and fields and fly swifdy : there are only 2 species inhabitants 

 of England, although from the sexes being so very dissimilar 

 in one, and the body of the male varying greatly in the num- 

 ber of the spots, they have been described by Fabricius and 

 others under a variety of names, as 



1. S. 4-guttata Fab. Spec. Ins. — 6-guttata Fah. Ent. Syst. var. 



— 6-punctata Fab. Sj/st. Picz. — 10-guttata Jwr. j?/. 9.f. 13. 



— 4-punctataP«?i2;. 87.20.; Males. — S-punctataivz^;. Spec. 



Ins. — Pacca Fab. Mant. Ins. — 5-guttata Don. 13. 438.; 



females. — punctata Khig. Mon. tab. l.Jig. 4, 5, 6. — Panz. 



100. 17? of this reference I am doubtful, and there are 



too many joints in the antennae. 

 Male black ; antennae with a ^e\v of the central joints fer- 

 ruginous beneath ; clypeus and a stripe on the anterior tibiae 

 white; 3rd and 4th, and sometimes the 2nd and 5th segments 

 of the abdomen with a white spot on each side, with similar 

 spots occasionally on the underside. Female often having 3 

 white dots on the head, and one on each shoulder, 2nd and 

 3rd segments of abdomen rufous, 4th and 5th with a white 

 spot on each side, 6th with one at the apex. 



I never saw so many of this insect as on the 11th of June, 

 at Ambleside, in company with Mr. Dale, when the females 

 were flying about the stone walls in plenty; but the males were 

 comparatively rare, and were settling on the ground at the 

 base of the walls: I have found this sex also at the back of 

 the Isle of Wight; Mr. Donovan took it at Faversham in 

 Kent; Mr. Walker at Southgate in July; and Capt. Blomer 

 in the New-forest. 



2. S. clavicornis Linn. Faun. Succ. n. 1686. — Curt. Brit. Ent. 



pi. 532 (J. — prisma Fab. — Klug. tab. I.f. 7 and 8. — cra- 

 broniformis Panz. 47. 22 ? . 



iS/Lale black, very thickly punctured and pubescent, antenna? 

 long and clubbed, underside, excepting the 3 basal and 2 apical 

 joints, ochreous; clypeus, a dot on each shoulder, a dot at the 

 apex, 2 spots on the 2nd segment and an interrupted band 

 on the 3rd and 4th, yellow, a stripe on the outside of the an- 

 terior, and a spot at the base of the other tibiae of the same 

 colour. Female with the clypeus black, 2 yellow dots between 

 the antennae, which are clavate only, and the apical joint alone 

 ferruginous beneath and at the tip : wings dusky ; abdomen 

 similar to the male, but with 4 yellow spots beneath. 



I am happy in being able to restore Linnasus's name to this 

 species, the specimen contained in his cabinet being a male, 

 with a label of his own writing. 



Females were observed bv Mr. G. Newman in the autumn, 

 in considerable numbers, settling on the leaves of a Morella 

 cherry-tree in a garden near Leominster, and also by Dr. 

 Howitt near Nottingham : for the loan of the male I am in- 

 debted to Mr. Shuckard, who has also obligingly added the 

 other sex to my Cabinet. 



The Plant is Hicracium Pilosclla (Mouse-ear Hawk-weed). 



