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12. Abrloinen testaceous (sec. Koiiow, i. Utt.) serotinus, MuUor. 



var. tarsatus. 



— Abdomen black, sordidly whitish at its apex above, the hypopygium rufescent 



and the dorsal segments very narrowly and indistinctly so along their central 

 diameter. Otherwise all its characters agree exactly with those of serotinus 

 var. tarsatus, and I feel certain that the two forms ought not to be specifically 

 distinguished, though I have only seen one specimen of that now under 

 consideration — a ? taken by Mr. Harwood. (See further remarks on it in 



the Notes following this Table) serotinus, Miiller. 



var. ? ? Cf. filiformis Kl. 



13. Abdomen pale beneath, partlj' red above perla. 



— Abdomen black 14. 



14. Tegulfe and four posterior legs black. Antennae short and setiform. Radial 



nerve nearly or quite interstitial tener, Fall. 



— Tegulse and part at least of the posterior legs white 15. 



15. Scutelliim smooth and shining carpini, Htg. 



— Scutellum duller, punctured. Legs generally with more white than in carpini, 



but both species vary in this respect ; and the scutellum-character is more 

 reliable grossularise, Htg. 



FURTHER NOTES ON CERTAIN SPECIES. 

 Togntus, Pz. — Konow referred T. toqata, Pz. (iiec P. !), to cinctus, 

 and consequently followed Hartig and Thomson in adopting King's 

 name for the present species, viz., succinctus. But, having carefully 

 examined Panzer's figure, I am convinced that Cameron is right in 

 identifying it with the present insect, and not with cinctus. Togatus, 

 P., is certainly another species, which was described later than 

 togntus, Pz., and must therefore be called by some other name (see 

 below under cingulatus). 



Cingillum, Kl. — I have taken a single ? , evidently belonging to 

 this species and named for me as such by Konow, near Woking. A 

 ^ , which Konow thought might belong to it, does not agree well with 

 King's description, and so far as I can see is really a melanarius. 



Cingulatus, Lep. — This is certainly togatus, P., nee Pz., and as 

 the species is universally known on the continent as togatus, I regret 

 that the latter name must be abandoned. But it seems inevitable ; so 

 I follow Mr. Cameron and call it cingulatus. 



Cinctus. — This and tener are extremely common species in the 

 south of England. I once reared imagines of cinctus from (I think) 

 a briar, or possibly from a bramble-stem. 



Ilelanarius. — Klug, Hartig, and Thomson all knew the ? only of 

 this species. Both sexes occur in Surrey, and curiously I myself 



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