DELTOCEPHALUS STRllFRONS. S3 



with yellow transverse lines and a black middle stripe. 

 Legs greenish or yellowish. Hind tibia with a dark 

 inner stripe, the outer edge being furnished with brown 

 setae springing from black spots. Under side yellow, 

 and spotted with black. Elytra greenish or greenish- 

 grey ; almost unspotted, with tips inclining to fuscous- 

 brown. There are often pale white borders to the 

 apical areas. Limbus absent, but the apical border is 

 thickened. 



Not uncommon. My figures are from specimens 

 taken in Norfolk. 



Size, 0-17 inch, or 4*50 millimetres. 



Deltocephalus striifrons, Kbm. Plate XLIX., 

 figs. 2, 2 a. 



Deltocephalus striifrons, Kbm. ; Sahib. 



,, Mulsanti, Fieb., Syn. Eur. Delto. fig. 



44; Scott. 

 ,, longicaput, Scott. 



,, striifrons, Edw. pt. ii. p. 45. 



Oblong, bright yellow above. Head and eyes together 

 rather broader than the pronotum. Vertex with two 

 short, brown, angular marks at the apex, and with a 

 fine medial line. Eyes greyish, but variable in colour. 

 Pronotum and scutellum concolorous. Frons lozenge- 

 shaped and pointed ; bright yellow, with irregular 

 brown stains at the sides, forming, by contrast with 

 the centre, a kind of coarse striation. Brown stains 

 occur on the genge and clypeus. Abdomen yellow 

 above ; last segment brown, with yellow tufts of hair. 

 Legs yellow, banded, and striped with brown. Genital 

 plates yellow, separately rounded at the apex, their 

 inner margins two and a half times as long as the 

 valve. 



Taken on the rest-harrow. Ononis, and on clover, 

 T-rifolium, "on the South coast." Not common. 



Size, 0-14 inch, or 3*75 millimetres. 



