8 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
At fig. 6 I have represented the tarsus of one of the posterior 
legs enlarged, in order to show more clearly the singular little 
soles which are found on the under sides of the joints, and 
consist of a flat disk with a thick projecting muscular border. 
In the catalogue | named this species Cimbex lutea: this 
is the Linnean name of the female. I adopted this name on 
the authority of Zaddach. I see, however, that Linnzeus first 
described the male, which he called Femorata; and I there- 
fore think it is more reasonable to adopt this latter name, 
unless one were to drop both names as being collective 
names of certain species which he regarded as one; in which 
case precedence would have to be given to the name adopted 
by Brischke and Zaddach, namely Cimbex Saliceti. 
The female variety Pallens, which, according to the above- 
mentioned authors was also reared from larve feeding on 
willows, differs in the following particulars:—The dorsum 
of the thorax is of the same loamy yellow as the margins of 
the prothorax, and has only a wedge-shaped brown spot on 
the mesothorax; the abdomen, in the two examples with 
which I am acquainted, is entirely yellow, without any dark 
purple band or spots; lastly, the legs are entirely yellow, and 
the outer margin of the anterior wings is clouded with brown. 
There is no record of the place where these two examples 
were taken, so that I cannot confidently assert that they are 
indigenous. 
An Altempt to Arrange the British Eupithecide by their 
Larval Characteristics. By C. 8. Greeson, Esq. 
AT present, look where we will, we find this genus so 
muddled and mixed in our various books and lists that it 
seems evident our authors were, or are, little more than mere 
compilers, not one of them having shown any knowledge of 
the relationships of these most interesting groups of Lepi- 
doptera. Thus we see in one list Togata, which is not an 
Eupithecia at all, placed between Juniperata and Pumilata, 
the larve of which differ much from each other; whilst in 
another work we have Assimilata, with its long, slender 
larva, placed between Minutata and Tenuiata, two larve 
which | think almost as far removed from each other as it is | 
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