264 TiNGIDINA. 



brown, in front widest, projecting forwards, gradually narrower pos- 

 teriorly ; outer edge straight, but curved round the hinder angles, 

 with 2 rows of subquadrate meshes, of which the inner ones are 

 smallest, beyond the middle with a single row ; disk, in the middle 

 transversely convex, and deflected before and behind ; as far as in a 

 line with the hinder angles, black, finely punctured ; the scutellar 

 process light brown, with gradually larger reticulations, the apex 

 rounded ; keels 3, light brown, low, straight, the middle one longest 

 and deepest, the side keels divergent, their base joining the hood 

 on the middle of each side, each keel with 7 transverse brown 

 nerves, leaving 8 quadrate, transparent cells. Elytra ; within the 

 anterior margin, sinuate beyond the middle, round the circumference 

 regularly long- oval, broad posteriorly ; anterior margin reflexed, 

 with a single row of meshes, small to the middle, larger beyond, 

 where the margin itself becomes wider ; disk, the large cells broad, 

 short, slightly concave, lanceolate, the outer side sinuate ; cell-nerves 

 prominent, the exterior apical nerve long, but not reaching the pos- 

 terior margin ; the reticulation in the cells in 5 rows of equal sized 

 meshes ; outside the cells deflected to the anterior margin, the reti- 

 culation rather smaller and less distinct, in about 4 rows ; posterior 

 to the cells the reticulation gradually larger. Sternum brown, finely 

 punctured, the margins of the segments and sides of the rostral 

 channel whitish ; Legs ; tldglis black, the apex red-brown, con- 

 stricted; tibiae yellow-brown; tarsi; 1st joint yellow-brown, 2nd 

 black. 



Abdomen beneath shining, dark brown. 



Length, 1 line. 



Undeveloped Form. The reticulation of the side margins of the 

 pronotum in 2 rows throughout, ending in a single mesh at the 

 hinder angles. The elytra are shorter and rounder than in the 

 developed form ; the sides, within the margin, not sinuate ; the 

 anterior margins reflexed to the apex, exteriorly rounded, not 

 sinuate ; the inner margins straight, not overlapping each other ; 

 the outer cell-nerve more nearly straight, and the apical nerve 

 goes nearly to the apex of the elytra. 



Length, -| line. 



In both developed and undeveloped forms, the is shorter and 

 narrower than the $ , and the apex of the elytra more acute. 



Common in the south of England, in moss on the ground, on 

 walls and tree-stumps, in spring, autumn, and winter ; Killarney, 

 Ireland (Wollaston). 



