XXX. GORYTES. Qe 
+4+ Much confusion has also been mtroduced into the 
synonymy of this insect, the ¢ of which is evidently Fa- 
bricius’s Mellinus quadrifasciatus. Van der Linden has 
introduced three distinct species into the synonymes of 
this single one, for the figure of the ¢ which he cites 
certainly belongs to another, although allied, species ; but 
the ¢ he describes is the correct one, and the synonyme 
of Spinola belongs to St. Fargeau’s Euspongus laticinctus, 
and both sexes of which Van der Linden describes under 
his Gorytes arenarius ; but the first 4 there described is 
our ¢ also; and St. Fargeau has added to the confusion 
by evidently mixing three species in his Hoplisus quinque- 
cinctus and its varieties; those above cited, however, refer 
alone to one species. Mr. Curtis not having had leisure 
to disentangle this knot, has treated this as a new species. 
{ find it abundantly in Battersea Fields in July, and at 
Birchwood in August, on Umbellifere. 
Sp. 4. warticinctus. St. Farg. 
niger, antennarum scapo et flagello subtus (8 nigro) flavo ; 
prothorace, scutelli (S$ nigro) margine posteriore, abdomi- 
neque fasciis quatuor (secundo latissimo) flavis. 
length 43—53 lines. 
Euspongus laticinctus. St. Farg. Ann. de la S. E. de F. 1. 66. 1. 
Gorytes quadrifasciatus. Spinola, 1. 93. 2. 
arenarius. V. de Lind. pt. 2. 97. 11 (the description of the 
second ¢, and the 9, without the synonymes). 
Head black, shining, delicately punctured ; antennz black, 
the scape yellow in front, and the remainder beneath, excepting 
the two last joints, of a fulvous yellow, with a slight black line 
above ; the lower portion of the inner orbits of the eyes, the 
clypeus, and the labrum, yellow; the mandibles black, their 
apex piceous. 
The thorax black, shining, delicately punctured, with four 
