1879. 233 



Easily distinguished from the following species by its broader 

 head, and the characters thereon. The granulated nerves of the elytra 

 and the black dots on the disc of the same, give to the insect a 

 fuscous look. 



Head testaceous, about one and a half times broader across the middle of the eyes 

 than down the centre, -with a more or less distinct, broad, fuscous line on each 

 side of the central keel next the apex, and vanishing near the centre ; a black 

 spot on each side of the apex, and two others on the lateral margins going 

 towards the ocelli, which last are perceptibly elevated ; the margin exterior to 

 the eyes dark brown or fuscous. Elytra and nerves testaceous. Legs tes- 

 taceous. Length, 2^ lines 2. peodtjcta. 



Germ., F. E., fasc. iv, fig. 22 ; Burm., Gen. Ins., 1, figs. 1 and 5. 



Very nearly allied to the next species, from which it may at once 

 be distinguished by the difference in the length of the head, and the 

 want of the siuuation of the lateral margins in that species. 



Taken under similar circumstances to the species described above, 

 and with the following one. 



Section B. 



Head longer than broad. 



Head testaceous, longer than broad, lateral margins sinuate ; central keel on each 

 side more or less dark brown or fuscous from in a line with the anterior margin 

 of the eyes to the apex ; apex with a minute dark spot on each side. Elytra 



testaceous, iey* testaceous. Length 3 lines 3. sPATHriATA. 



Germ., F. E., xxii, 25 ; Panz., F. G., 164, 19 ; Burm., Gen. Ins., 1, fig. 6. 



The length of the head, and the sinuate lateral margins will enable 

 any one to eliminate it from the specimens of E. producta which he 

 may possess, and with which I believe it will often be found to be 

 mixed. 



Taken in company with the foregoing, at Sevenoaks, in August ; 

 also at Wingham, Kent, and Ardrossan, Ayrshire. 



Both Mr. Douglas and I had put on one side examples of E. 

 spathulata, about which we were uncertain, and we have now been 

 assured, through the kindness of Dr. Signoret, that our belief that 

 they were this species is correct. 



Of the fourth species, Eupelix onarginata, Fieber, from Bona 

 (Kat. Cicad., 1872), I know nothing, and I am not aware that any 

 description of it has been published. 



1, St. Mildred's Terrace, Bromley Koad, 

 Lee, S.E. : December, 1878. 



