Berytide. 6t 
BERYTID&. 
A family of delicately-shaped species, with very long 
antenne and legs, and characterized by having the first 
joint of the antennz and the femora clavate at the apex ; 
the pronotum also bears three keels in all the species. In 
the Berytina the head is elongate and the forehead pro- 
duced in a lobe over the face ; inthe Metreathina the head 
is subglobose and the forehead simple 
TABLE OF SUB-FAMILIES. 
(2) 1. Forehead produced eetenorly 3 in a lobe . BeRYTINA. 
(1) 2. Forehead simple . : : : . METACANTHINA. 
BERYTINA. 
(2) 1. Posterior femora reaching nearly to the apex 
of the membrane. . NEIDEs. 
(1) 2. Posterior femora not nearly reaching to the 
apex of the membrane. , “ . BERyTvs. 
NEIDES, Lat. 
Very elongate, ochraceous, vertex of the head produced 
in a pointed process between the eyes—this process in our 
British species from a lateral view is subclavate, and ele- 
vated towards the apex; eyes situated about midway between 
the anterior margin of the pronotum and the apex of the 
process ; the central lobe of the face is also produced into a 
process, which is slightly deflected. The antennz are very 
long and thin, with the apex of the first joint abruptly 
clavate ; pronotum raised posteriorly in the developed form, 
flat in the undeveloped. Elytra developed, but the wings 
often brachypterous ; legs very elongate, femora gradually 
incrassated at the apex. There are three European species. 
N. tipularius, Linn. (parallelus, Fieb. ; depressus, 
D. and S.).—Elongate, ochraceous. Head with the frontal 
process pointed, if viewed from above, broad and clavate if 
viewed laterally ; antennze with the apical joint black and 
the club of the first joint dark ; pronotum punctured, sides 
and central line raised and smooth, dise raised posteriorly in 
