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Seira BushlL Lubbock. 



Seira Buskii, Lubbock. Trans. Linn. Soc, 1869. 



Dark violet, with metallic reflections. Without the 

 scales, the back and antenues are dark violet, the head, 

 legs, base of antennae, and under surface yellowish. 

 Eyes on a black patch, and connected by a dark band. 



Length -/g- of an inch. 



The basal segment of the antennge is rather shorter 

 than the second or third, which, again, are, though very 

 little, shorter than the apical. The hind legs are longest. 

 The feet are all alike. There is one tenent hair, not 

 much swollen at the end. The small claw is without 

 teeth. The large one has three teeth on the inner, 

 and one on the outer margin. 



I have only found this species in greenhouses and hot- 

 houses ; perhaps, therefore, it is not an indigenous 

 British species. 



Seira platani, Nicolet. 



Degeeria platani, Nic. Mem. Soc. Helv., 1842. 



Foclura argenteo cincta, Bourlet. Mem. Soc. Roy. Douai, 1842. 



Degeeria jolatani, Gervais. His. Ins. Apteres. 



— — Nicolet. Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1847. 



— — Lubbock. Trans. Linn. Soc, vol. xxiii. 



M. Nicolet's description of this species is as fol- 

 lows : — 



" Corps ecailleux, a reflet argente, un peu plus 

 fusiforme que celui du precedent, a tete plus petite et 

 plus allongee, ayant les angles posterieurs arrondis. 

 Polls noirs. Tete et premier segment thoracique d'un 

 jaune-orange assez fence, et hordes anterieurement de 

 noir : second segment noir. Premier segment ab- 

 dominal d'un jaune-orange-pale ; les deux suivants 

 noirs, et separes par une ligne transversale tres-fine 

 du meme jaune et bordant le segment anterieur. Le 

 quatrieme segment, egalement orange-pale, porte une 

 large tache irreguliere noire sur son milieu, et une 



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