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Typhlocyba di versa, n. sp. 



Male : crown, pronotum, and scutellum ivory-white, eorium pale 

 yellow, the colour much intensified along the veins, membrane not 

 obviously fumose, App. sup. strap-shaped, acuminate,' directed cepha- 

 lad at about a right angle to the stem of the sedeagus, parallel, curving 

 upward a little at the apex ; app. inf. divided near the base into two 

 unequal, long, strap-shaped, acuminate branches ; in the dorsal aspect 

 the upper and longer branches of the two app. inf. are widely diver- 

 gent, directed forward and upward, and rather abruptly curved upward 

 in their apical third ; the lower branches are directed forward, their 

 divergence is about half as much as that of the upper ones, and they 

 are a little curved inward and downward in their apical fifth. 



Female similar in colour to the male. 



Length, 4 mm. 



Aspley Woods, Notts, 4, VII ; Prof. Carr. 



Ztgina neglecta, n. sp. 



Distinguished from Z. flammigera, Greoffr., by its slightly smaller 

 size, evidently narrower form, and by having the entire clavus and a 

 stripe in the apical half of the brachial area fuscous. Hind tarsi in 

 the male with the basal joint pale, subequal in length to the remaining 

 two, and without any special armature ; second and third joints 

 blackish, base of the former narrowly pale. 



This species, though just as variable in colour and pattern of the 

 elytra as its immediate allies, Z. flammigera and Z. tiliae, never develops 

 the characteristic pattern of the former, i.e., two irregular, sub-oval, 

 pale spaces on the suture of the closed elytra surrounded by a broad 

 irregular red border ; nor has its male the distinctly thickened and 

 entirely black hind tarsi characteristic of that sex of the latter. 



Z. neglecta I have found for many years past in company with Z. 

 flammigera, and equally common. One finds rarely a remarkably hand- 

 some aberration of it (ab. rubrinervis) in which all the veins of the 

 eorium, except where interrupted by the costal callus, are carmine-red ; 

 this is analogous to the ab. ruficosta, Fieb., of Z. flammigera, but in the 

 latter, which is not uncommon in this country, the brachial vein is not 

 red, except where the zigzag band overlies it and sometimes at the 

 apex. Z. neglecta ab. rubrinervis is probably the rosea of Douglas 

 (Ent. Mo. Mag., XII, p. 77, 1876), and possibly of other writers ; but 

 certainly not of Flor, since the latter is very emphatic about the 



