248 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



var. cassiojje, Fab. (? 9 only), ante-marginal bands broken up 



or obsolescent. 

 ab. nelamus, Bsdv., with reduced ocellations, but bands more- 



or less present, 

 ab. obsoleta, Tutt, with neither bands nor ocellations. 



to which later may perhaps have to be added some of the 

 forms recently described from isolated regions — the Carpathians^ 

 Balkans, etc. — which I hope to examine in detail later. 



CONTEIBUTIONS TO OUE KNOWLEDGE OF THE 

 BEITISH BEACONTD.E. 



By G. T. Lyle, F.E.S. 



(Continued from p. 230.) 



Earinus ochi'ojjes, Curtis. 



Black ; legs rufo-testaceous, tibial paler, hind coxae sometimes 

 darker at base, hind tibiae ochreous with the apex fuscous and faint 

 indications of a dark ring before the base ; hind tarsi, and 

 occasionally middle tarsi also, dark. Antennae dark, apex of second 

 joint and base of third rufo-testaceous, 34-35-jointed. Orbits im- 

 maculate ; squamulae dull rufo-testaceous ; wings hyaline, slightly 

 clouded towards apex, nervures fuscous, sometimes paler, stigma, 

 fuscous. First cubital cell separated from first discoidal by a not 

 very distinct nervure ; second cubital cell triangular, third abscissa 

 of the radius almost straight, second abscissa nearly obsolete. Meso- 

 thorax smooth with the sutures barely indicated ; metathorax almost 

 smooth, with two central, longitudinal, parallel carinae, between which 

 is a narrow, more or less punctate space. Abdomen with the first 

 segment margined, longitudinally striolate, and two carinae reaching 

 the middle ; second segment feebly irregularly striolate, with indica- 

 tions of a transverse curved impression and fovae at the basal angles ; 

 third smooth, though in the females faint traces of striolation and a 

 transverse impression may often be detected. Terebra slightly longer 

 than the abdomen. Length 4^ mm., expands 10 mm. 



Probably Curtis's description of this species was never pub- 

 lished, and so far as I can learn at the moment his MS. is with 

 his collections in Australia. The Eev. J. Waterston, of the 

 British Museum, has most kindly looked-up Dale's copy of Curtis's 

 ' Guide to an Arrangement of British Insects,' which is now in 

 the possession of the Museum, and finds no MS. notes opposite 

 ochropes, though it appears as a nomen nudem. In the first 

 edition of the ' Guide ' ochropes is cited as follows : 



105. I 



Bassus. B.E. 73. 



Microdus, Nees. j 



I 3 X ochropes, Curt. 



