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CONTENTS.

PAGE

Explanation of the Plates ae ae ae AS aie .. Vill

List of Fellows a SG te a wanes

Additions to the Library Ne ts 50 as oe AG egal

MEMOIRS.

I. Cecidomyia destructor, Say, in Great Britain. By ELeanor

A. Onmerop, Consulting Entomologist to the Royal

Agricultural Society of England. .. ae oe as ut

II. Descriptions of some new species of Brachycerus. By

Francis P. Pascor, F.L.S., &e. ws sie ae He 7

III. Pedigree Moth-breeding, as a means of verifying certain

important Constants in the General Theory of Heredity.

By Francis Gauron, M.A., F.R.S. 5c ae

IV. Practical suggestions and enquiries as to the method of

breeding Selenia illustraria for the purpose of obtaining

data for Mr. Galton. By Frepsric Merrirtep, F.E.S. 29

V. Description of a new species of Synchloé from Kilimanjaro.

By Putuie Crow ey, F.L.S., Zee hOoC okies a 55a) Bi

VI. Descriptions of some new species of Rhopalocera from the

Solomon Islands. By GurvaseE F. Maruew, R.N., F.L.S.,

F.Z.8., &e. E ac : ab Sp o.oo

VII. Monograph of British Braconide. Part II. By the Rev.

T. A. Marsuatt, M.A., F.L.S., &. .. an oe ae) ol:

VIII. Description of a new species of the lepidopterous genus

Carama, together with a few notes on the genus. By

Grorce T. Baxer, F.E.S. ; ys se Be JI6B}

IX. A revision of the genera Acrolophus, Poey, and Anaphora,

Clem. By the Right Hon. Lord WausincHam, M.A.,

F.R.S., F.L.8., &e. ie ¢ fe 50 so L3t

X. Description of a new genus of Rhopalocera allied to Anteros,

Hew. By Grorcu T. Baxer, F.E.S. : bc wey lo

XI. New genera and species of Buprestidae. By Cuarues O.

Wateruouss, F'.E.S. .. a ae ite sort Wate

XII. On Pyralidina from Australia and the South Pacific. By

Epwarp Meyrick, B.A., F.E.S. 56 50 sis 185

XIII. Descriptions of some exotic Micro-Lepidoptera. By Epwarp

Meyricx, B.A., F.E.S. , ae Be se 209

XIV. Notes in 1886 upon lepidopterous larve, &e. By Epwarp B.

Povuron, M.A., F.L.S., F.G.S., EZS., &e: ate ap Ashik

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XV. On Byrsops, and some allied genera. By Francis P.

PASCO, Hi.S.,7cGy ae oe ve a 56 e. 323

XVI. Contributions to a knowledge of Oriental Rhynchota.

PartI. Fam. Pentatomide. By W. L. Distant, F.E.S. 341

XVII. Further additions to the Rev. T. A. Marshall’s Catalogue

of British Ichnewmonide. By Joun B. Bripeman, F.L.8. 361

XVIII. On a new genus of South African Pselaphide. By Tuos.

L. Casry. (Communicated by Dr. D. Suarp.) 381

XIX. On the Butterflies of the French Pyrenees. By Henry J.

Exwes, F.L.S., F.Z.8., &. .. de ac ee BG Tosi

Proceedings for 1887 .. ere 50 oe Te 56 ab i

Index .. oe ee st Ac st 5 oC Bo 1boo-ai

EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES.

Plates I.—II. See pages 7 to 18 | Plate VIII. See pages 137 to 173

Plate Ty 9 <6 -. See page 35 | Plate IX. .. ,, say hon LG

PlateIV. .. See pages 37 to 49 | PlateX. .. ,, ae tel ay BAL

Plate V. ot op py tb MRI abe OL a AL oa, » 9323 ,, 339

Plate. VE. ies) as. esa loon. doer elate Xilece ae eo oad cemcDg

Plate VILE tas) 3, Waste LS

ERRATA.

The generic name Ankistrophorus, used on pp. 140, 146, and 172, &e.,

in Lord Walsingham’s Revision of the genera Acrolophus and Anaphora,

is found to be preoccupied by the more correctly-spelt name Ancistrophora,

Schin. (in the order Diptera). Lord Walsingham is therefore desirous

to correct this error by substituting for Ankistrophorus the generic name

Homonymus, to be used throughout his paper, and in all references to

this genus.

At p. 387 for Hrebra read Erebia.

At p. x of the Proceedings, for Eupithecia read Eupithecia.

Wist of Fellotus

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Date of

HONORARY FELLOWS.

Election.

1875 Burmeister, Hermann Carl Conrad, Buenos Ayres.

1885 Dourn, Carl August, Stettin.

1863 Hacen, Hermann Aucust, Cambridge, U.S.A.

1884 Miter, Fritz, Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brazil.

1884 OsrEN-SAcKEN, Baron C. R. von, Heidelberg.

1884 Pacxarp, Atpumus S8., Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A.

1872 Saussure, Henri F. de, Geneva.

1871 Srnys-Lonecuames, Baron M. E. de, Liege.

1882 Sicnoret, Victor, Paris.

1885 SNELLEN, PretER C. T., Rotterdam.

FELLOWS.

Marked * are Original Members.

Marked + have compounded for their Annual Subscriptions.

Date of

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1877 Apams, Frederick Charlstrom, 20 Old Bond-street, W.

1877. Apams, Herbert J., Roseneath, London-road, Enfield, N.

1885 Apxrn, Robert, Wellfield, Lingard-road, Lewisham, S.E.

1880 Anpré, Ed., Member of the Entomological Societies of

France, Berlin, Stettin, &c., 21 Bowlevard Bretonniere,

Beaune (Cote d'Or), France.

1886 Arcuer, F., Little Crosby-road, Crosby, Liverpool.

1856 Armiracs, Ed., R.A., 3 Hall-road, St. John’s Wood, N.W.

1886

1883

LIST OF FELLOWS.

Atmore, E A., 3 Haylett-terrace, Exton’s-road, King s

Lynn, Norfolk.

Attyr, Robt. Jervoise, Ingow Grange, Stratford-on-Avon.

* +Basrineton, Charles Cardale, M.A., F.R.S., F.L.8., &c.,

1885

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1884

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1861

Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge,

5 Brookside, Cambridge.

Baker, G. T., 16 Clarendon-road, Edgbaston, Birmingham

Baty, Joseph S., M.R.C.8., F.L.8., The Butts, Warwick.

Bankes, Eustace R., M.A., Corfe Castle, Dorset.

BarGaGul, Nobile Cavaliere Piero, Piazza S. Maria, Palazzo

Tempi No. 1, Florence, Italy.

