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what acutely before the seutellum. Metathorax regularly convex, 

 pubescent. First segment occupying about } of the abdomen, 

 insensibly widened from the base to the apex ; the tubercles 

 inconspicuous ; segments 2 — 3 connate, together equal to J of tho 

 rest of the abdomen, which is ovate, convex, smooth, and shining. 

 Radial areolet smaller than the stigma, which is large and sub 

 triangular, more or less dark fuscous, and somotimes not paler at 

 the base. Pobrachial areolet of the hind wings closed. 



Var. a. Head rufous ; stemmaticum black ; antennae testaceous, 

 tipped with fuscous. L. orchesi<z, Cur. 



Var. /3. Antennas as in the preceding ; legs testaceous, hind coxae 

 blackish. $ ? . Euthe. 



Var. y. More slender ; head, pro- and mesothorax, with the 

 seutellum, rufous ; antennae almost wholly, as well as the legs, 

 testaceous; 2d abdominal segment picec-rufous. $. Ruthe, 

 Wesmael. 



Described from 8 females, 28 males, including two of 

 var. «: 14 males have 24-jointed, and 5 females 22- 

 jointed antennae. 



The limits of this species can hardly be fixed without 

 more knowledge than we possess at present. M. brevi- 

 cornis, Euthe, may be distinct, appearing doubtful on 

 account of the shortness and thickness of the antennae 

 in the female ; there are, however, intermediate forms, 

 and a separate species could not well be maintained upon 

 this character alone. Nees v. Esenbeck seems to be the 

 only continental writer unacquainted with this abundant 

 insect. Var. a, according to Curtis, was bred by Walker 

 from Orchesia minor, Walk., one of the two recorded 

 instances of the rearing of an insect of this subfamily 

 in England : cf. Boie, Nat. Tidsk., hi., 315. 



The species is common throughout the country. 

 3. Euphorus tuberculifer, n. s. 



Praecedenti persimilis, triplo minor. Niger, abdomine post seg- 

 mentum lum piceo, antennarum basi pedibusqiie, cum coxis 

 omnibus, testaceis, tibiis tarsisque posticis apicem versus fusce- 

 scentibus. Aloe hyalina?, squamulis, nervis, testaceis, stigmate 

 fusco, ad basin hyaline-, areolam cubitalem 2dam non attingente. 

 Radii abscissa lma brevissima, punctiformis. Abdominis seg- 

 mentum lum posticc ampliatum, tuberculis prominulis. 



Very like pallidipes, but much smaller. Black, abdomen after 



