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ferruginous knees, the fore tarsus much longer than the tibia, with the 

 intermediate joints yellowish, and the last somewhat dilated, deep black ; 

 in the female piceous, with the knees ferruginous, the extreme base of 

 the metatarsi pale, and the intermediate joints of the fore tarsus light 

 brown; hind legs black, femora in male ciliated towards the base with 

 short white hairs. 



Rare. In Mr. Dale's collection. (E.) 



7. fastuosus, Hal. z. j. v. 360. 8 (I83I).picipes, Stn.; Stg.j 

 Ztt. d. s. -plebejus, Ztt. lap. Atro-virens, hypostomate albo, pedibus 

 nigris; Mas. femoribus posticis breviter fusco-ciliatis, alis antice infuscatis 

 postice emarginatis. Long. 2-| ; alar. 4^ lin. 



Metallic blackish-green. Face white, duller in the female. Wings in 

 male obscure hyaline, dusky at the fore edge, narrow, the hind margin 

 being strongly sinuated-, in the female broader, and more generally 

 tinged with brown. Black edge of lamella narrow. Legs long, black, 

 with a ferruginous dot at the knees, and the extreme .base of the 

 anterior metatarsi pale ; hind femora in male fringed with very short 

 dusky hairs. 



Not rare in woods. (E. S. L) 



I have not ventured to follow Stannius in considering this to 

 be D. picipes, Mg., as the hind tibia and metatarsus are not more 

 bristly than usual. 



8. rupestris, Hal. e. m. i. 164 (1833). -festinans, lii.fusci- 

 manus, Ztt. Fusco-ceneus, femoribus tibiisque ferrugineis, posticis apice 

 nigris; Mas. tibiis posticis subincrassatis, hypostomate ochraceo ; Foem. 

 hypostomate canescente. Long. 1-| ; alar. 3^ lin-. 



Dull brassy -brown. Face ochre-brown in male, dull grey in female. 

 Wings hyaline, with a mere dot for the costal swelling in the male. 

 Lamellas dingy yellowish, with dusky edge. Coxa3 blackish, glossed 

 with grey ; trochanters dusky ; femora ferruginous, the fore pair often 

 dusky from the base to the middle or more, the others, or the hind pair 

 only, dusky at tJie tip ; tibice ferruginous, the hind pair black at the tip, 

 in the male slightly thickened above the middle, with a small denuded 

 space and an impression there. Anterior tarsi dusky with the meta- 

 tarsus mostly ferruginous, the hind pair black. Smaller than species 13. 



Not rare, on mountains. (E. S. I.) 



9. aeneus, Dg. vi. 104. 15 (1776). 'Ungulatus, L. ? s. n. x. ; 

 Shr. ; Esi. ; Pz. ; Fin. ; Mg. ; Mq. ; Stn. ; Hal. ; Stg. ; Ztt. ; Grn. ! 

 ic. 96. 4. Var. chalybeus, Mg. Var. nigricornis, Mg. ; Mq. Viridi- 

 fsneus, hypostomate albo, antennis nigris, pedibus luteis, tibiis posticis 

 apice tarsisque nigris, femoribus posterioribus pluri-spinosis ; Mas. femo- 

 ribus nigro-ciliatis, alis lineola costali nigra. Long. 2|- ; alar. 4-| lin. 



Brassy-green, varying to coppery, more rarely steel-blue. Face white, 

 sometimes straw-colour in the male. Wings hyaline, with a black 

 costal swelling* in male; smoky hyaline in female. Lamella? dingy 