Barker, H. W., 148 Hollydale-road, Queen’s-road,

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Barrett, Charles Golding, Norfolk-street, King’s Lynn,

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Barton, Stephen, 32 St. Michael's Hill, Bristol.

Batres, Henry Walter, F.R.S., F.L.8., &., 11 Carleton-

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BIGNELL, George Carter, 7 Clarence-place, Stonehouse,

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Bruuurs, T. R., 20 Swiss Villas, Coplestone-road, Peckham,

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BorrerR, Wm., junr., F.G.8., Pakyns Manor House,

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Briveman, John B., F.L.S., 69 St. Giles’-street, Norwich.

Briaes, Charles Adolphus, 55 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, W.C.;

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Surrey.

1879 Bronanrart, Le Chevalier Charles, Memb. Ento. Soc.

France, and Memb. Geol. Soc. France, &ec., 8 Rue Guy de

la Brosse, Paris.

1878 Broun, Capt. Thomas, Drury, Auckland, New Zealand.

1887 Brown, Henry Rowland, B.A., Oxhey Grove, Stanmore,

Middlesex.

1886 Brown, John, 5 King’s Parade, Cambridge.

1862 Browne, The Rev. Thomas Henry, M.A., F.G.S., The

Cedars, High Wycombe, Bucks.

1883 Bucxron, George Bowdler, F.R.S., F.L.8., Weycombe,

Haslemere, Surrey.

1855 Burnewy, Edward Henry, 32 Bedford-row, W.C.

1868 + Butter, Arthur Gardiner, F.L.S., F.Z.8., British Museum,

South Kensington, S.W.; and 10 Avington-grove,

Penge, 8.E.

1883 Burter, Edward Albert, B.A., B.Sc., Windeyer, Ashley-

road, Crouch Hill, N.

1886 CatveRT, Wm. Bartlett, Colegio Yngles, 13 Calle Nataniel,

Santiago, Chili, South America.

1886 Camerron, Peter, 20 Beech-road, Sale, Cheshire.

1885 CampsetL, Francis Maule, F.L.S., F.Z.8., &e., Rose Hill,

Hoddesdon, Herts.

1860 Canvizx, Dr. E., Glain, Liege.

1880 CanspaLtr, W. D., 6 Whittington-terrace, London-road,

Forest Hill, S.E.

1886 Capron, Edward, M.D., Shere, Guildford.

1886 CarRMICcHAEL, T. D. Gibson, M.A., F.L.S., Chiefswood,

Melrose, N.B.

1868 Carrineton, Charles, Hilerslie, Lower Merton, 8.W.

1871 Cuampion, G. C., 11 Calder-Vale-road, Elms Park,

Clapham Common, S.W.

1886 + CLark, John Adolphus, The Broadway, London Fields.

N.E.

1867 CuarRKE, Alex. Henry, 109 Warwick-road, Earls Court, 8.W.

1886 Cuxarke, Charles Baron, M.A., F.R.S., F.L.8., F.G.8., Royal

Herbarium, Kew.

1874 Cock iE, Capt. George, 9 Bolton-gardens, S.W.

1878 Coxe, William, Lawrel Cottage, Buckhurst Hill, Esse.

1884 Coxuetrr, KE. Pyemont, 19 St. John-street, Manchester.

1880 CopLanD, Patrick F., 41 Hope Villas, Buckhurst Hill, Esse.

Xl LIST OF FELLOWS.

1876 + CoppertHwaitE, William Charles, Beech-grove, Malton.

1883 CovVERDALE, George, 24 Pleming-road, Lorrimore-square,

S.E.

1886 CowrLL, Peter (Librarian of the Liverpool Free Public

Library), William Brown-street, Liverpool.

1853 Cox, Colonel C. J., Fordwich House, Canterbury.

1867 Cox, Herbert Ed., Ashleigh, Marlborough Hill, Harrow.

1880 + Crisp, Frank, LL.B., B.A., F.L.S., F.G.8S.. See. R.M.S.,

5 Lansdowne-road, Notting Hill, W.

1883 Crow Ley, Philip, F.L.8., F.Z.S8., Waddon House, Croydon.

1878 Date, C. W., Glanville’s Wootton, Sherborne.

1887 Dautry, The Rev. Thomas W., M.A., F.L.S., Madeley

Vicarage, Newcastle, Staffordshire.

1886 Dannartt, Walter, luy Dene, Westecombe Park, Blackheath

S.E.

1885 Dent, Hastings Charles, C.E., F.L.S., 20 Thurloe-square,

S.W.

1837 DrvonsHiIrE, His Grace The Duke of, K.G., M.A., D.C.L.,

F.R.S., &e., Devonshire House, 78 Piccadilly, W.

1886 Dickson, The Rev. Prof. William Purdie, D.D., LL.D.,

Professor of Divinity in the University of Glasgow,

Glasgow.

1875 Distant, Wm. Lucas, Memb. Anthropological Institute,

1 Russell-hill-road, Purley, Surrey.

1887 Drixey, F. A., M.A., M.B., Wadham College, Oxford; and

Friern Lea, North Finchley, N.

1885 Donovan, Charles, junr., Westview, Glandore, Leap, Co.

Cork.

1873 Doria, Marquis Giacomo, Strada Nuova, Genoa.

1886 Dormer, The Right Honourable Lord, Grove Park, Warwick.

1876 Doveuas, John Wm., 8 Beaufort-gardens, Lewisham, 8.E.

1874 Dowsert, Arthur, 54, Russell-street, Reading.

1884 Druck, Hamilton H. C. J., 48 Circus-road, St. John’s

Wood, N.W.

1849 + Dunnine, Joseph Wm., M.A., F.L.S., F.Z.8S., 12 Old-

square, Lincoln’s Inn, W.C.

1865 D’Urspan, W. S. M., F.L.8., 10 Claremont-terrace,

EHamouth, Devon.

1883 Durrant, John Hartley-, Bancroft House, Hitchin, Herts.

1865

1886

1884

1886

1878

1869

1886

1881

1878

1874

1886

1865

LIST OF FELLOWS. Xi

Eaton, The Rev. Alfred Edwin, M.A., The Vicarage,

Shepton Montague, Castle Cary, Somersetshire.

Epwarps, James, 131 Rupert-street, Norwich.

Epwarps, Stanley, Kidbrook Lodge, Blackheath, S.K.

Exisua. George, 122 Shepherdess-walk, City-road, N.

Euis, John W., L.R.C.P., 8 Brougham Terrace, Liverpool.

Etwes, Henry John, F.L.S., F.Z.5., Preston House,

Cirencester.

Emicu, Gustave d’, 6 Sebastian-place, Budapesth, Hungary.

