ZYGINA ALNETI. 149 



are almost obsolete. General ground colour of the 

 insect very pale ochreous. Wings very delicate, and 

 without visible veining. Hind legs long, and pale 

 yellow. All the hind tarsi of the male black. 



May be taken sparingly in the spring by beating the 

 common ivy {Hedera helix). 



Mr. Edwards also obtained it in nearly equal numbers 

 with Z. hlandula on the Scotch fir. 



My figure is from Mr. Douglas's collection. 



Zygina hyperici, H.-Schciff. Plate LXXIII., fig. 4. 



Typhlocijha hyperici, H.-Schaff. ; Flor ; Kirschb. ; 



Sahib. 

 T. coromda, Boh. 

 T. placidida, Stal. 

 Eupteryx hyperici, Marsh. 

 Zygina hyperici, Leth. ; Fieb. ; Edw. pt, ii. p. 106. 



Smaller than the last. General colour of the body 

 pale ochreous, with a broad dark purplish brown line 

 of variable breadth, extending from the vertex to the 

 base of the scutellum. Abdomen pale ochreous ; all 

 the dorsal portion is occupied by a purple-brown mark 

 extending to the tail. Saw-case black. A small red 

 semicircular patch occurs upon the antepenultimate 

 segment. Legs pale yellow ; claws, but not the tarsi, 

 black. Elytron pale greenish grey, and fumose at the 

 tip and the base. The clavus is almost entirely carmine- 

 red, with an irregular border. 



This insect has been rarely taken in England. It 

 feeds on Hypericum perforatum, growing in woods as 

 late as Octol3er. It appears to be exceedingly variable 

 in colour, some occurring without any black patch on 

 the abdomen. 



Figured from the Douglas collection. 



