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examples so labelled (both from the Pyrenees) one is perhaps Oh. alia, 
does not agree with the description. The other, which must be 
egarded as the type, is very closely allied to nigro-punctata, and ap- 
peals to differ chiefly in the face being suffused with sanguineous at 
the sides (indicated in fig. 7, but not in the description) : this suffusion 
is still more strongly indicated in an example from Laruns, Basses 
Pyrenees (Eaton), m my collection. One should see long series of 
both nigro-punctata and Meyeri in order to ascertain if they be really 
distinct. 
Chrysopa guadarramensis, Ed. Piet., p. 65, pi. vi, figs. 1 — 4. I 
know not why neither Pictet nor Hagen (Stett. Zeit., 1866, p. 298) 
notices the very obvious relationship to Ch. flava, Scop, (vittata, 
Schnd., nec Wesmael), of which it has the characteristic strong ex- 
cision of the costal margin of the anterior-wings (not sufficiently 
indicated in Pictet’s figure). It may be distinct, or it may be only a 
local form oijlava. The colour is paler, the pronotum has a distinct 
brown line on either side anteriorly, which I do not see in Hava, the 
nervules more strongly spotted with black at the end, the gradate 
series almost wholly black. The individual is a ? . Pictet compares 
it with p aliens, Eambur, which appears to be septempunctata. 
Chrysopa thoracica, Ed. Piet., p. 67, pi. vi, figs. 9— 12.— Belongs 
to the group of forms in which there is a black spot between the an- 
tennae, and a black dot at the extreme base of the costain the anterior- 
wings. I have seen only one example, which is quite distinct from 
anything known to me, differing in the absence of spots on the top of 
the head, in the lunate red mark on the face below the base of each 
antenna, &c. The name thoracica was applied by Walker in 1853 
(Cat. Brit. Mus. Ncurop., pt. ii, p. 243) to a Chrysopa from St. 
Domingo, hence it becomes necessary to rename Pictet’s insect : I 
propose the term Picteti. 
Chrysopa Zelleri (Schneider), Ed. Piet., p. 68.— Whether Zellcri 
is anything more than a form of the variable aspersa may be doubtful. 
The two posterior occipital points are smaller in Pictet’s examples than 
in others I have from Zeller. The spot on the basal joint of the an- 
tennas may be above, or outside, or absent altogether. I remark that 
a type of Ramburii, Costa, in my collection, is Zelleri and not ordinary 
aspersa ; neglectus, Costa, is also evidently Zellcri from the description, 
as Hagen has already determined. 
Chrysopa clathrata, Ed. Piet., p. 68.— I have three examples before 
me. They are certainly distinct from Schneider’s clathrata from 
