188 OLADITTS BRTTLLJ5I. 



Injurious and other Insects of the State of New 

 York, 1888, p. 45, figs. 20—22. 



Aulacomerus has no relationship with Gladius. 



Oladius Brull^i (Vol. II, p. 35). 



I have treated tristis, Zad., as a synonym of this 

 species; and this is also the opinion of von Stein 

 (Ent. Nacht., 1886, p. 27), who says that the typical 

 examples he possesses differ in no ways from the 

 specimens of Brullei he has bred from the raspberry 

 and bramble feeding larva?. 



But Konow (D. E. Z., 1886, p. 75) states that the 

 Bubus feeding larvae are those of 0. tener, Zad. I 

 have re-examined my bred examples, as also those 

 reared from the raspberry larva? by Mr. Fletcher; 

 and they do not agree with the description of tener ; 

 particularly in the latter having the wings "albis 

 pellucidis," the tibia? and tarsi " lutiscentibus," not 

 " pallidis," while in tristis the wings are broadly fus- 

 cous or smoky in the middle. Konow himself states 

 (1. c.) that tener easily distinguishes itself from tristis 

 through its uncoloured wings, and also that it differs 

 from it in the apex of the sheath being strongly trian- 

 gularly widened at the apex, which is certainly not 

 the case with our species. 



The amount of fuscous or smoky tint in the wings 

 varies, as it does also in intensity. Mr. Fletcher has 

 bred a 3 which has them uniformly subhyaline. The 

 coxa?, too, may be white wholly or in part, and the apex 

 of the coxa? may be white ; the tegula? may be for the 

 greater part testaceous. The frontal area is not 

 indicated. 



It is possible that Brullsei may be distinct from 

 tristis, but I do not place much confidence in the 

 white trochanters of Brullsei. Zaddach (Beob., 1883, 

 p. 22) separates Brullsei from tristis by the wings and 

 trochanters being white ; tristis having the wings 



