﻿When the Guide was printed I considered this group to be 

 the type of Lyg;i,-u.s, but us another insect is <riven to represent 

 Lvf^o-'us by the Continental authors (vide fol. 481.) I liave here 

 adopted Hahn's generic name. There are 3 British species. 

 1. Tliynii IVulJJ', tab. 15. f. 143.— conica Gmd. ? 



Blackish, coarsely punctured ; head and thorax with a ^e.^ 

 whiiish-ochreous spots, one on the anterior margin of 

 the thorax, with the hinder angles anil a spot on the base 

 of the same colour: elytra nearly white, basal portion with 



2 lines of black dots on the nervures with the edge of the 

 costaand the oblique margin black, the apical portion with 

 4 or 5 clouded strijies : antenn;i? pale brown, basal joint 

 dark: legs dull ochreous, thighs, excepting the tips, black, 

 base and apex of til)i;o, as well as the apex of the basal 

 joint of the tarsi, and the whole of the apical one blackish : 

 length, c^l^,, ? 2:1: lines. 



I have found many pairs of this pretty species in May under 

 stones in the Isle of Portland, and in June running quickly 

 over the sand-hills near Lowestoft: I also took a specimen in 

 the Isle of Arran. It is said by Wolllto be attached to Thy- 

 mus Scrpyllum (pi. 581). 



2. laticeps Ctirt. Brit. Ent. pi. 597. 



As Fabricius has a Lygcciis lineola I have been obliged to 

 change the name ; and as the head is broader than in the other 

 species, I have called it laticeps. I took a specimen under a 

 stone at Black-gang Chine the 4th of August, and I believe 

 Mr. Dale has met with it. 



3. Urticae Fab. 



Greenish-black, rather coarsely punctured and hairy: la- 

 brum, a dot at the base of the head, margin of thorax and 



3 short lines at the base dirty ochre; tip of scutellum and 

 elytra of the same colour, the latter punctured with black 

 and spotted with the same, except at the base, apical por- 

 tion with a single black dot in the centre ; margin of ab- 

 domen spotted with ochre : antenna) sometimes reildish- 

 brown, basal joint black, trochanters and knees ochreous, 

 tibia? and tarsi of the same colour, spotted with black : 

 length, (^2^, ? 3^ lines. 



Common in most places on nettles in the spring. 



Specimens of the Arbutus Uncdo (Common Strawberry- 

 tree) I gathered in fruit on the rocks round the lakes of Kil- 

 larney and (jlengarill" in July: the outline of a flower is given 

 from a garden specimen. 



