242 lAprii. 



on the inner edge, with a short, dark brown streak ; apei narrowly brown. 

 Tarsi yellow ; 3rd pair, apex of the Ist and 2nd joints narrowly, and 3rd 

 broadly, brown. 

 Abdomen : $ , above, black ; posterior margin of the segments very narrowly yellow, 

 joined to a triangular pateh of the same colour on the sides; connexivum 

 yellow, margins of the segments very narrowly black ; genital segments yellow ; 

 ? , above, yellow, with a broad, black dorsal patch on three or four basal seg- 

 ments ; beneath yellow ; posterior margin of the last segment straight. 



Length, 1^ line. 



5. FLATIPENNIS, M. Sp. 



The characters on the head very much resemble those on D. 

 striatus, and I believe it will prove to be an extreme variety of that 

 species. 



2. Apes of the elytra with a black or dark brown margin. 



Dark green, bluish-green, or greenish-yellow. 



Sead : after death yellow. Crown with a very short, somewhat oblique, black or 

 dark brown streak on each side of the apex or sometimes obsolete. Face black, 

 or the upper half only black, with five to seven narrow, transverse yellowish- 

 white lines on each side. Clypeus and lores frequently narrowly margined with 

 black or dark brown, and the former, sometimes, with a dark streak down 

 the middle. 



Thorax — -pronotum and sonfelhtm, after death, yellow. JElytra dark green, bluish- 

 green, or greenish-yellow, opaque ; exterior margin of the apical areas narrowly 

 dark brown or black. Legs yellow. Tliighs : 1st and 2nd pairs with two 

 narrow black bands, one near the middle and the other before the apex, 

 sometimes only indicated by spots, and sometimes obsolete ; 3rd, with a black 

 line along the upper margin at the apex, and generally a broad black streak along 

 the upper and under-sidcs not reaching the apex. TibicB : 3rd pair broadly 

 black down tlie inner margin, or frequently black with the base narrowly pale. 

 Tarsi : 3rd pair black ; base of the 1st joint orange. Length, Ij — 2 lines. 



6. ABDOMINALIS, Fab. 



Easily recognised by the dark green colour of the elytra and the 

 black or dark brown margin to the apical areas. 



Not rare, by sweeping in damp places from June to end of 

 August. 



3. Apical areas faintly margined with fuscous. 



Very pale green or greyish-green. 



J^ead — crown pale yellow or sometimes brownish ; length down the centre almost 



equal to the width across the anterior margin of the eyes ; anterior sides 



slightly convex ; apex acute, on each side of the latter a black spot or very short 



• streak, frequently wanting. Face dark bnown with a white or wliitish central 



