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ovipositor ; four anterior legs rather long and slender ; posterior corapara- 

 tively short. 



In this genus the elytra are as long as the abdomen, and in the 

 males are not ocellated, by which character, added to the elongated 

 incurved processes at the apex of the abdomen, and its acuminated 

 forehead, that sex may be recognized, and the female by this last 

 character, combined with the ample wings : one indigenous species 

 only occurs, which frequents trees, and appears in the autumn. 



Sp. 1. varia. Flavescens, thorace viridijlavo-lineato, maculisque duabus nigri- 

 cantibus, elytris viridibus. (Long. corp. $ 7 — 8lin.; 9 ovip. incl. 10 — 12 

 lin.) 



Lo. varia. Fabricius. — Gr. varius. Donovan, v. iii. pi. 79. f. 1. — Ac. varia. 

 Steph. Catal. 301. No. 331i. 



Yellowish, with a greenish tinge ; eyes brownish ; thorax smoothj green, with 

 a yellow dorsal line, and two dusky, or black, spots towards the base, one 

 on each side; elytra green, with a testaceous streak at the base of the 

 suture; legs yellow; tarsi brown. 



Common in the autumn in oaks and lime-trees throughout the 

 metropolitan district, especially about Hertford, and at Coombe 

 wood and Ripley. 



Genus V.— PHASGONURA, Westwood MS. 



Body elongate, stoutish, smooth ; front acuminated between the antennae, 

 the latter longer than the body. With the basal joint very robust and 

 produced within, the second also robust, but much smaller ; the remainder 

 extremely minute, and gradually diminishing in breadth to the apex ; eyes 

 large, prominent ; thorax depressed above and flattened behind, where it 

 bears an abbreviated ridge, the sides rather suddenly deflexed, the hinder 

 margin rounded and produced ; elytra considerably longer than the 

 abdomen, very much deflexed, immaculate, flat at the base of the suture, 

 where in the male is an ocellar process, transparent on the right elytron ; 

 wings ample, narrowish, as long as the elytra ; breast beneath with two 

 spinous processes, and four elongate lobes ; abdomen of the males with four 

 styles at the apex, and of the female with two and an elongate straight 

 acute ovipositor ; legs moderate ; hinder femora with a groove beneath . 

 tibiae spinous, posterior with two distinct rows of minute spines. 



The only indigenous species of this genus may be known by having 

 the vertex acuminated, and at the same time the eyes prominent, the 

 elytra in the male much longer than the body, and ocellated at the 

 base, the abdomen furnished at its apex with four short styles, and 



