200 Mr. G. R. Waterbouse's Notes 



XIV, Notes on the British Species of Cissidae. By G. R. 

 Waterhouse, Esq., F.Z.S., &c. 



[Read July 4th, 1859.] 



The European species of Cis, and allied genera, amount (according 

 to Dr. Schaum's recently published Catalogue) to 42. Hitherto, 

 of British species, I have only seen tl)irteen or fourteen ; hence it 

 is probable there are several yet to be discovered ; and, with the 

 view of drawing attention to the group, I will lay before the 

 Society such little information as I possess relating to them. I 

 will, in the first place, state that, soon after the publication of 

 M. Mellie's Monograph in the " Annales de la Societe Entomo- 

 logique de France," (see vol. vi., Second Series, pp. 205, 213,) I 

 endeavoured to determine the species of my own collection, but 

 having doubts as to some of my conclusions, I availed myself of 

 an opportunity which subsequently offered itself, to send my 

 species to the author of the Monograph. These were returned to 

 me with two corrections, and consisted of the following species :• — 

 Cis Boleti, setiger, festivus, oblongus, fuscatus, Aim, hidcnlatiis, 

 nitidus ; Ennearthron cornutunij and affine. 



Recently, with the view of determining certain additional 

 species which have come to hand, I have had occasion to re- 

 examine the entire group, and I believe I recognize amongst my 

 captures tlie Cis micans and C hispidus, together with a third 

 species, of which I possess but one specimen, and which I am 

 unable to determine. 1 have also to add to the list the Octo- 

 temnus glabriculus, an insect which stands, in Mr. Stephens' col- 

 lection, to represent the C. nitidus. 



The species in the Stephensian collection are as follows : — 



1. Cis Boletorum, which is = C. Boleti of Gyllenhal, Mellie, 



&c., &c.,as well as of the "Illustrations," but bears the 

 old Marshamian specific name, it being the Flinus Bole- 

 torum of the " Ent. Brit." p. 85, sp. 13. 



2. C. Jiavus — represented by immature specimens of the Cis 

 setiser of Mellie. 