Enock, Fred., 11 Parolles-road, Upper Holloway, N.

Fenwick, Nicholas Percival, Holmwood, South Bank,

Surbiton Hill, Surrey.

Frrepay, R. W., Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand.

Finzi, John A., Hanover Lodge, 77 St. Helen’s Gardens,

N. Kensington, W.

Fircn, Edward A., F.L.8., Brick House, Maldon, Essex.

Fircu, Frederick, Hadleigh House, Highbury New Park, N.

Fiercuer, J. K., 26 MeIntyre-road, St. John’s, Worcester.

1883 + FLercuer,W. H. B., M.A.,6 The Steyne, Worthing, Sussex.

1885

1880

1885

1855

1876

1884

1887

Foxxer, A. J. F., Zierikzee, South Holland, Netherlands.

Fow ter, The Rev. Canon, M.A., F.L.S., Secretary, The

School House, Lincoln.

Freeman, Francis Ford, 8 Leigham-terrace, Plymouth.

Fry, Alexander, F.L.S., Thornhill House, Dulwich Wood

Park, Norwood, 8.K.

Fryer, Herbert Fortescue, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire.

Fuuuer, The Rev. Alfred, M.A., care of Jos. Anderson, jun.,

Arle Villa, Chichester.

Gauan, Charles J.. M.A., 22 Aldine-street, Uxbridge-road,

W.; and British Museum, Natural History, South

Kensington, S.W.

Gatton, Francis, M.A., F.R.S. (President, Anthropological

Institute), 42 Rutland Gate, 5.W.

1865 + Gopman, Frederick Du Cane, M.A., F.R.S., F.L.S, F.Z.S.,

1886

1855

South Lodge, Lower Beeding, Horsham, Sussex; and

10 Chandos-street, Cavendish-square, W.

Goopricu, Arthur Mainwaring, Lieutenant, 27th Regiment,

Aubrey, Lymington, Hants.

GorHam, Rey. Henry Stephen, F.Z.8., The Chestnuts,

Shirley Warren, Southampton.

X1V LIST OF FELLOWS.

1874 Goss, Herbert, F.L.S., F.G.S., Secretary, Berrylands,

Surbiton Hill, Surrey.

1879 Gossr, Philip Henry, F.R.S., Sandhurst, Torquay,

Devonshire.

1886 GreeEn, A. P., Colombo, Ceylon.

1865 Greenr, The Rev. Joseph, M.A., Rostrevor, Apsley-road,

Clifton, Bristol.

1846 Grout, Ferdinand, F.L.S., Liprartan, 9 Newcomen-street,

Southwark, 8.E.

1885 Hau, Thomas William, 3 New Inn, Strand, W.C.

1877 Harpine, George, The Grove, Fishponds, Bristol.

1886 Harris, John T., Newton-road, Burton-on-Trent.

1881 Henry, George, 38 Wellington-square, Hastings.

1883 Hi, Lewis Fredk., St. Swithin, Haling Common, W.

1876 + Hituman, Thomas Stanton, Hastgate-street, Lewes.

1869 Hoxtpswortn, Edward, Shanghai.

1887 Houuanp, The Rev. W. J., M.A., 5th Avenue, Pittsburg,

Penn., United States.

1887 Hownratn, Ed. G., 38 Unter den Linden, Berlin.

1886 Horner, A. C., Tonbridge, Kent.

1876 + Horniman, Fredk. John, F.LS., F.Z.S., F.R.G.S., &c.,

Surrey House, Forest Hill, 8.E.

1865 + Hupp, A. E., 94 Pembroke-road, Clifton, Bristol.

1880 + INcHBALD, Peter, F.L.S., F.Z.S., Fulwith Grange, Harro-

gate, Yorks.

1886 Jacosy, Martin, 30 Delancey-street, Regent’s Park, N.W.

1885 + James, Harry Berkeley, F.Z.S., F.R.G.8., Las Salinas,

Valparaiso ; and 16 Ashburn-place, 8.W.

1843 Janson, Ed. W., 32 Victoria-road, Finsbury Park, N.;

and 35 Little Russell-street, Bloomsbury, W.C.

1869 Janson, Oliver E., Perth-road, Stroud Green, N.; and

35 Little Russell-street, Bloomsbury, W.C.

1886 Jenner, J.H. A., 4 Hast-street, Lewes.

1886 Joun, Evan, Llantrissant, Pontypridd.

1886 Jonnston, John M.C., The Yews, Grove Park, Denmark

Hill, 8.E.

LIST OF FELLOWS. XV

1884 Kane, W. F. de Vismes, M.A., M.R.I.A., Sloperton

Lodge, Kingstown, Ireland.

1884 Kappre., A. W., 5 Burlington Gardens, Chiswick, W.

1876 Karrer, Dr. F., Putbus, Rigen, North Prussia.

1876 + Kay, John Dunning, Leeds.

1872 Kaye, Ernest St. G., Jessore, Bengal.

1884 Keays, F. Lovell, F.L.S., 26 Charles-street, St. James, S.W.

1886 Kew, H. Wallis, 19 Stonenest-street, Tollington Park, N.

1861 Kuirey, W. F., 5 Buriington Gardens, Chiswick, W.

1887 + Kurrn, Sydney T., F.L.S., F.R.A.S. (Hon. Secretary and

Treasurer, County of Middlesex Natural History and

Science Society), Clarence Lodge, Willesden, N.W.

1876 Kraarz, Dr. G., 28 Link-strasse, Berlin.

1875 Lamarcue, Oscar, 70 Rue Louvrex, Liege.

1868 Lana, Lieut.-Col. A. M., R.E., Simla, India.

1880 Lane, The Rev. Henry Charles, M.D., F.L.S., Western

Elms Cottage, Reading, Berkshire.

1887 + LerEcu, John Henry, B.A., F.L.S., F.Z.8., F.R.G.S., &e.,

12 Princes-street, Hanover-square, W.

1883 Lemann, Fredk. Charles, Blackfriars House, Plymouth.

1876 Lewis, George, F.L.S., 39 High-street, Wimbledon, S.W.

1835 + Linawoop, Robert Maulkin, M.A., F.L.S., F.G.8., 6 Park

Villas, Cheltenham.

1886 Livert, H. W., M.D., Wells, Somerset.

1875 Livinestone, Clermont, East Lodge, Forest Rise,

Walthamstow, Essex.

1865 + Lurwetyn, J. Talbot Dillwyn, M.A., F.L.S., Ynisgerwn,

Neath.

1881 + Luoyp, Alfred, F.C.S., The Dome, Bognor, Sussex.

1885 Luoyp, Robert Wylie, 32 Grafton-sq., Clapham Common.

1850 Lowr, W.H., M.D., Woodcote Lodge, Inner Park-road,

Wimbledon Park, 8.W.

