﻿A. Face broader than long : clypeus oblong : 

 ovipositor recurved. 



1 . lanio Linn. — viridis Don. v. 2. pi. 54. f. 3. Green, head, thorax 



and scutel fernit^inous : 3 to 3^ lines long in repose. 

 July and August, grassy places, everywhere. 



B. ISIacropsis Lt'Tc. — Face not broader than long; clypeus 

 broad ovate, narrowed at the apex : ovipositor nearly straight. 



2. ferrugineus Cwr/. $. Femiginous, variegated with yellow beneath ; 



1 dots on tlic head and 2 on the seutel black, hinder part of thorax and 

 a ])atch on the costa greenish, nervures brown, yellow at the base : 

 2a lines. 



3. flavicollis Linn. — frontalis Curt. ? . Fcrrnginons, crown, thorax, 



scutel and base of elytra greenish-yellow, with the costa and 2 spots 

 on the liitter hyaline ; these are sometimes absent : 2j lines. 



July and August, birch trees, Isle of Bute and Killarney ; 

 alders, Parley Common. 



\. pulchellus Curt. ? . Ferruginous, base of elytra yellow, a hyaline 

 spot on the disc and a larger lunate one towards the apex : 24 lines. 

 Beginning of July, birch trees near Killarney. 



5. fenestratUS Curt. Piceous, face yello-^-, with 2 oblique black spots, 



and 4 dots on the crown ; thorax grey with a ferruginous spot behind 

 the eyes, and one or two black dots ; scutel subferrugiiious and green : 

 elytra hyaline, the nervures, a spot on the disc, and another on the 

 inner margin brown : legs ochreous striped with black : 2', lines. 

 Birch-trees, June, Coomb Wood, New Forest and Clifton; 

 July, Scotland, all males; August, Bute and Arran, all fe- 

 males. 



6. reticulatus Curt. B. E.\)\.63C). c?. Piceous, face yellow with 



2 longitudinal black stripes and 1 dots on the crown, which is grey as 

 well as the tliorax ; this has three black spots on the anterior margin 

 and a black dot on each side : scutel black witli 4 yellow spots, bixsc of 

 abdomen with 2 orange spots, the apexbl,:ck, with 2 yellow rings : elytra 

 hyaline ; the nervures, a spot on the disc and another on the inferior 

 margin brown : legs ochreous striped with black, tips of tarsi black ; 

 2k lines. Sometimes the face and legs are nmch blacker and the spots 

 on the crown luiited. 



I took a pair in Perthshire in July. 



7. personatUS Curt. Greenish-ochre, face ochreous, ocelli placed at 



the middle; head and thorax trigonate in front, the former a little 

 raised; pectus and upper side of abdomen spotted with black : 2^ lines. 



S. virescens Z/rtL\ — Fab. ? «• Yellowish-green ; superior wings semi- 

 coriaceous, subhyaline, the nervures towards the aj)ex whitish-green ; 

 inferior wings hyaline with white nervures; apex of the outer sheaths 

 of tiie ovipositor orange ; the ovipositor castaneous : 2^ lines." Trans. 

 Kilt. Soc. 1. 50. 



Willows, Battersea, and Coombe, July and August. 



For the beautiful Plant, Polcvumium arrulcuni, Jacob's 

 Ladder, I am indebteil to Mr. Walton, who gatliered them 

 at Arnclill' in Yt)rk6hirc. 



