of ihc Fainllij Tabaiiidjv. \)1 



IT. itul'ico, botli specie's being distiiiguislied by the cylin- 

 drical \o\\\i, first joint of the antennic. The ch.'iractcrs given 

 in the table to distinguish tiie two species are taken from 

 Sehiner and other authorities, but Mill probably not prove 

 satisfactory, judging from the material in the National 

 Collection, which, however, is too poor to throw further light 

 on the (jucstiou. 



Hmmatopota itulica^ $ ? , ]\Ieigcn. 



One female from Nicosia, Cyprus {Miss M. D. Bates), 

 1903. Gl. 



One female from France. 



Mik, in 'Fauna llernstein,' Becker, iii. p. 515 (1886), 

 distingtiishes this species from //. pluvialis by the cylin- 

 drical first joint of the antcnnte, which \sas lung as the tfiird 

 joint and hardly thicker, and adds that the grey tomcntuiu 

 covering it is so thick that only here and there is the shining 

 black colour to be seen through. 



Hcematopota pluvialis, (J ?, Linn. 



Specimens are in the Brit. Mus. Coll. from Norway, 

 Lecnane, Co. (jalway, Gloucestershire, Avon Valley, Boi)pard 

 on the Rhine, Alps, Spain, The Hague, Italy, and France. 



It is distinguished from H. italica by its thickened first 

 antennal joint, which is distinctly wider in the middle and 

 much shorter than the third joint, and the bright black 

 colour is not obscured by grey pubescence. 



The H. fristis, ? , Bigot, type, with the exception of the 

 moie yellow colour of the middle and posterior femora, is 

 identical with this common European species ; the type 

 comes from Japan. 



Hcematopota lusitanica, ? , Guerin. 



Five females from Portugal (O. Thomas), 98. 99. 



A large blackish species, evidently distinct from H. crassi- 

 cornis ; but at present the only distinction I can give to 

 separate them is the larger size of the above. 



Hcematopota crassicornis, (^ ? , Wahlberg. 



One male from Beaulieu, New Forest (Ricardo), 14. vii. 98. 



One male from Avon Valley, 24. v. 96. 



One male from Bantham, 26. vi. 96. 



Four males from Wick, near Bristol (Ricardo), 27. vi. 05. 



One female from Gravesend (Yerburi/), 91. l-l. 3. 