1850 + Lusgock, Sir John, Bart., M.P., D.C.L., F.R.S., F.L.S.,

F.G.S., &e., High Elms, Farnborough, Kent.

1880 Lupron, Henry, Lyndhurst, North Grange-rd., Headingley,

Leeds.

1887 Lynam, R.G., The North Staffordshire Infirmary, Stoke-

on-T rent.

1887 M‘Doucatt, James Thomas, Duwnolly, Morden-road,

Blackheath, 8.E.

1851 + M‘Invosu, J.

XV1 LIST OF FELLOWS.

1858 M‘Lacuuan, Robert, F.R.S.,F.L.S., F.Z.S., Vice-PRESIDENT,

Westview, Clarendon-road, Lewisham, 8.E.

1887 Manpvers, Neville, L.R.C.P.,. M.R.C.S., Army Medical

Staff, Fort Stedman, Mynsouk Shan States, Upper

Burmah.

1869 + Marsgut, L’Abbé 8. A. de, 271 Boulevard Pereire, Paris.

1865 Marswatu, The Rev. Thos. Ansell, M.A., F.L.S., Corn-

worthy Vicarage, Totnes, South Devon.

1856 + MarsHati, William, Auchinraith, Bexley, Kent.

1874 + Mason, P. Brooke, M.R.C.S., F.L.S., Burton-on-Trent.

1887 Maruews, Coryndon, Hrme Wood, Ivybridge, South Devon.

1865 Maruew, Gervase F., R.N., F.L.S., F.Z.8., F.R.G.S.,

Lee House, Dovercourt, Hssex.

1860 May, John William, K.N.L., Arwndel House, Percy Cross,

Fulhamn-road, 8.W.

1872 Merupoua, Prof. Raphael, F.R.S., F.R.A.S., F.C.S.,

6 Brunswick-square, W.C.

1885 Mertviuy, James Cosmo, M.A., F.L.S., &e., Kersal Cottage,

Prestwich, Lancashire.

1887 MerriFievp, Frederic, 24 Vernon-terrace, Brighton.

1880 Meyrick, Edward, B.A., Ramsbury, Hungerford, Wilts.

1883 Muss, W. H., 5 & 6 Hare-street, Calcutta.

1886 Miskin, W. H., Brisbane, Queensland.

1879 Monrerro, Senor Antonio Augusto de Carvalho, 72 Rua

do Alecrion, Lisbon.

1853 Moore, Frederic, F.Z.S., A.L.S., Claremont Howse,

Avenue-road, Croydon-road, Penge, 5.K.

1886 Moraan, A. C. F., Villa Nova de Gaya, Oporto, Portugal.

1869 + Mituer, Albert, F.R.G.S., 1954 Junkerstrasse, Berne,

Switzerland.

1872 + Murray, Lieut. H.

1886 Murcnu, J. P., Hornsey-road, N.

1886 Neave, b. W., Lyndhurst, 95 Queen’s-road, Brownswood

Park, N.

1884 Nerwcomse, 8. Prout, Northcote, Hast Croydon.

1887 Newman, The Rev. W. J. H., M.A., 15 Park-crescent,

Oxford.

1878 Newman, Thomas P., F.Z.S., 54 Hatton Garden, E.C.

1882 Nuictviie, Lionel de, F.L.S., Indian Museum, Calcutta.

1886 Nuicuoxuson, William E., School Hill, Lewes, Sussex.

1886 Norris, Herbert E., Vine Cottage, St. Ives, Hunts.

1878 NorripGr, Thomas, Ashford, Kent.

1869

1877

1883

1873

1886

1878

1880

LIST OF FELLOWS. XVil

OBERTHUR, Charles (fils), Rennes, France.

OBERTHUR, René, Rennes, France.

OLDFIELD, George W., M.A., F.L.S., F.Z.S., 6 South Bank-

terrace, Stratford-road, Kensington, W.

Ouivier, Ernest, Ramillons, prés Moulins (Allier), France.

Ouurr, A. Sidney, Australian Museum, Sydney, N. 8S.

Wales.

OrmeRop, Miss Eleanor A., F.R.Met.S., Torrington

House, Holywell Hill, St. Albans, Herts.

OrmERopD, Miss Georgiana, Torrington House, Holywell

Hill, St. Albans, Herts.

1841 + Owen, Sir Richard, K.C.B., D.C.L., LL.D., M.D., F.R.S.,

1854

1884

1887

1883

1879

1887

1872

1881

1885

1870

F.L.S. F.G.S., &e., Sheen Lodge, Richmond Park, 8.W.

Pascor, Francis P., F.L.S., 1 Burlington-road, West-

bowrne Park, W.

Parton, W. H., Waterbury, Connecticut, U.S.A.

Peers, John Witherington, M.A., Wendover, near Tring

Herts.

PERINGUEY, Louis, South African Museum, Cape Town,

South Africa.

PERKINS, Vincent Robt., Wotton-wnder-Edge, Gloucester-

shire.

PHILLIPS, Charles Edmund Stanley, Castle House, Shooter's

Hill, Kent.

Puipson, Arthur, 3 Gray’s Inn-square, W.C.

Pim, The Rev. H. Bedford, B.A., Leaside, Kingswood-road,

Upper Norwood, S.E.; and 97 St. Aldate, Oxford.

Pou, J. R. H. Neerwort van der, Amsterdam.

Poote, W. K., 11 Chandos-street, Cavendish-square, W.

Porritt, Geo. T., F.L.S., Greenfield House, Huddersfield.

1884 + Poutton, Edward B., M.A., F.L.S., F.G.8., F.Z.S.,

1851

1876

1878

1886

1870

Wykeham House, Banbury-road, Oxford.

Preston, The Rev. Thomas Arthur, M.A., F.L.S., Thur-

caston Rectory, Leicester.

PREUDHOMME DE Borre, Alfred (Sec., Ent. Soc. of Belgium),

19 Rue de Dublin, Ixelles, near Brussels.

Prick, David, 48 West-street, Horsham, Sussex.

Pryer, H. J. §., 127 Bluff, Yokohama, Japan.

Puts, J. C., Place de la Calandre, Ghent.

Xvill LIST OF FELLOWS.

1886 Raconot, E. L. (Ex-President Ento. Soc. France), 12 Quat

de la Rapée, Paris.

1882 + RamspEN, Hildebrand, M.A., F.L.S., 26 Upper Bedford-

place, Russell-square, W.C.

1874 Reep, Edwyn C., 35 Calle San Ignacio, Valparaiso,

Chili.

1886 Ruopss, John, F.R.M.S., 360 Blackburn-road, Accrington,

Lancashire.

