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Saone-et-Loire, at Canigou, near Grenoble, Serres in the Hautes- 

 Alpes, at Decines near Lyon. South of the Alps it is rare. 



2. Phaneroptera quadripunctata, Brunner. 



Ip Closely resembles the preceding species, but differs in the paler 

 "colour, Avhich is more yellowish, by the four black spots on the elytra 

 of the male, by the deeper side flaps of the pronotum, by the rounded, 

 and not broadened, cerci of the male, and the less sharply bent ovi- 

 positor of the female, and by the narrower, sharper, subgenital lamina 

 of the male. Length of body, 13mm. -15mm. S and 2 ; of pronotum, 

 3"5mm. S' and $ ; of elytra, 19mm. S and ? ; posterior femora, 

 17mm. -18mm. $■ and 5 ; of the ovipositor, 5-5mm. 5 . 



Eeplaces the preceding in southern Europe. In France not un- 

 common in the south, Montpellier, Cannes, Hyeres, Toulouse, Tarbes, 

 Bagnols, Montauroux, le Kayran, Caraman, Valence, Drome, le Var» 

 In Italy at Venice ; also in Sicily, Sardinia, and in Spain at Malaga. 



3. Phaneroptera nana, Charpentier. 



Closely resembles the preceding, but differs in the shorter elytra, 

 less rounded side flaps of the pronotum, and especially by the narrower 

 point of the ovipositor. Length of body, 12mm. -13mm. 3 ^-nd 5 ; 

 of pronotum, 3-2mm. 3^ and ? ; of elytra, 15-5mm.-18mm. 3 and 2 ; 

 of posterior femora, 16mm. -17mm. 3 and 2 ; of ovipositor, 

 4'5mm. 2 • 



Eeally an African insect, this species appears to have been taken 

 in Portugal. 



Genus IX : Tylopsis, Fieber. 



Kesembles Phaneroptera, but anterior tibiae spined above, and 

 tympanum conchatum or shell-shaped. A single species. 



1. Tylopsis liliifolia, Fieber. 



Green or testaceous, or violet-brown and marbled ; in appearance 

 like Phaneroptera. Length of body, 13mm. -22mm. 3 , 17mm. -23mm. 

 ? ; of pronotum, 3mm.-4-8mm. 3 and 2 I of elytra, 16mm. -24mm. 

 ^ , 17mm. -24mm. 2; of posterior femora, 21 mm. -27mm. 3 and 2'. 

 of ovipositor, 4mm. -6mm. 2 • 



Common in the neighbourhood of the Mediterranean. In France^ 

 only in the extreme south, Marseilles, Hyeres, Cette, Vias, Toulouse, 

 Amelie-les-Bains, Bagnols, Montauroux, Draguignan, le Eayran, 

 Carcassonne, Saint Tropez. In Italy at Turin, Pegli, Voltaggio, 

 Naples, Genoa. 



The marbled aberration, margineguttata, Serv., occurs with thetype,^ 

 but is less numerous ; also throughout Spain. 



Family II : Meconemid^. 



This is an extremely restricted family of small, delicate, pale green 

 insects, with no stridulating apparatus ; superficially resembling the 

 Phaneropteridae, they may be at once distinguished by having the tarsi 

 sulcate at the sides, in common with the following families ; the 

 tympanum is open, and the anterior tibiae have no terminal spine, 

 while the hind tibi« have an apical spine on each side above, and two 

 apical spines beneath. There are but two genera. 



