1900.] 129 



what bulky body appears to be reduced approximately to the size of 

 the body o£ its model, wbicb also has the ventral surface of tbe 

 abdomen coloured white." 



[These notes are from a forthcoming paper by R. Shelford, B.A. 

 (Cantab.), Curator of the Sarawak Museum, "On some Mimetic Insects 

 and Spiders from Borneo and Singapore," kindly supplied by Prof. 

 Poulton, F.R.S.] 



Lewisham, London : 



March, 1900. 



A REVISED SYNOPTIC TABLE OF BRITISH CHRYSIDS. 

 BY THE KEV. E. D. MORICE, M.A., F.E.S. 



The following corrected Table embraces all tbe species at present 

 known to me as certainly, or nearly certainly, indigenous in these 

 islands. 



1. Abdomen somewhat concave beneatli, its dorsum showing three segments only 



in either sex — 2. 

 Abdomen convex above and below, dorsum showing four segments in $ and five 



in (? Q-enus Cleptes. 



Prothorax with a transverse punctured line near and parallel to its basal edge, 



$ vertex and mesonotum fiery-crimson pallipes, Lep. 



Prothorax without transverse basal line as above, ? vertex and mesonotum 

 black nitidula, F. 



2. Post-scutellum not produced into a long tongue-like plate — 3. 

 Post-scutellura produced into a long tongue-like plate. Abdomen rather elongate, 



its extreme apex suddenly truncated and triangularly excised from 

 beneath NoTOZus Panzeri, F. 



3. Abdomen elongate, a transverse row of fossulets near its apex, beyond which 



row the dorsal surface of the segment drops to a lower level... 



Genus Chetsis — 13. 

 Abdomen ovate or nearly round ; no fossulets on apical segment, wliich is convex 

 to its apex — 4. 



4. Abdomen not incised at apex— 8. 



Abdomen distinctly incised at apex Genus Ellamptjs — 5, 



5. Post-scutcUum merely a little convex — 6. 



Post-scutellum acutely conic ; edge of third abdominal segment membranous, 

 its sides much undulated, its apex truncated and excised as in Notozus. 

 (Insect wholly blue and green) truncatus, Dhb. 



6. Mesonotum very smooth and shining Abdomen blue or green ceneus, F. 



Mesonotum punctured, not smooth and shining — 7. 



7. Apical incision long, triangular or lancet-shaped. Abdomen more or less 



golden auratus, L. 



Apical incision wide but very short, i- nspicuous. Abdomen blue or dark 

 green cceruleus, Dhb. 