187i Ruivey, Chas. V., M.A., Ph.D. (Entomologist to the Depart-

ment of Agriculture, and Hon. Curator of Insects),

U.S. National Museum, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

1853 Ripon, The Most Honourable The Marquis of, K.G., D.C.L.,

. F.R.S., F.L.S., &e., 1 Carlton-gardens, S.W.

1869 Roxsrnson-Dovetas, William Douglas, F.L.S., F.R.G.S.,

Orchardton, Castle Douglas, N.B.

1886 Ross, Arthur J., 2 Linden Villas, Bedford-road, Snares-

brook, Essex, E.

1868 Roruney, G. A. J., 15 Versailles-road, Norwood, S.E.

1865 Rytanps, Thos. Glazebrook, F.L.8., F.G.S., Highfields,

Thelwall, Warrington.

1885 Sapex, Ernest, F.Z.8., F.R.G.S., 6 Grove-road, Clapham

Park, S.W.

1875 Satut, Auguste, 13 Rwe Guy de la Brosse, Paris.

1866 + Satvin, Osbert, M.A., F.R.S., F.L.S., F.Z.8., Vicr-

PresIpENT, 10 Chandos-street, Cavendish-sq., W.; and

Hawksfold, Fernhurst, Haslemere. i

1886 Satwey, Reginald E., Hazeldean, Leatherhead, Surrey.

1885 Sanpars, T. C., 46 Cleveland-square, Hyde Park, W.

1865 + SaunpErs, Edward, F.L.S., TREAsuRER, St. Ann’s, Mount

Hermon, Woking, Surrey.

1861 + SaunprErs, G. S., S. Stephen’s Lodge, Canterbury.

1886 SaunpeErs, Prof. Wm., London, Ontario, Canada (President

of the Entomological Society of Ontario).

1881 Scoxuick, A. J., Albion Lodge, Putney, 8.W.

1886 ScuppER, Samuel H., Cambridge, Mass., United States.

1875 + Seaty, Alfred Forbes, Cochin, South India.

1864 SEMPER, George, Altona.

1862 Suarp, David, M.B., C.M., Edin., F.Z.S. Presiprent,

Bleckley, Shirley Warren, Southampton.

1883 Suaw, A. Eland, 18 Lanhill-road, Paddington, W.

1883 | SHELLEY, Capt. George E., F.Z.8S., 13 Rutland Gate, W.

1887 Sicu, Alfred, Burlington Lane, Chiswick, W.

1887

1877

1883

1869

1885

LIST OF FELLOWS. X1X

Sipewicr, A., M.A. (Fellow of Corpus Christi College,

Oxford), Woodstock-road, Oxford.

Suarer, John Wm., 86 Wray-crescent, Tollington Park, N.

SmirH, Frederick W., Hollywood, Lewisham Hill, 5.1.

Smiru, Henley Grose, F.Z.S., 20 Finsbury Circus, B.C.

Situ, Sidney Philip, 22 Rylett-road, Shepherds Bush, W.

Sourn, Richard, 12 Abbey-gardens, St. John’s Wood, N.W.

* +Spencr, William Blundell, Florence, Italy.

1848 + Stainton, Henry Tibbats, F.R.S., F.L.8., F.G.8., &c.,

1862

1837

1886

1882

1884

1876

1886

1856

1882

Vicr-PRESIDENT, Mowntsfield, Lewisham, 8.E.

Stevens, John S., 7 Ravenna-road, Putney, S.W.

Stevens, Samuel, F.L.8., Loanda, Beulah Hill, Upper

Norwood, 8.E.

Surrace, J. Lyddon, Hertford College, Oxford; and

2 Saville-place, Clifton, Bristol.

Swanzy, Francis, Stanley House, Granville-road, Sevenoaks.

Swinuok, Lieut.-Col. Charles, F.L.8., F.Z.8., Bombay Staff

Corps, Commissariat Department, Bombay, India.

Swinton, A. H., Lansdowne, Danes Park, Ramsgate,

Kent.

THEOBALD, F.. V., Chestnut Avenue, Kingston-on-Thames.

THOMSON, Jas., 12 Rue de Presbourg, Place del Htoile, Paris.

Topp, Richard, 5 Princes-terrace, Bayswater, W.

1859 + Tren, Roland, F.R.S., F.L.S. (Curator of South African

1886

1869

1866

1876

1886

1870

1878

Museum), Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope.

Tutt, J. W., Rayleigh Villa, Westcombe Park, Blackheath,

S.E.

VauGHan, Howard W. J., 11 Ospringe-road, Brecknock-

road, N.W.; and 55 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, W.C.

VERRALL, G. H., Sussex Lodge, Newmarket.

WAKEFIELD, Charles Marcus, F.L.8S., Belmont, Uxbridge.

Watker, Alfred O., F.L.8., Chester.

Waker, The Rev. Francis Augustus, D.D., F.L.8., Dun

Mallard, Cricklewood, N.W.

Waker, J. J., R.N., 23 Ranelagh-road, Marine Town,

Sheerness.

1863 + Wauuacr, Alfred Russel, F.L.S., F.Z.8., &c., Nuwtwood

Cottage, Frith Hill, Godalming.

XX LIST OF FELLOWS.

1866 + WausincHam, The Right Hon. Lord, M.A., F.R.S., F.L.S.,

F.Z.8., &c., Haton House, 664 Eaton-square, 8.W.; and

Merton Hall, Thetford, Norfolk.

1886 WarrEN, William, M.A., Merton Cottage, Cambridge.

1869 WarerHousE, Charles O., British Musewm, South Ken-

sington, S.W.; and Ingleside, Avenue Gardens,

Acton, W.

* WarterHousE, George R., F.Z.S., &c., Curton Lodge,

Werter-road, Putney, S.W.

1845 Weir, John Jenner, F.L.S., F.Z.8., Chirbury, Beckenham,

Kent.

1876 | WestERN, E. Young, 27 Craven Hill Gardens, Bays-

water, W.

* Werstwoop, John Obadiah, M.A., F.L.S. (Professor of

Zoology in the University of Oxford), Honorary LIFE

PRESIDENT, 67 Woodstock-road, Oxford.

1882 Wrymer, Gustav, 67 Ost-strasse, EHlberfeld, Rhenish

Prussia.

1886 WHEELER, F. D., M.A., Paragon House School, Norwich.

1868 + WuiTE, F. Buchanan, M.D., F.L.S., Annat Lodge,

Perth, N.B.

1865 Wuuitr, The Rev. W. Farren, M.A., Stonehouse Vicarage,

Gloucestershire.

