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Head narrow, widest behind the eyes ; Crown with a subtrian- 

 gular black mark, narrowest behind, reaching from the face to the 

 ocelli, dividing into 2 lines just before them ; base of the anten- 

 niferous processes and the sides behind the eyes black ; Face ; 

 central lobe black at the sides. Antennae yellow-brown, 3rd joint at 

 the apex, and the 4th and 5th entirely, piceous or black. Eyes 

 black. Ocelli red-brown. Rostrum yellow-brown; 2nd joint with a 

 black line above. 



Thorax. Pronotum gradually widened throughout, yellow-brown, 

 the centre with a black longitudinal line, wide in the middle, very 

 narrow posteriorly, and sometimes not extending over the anterior 

 annulus ; in the transverse depression of the disk a fine impressed 

 line, sometimes black, sometimes uncoloured, leaves the central line 

 almost at a right angle, and curving round, encloses a considerable 

 space ; hinder angles and an indistinct, short, pale line on each side 

 of the central black line, ochreous ; anterior margin and sides of the 

 annulus sometimes black. Elytra, when developed, not so long, or 

 a little longer, than the abdomen ; Corium very long ; nerves pale, 

 the 1st with a black spot beyond the middle, and another smaller 

 one just beyond it, close to the membrane-suture: membrane-suture 

 with a black spot near the apex ; Membrane short (sometimes but 

 partially developed), ochreous or fuscous, with darker nerves ; the 

 central cells extend nearly to the posterior margin. Sternum black, 

 round the 1st pair of coxae whitish ; sides with a broad yellow stripe. 

 Legs ochreous, with very short whitish hairs ; thighs with brown 

 spots in longitudinal rows; tibia; the dentation of the 1st and 2nd 

 pairs beneath black ; tarsi yellow-brown ; end of the last joint, and 

 the claws, black. 



Abdomen above, black, or suffused with red ; Connexivum carmine 

 at the base, yellowish above : underside black, with very short, 

 appressed, whitish hairs ; on each side of the middle a broad, longi- 

 tudinal, red stripe. Genital segments reddish or yellowish. 



Length, 3^- lines. 



Common among heather, in autumn. 



