TENTH UEDINID.^. LOPHYRUS. 21 



nuated to the apex, and more or less serrated within : all the species 

 appear to subsist in their larva state upon different plants of the fir 

 kind. 



Sp. 1. Pini. Mas; ovatus subdepressus ater, alls posticis wpice fuscescentibus, 

 antennis thorace brevioribus, lanceolatis, radiis utrinque 20: — foemina; albida, 

 capite thoracis maculis abdominisque medio fuscis, antennarum articulis 20. 

 (Long. Corp. $ 3§lin. ; 9 4§; Exp. Alar. $ 6lin.; 9 9 — 9^ lin.) 



Ten. Pini. Linne. — Lo. Pini. Curtis, v. ii. pi. 54/, $ and 9. — Steph. Catal. 

 327. iVo. 3773. 



Male ovate, slightly depressed, black, slightly villose ; palpi and two basal 

 joints of the antennas testaceous ; antennae shorter than the thorax, lanceo- 

 late, with 20 rays on each side and a simple terminal joint ; tibife and tarsi 

 pale, with the tips of the joints dusky ; wings hyaline, with the nervures 

 pale at the base, the stigma dusky; posterior with the extreme apex 

 brownish. Female much depressed, whitish, or pale testaceous, with an 

 irregular patch on the middle of the thorax, and of the abdomen, the breast, 

 head, and antennse black, except the 2 basal joints of the last, which are 

 pale; the antennae 20 jointed. Some examples of this sex are more 

 distinctly spotted with black than others^ and the spots vary in size. 

 Found in Scotland, and in Cumberland and Derbyshire ; in the 



former country near Edinburgh and in Dumfriesshire ; on the pine 



in June : it is not common. 



Sp. 2. rufus. Plate XXXV. f. l.^;f. 2. ?. — Mas; corpore depresso-sublineari, 

 nigro-nitido, abdomine subtus pedibusque ritfis, antennis thorace duplo longio- 

 ribus ensiformibus, radiis utrinque 25: — foemina; corpore subcylindrico, 

 elongato, rufn-testaceo unicolore, antennarum articulis 23. (Long. corp. ^ 

 3i— 9 4. lin.; Exp. Alar. $ 7—? 9 lin.) 



Lo. rufus. Klug. — Steph. Catal. S27. No. S1 11 4!. 



Male with the body depressed, somewhat linear, shining black ; abdomen 

 beneath (except the apex) and the legs testaceous-red ; antennae twice the 

 length of the thorax, sword-shaped, with 25 rays on each side, and a simple 

 joint at the apex; wings hyaline, anterior with a faint brownish stigma. 

 Female with the body subcylindric, elongate, and entirely of a testaceous- 

 red; antennae black, 23-jointed, the 2 basal joints testaceous. 



The thorax and the base of the abdomen are occasionally spotted a little with 

 black. 



Not very uncommon in fir plantations within the metropolitan 



district. I have taken it in June near Hipley, and Cobham in 



Surrey, and also in Birch wood: it occurs likewise in Scotland. 



tSp. 3. pallidus. Mas ; ater, ovato-depressus, abdomine subtus rufo, pedibus 

 pallidis, antennis thorace brevioribus, lanceolatis, radiis utrinque 18: — foemina; 



