256 TINGIDINA. 



TINGIS PILICORNIS, H. Self. Panz. F. G. 118, 17 (1830). 

 PIESMA MARGINATUM, Burnt. Handb. ii, 258, 3 (1835). 

 DICTYONOTA PILICORNIS, H. Schf. Waiiz. iv, 74, t. 129, fig. 401 (1839). 

 TINGIS (DEKEFHYSIA) PILICORNIS, Kolen. Mel. Ent. vi, 14, 215 (1857). 



Black ; the hood, margins of pronotum, elytra, and their margins, 

 pale gray-ochreous with brown reticulations ; the hairs of the 

 antennae long, projecting ; the side margins of the pronotum in 

 front straight,projecting, and with 3 or 4 rows of meshes. 



Head finely granulated; the 2 frontal spines long, thick, con- 

 tiguous but separate ; antenniferous processes thick, crooked, point- 

 ing outwards. Antenna, 1st and 2nd joints smooth ; 3rd and 4th 

 densely clothed with projecting hairs, which are very thick at the 

 base. Eyes black. Underside of head black-brown, with deep reticu- 

 lations which are larger on the whitish sides of the rostral channel. 

 Rostrum brown. 



Thorax. Pronotum ; hood obtusely pointed ; side margins wider 

 in front than behind, in front straight, projecting forward, at the 

 sides broadly rounded to behind the hinder angles, anteriorly with 3 

 or 4, posteriorly with 2, rows of large irregular meshes ; disk in the 

 middle black, punctured, the rest pale gray-ochreous ; the edge of 

 the keels brown. Elytra ; anterior margin rounded, broad, much 

 reflexed, with 2 rows of meshes, the inner one rather the larger ; 

 the meshes of the disk of nearly equal size throughout. Sternum 

 with large deep punctures, the edge of the rostral channel brown. 

 Legs ; thighs piceous ; tibia, tarsi and claws brown, the last joint of 

 the tarsi piceous at the apex. 



Abdomen black, delicately, transversely crenate. 



Length, 1-J line. 



Among grass and moss in dry, sandy places ; Eltham and Plum- 

 stead, July to September; under a stone near Bognor, Sussex, 

 August (Curtis). 



Species 2. DICTYONOTA STRICHNOCERA. 



DICTYONOTA ERYNGII, Curt. B. E. iv, p. 154 (1827), non Latr. 



CRASSICORNIS, H. Schf. Wanz. iv, 74, t. 129, fig. B, head 



(1839), non Fall. 



STRICHNOCERA, Fieb. Ent. Mon. 95, 3, t. 8, figs. 47 (1844) ; 

 Europ. Hem. 127, 6 (1861). 



