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in the Monograph (excl. syu.), and all are unquestionably British 

 insects. Riiddii, Shuck., = auripes, Wesm., but Shuckard's name has 

 certainly the priority. Viridula, Linn, (not a very happily chosen 

 name), is prior, according to Mocsary, to hidentata ; but in adopting 

 the former name be has not been followed by du Buysson. Buddii, 

 fiilf/ida and succincta seem to be rare in England. As additional lo- 

 calities to those given by Smith I may mention Ilfracombe for Riiddli 

 and Ipswich for succincta. The $ of the extremely common and 

 variable ignita may, I believe, always be recognised by its puncturation, 

 which is irregular, and conspicuously less close on the apex of the 2nd 

 abdominal segment than on the base of the 3rd. This character dis- 

 tinguishes it at once from several closely allied continental species, 

 which are quite likely to be found some day in England, but for which 

 I have hitherto looked in vain. It is- easy to confound the ^ with 

 that of Buddii, and I think Smith has done so in his collection, but I 

 believe that Buddii has invariably, and ignita never, distinctly red 

 reflections on the legs seen from beneath, and that the ventral surface 

 in Buddii is always, in part, coppery-red, while it is only occasionally 

 so in ignita. 



C austriaca. — This is a most unfortunate misidentification of 

 Shuckard's, in which Smith and Marshall have followed him, with the 

 result of misleading all the later writers, including Mocsary. No one 

 who has seen the smooth and brilliant abdominal surface of the true 

 austriaca, Fab., and noticed its comparatively slight pubescence, could 

 possibly mistake our British species for it. The insect called austriaca 

 in all the collections I have seen is certainly pustulosa, Ab. ; and it is 

 clear from Smith's and Shuckard's descriptions that their austriaca 

 was the same. Smith gives refulgens, Spin., as a synonym for our in- 

 sect, but that is a quite different species again, with an acutely conical 

 post-scutellum, and is unlikely to be found in England. It is true 

 that austriaca, Fab., is often found in the same localities 2i% pustulosa 

 on the Continent, but it has as yet no claim to appear in the British 

 list, where pustulosa, Ab., must be substituted for it. 



C. ornnta.—'Yhe solitary specimen described by Smith, taken 

 by Mr. Hewitson at Bristol, is still in Dr. Mason's collection. It 

 differs so much from normal hidentata by its extremely short pubescence 

 and other striking characters noted in my Table (below), that I should 

 have thought it impossible to identify it with that species. M. du 

 Buysson, however, to whom I sent the insect, informs me that it is a 

 ^ of the variety of hidentata hitherto known as var. sicula, Ab., which 

 unist now be; called var. ornuta, Sm. 



