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apice tardsqne niyris ; Mm. alls versus apicem antice iufuscatis, aliiUs 

 pallido-ciliatis. — Var. palUpes, Mq. — actcem, Hal. FlriJi-cyanem, alis 

 immaculatis. Long. 2 ; alar. 4 lin. 



Bark brassy-f/reeii. Front bhiish-green, with a faint hoary shade. 

 Face silvery-white in male, dull white iu female. Antennce black, with 

 cm ochre-brmon dot benmtlt at the tip of the first joint. Wings dark 

 hyaline ; in the male clouded with brown along the fore edge iu the 

 outer half. Fringe of alidce pale in male. Lamelte dingy white, trun- 

 cated at the end, not jagged and scarcely ciliated, with a very narrow 

 dusky edge ; forceps prominent, with broad, foliaceous, curved, obtuse 

 arms. Le(js yellow ; fore coxce yellow, usually with a grey spot at the 

 base, in the male glossed with white ; hind femora with a dusky spot at 

 tip ; tip of hind tibia and the lard black, anterior metatarsi yellowish, 

 tijiped with black. The variety is usually smaller ; dark bluish-(jreen ; 

 wings immaculate ; legs paler yellow, fore coxse immaculate. 



Common on the sea-coast. (E. S. I.) 



29. clavipes, Hal. z. j. v. 365. 23 (1831). — vitripennis, Stg. — 

 trochauteratns, Ztt. — Foem. fuscipes, Hal. Obscure aneiis, hypostomate 

 candido, antennis nigris basi siibtus hdescentibus, pedibus fascis, trochan- 

 teribus tibiisque fiavidis, tibiis posticis apice niyris ; Mas. tibiis posticis 

 incrassatis, femoribus posticis pallido-ciliatis. Long. If; alar. 3|^ liu. 



Dull brassy-brown ; front sometimes greenish. Face silvery-white. 

 Antenn(B black ; lotoer edge of the first joint ochre-brown, more largely 

 at the tip. Wings hyaline, darker in the female ; black costal swelling 

 in male reduced almost to a dot. Coxce and femora dusky ; the tip of 

 fore coxEc, and a line down the middle of the hind femora, sometimes 

 paler; trochanters, tibice, and anterior metatarsi pale ochre, tip of the 

 latter and of the hind tibice, and the rest of tlie tarsi black. In the male, 

 the hind tibice are thick, especially about the middle, with a denuded 

 and slightly impressed streak behind, the black extending over more 

 than half their length ; the hind femora fringed with pale bristles. 



Not rare on the sea-coast. (E. S. I.) 



30. punctum, Mg. zw. iv. 85. 19 (lS2-i); Stn. ; lit.— signifer, 

 Hal. Chalybeus, hypostomate candido, antennis nigris puncto infero 

 lutescente, pedibns fitscis trochanteribus genubus tibiisciue fiacidis, tibiis 

 posticis apice nigris, alis hyalinis macula apicali nigricante, femoribus 

 posticis nicjro-ciliatis, Mas. Long. \\; alar. 3^ lin. 



Steel-blue, or brassy-green. Face silvery-wliite. Antenna black, 

 with a tawny yellow spot beneath at the tip of the third joint. Wings 

 hyaline ivith a blackish spot occupying the tip, the costal swelling scai'cely 

 marked. Coxce and fore femora dusky, the latter yellowish at the tip ; 

 posterior femora tawny yellow, with the upper edge almost entirely, the 

 lower at the base, dusky ; hind femora fringed with long blackish hairs ; 

 trfjchanters, tibice, and anterior metatarsi, tawny yellow ; the tip of the 



