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matters more by adding another to the list. Mr. Meade, in a 

 note in the ' Entomologist's Monthly Mag.' vol. 18, also points 

 this out ; and Mr. M'^Lachlan calls attention to the desirability of 

 adopting Eondani's name. It is, however, particularly unfortu- 

 nate that the name Degeeria has to be changed, as the genus is 

 well established and has lent its name to a division of which it is 

 the type. 



The species of this genus are very widely distributed and very 

 variable. Hitherto a considerable importance has been attached 

 to the size, position, and colour of the various markings, so that 

 it is only natural to expect a good many synonyms. In the first 

 place, Lubbock (Linn. Soc. Trans. 1869) separated those species 

 described by Nicolet as being clothed with scales, and founded a 

 new genus for them under the name of 8ira, on account of their 

 linking together the genera Mntomohrya and Lepidocyrtus. Of 

 the species without scales Lubbock, in his Eay Soc. Monograph, 

 has condensed the number to sixteen species, as follows : — 



L E. nivalis, L. (Nic. & Lubk.). 



2. E. annulata, Fabr. 



3. E. albocincta. Temp. 



4. E. lanuginosa, Nic. 



5. E. Nicoletii, Lubk. 



6. E. cincta, Lubk. 



7. E. disjuncta, Nic. 



8. E. corticalis, Nic. 



9. E. muscorum, Nic. 



10. E. fenestrarum, Bourl. 



11. E. variegata, Guer. & Per. 



12. E. memhranea, Nic. (Chili). 



13. E. incerta, Nic. (Chili). 



14. E. decora, Nic. (Chih). 



15. E. atra, Nic. (Chili). 



16. E.fasciata, Say. 



E. perpulchra. Pack. 

 E. griseo-olivata. Pack. 

 E. purpuruscens, Pack. 



In 1871, Tullberg (Eort. ofver Sv. Pod.) added two species to 

 the list, viz. : — 



E. arhorea, Tullb. | E. marginata, TuUb. 



and in 1873 Packard (Thys. of Essex Co., Mass.) added four 

 more species to the American list, viz. : — 



E. decemfasciata, Pack. {D.flavo- 

 picta, Pack., Study Ins. 3rd ed. ; 

 D.Jlavocincta of later editions). 



In 1876 Eeuter described a species which he queried Degeeria ? 

 superba (Cat. Pod. Eennise). Einally, Mr. H. N. E-idley de- 

 scribed, in the Ent. Mo. Mag. 1881, another species under the 

 nsime oi D. pidcJiella. This makes now a total of twenty -four 

 species hitherto described, which I now propose to reduce to 

 eleven, for reasons which will be discu.ssed under each species. 



The first attempt at condensing the number of species of this 

 order was made by Lubbock (Eay Society Monogr.) when he 



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