NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IX 1S63. 71 



numbers near Rannoch, not by breeding them, or findinfj 

 them in winter-quarters after his usual fashion of hunting, 

 but by catching them -^rith a net as they settled on the youuir 

 shoots of the birch in the hot sunshine ; also that they were 

 very active and not easy to take, and this I can easily undei- 

 stand, as I have found the common Z. suhspinosa a most 

 wary and artful little animal, tucking in its limbs and rolling 

 off its leafy perch on the approach of the net. 



Z. Turnerl may be bi'iefly described as looking xevv like 

 a large and long specimen of subsplnosa in an immature con- 

 dition, but any idea of immaturity is of course dispelled by 

 the number of specimens, taken at different times, by t'leir 

 symmetrical outHiie and hard substance, and by the above- 

 mentioned remarks as to their capture. 



The elytra, thorax, head, antenna and legs are testaceous- 

 yellow, the abdomen, mesosternum, metasternum and eyes 

 deep black, and the apex of the mandibles slightly pitchy. 

 When compared with Z. subspinosa the head is more closely 

 and deeply punctured, and not so contracted behind the eyes, 

 which ai'e less prominent ; the thorax is decidedly broader, 

 with the lateral projection more prominent, more abruptly 

 produced, and continued with a slight curve until it meets 

 the anterior margin, the junction forming a decided angular 

 process, so that the front margin appears almost on a level 

 with the outer edge of the eye, whilst in the common species 

 the lateral projection is more gradually pi-oduced and slopes 

 off more inwards to the anterior margin, with which it forms 

 a very slight and feeble angle, the entire front maro-in 

 scarcely exceeding the level of the inner edge of the eye. 



A figjure of this interestino; insect will be found in our 

 frontispiece, tig. 8. In an allied European species, Z. 

 scutellaris, the joints of the antennas are stouter, and the 

 thorax has no angular process at its front corners ; ir is also 

 larger, and with blue-black elvtra. 



