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part nearly parallel, with 2 rows of meshes inside ; outside the cell 2 

 rows of meshes smaller than those in the cell ; the inner margin with 

 1 row of gradually larger meshes, beyond the cell 2 rows of large 

 meshes. Legs yellowish-brown. 



Length, 1 line. 



Eare. A single specimen from Mr. "Wollaston's collection, with- 

 out note of its locality. 



Species 2. CAMPYLOSTIRA BRACHY.CERA. 



ORTHOSTEIRA BRACHYCERA, Fieb. Eut. Mon. 43, 2, t. 3, figs. 27 32 



(1844). 

 CAMPYLOSTIRA Fieb. Europ. Hera. 132, 3 (1861). 



Oval, dark brown, wingless. 



Head black or black-brown ; antenniferous processes usually light 

 red-brown. Antennae ; the 1st 3 joints ferruginous, the 3rd scarcely 

 thinner than the 2nd, filiform ; 4th \ as long as the 3rd, delicately 

 haired, basal i ferruginous, apical i- black, base not thicker than the 

 3rd joint. Eyes black. Rostrum yellowish. 



Thorax. Pronotum ; side margins slightly widest in front, pro- 

 jecting a little forwards, the angle rounded ; edge straight, posterior 

 angle prominent but rounded; disk flat, depressed, especially in 

 front, finely punctured throughout ; the keels low, straight, parallel, 

 distant, the middle one highest ; scutellar process short, the sides 

 rounded to the obtuse apex. Elytra not meeting at their inner 

 margins, except at the apex, where they slightly overlap, leaving an 

 elliptic opening through which the abdomen is visible ; anterior 

 margin very narrow, only visible at the base and apex, with 1 row 

 of very small meshes ; disk ridged, being greatly deflected on each 

 side of the outer cell-nerve which is highly raised ; the cell long, 

 narrow, elliptic, pointed at each end, with 2 rows of meshes ; outside 

 of the cell 2 rows of meshes ; between the cell and the inner margin 

 1 row of meshes ; behind the cells 2 rows of larger meshes. Sternum 

 black, with a whitish gloss, finely punctured. Legs yellowish-brown. 



Abdomen beneath brown. 



Length, f 1 line. 



This may possibly prove to be the undeveloped form of C. verna. 



Local. In moss on a sunny slope at Sanderstead, March, plenti- 

 ful ; Mickleham, September. 



