258 NEWMAN ON TENTHREDININ A. 



Neatb, Chepstow, Goodriche, each has its pretence ;- 

 But mid thy solitary mountains, gained 



By no plain beaten track, my spirit turns 

 To thee, Llanthony; and, as yet untrained, 



Would freely worship where thine altar burns, 

 All, save by nature's priests, unseen and unprofaned! 



Art. XXXVII. — Notes on Tenthredinii«<. 

 By Edward Newman. 



In looking through Mr. Stephens's descriptive list of the 

 Tenthredinidw, with a view to naming the specimens in the 

 possession of the Entomological Club, I have made several 

 marginal memoranda, some of which I thought might perhaps 

 be of service to the public. Others, relating to the general 

 arrangement and the characters of genera, I shall not at pre- 

 sent publish, contenting myself with saying, that 1 consider 

 many of the genera, as Allantus, Selandria, &c. as not suffi- 

 ciently definite or precise. In the group of genera with 

 clavated antennae, I have no remark to make on the species, 

 not having a sufficient series before me to decide. With 

 respect to these, I acknowledge it has occurred to me that 

 sexes are occasionally elevated to the rank of species ; but this 

 is no more than a surmise. 



In the genus Hylotoma, I am unacquainted with H . pilicornis 

 and H. Berberidis, the latter of which was reported as British 

 by the late lamented Dr. Leach. Of H. enodis I possess a 

 fine series, and among them, specimens precisely agreeing with 

 Mr. Stephens's description of H. Anglica. Again, in the 

 descriptions of H. Violacea and H. cwrulea, differing only in 

 the tibiae of the latter being occasionally obscurely banded with 

 white, I cannot perceive a specific difference. In like manner, 

 H. Leachii appears to me to be scarcely a striking variety of 

 H. ustulata. H. Klugii, and H segmentaria, again vary but very 

 slightly ; and H. Stephensii and H. Pagana are to be distin- 

 guished principally by the colouring of their legs ; a character in 

 which scarcely two specimens precisely agree. 



