nnn [October, 



— Body without green. Abdomen at least above black with a broad baud of 



red. Stio-ma fuscous with its apex paler. Apex of clypeus truncate, 

 i.e., hardly at all emarginate *• 



2. Rather small (8 or 9 mm. long) and comparatively dark. Head above 



(inchiding ocellar region, &c.) n.b. — uninterruptedly black, except at the 

 sides where, touching each of the compound eyes, is a small but con- 

 spicuous (subtriangular) green mark. The breast of the ^ is black.... 



picta, Kl. 



— Larger (10 to 13 mm. long) and more brightly coloured. Vertex more or 



less green, with that colour (n.b.) extending into the ocellar region, and 

 not limited to spots on the sides of the head. Whole und.'r-side of 

 thorax green, or practically so '^• 



3. Alxlomen green with only, on each side, a series of ahowt ten minute black 



dorsal spots arranged longitudinally (two on each side of each inter- 

 mediate segment), but not quite in a straight line— rather in " echelon." 

 The head and thorax marked very sparingly with black. . .imndulata, Kl. 



— Abdomen not spotted laterally like that of punctulata, but either entirely 



green, or with a broad, black, central vitta, which leaves the sides and 

 extreme apex green. (The black markings on head and thorax vary, but 

 arc generally more extensive than in pxmctulata, and always less so than 



in picta) viridis,-L. 



(This is by far the most common of the green species, though none 

 of them are rare). 



4. Abdomen with the sides of the dorsal seg-ments where they overlap the 



venter changing their colour rather abruptly into a sort of creamy-white. 

 In the d this colour stretches more or less across the entire ventral 



surface, at least on the apical segments .fulvipes. Scop. 



(= lateralis, C). 



— Abdomen with no whitening of the segments at the sides or beneath ; bixt, 

 beneath as well as above, black with a broad central belt of red... 



aucuparise, Kl. 

 (^= gibbosa, C). 



Perineura, Htg. — Of this genns (= Synn>reiiia, C.) we have but 

 one species, viz., nibi, Pz. It seems to be rare in this country. I have 

 but one British specimen of it (a ? from Dr. Capron's collection) , and 

 have only talcen it myself in Mecklenburg, where I foimd both sexes, 

 apparently not uncommon— among ferns, if I remember rightly, in 

 May, 1905. Mr. Cameron records (^ (^ only from Gadder Wilderness. 

 The abdomen is fulvous-yellow (testaceous). In the (^ the whole 

 flagella of the antenna?, in the ? their apical joints only, are of the 

 same colour, and the (^ has a large splash of white (reduced in the i^ 

 to a mere spot) on each side of the breast. It is nearly allied to 

 Tenthredopsis, dif ering, however, in having the humeral area in the 



