144 [June, li<13. 



seem to have been ever found previously in these islands, though it is 

 no rarity on the Continent, occui-ring ^ass?m— always on juniper — 

 from Scandinavia to North Italy. 



The British species of LojJiyrus known to me by autopsy are the 

 same as those recorded by Cameron, but certain changes in his nomen- 

 clature seem to be required. I have very little British " material" for 

 dealing with this genus, which is much better represented in Scotland 

 and the North than in my own neighbourhood (Surrey), where I have 

 never met with any species except jrini. I venture, how^ever, to oifer 

 the following table for determination of the British species. The 

 characters based on the number of pectinated joints in the ^ antenna 

 are given with some hesitation, for such multi-articulate structures 

 are notoriously liable to vary. Still they hold in the specimens which 

 I have examined, and I cannot at present find any more reliable 

 characters to substitute for them. 



All species of this gro\;p seem to be attached to conifers, and any 

 European species is quite likely to occur in this country wherever its 

 food-plant is abundant. 



TABLE OF BEITISH LOPHYRUS, spp. 



1. Humeral ai-ea in hind wing (see Fig. 5 in Ent. Mo. Mag., 1903, p. 52) with 



long appendiculation ; i.e., its apex is separated from the end of the ' areal 

 nerve' by a distance approximately Uvice as great as the breadth of the 

 cell itself ! Piinctviratiou of thorax (especially scutellum) comparatively 

 strong and close 2. 



— The appendiculation is short ; i.e., its length is about equal to the breadth 



of the humeral cell. Thorax almost impunctate or, if punctiu-ed, only 

 sparsely so 9. 



2. S S with antennaj conspiciiously ^ecHnaied on both sides G. 



— 9 ? with antenna} strongly serrafetZ, but scarcely pectinated 3. 



3. Hind tibia with a paradoxically flattened dilated and leaf -like calcar ...4. 



— Calcaria of normal form (spine-like) 5. 



4. Face with a broad black transverse band reaching from eye to eye and 



including the ocelli (but not the clypeus gente or tempora.) Ground 

 colour of insect olivaceous-green with black markings. Breast largely 

 black virens, Kl., 9 • 



— Face and breast pale pallidus, Kl., ?. 



(= dorsatus, C, nee. F.) 



5. Length seldom less than 10 mm. Body dull yellow, with more or less of its 



upper surface especially (vertex — biit not as a rule the tempora — most of 

 the mesonotum, the scutellum generally, and four intermediate dorsal 

 segments of the abdomen, etc.) conspicuously infuscated with black. 

 Abdomen broadly oval, usually evidently wider than the thorax. Hind 

 femora and apex of hind tibiaj black within pini, L., ? . 



