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coloured lower margin ; or bluish-violet, underneath with three green 
bands bordered with red " ; the eyes of the female are green, with 
from three to four purple bands. The abdomen of the female is 
rather broad. 
Of this species there are no modern British specimens in the 
M useum collection. Colonel Yerbury writes that it is " very rare," 
and that he has met with it " only at Fordingbridge, Hants, and 
Barmouth, North Wales." According to Brauer (Joe. cit., p. 138), 
Mr. Verrall has taken it at Lyndhurst, New Forest, Hants, in June. 
The Continental series of T/i. micans in the possession of the Museum 
includes specimens from Rhenish Prussia and Bohemia. 
Therioplectes borealis, (Mg.pro parte) Brauer. 
The only British specimen of this mountain species in the Museum 
collection is a male from Glen Avon, S. Banffshire, N.B., June 8th, 
1893 {IV. R. Ogilvie Grant), of which the dimensions are — length, 
15 mm.; width of head, 5 mm.; wing expanse, 2*]\ mm. The 
general coloration of the insect is brown, with a chestnut-coloured 
patch on each side of the second and third abdominal segments ; the 
hind margin of the first segment is also of the same colour on each 
side, and there is just a trace of a similar patch on each side of the 
fourth segment. The eyes of this male are densely clothed with light 
yellowish-brown hair, and the facets on the upper two-thirds of each 
eye, except the hind margin, are conspicuously larger than those 
below, the change from the large to the small facets being somewhat 
abrupt. 
According to Brauer Joe. cit., pp. 143, 144), in the living insect the 
eyes of the male are "green, with one or two purple bands," while 
those of the female are described as " green, with three broad 
purple bands, sometimes very dark." Brauer states that the front 
{i.e., the space between the eyes) in the female is " very broad and 
short, at the most from two and a-half to three times higher than 
broad." 
Of Continental specimens of this species the Museum possesses 
a male from Alten, Finmark, July, 1903 {Sir G. F. Hampsou, Bt.) ; 
