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Section G. — Tingidina. 
Genus 3. — Dicttonota, Cnrf. 
Species 1*. — Dtcttonota Fiebeki (,|)1. 2, fig 2). 
DicTTONOTA FiEBERi, (Fdi'sf.) Fid., Europ. Ilera., 127, 4 (1861). 
Above pale ochreous, without hairs, the reticuhxtion brown, in 
places black. Head black, with four ochreous spines. Antennce ferru- 
ginous, closely covered with darker granules, each ending with an 
extremely fine hair ; 1st and 4th joints black. Fronoticm hrown, side 
margins broad, widened to the front, there broadly rounded, reticulation 
anteriorly in three rows. Le^s ferruginous. Body black, covered with 
a whitish gloss. 
Head — black, finely granulated ; crown and round the eyes whitish ; the two basal 
spines ochreous, the two anterior darker. AntenncB ferruginous, closely 
covered with small, somewhat pointed, darker granules, each ending with an 
extremely fine hair ; 1st and 4th joints black, on the last the granulation very 
small ; sides of the rostral channel ochreous. Eyes black. 
Thorax — Pronotum light brown, anterior angles black ; hood short, prominent, but 
little produced in front ; disc distinctly punctured, apical portion ochreous, 
witli black reticulation ; keels parallel, the middle one deepest, scarcely deeper 
behind than in front, with square meshes ; the outer keels dwarf; side margins 
much reflexed, broad, rounded, widened gradually to the front, where the 
angles are produced and broadly rounded, pale ochreous, reticulation pale 
brown, black in places, on the anterior half in three rows, the meshes of the 
inner one small, of the 2nd largest, irregular, of the outer i-ow sub-quadrate. 
Elytra pale ochreous, reticulation brown, in jalaces black; anterior margin 
with two rows of large meshes, the inner one larger and less regular than the 
outer one. Sternum black, punctured, with a whitish gloss ; posterior margin 
of the segments pale ochreous. Legs ferruginous ; thighs darkest, very finely 
granulated; tarsi, 1st joint ferruginous, 2nd black. 
Abdomen — Beneath, black, punctured, with a whitish gloss. Length 2 lines. 
Proiessor "Westwood has two or three specimens, taken by himself 
many years since (he believes at Coombe Wood) ; and a single specimen 
was taken by Dr. Power at "Weybridge, in August last, by sweeping, 
and is now in his collection. 
Comes next to 2>. crassicornis, Pall., from which it differs in being 
larger and lighter in colour, with longer, more slender and ferruginous 
antennae, the side margins of the pronotum rounded in front, not straight, 
and having three rows only of meshes ; in the reticulation of the anterior 
margin of the elytra being in two rows throughout, and less regular in 
form, &c. 
Note. — Pieber's description of D. Fieberi fits so extremely 
