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thorax opaque black, the back occasionally less deeply tinted, and 
often showing a very short central line, and four small specks, 
two anterior, and two posterior, the latter being elongated, 
yellowish ; scutellum concolorous, with a palish spot at the apex ; 
the colour of the elytra is nearly the same with the thorax, but 
is less saturated towards the apex, and is there diversified by 
hyaline or paler spots, and by the whitening of the nervures at 
their junctions or furcations; a conspicuous white or yellowish 
squarish spot, into which, posteriorly, a short twig of black often 
runs, on the suture behind the scutellum ; the costa bordered with 
pale yellow, at its origin appearing in a narrow line, but soon 
entering upon the black ground in a large patch twice sinuated 
posteriorly, which is then nearly cut off by a salient point of black, 
deepest tinted at its point, but again encroaches to form a lesser 
area ; a small hyaline spot is situated at the fuscous tint, inter- 
vening betwixt this and the apex ; wings white, glossy, the three 
upper nervures dusky, and the apex slightly clouded ; the abdomen 
black above, with lateral stripes, the posterior edges of thesegments 
and a wide band before the apex, yellow; beneath yellow with 
black transverse bands, or fuscous, with yellow margins to the 
segments ; breast and legs yellow, a spot on the sides of the former 
and the tips of the tarsi, black. Length 1—14 line. 
Generally distributed in the meadows near Newcastle, and also 
in deans, in Berwickshire. Autumn. 
This is constant to the characters assigned ; still, as colours in 
these insects are liable to vary, it may be identical with the 
Lupteryx notata, of Curtis. 
6. T. ocronorata. 
Narrow, sub-cylindric, rather shining, considerably tapered 
behind, elytra somewhat curved upwards towards the tips; the 
face and head yellow, the former somewhat fulvescent in the centre, 
with traces of obsolete ribs, and of two minute pale spots above, 
the latter with two moderately sized black spots on the anterior 
edge; eyes light brown, with a blackish spot on the hinder 
angles ; bristle of the antenne of considerable length ; thorax and 
scutellum yellow, the former with two approximated black spots 
