﻿These curious and elegant little insects are remarkable for 

 their slender and long legs, especially the hinder pair, and 

 for their clubbed and bent antennae, which, when alive, they 

 carry something like ants, as represented at fig. 4. 



Our insect, from its head being less elongated than in the 

 other species, its elytra having fewer nervures, the ample 

 under wings, and the intermediate joints of the antennae being 

 of equal length, will form a 2nd division of the genus Neides, 

 which name is restored because Latreille employed it in his 

 characters published before Fabricius's Sijstcma llhijtigotoriim 

 appeared. 



We can now enumerate 3 species : 



1. N. tipularius Zm«., WoIJf. tab. 20. f. 198. Inhabiting 



grassy places in June and August. 



2. clavipes Fab. Inhabiting grassy places : not un- 



common in Norfolk. 



3. elcgans Xob. Of this pretty insect, which appears 



to be perfectly new, I found a pair in the North 

 Foreland meadow, Dover, on the 14th August last. 

 The male, which sex is figured, is a little smaller 

 than the female, but varies from it in no other re- 

 spect : the scutellum, perhaps, may not be quite 

 correctly represented, tlie pin having passed through 

 both of them. 

 A.y)crula cijnanchica (Small Woodroof), from the same 

 neighbourhood as the insect, is figured with it. 



