H) 'inerioptcra. 17^ 



E. siibcyaneus. Metathorace dorso reguloso, apice 

 rotundato ; abdomine depresso ; nervis costalibusdisjunctis; 

 areola prae brachiali a stigmatc rcmoto. 



The latter species was described by Walker in Ent. 

 Mag. IV., p. 432., pi. xvi., f. 6, under the erroneous name 

 of iW^^r West, and Westwood (Thesa. Ent. Oxon., p. 158) 

 changes the name to Halidii, on the ground that the name 

 Siibcyaneus is not characteristic. Westwood also describes 

 in the above work two additional new species, namely, E. 

 fraternus from Combe Wood, and E. sceva "ex Anglia." 

 Thomson (Oef af K. Vet. Akad. i860, p. 453) describes a 

 Swedish species E. bilineata, but from all these E. tricolor 

 is readily known by the metallic blue head and thorax and 

 testaceous abdomen. It may be as well to give the references 

 to our British species. 



1. E. tricolor^ Cam. supra. 



2. E. niger, Westwood, Phil. Mag. 1832. i. p. 129; 

 Haliday, Ent. Mag. V. p. 519. 



3. E. stibcyaneiis, Haliday, Ent. Mag. V. 519, olim E. 

 niger, I.e. IV. p. 432, pi. xvi. f 6. 



E. Halidii, West., Thesa. Ent. Oxon., p. 158, pi. xvi. 

 fig. 6. 



4. E. fratermis. West., I.e., p. 157, pi. xxx. fig. 2. 



5. E. sceva, Westwood, I.e., p. 158, pi. xxxi. fig. 6. 

 Note. — Dours (^Cat. Hymen, de France, p. 112) records 



"£". ruficollis, Gir."; but I cannot find any reference to such 

 a species in Giraud's papers, of which, I believe, I have the 

 whole; and, therefore, suspect it is a manuscript name. 

 The practice of recording species under manuscript names 

 is not only useless, but entails endless trouble in en- 

 deavouring to find out if and where they have been 



described. 



Epyris rufipes, sp. nov. 



Niger, ftitidiis, sparse punctatiis ; breviter pilosus ; 

 uietanoto aeieulato ; antennis, inandibiilis, tegulis, palpis, 



