GEIS-US ENTOMOBRTA, EOND. 279 



of the darker varieties. I cannot say, however, how far this hold 

 good. Doubtless age has also something to do with it, as young 

 specimens have usually fewer markings than old ones. On the 

 other hand, I have quite young specimens with indications of all 

 the typical markings of multifasciata, and others of the lanuginosa 

 and Nicoletii varieties that are full-grown. 



Hah. {E. multifasciata and vars.). Britain, including Channel 

 Islands, Siberia, Finland, Sweden, Switzerland, France, Italy, and 

 North America. 



4. Entomobrta albocikcta. Temp. 



1835. Podura albocincta, Temp. Trans. Ent. Soc, vol. i. p. 95. 

 1862. Degeeria cincta, Lubk. Linn. Soc. Trans, p. 594. 



This species is very much of the- form of E. multifasciata, 

 though rather smaller. The antennae are about half the length 

 of the body ; the first segment is dark yellow, with a black ring 

 at the apex ; the second is a dark dirty violet in the apical half, 

 and the other two are the same colour. The head is brown an- 

 teriorly, shading oif to yellow. The mesothorax has a dark band 

 in front ; the ground-colour is yellow, which gets very pale 

 towards the posterior extremity. The metathorax and the first 

 three abdominal segments are black ; the fourth has the basal 

 two thirds black and the upper third dark yellow. The fifth and 

 sixth abdominal segments are yellow. Length jL inch. 



I regard Templeton's species as a young form of that described 

 later by Lubbock, because some specimens I found under tiles as 

 described by Templeton, and which answered fairly to his descrip- 

 tion, assumed when kept in confinement the cincta form of Lub- 

 bock. Templeton's name should therefore be the one used to 

 designate this species. 



Sai. Britain (originally described from Ireland) and Channel 

 Islands ; but hitherto not recorded elsewhere, although very 

 common in England. 



5. Entomobeta ? STJPEEBA, Beiiter. 



1876. Degeeria? superba. Renter, Med. Soc. pro Fauna et Flora Fen- 

 nica, i. p. 85. 



E-euter's description is as follows : — 



" Elava, capite, ore excepto, mesonoto disco dimidio basali 

 lateribusque fere totis, metanoto segmentisque que abdominis 

 secundo et tertio fascia basali lata et in lateribus dilatata, nee 

 non segmento abdominis quarto nigris, hoc quarto parte basali 