1884 Wuire, William, 4 Mecklenburgh Square, W.C.

1882 Wiuiams, W. J., Zoological Society, Hanover-square, W.

1874 Wrtson, Owen, Cwmffrwd, Carmarthen.

1881 Woop, Theodore, Freeman Lodge, St. Peter's, Thanet, Kent.

1886 Youna, Morris, Free Musewm, Paisley.

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I. Cecidomyia destructor, Say, in Great Britain. By

Exeanor A. Ormerop, Consulting Entomologist

to the Royal Agricultural Society of England.

[Read December Ist, 1886. |

As I have now completed the series of observations from

life of the Cecidomyia destructor, Say, in Great Britain,

I beg to offer a short account of my procedure. I

submitted my early specimens and my opinions to our

much honoured Life President, Prof. Westwood, whom I

knew to be in possession of specimens, and who did me

the favour to examine the injured corn and the charac-

teristic puparia forwarded, and to confirm my determi-

nation. A short history of the attack is as follows :—

On the 28th of July I received specimens from

tevell’s Hall, Hertford, of injured barley, which on

examination precisely corresponded with the condition

caused by attack of the Cecidomyia destructor, commonly

known as the Hessian Fly. On investigation on the

spot I found the puparia fixed beneath the sheathing-

leaf just above the second joint, in the manner described

TRANS, ENT. SOC. LOND, 1887.—PaART I. (APRIL). B

2, Miss FE. A. Ormerod on

as characteristic. They were laid lengthwise along the

stem, and frequently firmly attached at one extremity,

Attacked barley-stems; 1, puparia, in situ; 2, stem bent down.

which adherence is caused by the larva lying so motion-

less at the spot at which it is feeding that the stem

slightly advances round the point of attachment.

For the various works of authority which I consulted

on the subject I refer you to my recently-published

pamphlet, which is in the hands of many members of our

Society, as they are too numerous to be quoted here.

On the dissection of the puparia I found the larva

within still little changed, and was able to rdentify it as

a Cecidomyideous larva, and likewise as corresponding

with that of the C. destructor in the very peculiar form

of its anchor process, which, though roughly, is clearly

shown in Dr. Packard’s paper on Hessian Fly (formed

in connection with Prof. Riley, Dr. Cyrus Thomas, and

other personal observers of the attack, published in the

‘Third Report of the United States Entomological

Commission, 1880’). I shall perhaps be excused in

Cecidomyia destructor in Great Britain. 3

mentioning that I have devoted especial attention to

the study of Cecidomyideous larve and the form of the

anchor process for some years; the

subject was therefore one with which

I was conversant. The peculiar

alteration in colour of the larva in

this early stage of partial pupation

was also what is described by Dr.

Wagner, and accounted for by him ee peo ie

as the result of the formation of Gece aNren

adipose matter. In a more advanced

stage the colouring further changed to that stated to

accompany the first development of the parts of the

embryo imago.

To return now to the larval contents of the puparium.

The form of this corresponded with the very exceptional

form of that of the C. destructor. It resembled a flax-

seed so nearly that on mixing flax-seeds and puparia

together it was impossible at a glance to detect the

difference. On more minute examination the figures of

the puparia were narrower, and, though they had the

flattened form of the flax-seed, they were distinguishable

by one extremity having a mark across, as if it had been

pinched in, the other being slightly bent forward. These

appearances are characteristic of the C. destructor pupa-

rium at this stage. At first (as it was an early condition

of pupation) I did not find the longi-

tudinal striz; the outer skin, which

had changed to chestnut-brown of

lighter or darker tints, according to ()

its age, still preserved the slight

transverse markings, showing the

divisions of the segments in the

larval state. As the colour deepened

the striz appeared, and were clearly

visible running longitudinally from

one extremity to the other, in the manner shown in my

own figure from life sent, accompanying.

As I was unwilling to rest on my own opinion in such

an important matter, | forwarded specimens of the

infested stems to our Life-President, and trust I shall

not be out of order in giving his own words. After

thanking me for details, &c., of ‘Attack of the

Hessian Fly,” he wrote— There can be no doubt that

Exo

Puparia, nat. size and

magnified.

4 Miss E. A. Ormerod on

such is really the true ‘Simon pure’; more’s the pity.”

On sending further specimens Prof. Westwood wrote,

with regard to these ‘stems, and the puparia of the

Hessian Fly :—The latter agree exactly with Austrian

specimens I| received from M. Lefebvre many years ago,

sent to him by Dr. Hammerschmidt, of Vienna.”

I further forwarded specimens and full details to

Prof. W. Saunders, President of the Entomological

Society of Canada, whose entomological position is too

well known to require any observation from myself, and

who was eminently qualified from personal scientific

and practical knowledge of the attack to offer an

opimion, and from him I received the statement :—

“The wheat-stem pests, enclosed in your letter, which

are embedded in the stalks of the wheat, are without

doubt the true Hessian Fly in its pupal condition,

known as the flax-seed state.” I may add that in his

presidential letter to the Entomological Society of

Ontario, recently delivered by Prof. Saunders, he officially

announced the appearance of the Hessian Fly in Great

Britain from my specimens and details, my letter of

detail being read by Mr. James Fletcher, the Consulting

Entomologist of the Department of Avriculture of the

Dominion.

In regard to development of the imago and determi-

nation of the same:—On the 8th of September an

excellent specimen developed. By forming a long wand

of twisted paper and moistening the tip with a little

chloroform I secured the imago without injury, and

Imago of C. destructor, nat. size and magnified.

also still so far alive that 1 was able to watch it through

the changes of tint, described by Dr. Wagner, from a

golden brown, through the shades of mulberry with

tr ansverse black bands above on the first six segments

Cecidomyia destructor in Great Britain. 5

of the abdomen, on to the general development of brown

tints of the abdomen, in which the difference of appear-

ance of the black velvety spots on the sides of these

segments disappear, and the black transverse bands are

not very noticeably different in colour. The antenne

and tarsi, and all points that it was possible for me to

examine, precisely corresponded with those of C.

destructor,—I do not say with the description of this or

that observer, as in a case of this enormous importance

I examined into the points of all the best descriptions,

and, where the points were not clear, tabulated the

descriptions in parallel columns that I might be abso-

lutely certain. The only point in which I found a

marking not recorded in the descriptions is, that when

I placed the specimen upright, so as to have a view of

the upper part of the abdomen, I observed a minute

marking, like a VY, with a small line on each side of

it, which marking was placed in somewhat darker or

sreyer tint than the yellowish colour of the segments on

a portion of the 7th and 8th segments of the abdomen.

This slight marking, it is unnecessary to say, is not

material to specific differentiation.

Above I have mentioned that I found the imago

corresponded with that of C. destructor in all points in

which I was able to make comparison, because I did not

feel that I could be certain of the presence or non-

presence of the lamelle at the extremity of the

ovipositor, which are important points in identification.

