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are black, the intermediate ones being red, and t lie hind legs also red, 
or with a black ring before the middle. This is Hahn’s “ Abanderung 
c,” under which the description of Schilling is cited verbatim : “ an- 
tennis ha si rufis , pedibus pallidis, femorihus anticis nigris On the 
contrary, the description of the type of Hahn gives the following 
characters : “Fiihler schwarzbraun, das erste Grlied derselben am Elide 
und das zweite am Girunde rothlichgelb : die Fiisse rothlichgelb, alle 
Schenkel, mit Ausnahme der Spitze derselben, schwarz .”* 
Ortiiotyli, with green cell-nerve and somewhat diaphanous shining 
elytra. In my remarks on these species (No. 159; vol. xiv, p. 60), 
some typographical errors are to be corrected. Line 17, from below, 
p. 60 ,for “the first joint,” read “the third joint p. 61, line 7, from 
above, for “somewhat sharply,” read “not;” and, the same page, line 
19 ,for “head,” read “third.” 
By examining a greater quantity of material, I have reduced the 
British species to the following : — 
1 (2.). First joint of antennae, beneath, with a black streak. 
O. striicornis, Kirschb. 
2 (1.). First joint of antennae nnicolorous. 
3 (4.). First joint of antennae as long as the head; second joint with some 
longer exserted very fine hairs, the last two joints together shorter than the second ; 
third joint a little less (d ) or a little more (?) than twice shorter than the second ; 
fourth joint as long as the first, and less than twice shorter than the third. Vertex 
distinctly carinate. The genital segment of the d scarcely broader than the other, 
and as long as the five preceding segments together. — H nim. 
O. viridinervis, Kirschb. 
4 (3.). First joint of antennae shorter than the head, second joint without ex- 
serted longer hairs. 
* According to this discrimination, the synonym}’ will be : 
decoratus, Hahn. 
ericetorum, Leih. 
afkinis, Schill. 
decoratus, Aband. b and c, Hahn. 
I had, however, cited (Brit. Hem.,p. 188) the Aband. b and c as — adjunctu s, D. and S , and I 
still think so, at any rate, with respect to the former The Aband. I> is described : “ Das erste und 
zweite FUhlerglied gam und das dritte zur iiiilfte, nebst den Schenkeln des zvveiten und dritten 
Fusspaares, rothlichgelb," exactly agreeing with adjuncts : the Aband. c seems to be merely the 
brachypterous form of b, but in vmw of the appended verbatim description of affinis, that species 
may be indicated. In any case it is agreed that adjunct as, D and S., and affinis, Schill, are good 
distinct species- as species are now reckoned. 
If, as Dr. Reuter says, Hahn's figure 71 cannot be regarded as representing any other species 
than ericetorum, yet it will have to be admitted that for this both the figure and description are 
in some points unsatisfactory. Thus, Hahn says that the antenna: are stronger than in S. pictus, 
and they are so represented ; that the first joint at the end and the second at the base are reddish- 
yellow and the figure shows them largely so ; but in ericetorum the antennae are not stouter than 
in pictus, and the light colouring of the first and second joints is pale yellowish (not reddish- 
yellow), and of very slight extent on either, and, as Dr. Reuter says, the first joint is sometimes 
wholly black All the thighs are said to be black, except at the apex (the figure does not show 
the base' but in ericetorum the second and third pairs are longly reddish -yellow at the base, in all 
the British and foreign examples I have seen. Lastly, Hahn says his decoratus is found under 
moss at the foot and on the roots of “ Fichten und Fdhren,” which stand at the sides of woods ; 
whereas, -with us, ericetorum is found exclusively among heather (Calluna), and mostly where no 
fir-trees grow. — J. W. D. 
