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a blood red. The wings expand 4|- inches : the specimen is IVom 

 Assam, and miique in Mr. Solly's cabinet. (Id. i. 19. tab. v. fig. 2). 

 Plate VI. represents four species of Coccites belonging to the genus 

 Monophlebus of Leach ; in the accompanying paper Mr. Westwood 

 describes four new species and four old ones. 



1. Monophlebus Fabricii, Westwood; Chironomus dubius, Fab. 

 Syst. Ant. 46.* 



2. Monophlebus atripennis, Klug, Handb. 2, 80. 



3. Monophlebus Leachii, Westwood, Zool. II. 20, p. 452. 



4. Monophlebus Burmeisteri is pitchy black, with the thorax and 

 abdomen fusco-carneous, the scutellum and a fascia between the wings 

 being whitish ; the wings are rather broad and j)itchy, somewhat paler 

 at the base, with two whitish hyaline lines : the antenna? are longer 

 than the body : the abdomen emits on each side 5 pilose branches. 

 The wings expand 8 lines. The specimen is in the author's cabinet, 

 its country is unknown. (Id. i. 22. tab. vi. fig. 2). 



5. Monophlebus Saundersii is powdered with white, the head, an- 

 tennae, legs, and dorsum of the thorax being brown ; the sides of the 

 thorax and the entire abdomen are testaceo-canieous : the latter 

 emits on each side 2 short pilose branches and 2 longer ones at the ex- 

 tremity : wings brown, with a dilated posterior margin and two white 

 hyaline lines. The wings expand 4 lines. The specimen is in the ca- 

 binet of Mr. W. W. Saunders, and comes from the northern parts of 

 India. (Id. i. 22). 



9. Monophlebus Raddoni is fulvo-carneous, the antennse and legs 

 being of the same colour, the dorsum of the thorax is pitchy, the wings 

 are brown with two white hyaline lines, the costa fulvo-carneous, and 

 the post-costal nervure blood-red : the sides of the abdomen emit small 

 pilose lobes, and its extremity has two larger oval ones. The wings 

 expand 1^ lines. The specimen described is from the Gold Coast, 

 and preserved in the cabinet of the author. (Id. i. 22. tab. vi. fig. 3). 



7. Monophlebus IlUgeri is blackish, the head and margins of the 

 thorax and abdomen being red-brown ; the antennse and feet are black, 

 the wings brown with a darker costa, and the post-costal nervure blood 

 red : the sides of the abdomen are furnished with small pilose lobes. 

 The wings expand 5 lines. The specimen is from Van Dieman's Land, 

 and in the author's cabinet. (Id. i, 22. tab. vi. fig. 4). 



8. Monoi^hlebus fuscipennis, Burmeister, ' Hand. d. Ent.' ii. p. 80, 

 tab. 2, fig. 46. 



Plate VII. represents four species of Tenthredinites. 

 * Should not this have been Monophlebus dubius ? 



