SIGARIDJE. 61.5 



Above brown, unicolorous. Pronotum almost 4 times as broad as 

 long, with a very short, longitudinal keel in front. Elytra 

 without transverse lines ; Membrane and Wings wanting. 



Head yellow ; Crown ; hinder margin narrowly black ; the longi- 

 tudinal depression on each side of the raised middle punctured ; 

 Face yellowish-white ; Eyes black. 



Thorax. Pronotum yellowish-brown ; posterior margin piceous. 

 Elytra a little longer than the abdomen, apex spatulate Clavus ; 

 inner margin narrowly yellowish ; suture narrowly black nearly 

 throughout its entire length ; disk very pale brownish-yellow ; apex 

 rather broadly brownish ; Cerium brownish, with a longitudinal 

 streak before the inner edge of the anterior marginal channel, another 

 down the centre, and the anterior margin of the claval suture very 

 narrowly pale brownish-yellow ; anterior marginal channel yellowish- 

 white, exteriorly and interiorly narrowly pitchy black ; posterior 

 margin broadly pale brownish-yellow, divided by a brownish streak, 

 extending from the apex of the clavus almost to the apex of the 

 elytra, where it is somewhat widest ; apex brown ; Membrane and 

 Wings wanting. Sternum: Mesosternum; centre sometimes nar- 

 rowly blackish ; xyphus yellowish- white. Legs yellow ; tibiae and 

 tarsi of the 2nd pair at the apex black ; tarsi of the 3rd generally 

 broadly brownish, black down the centre ; cilia brown. 



Abdomen; underside of the black; Connescimm yellow; 

 underside of the ? yellow. 



Length, 1^ line. 



Not rare in the Cambridge Fens (#. It. Crotch) ; occasional near 

 London. 



FAMILY 2. SIGARHLE. 



Genus 1, SIGARA, Fab. 



Elliptic, slightly convex, shining, 



Head transverse, not wider than the pronotum, short, triangular, 

 front convex, sides subangular ; seen from above (including the eyes) 

 obtuse triangular ; Face in the same curve with the Crown, not 

 visibly separated. Antennce very short, 3-jointed ; 1st and 2nd joints 

 cylindrical, stout, subequal ; 3rd longest, oval, concave. Eyes 