I therefore forwarded the same specimen to Mr. R. H.

Meade, of Manningham, Bradford, who was good enough

to examine into the matter, and ascertain clearly that

the lamellul@ were not present.

To those who are acquainted with the characteristics

of C. destructor, it will be of interest to know that in

this point, in the pediculated joints of the antenne, in

the terminal joint of the antenne of the female being

half as long again as the penultimate, and in minute

points of the neuration of the wings, the imago which I

developed from the British puparia precisely agreed

with the description to be gathered by collation of the

points of structure, as well as colour given, by the

entomological writers of the U.S.A., Canada, and of

such of the chief European writers as I have quoted

above or had the opportunity of consulting.

6 Cecidomyia destructor in Great Britain.

Once again, with regard to confirmation, I may be

permitted to say that, after minute examination of the

imago, I was favoured by Mr. R. H. Meade with the

distinct statement :— ‘I have no doubt whatever about

your insect being Cecidomyia destructor’’; and further

on in his letter, after giving me point by point the

results of his examination, he adds :—‘‘ 1 have no doubt

that the real Hessian Fly has made its appearance

here.”

Since this letter I have had the opportunity of

submitting my whole series of specimens to Mr. John

Marten, of Albion, Illinois (who, whilst Dr. C. Thomas

was State Entomologist of Illinois, was one of his

assistants). As it is from the work of Dr. C. Thomas

that the paper on Hessian Fly, published by the Ento-

mological Commission of the U.$.A., 1s stated by Dr.

Packard to be mainly formed, and Mr. J. Marten

(Dr. Thomas’s assistant) has especially devoted himself

to the study of this insect, his opinion is one of much

value. Iam now able to mention from personal exami-

nation that in every condition, from that of slghtly-

changed larva up to imago, which I have watched through

all its changes of colour, the insect under discussion cor-

responds with the Cecidomyia destructor of Say ; that the

injury to the corn-stalks also corresponds exactly; and,

further, that I have received confirmation on these

points on personal examination of my specimens from

the high authorities mentioned above. ‘lo this I may

add that the work of the later brood has also now, or up

to my last communication, appeared on the self-sown

or late-sprouted plant, as described in the States.

IL. Descriptions of some new species of Brachycerus.

By Francis P. Pascoz, F.L.S., &c.

|Read February 2nd, 1887. |

Prates If. & II.

Tur number of described species of Brachycerus is about

960, by far the greater part being from South Africa,

and apparently south of the Tugela River. They are,

on the whole, tolerably distinct, but, owing principally

to their sculpture, not easy to describe in words that

should be unmistakably intelligible. Very few species

are figured, and as Schénherr’s types, obtained by him

just forty-seven years ago, belonged to several collectors,

many may now have disappeared; but the types of the

“Coleoptera Caffrarie” are, I believe, at Stockholm. It

is probable that some species here described may not be

new; if so, I hope the figures herewith will compensate

for the addition of useless synonyms, for I believe very

little will be gained, ina genus such as this, by mere

descriptions, except for isolated forms.*

This genus of weevils, easily recognisable at sight, is

not to be absolutely defined, and is another instance

that good generic characters in one group may be only

of specific value in another. Thus there may be or not

be a scutellum ; ocular lobes the most pronounced or

not a vestige of them; straight or sinuated tibie armed

or unarmed; a spined, angular, or a round-sided pro-

thorax; corbels of the posterior tibie evident or not

distinctly apparent, &c. Nor is there a sign of any

correlation of these characters with others. Con-

sequently, if the genus is broken up, as Lacordaire

asserts it ought to be, the number of genera will not be

* For the thirteen European species, admitted by Stein and

Weise, there are forty-three synonyms; this shows the difficulty,

even allowing for a certain amount of variation, of recognising the

species from descriptions only.

TRANS. ENT. S0C. LOND. 1887.—PART 1. (APRIL)

8 Mr. Pascoe’s descriptions of some

very far short of the number of species.* Schonherr’s

divisions of the genus include the most dissimilar forms.

I have here arranged the species without reference to

their affinities.

Although so numerous in species they appear to be

individually scarce. Collectors at the Cape seem to

have paid very little attention to their habits, but,

judging from the few species of the Mediterranean

region, the larve will probably be found feeding in the

bulbs of the Amaryllidee and allies, which abound in

the Cape Colony, the perfect insects only emerging for

a short time to prepare for another generation.

The measurements are taken from the apex of the

prothorax to the declivity of the elytra. Characters

common to the whole genus are mostly omitted.

Brachycerus cinnamomeus. (Pl. I., fig. 1).

B. oblongo-ovatus, squamosit ate cinnamomea, granulis tubercu

lisque adspersis, tectus; rostrum modice elongatum, antice spatio

triangulari notatum; prothorax utrinque acute spinosus, apicem

versus fovea magna impressus; elytra ovata, singulo tuberculis

validis triseriatim obsitis, interstitiis nitide granulatis. Long.

10 lin.

Hab. Zanzibar.

A comparatively large species, which may be approximated to

B. annulatus, Gerst. The upper parts are covered with a

cinnamon-brown squamosity, with a few lighter spots on the

elytra, and are marked by glossy granules and tubercles. Rostrum

moderately long, anteriorly bounded by two ridges forming a

triangular impression between them, the posterior part marking

off the rostrum from the head; no ridge over the eyes: prothorax

sharply spined at the sides, the dise with glossy granules irregu-

larly placed and varying in size and shape, towards the apex a

large and somewhat shallow pit; elytra ovate, each with three

rows of tubercles, the sutural and intermediate with depressed

tubercles, those near the suture much the smallest, the intermediate

gradually smaller on the declivity, the outer row is composed of

conical tubercles, except that the last two are spiniform, in the

intervals of the tubercles many small glossy black granules; le

** Bedel has separated B. porcellus as a genus under the name of

Herpes; Dr. Aurivillius has proposed Gyllenhallia for B. spectrum.

Theates, Fahr., is closely allied to Brachycerus.

new species of Brachycerus. 9

covered with numerous granules, the intervals squamose and

setiferous; tarsi robust.

Brachycerus suturalis. (Pl. I., fig. 2).

B. oblongo-ovatus, fuscus, regione suturali dense albido-squa-

moso; rostrum modice elongatum, basi bituberculatum; prothorax

globosus rude punctatus, apice tumidus; elytra ovalia, apice

singulorum calloso, supra lineis elevatis nodulosis instructa. Long.

6 lin.

Hab. Algoa Bay.

