. 



Ten. 134, 1 (1845); H. Schf. VYanz. ix, 157 



(1850); Flor, Rhyn.Liv. i, 358, 1 (1860); Fieb. 



Europ. Hem. 127, 3 (1861). 



* Curtis ("B. E.," p. 154) erroneously says that the tarsi are 3-jointed. 



