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abdomen above, bluish black, the basal segment yellow, with a 
minute lateral black spot on each side of its base, and a short 
apical black streak, the posterior edges of the remaining segments, 
of the fifth and sixth, especially the latter, more broadly, a stripe 
down the sides as far as the last segment, and the apex, white ; 
beneath fuscous, the apices of the segments white, the last segment 
rather dusky ; the face, breast, coxe, and femora yellow, tibiz 
and tarsi white, the claws of the last black. Length 12 line. 
Found in the end of October, on the bramble, and likewise on 
the hazel in Penmanshiel Wood, Berwickshire ; also occasionally 
at Gibside. 
4, T. LUTEA. 
Narrow, sub-cylindric, yellow; head, thorax, and scutellum 
brightest, the two first but slightly convex; the head rather 
pointed, its hinder angles a little wider than the thorax ; eyes 
whitish ; autenne short ; elytra paler, the tips subhyaline, scarcely 
tarnished ; wings white ; abdomen black, with a spot on each 
side at the base, the lateral margins broadly, the apex and two 
transverse bands, of which the latter one is broader, yellow, the 
apices of the other segments narrowly whitish beneath, with the 
basal segments black, the posterior margins, and the last segment 
entirely yellow; oviduct tawny; breast yellow, a black patch 
behind the origin of the fore and middle pair of legs ; legs yellow, 
a row of minute black spots down the outer edge of the posterior 
tibie, tips of the tarsi black. Length 14 line. 
A single specimen found in Berwickshire. 
5. T. QUADRA-SIGNATA. 
Small, narrow, sub-cylindric, the elytra somewhat expanded 
near the middle, and only moderately narrowed behind ; face and 
front of the head yellow, the former marked on the upper part 
with two faint curved, short, longitudinal, the latter near the 
point with two short transverse, pale testaceous lines, neither 
always present; on the hinder head are two black or fuscous 
squares, which are cut out on the anterior edge, narrowly separated 
from each other by a yellow line, and from the eyes by a similarly 
coloured margin ; eyes fuscous ; antenne with a longish bristle ; 
