1880.] 63 



examples so labelled (both, from the Pyrenees) one is perhaps Ch. alba, 

 and does not agree with the description. The other, which must be 

 regarded as the type, is very closely allied to nigro-punctata, and ap- 

 pears to differ chiefly in the face being suffused with sanguineous at 

 the sides (indicated in fig. 7, but not in the description) : this suffusion 

 is still more strongly indicated in an example from Laruns, Basses 

 Pyrenees (Eaton), in my collection. One should see long series of 

 both nigro-punctata and Ifeyeri in order to ascertain if they be really 

 distinct. 



Chrysopa guadarramensis, Ed. Pict., p. 65, pi. vi, figs. 1 — 4. — I 

 know not why neither Pictet nor Hagen (Stett. Zeit., 1866, p. 298) 

 notices the very obvious relationship to Ch. flava, Scop, (vittata, 

 Schnd., nee Wesmael), of which it has the characteristic strong ex- 

 cision of the costal margin of the anterior-wings (not sufficiently 

 indicated in Pictet's figure). It may be distinct, or it may be only a 

 local form of Jlava. The colour is paler, the pronotum has a distinct 

 brown line on either side anteriorly, which I do not see in flava, the 

 nervules more strongly spotted with black at the end, the gradate 

 series almost wholly black. The individual is a $ . Pictet compares 

 it with pattens, Eambur, which appears to be septempunctata. 



Chrysopa thoracica, Ed. Pict., p. 67, pi. vi, figs. 9 — 12. — Belongs 

 to the group of forms in which there is a black spot between the an- 

 tennae, and a black dot at the extreme base of the costa in the anterior- 

 wings. I have seen only one example, which is quite distinct from 

 anything known to me, differing in the absence of spots on the top of 

 the head, in the lunate red mark on the face below the base of each 

 antenna, &c. The name thoracica was applied by Walker in 1853 

 (Cat. Brit. Mus. Neurop., pt. ii, p. 243) to a Chrysopa from St. 

 Domingo, hence it becomes necessary to rename Pictet's insect : — I 

 propose the term Picteti. 



Chrysopa Zelleri (Schneider), Ed. Pict., p. 68. — Whether Zelleri 

 is anything more than a form of the variable aspersa may be doubtful. 

 The two posterior occipital points are smaller in Pictet's examples than 

 in others I have from Zeller. The spot on the basal joint of the an- 

 tennas may be above, or outside, or absent altogether. I remark that 

 a type of Ramburii, Costa, in my collection, is Zelleri and not ordinary 

 aspersa ; neglectns, Costa, is also evidently Zelleri from the description, 

 as Hagen has already determined. 



Chrysopa clathrata, Ed. Pict., p. 68. — I have three examples before 

 \ me. They are certainly distinct from Schneider's clathrata from 



