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middle of the disk punctured, the scutellar process with rather 

 small meshes. Elytra broad, oval, convex, the base wider than the 

 pronotum at its hinder angles ; anterior margin rounded at the base, 

 broad, regularly rounded, but a little narrower in the middle, deeply 

 reflexed throughout, with 2 rows of large irregular transparent 

 meshes, sometimes dark brown at the middle ; inner margins straight, 

 not overlapping, rounded off and divergent at the apex ; disk with 

 large, subequal meshes throughout ; cells extending ths of the 

 length of the elytra, concave, with 3 4 rows of meshes ; nerves 

 strong, raised, the outer one sinuate, the inner one straight, the 

 apical nerve very short, pointing inwards ; outside the cells 3 or 4 

 rows of meshes. Sternum brown, the margins of the segments and 

 the sides of the rostral channel yellowish. Legs yellowish-brown. 



Abdomen beneath brown. 



Length, 1 1 line. 



Bather scarce and local. In moss, on a bank under bushes, 

 Coombe Hurst, Croydoii, May. 



Species 3. ORTHOSTIRA OBSCURA. 



MONANTUIA PUSILLA, Burm. Handb. ii, 262, 8 (1835) (non Fall}. 



OBSCURA, H. Schf. Wanz. iv, 23, 1. 118, fig. 372 (1839). 

 ORTHOSTEIRA Fieb. Ent. Mon. 54, 7, t. 4, figs. 2225 (1844) ; 



Sahib. Geoc. Fen. 130, 4 (1848). 

 OETHOSTIRA Fieb. Europ. Hem. 131, 7 (1861). 



Black-brown, ovate ; side margins of ihe pronotum pale brown, with 

 darker reticulations ; in front with 2 rows, posteriorly with 1 

 row of meshes. (Exceptionally there are 3 rows in the front.) 



Developed Form. Head black, finely punctured; the 2 frontal 

 spines brown, short, obtuse, straight ; Jantenniferous spines small, 

 obtuse. Antennae; 1st 3 joints light yellowish-brown, the 1st some- 

 times darker ; 3rd filiform, at the base abruptly swelled into a bulb 

 as thick as the 2nd; 4th short-fusiform, black. Eyes red-brown. 

 'Rostrum piceous, 1st joint luteous; sides of the rostral channel 

 luteous. 



Thorax. Pronotvm ; hood whitish-brown, projecting far over the 

 head, in the middle a keel, on each side 2 rows of large, deep reti- 

 culation, the base prolonged narrowly on the anterior margin of the 

 pronotum : sides rounded at the anterior angles, side margins pale 



