D0LERUS ANTHRAOINUS. 165 



Our coracinus is certainly the coracinus of the earlier 

 paper of Konow ; whether the coracinus of Klug and 

 Hartig are different is not very clear to me, but very 

 possibly the two are distinct ; e. g. Klug's species has 

 the wings hyaline, Hartig' s and mine hyaline suffused 

 with brownish ; the cenchri in Klug's are white, mine 

 has them fuscous. Neither Klug nor Hartig de- 

 scribes the position of the transverse radial nervure. 

 There can be no doubt about our species being nitens, 

 Zad. 



DoLERUS ANTHRAOINUS (Vol. I, p. 175). 



This is probably the anthracinus of Konow's first 

 paper, now apparently referred by him to coracinus, 

 Klug. It can hardly be anthracinus, Htg., for that 

 author states that it has the head almost bare, while 

 our species has the head covered with white hair, and 

 the tibial spurs pale brownish. It does not agree very 

 well with the description of bracliyg aster, for the abdo- 

 men is longer than the head and thorax united, the 

 colour is not bluish-black, the fore calcaria are not 

 brownish-red, and the wings are not " dunkel." It is 

 not coracinus, Kl., for that is distinctly bluish. I am 

 inclined to regard our form as a new species. 



Under the name of Dolerus anthracinus, KL, Brischke 

 describes a larva which fed on Gareoo and grass. What 

 the species may be seems doubtful ; the $ he describes 

 is the $ oifissus, which he quotes as a synonym, as 

 also leucobasis, Htg. He quotes Thomson's anthra- 

 cinus as being the same, so it is very likely possilensis. 

 The larva is 17 to 18 mm. long, shining, transversely 

 wrinkled, greenish-yellow, a green dorsal and lateral 

 stripe. Head reddish-yellow, eye-spots black, mouth 

 brown ; stigmas black, and over the base of the legs 

 and the lateral pads is a blackish splash. The anal 

 segment is bordered with black, and on each side is a 

 black spot. 



