1881.1 207 



(J fasciata from an actual specimen o£ the species ; I cannot, however, 

 help echoing the wish of Dr. Kriechbaumer (loc. cit. p. 142), that 

 some London Entomologist would examine the Linnsean type if it is 

 still preserved in the Linnsean collection there. 



Whether any further discoveries of this ^ resulted from Dr. K.'s 

 paper, which seems to have awakened considerable interest at the 

 time, I have no means of knowing,* but in any case the confirmation 

 which my recently found specimen affords, seems to be not altogether 

 superfluous. 



Milford, Letterkenny : 



December, 1883. 



[I have examined the "Linnsean" collection, and find therein two 

 examples of Zarcea fasciata ; both are females : one of them bears a 

 label in Linne's hand, and is presumably his type. — E. Mc. Lachlan.] 



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BEITISH R0M0PTERA.—A.T>T>1T10'SAL SPECIES. 

 BY JAMES EDWARDS. 



Thamnotettix STUPIDULA. 

 Thamnotettix stupidula, Zett., Ins. Lapp., 294, 9 ; J. Sahib., Einl.-och 

 Skand. Cicad., 21G, 8. 

 Above sordid greenish-yellow with fuscous or black markings : vertex in front 

 ■with two triangular dark fuscous spots placed transversely, their bases parallel, 

 separated by a line of the pale ground-colour, and their apices drawn out in a linear 

 form as far as the ocelli, just behind these spots are two oblong dark spots, also 

 placed end to end but more widely separated ; pronotum somewhat suffused with 

 fuscous, with traces of one or more longitudinal lines of the ground-colour ; scutellum 

 with two triangles at the base dark fuscous or black ; elytra with all the areas, except 

 the costal and first sub-apical, more or less margined (sometimes entirely filled up) 

 with dark fuscous or black ; membrane fuscous ; tibisB spotted with black, posterior 

 pair with a narrow black streak within ; body below chiefly black. 



$ . Genital plates (taken together) elongate-triangular, rounded at the apex, 

 about four times as long as the genital valve, with a row of bristles near the outer 

 margins. Side-lobes of hypopygium much narrowed and produced. Lower apical 

 angle of the anal tube produced in a tooth-like manner. Length, 3 lines. 



The capture of this Arctic species at Pitlochry by Mr. A. 

 Beaumont is an interesting addition to its geographical range, the 

 latitude of that place (56° 41' N.) being ten degrees further south 



* Andr^, in 1880, expresses himself to the same effect as Dr. Kriechbaumer : " La femelle est 

 commune mais le mfile est si rare qu' il n' est mSrae pas trfes sflr que les individus qu' on lui 

 rapporte en soient d' une fa<;on bien authentique."— Species des Hymen : Tenthred. i 32, January 

 nh, 1880.— J. A. O. 



