﻿name of D. saccharivora is very destructive to the sunrar-cane 

 in the West Indies. The l"ollo\vin<r are Britislj examples of 

 the genus, and most of them frequent the borders of rivers and 

 brooks, 



1. longipennis Curt. Brit. Ent. pi. 657 S • '■ 

 Tliis fine species was discovered by Mr. Dale amongst sedges 



and bushes in a copse at JGlanville's Wootton, called Broad- 

 Alders, the 15th Sept. 1836; it was nimble and leaped well. 



2. m'xnxxia Fab. — lineola Germ. — A/ir. 17. 19. 

 September, upon reeds on the cliff by Black-gang-chine, 



J. C. ; on sedges, Glanville's Wootton and Weston-on-the- 

 green, Mr. Dale. 



3. marginata Zv/6.— minuta Coq. pi. 2\.f. 4. 



Middle of June, Coomb Wood, and on rushes by the side 

 of a river near Slaughter, Oxfordshire, J. C. 



4. striata Fab. Ent. Si/st. 4. 7. 24. 



5. suturalis Curt. Ochreous, face with 3 yellow ridges, central 

 one furcate on the crown, wings hyaline, superior widi the 

 inner margin fuscous, apical nervures brown : expanse 3^ 

 lines. 



I took a female at Dover in July 1826. 



6. limbata Fab. Ent. Sjjst. 4. 6. 21. 



Mr. Dale took a specimen near Barnstaple, Devon. 



7. pictipennis Curt. — anceps Gcnn.'i 



Ochreous, variegated with brown, especially the scutel and 

 abdomen ; elytra pale yellowish with a large brown lunule 

 at the apex, a yellowish-brown suffused fiU.cia across the 

 disc terminating on the inner margin in a brown strips ; 

 apical nervures brown, the others doited with black ; legs 

 variegated with brown : 3^ lines. 



Glanville's Wootton and Middlemarsh \\'oods, Dorset, 

 Mr. Dale. 



8. flavescens Fab. ? Etit. Syst. 4. 7. 23. 



9. pellucida Fab. 21st of May on Marrams, Tollsbury. 



10. guttula Germ. Mag. v. 3. p. 216. 7i. 7. Ochreous, with a 

 large black spot on each side of the face, crown of head, 

 thorax and scutel yellow, sides of the latter brown : wings 

 sublanceolate, hyaline, with a brown longitudinal stripe at 

 the apex : 2'i lines. 



Beginning of August, near Loch Fad in the Isle of Bute, 

 and off sedges, Gl. Wootton, Mr. Dale. 



1 1. stigmaticalis Lnci's. Ochreous, sides of thorax, sculcl and 

 abdomen brown: wings hyaline, nervures brown, the ajiical 

 one forming a piceous edge terminating on tiie stigma, which 

 is vellowish : i lines. 



August, Isle of Arran, J. C. ; and Gl. Wootton, Mr. Dale. 

 The Plant is Colchicum autumuale., Meadow Saffron. 



