1806.] 199 



lytra nervis elevatia, nigro-pulverosis, sed costali immaculato. Abdomen 

 supra, femora, tibiae posticse apice, plus minus nigricantia. $ . Vertex 

 quarta paste longior quam latitude sua, carina media infuscata. Tota- 

 pallidior quam (^ , minus maculata. liong.^S, $ 4 ; alar. exp. 4| lin. 



Eitfelix producta, Germ., Fn. 20, 24. Burm., Gen. 2, fig. 1, 5. 



Eupelix cuspidata, Cuv.,Eegne Anim., pi. 99, fig. 3. Eupelix 



producta, Flor, R L. 2, p. 213. Eupelix cuspidata,'Qt\t.Myx%. 



collection. 

 This remarkable insect is found sparingly upon grasses in barren, 

 and especially sandy situations, from July to October. It is slow in its 

 motions, and from its resemblance to dried oat-slougb, difficult to detect. 

 I reared both sexes under a glass from larva3 taken at Swithland Slate 

 Quarries, Leicestershire, in July last. I have also met with it late in 

 the autumn, on the sand hills near Deal, and on the rocky shores of 

 Milford Haven. 



2. — Enpelix cuspidata, Fab. 



Similis praecedenti ; supra nigro densius conspersa. Vertex ^ $ 

 latitudiuo sua brevier. 



Cicada cuspidata, Fab., S. E., p. 79, n. 86 ; Ent. Syst. 4, 46, 

 86. Cicada depressa, Fab. (?) — Eupelix ctisjndata, Germ., 

 Mag. 4, p. 94 ; Ahr., Fn. 4, 22 ; Fall, Hem. Suec. 2, p. 22 ; 

 Burm., Gen. Eupelix (fig.), and Ent. 2, 1, 112, 10, 1. 



Probably only a variety of the preceding ; see Signoret, Bull. d. 1. 

 Soc. Ent. d. France, 1854, p. 55. Three or four males, which I refer 

 to this species, are in the collection of Mr. Douglas. The shorter 

 vertex and darker colour prevail in all of them, and as I have never 

 met with any similar forms among the 20-30 Eupelix which I have cap- 

 tured, and have never seen a ? , I leave the two species for the present 

 separate. Flor speaks of a diff"erence in the male genital apparatus, 

 which I cannot trace, for want of specimens with expanded wings, 

 but which possibly is decisive of the question. 



( To he continued.) '2.'2^0 ■ 



THE NEW AMERICAN MOTH TRAP. 

 BY H. G. KNAGOS, M.D. 



A short time since it was my good fortune to be introduced to 

 Mr. Glover, of "Washington, U.S., then on a visit to this country, and 

 whom I found to be a thoroughly practical collector. 



