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The names of species in the above Table all agree with those 

 used by Mr. Cameron in the " Monograph " except ccerulescens, Geoffr., 

 which is \\m graciliaornis (= ci/anclla), Klug. 



In his Plate I, Vol. iii, however, several of the Figures seem to 

 be wrongly numbered. Thus Fig. 9 (not 10) certainly represents 

 ntrata ; and, to judge froQi the neuration, Fig. G (not 7) must be his 

 gracilicornis {= ccerulescens) , and Fig 7 (not 6) enodis, but the 3rd 

 cubital n. in the latter is hardly curved enough, and the wings in this 

 species are generally lighter (not darker) than in ccerulescens and 

 cceruleipennis. His Fig. 8 seems to be, as he calls it, usfulnta ; but 

 all the specimens I have seen, both British and foreign, are greener, 

 and have far paler legs. Fig. 10 cannot possibly be afrata ; but what 

 it is T know not, unless it be a ciJinris with abnormally dark wings 

 and hind tibia). (My own specimens of ciliaris are all foreigners). 

 Fig. 1, pagana, does not represent the tijpical form of that species, 

 but apparently the variety stephensii (to which, I may say, all the 

 British specimens of pagana as yet seen by me belong). 



T am afraid I can say nothing worth saying as to their distribution 

 in this country, except that cj/anocrocea is certainly far the commonest 

 species — more common than all the rest together! It is especially 

 partial to umbellifers. I have seen very few British examples of 

 fuscipes or atrata, and none, to my recollection, of cceruleipennis, 

 melanochroa (though C. calls it " common in the South of England "), 

 or the typical form oipagana, though I have several British specimens 

 of its var. stephensii. 



Schizoceros, as Konow writes it (= Schizocera, C, = Oi/pJiona, 

 Thorns.) is closely related to Arge. To the characters given for 

 distinguishing them in my Generic Table it may be added that in 

 Schizoceros the hind tibiae are not spined as in the other genus. Two 

 species ai-e recorded as British and these are separable at a glaace, 

 fwcafns, Vill., being larger and with the abdomen orange-red, while 

 in geminatus, Gir., it is black like the head and thorax. I have only 

 foreign specimens of furcatus ; but of fjeminatus I have a British ^ 

 taken by Col. Yerbury, and labelled " Cusop. 2, vi, 1902," and a ? 

 from the collection of Dr. Capron. In the Cameron collection at 

 South Kensington there is only one Schizoceros, which stands to 

 represent furcatus, but evidently belongs to the other species. 

 Stephens says he has " seen " specimens of furcatus only from 

 " Somersetshire, near Bristol." In his collection there are a few 

 specimens without mark of locality. (Qwm/— Does it now occur in 

 Britain ?). 



