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coloured lower margin ; or bluish-violet, underneath w ith three green 

 bands bordered w ith red " ; the e}'es of the female are green, with 

 from three to four purple bands. The abdomen of the female is 

 rather broad. " 



Of this species there are no modern British specimens in the 

 IMuseum collection. Colonel Yerbury writes that it is " very rare," 

 and that he has met with it " only at Fordingbridge, Hants, and 

 Barmouth, North Wales." According to Brauer (Joe. cit., p. 138), 

 Mr. Verrall has taken it at Lyndhurst, New Forest, Hants, in June. 

 The Continental series of 77/. iiiicans in the possession of the Museum 

 includes specimens from Riienish Prussia and Bohemia. 



Therioplectes borealis, {Mg.pro parie) \jrzu(tr. 



The only British specimen of this mountain species in the Museum 

 collection is a male from Glen Avon, S. Banffshire, N.B., June 8th, 

 1893 (]]'. R. Ogilvie Grant), of which the dimensions are — length, 

 15 mm.; width of head, 5 mm.; wing expanse, 2J\ mm. The 

 general coloration of the insect is brown, with a chestnut-coloured 

 patch on each side of the second and third abdominal segments ; the 

 hind margin of the first segment is also of the same colour on each 

 side, and there is just a trace of a similar patch on each side of the 

 fourth segment. The eyes of this male are densely clothed with light 

 yellowish-brown hair, and the facets on the upper tuo-thirds of each 

 eye, e.xcept the hind margin, are conspicuously larger than those 

 below, the change from the large to the small facets being somewhat 

 abrupt. 



According to Brauer {loc. cit., pp. 143, 144;, in the living insect the 

 eyes of the male are "green, with one or two purple bands," while 

 those of the female are described as " green, with three broad 

 purple bands, sometimes very dark." Brauer states that the front 

 (/.('., the space between the eyes) in the female is " very broad and 

 short, at the most from two and a-half to three times iiigher than 

 broad." 



Of Continental specimens of this species the Museum possesses 

 a male from Alten, Finmark, July, 1903 (5/> G. F. Haiiipson, Bt.) ; 