This species has a comparatively narrow outline; the upper part

is pitehy, with a sprinkling of minute whitish scales, but a patch

on the shoulders and the sutural region densely covered with larger

scales. Rostrum moderately elongate, slightly concave and punc-

tured in front, the base with two erect tubercles, the head separated

by a deep depression; prothorax raised much above its base,

rounded and tuberculate at the sides, disc rudely and irregularly

punctured, and a deep depression behind the apex; elytra shghtly

rounded at the sides, on each five rows of raised nodulose lines, the

intervals lightly pitted, three round spots composed of short densely

packed hairs along the basal half of the third line, a smooth callus

at the apex of each elytron; body beneath and legs reddish brown,

clothed with small silvery scales; tarsi moderately stout.

Brachycerus eximius. (Pl. L., fig. 3).

B. oblongo-ovatus, nigro-tuberculatus, squamositate cinna-

momea, luteo-plagiata, ornatus; rostrum breviusculum, basi

bituberculatum, antice punctis sparsis impressum; prothorax

eleyatus, apice in lobis duobus producto; elytra tuberculata,

regione suturali maculis conspicuis lacteis ornata. Long. 6 lin,

Hab. Cape.

A very pretty species with black glossy tubercles studding the

upper parts, the intervals clothed with a cinnamon-coloured

squamosity, varied by a narrow median stripe and a short lateral

one on the prothorax, and three nearly connected milk-white

patches on the sutural region, extending from the base to the apex.

Rostrum short, not stout, two approximate tubercles towards the

base, the head marked off by a narrow line; prothorax raised

much above its base, tuberculate, each tubercle with a glossy

granuliform tip, the apex bifid and projected on the head, the eyes

lying beneath; elytra slightly rounded on the sides, punctures on

the scutellar region filled with scales, sides with glossy mamumilli-

form tubercles, each tipped with a recumbent seta; body beneath

10 Mr. Pascoe’s descriptions of some

and legs closely covered with cinnamon-coloured scales; tarsi

moderately stout.

Brachycerus disjunctus. (Pl. L., fig. 4).

B. sat breviter ovatus, saturate fuscus, scutello, suture basi, °

macula triangulari et alteris duabus apicalibus, humerisque dense

niveo-squamosis; prothorax cum elytris fortiter tuberculatus.

Long. 33 lin.

Hab. Damara-land. ;

A small dark brown or nearly black species, with a conspicuous

white triangular spot just behind the middle of the elytra. Rostrum

not marked off from the head, somewhat elongate, comparatively

narrow, the base with two oblong ridges—nearly continuous with

those above the eyes—and between them a deep depression ; pro-

thorax about as long as broad, broadly grooved throughout, the

apex with two conspicuous tubercles; elytra somewhat globose,

about twice the length of the prothorax, each with three rows of

large conical tubercles, the intervals strongly pitted, sutural line at

the base, a large triangular spot behind the middle, a still larger

oblong spot at the apex on each side, and the shoulders covered

with white scales; last three segments of the abdomen black; legs

with black sete.

Brachycerus capito. (Pl. L., fig. 5).

B. brevis, squamositate pallide grisea tectus ; rostrum crassum,

gibbosum, apice bituberculatum, a capite suleo profunde dis-

junctum ; prothorax brevis, rude irregulariter impressus, lateraliter

rotundatus et tuberculatus; elytra subglobosa, tuberculis mammil-

liformibus lineatim instructa. Long. 5 lin.

Hab. Cape.

A short, thick-set, pale greyish species, with a broad head and

large eyes, each lying under a horizontal ridge. Rostrum sepa-

rated from the head by a deep groove, thick gibbous or curved

in front, reticulately pitted, and the apex bituberculate ; prothorax

short, roughly and irregularly pitted, sides rounded, apex truncate,

and ocular lobes prominent; scutellum transversely triangular ;

elytra nearly globose, scutellar region strongly reticulate, the sides

and posterior half with prominent mamunilliform tubercles, each

tipped with from one to three or four sete; first abdominal

segment, except its interfemoral process, not observable; legs

with longish sete, as well as the abdomen ; tarsi elongate.

new species of Brachycerus. Ut

Brachycerus omissus. (Pl. 1, fig. 6)

B. sat breviter ovatus, squamositate laxa fusca vestitus ; rostrum

breve, in medio leviter excavatum, caput supra oculos fortiter

eristatum; prothorax rugoso-punctatus, lateraliter spinosus ; elytra

ampliata, irregulariter foveata, postice et ad latera tuberculata.

Long. 54 lin.

Hab. Damayra-land.

Somewhat like B. subfasciatus, Gyll., but differing in rostrum,

sculpture, &e. Rostrum short, largely but not deeply excavated in

front, not marked off from the head, an oblong ridge above the

eyes, which are nearly covered in repose by the large ocular lobes ;

prothorax rather broader than long, rounded at the apex, irregu-

larly rugose above, the sides with a conspicuous conical tubercle ;

elytra subglobose, strongly pitted, the intervals at the sides, and

especially on the declivity, raised into conical tubercles, each of

which are tipped with a short seta; legs with pale ashy and

brownish scales; tarsi rather short. The upper parts are covered

with a sparse ragged squamosity mixed with a few minute scales.

Brachycerus rixator. (Pl. I., fig. 7).

B. oblongo-ovatus, nigrescens; rostrum vix elongatum, basi

constrictum et alte bicornutum, inter oculos adscendens; pro-

thorax transversus, apice producto et incrassato, lateraliter tubercu-

latus; elytra lineatim tuberculata, interstitiis foveis quadratis

impressis. Long. 9 lin.

Hab. Damara-land.

A dark-coloured, middle-sized species, rather depressed above,

with a very pale greyish squamosity. Rostrum moderately long,

narrow at the base, continued to the vertex, and conspicuously

raised between the eyes, at the base an elevated spiniform

tubercle on each side, expanding towards the apex into a large

triangular process; prothorax transverse, nearly as broad as the

elytra, produced and rounded at the apex, covered with numerous

glossy granules, but leaving a slight trace of a median groove, on

each side three or four tubercles; elytra moderately rounded at

the sides, each with about six rows of rather small tubercles, the

interstices with well-marked quadrangular pits, the suture on each

side with a row of granules, tubercles on the third row raised and

crowded at the base, leaving the scutellar region depressed ; body

beneath and legs covered with pale greyish or whitish scales ; tarsi

elongate.

B. lobaticollis, Per., seems—from the tigure—to be

allied to this species.

1) Mr. Pascoe’s descriptions of some

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Brachycerus Faustti. (Pl. 1., fig. 8).

B. oblongo-ovatus, plerumque squamositate obscure grisea

tectus; rostrum breviusculum, antice paulo excavatum, apice

bifoveatum, basi bilobatum, a capite distinctum ; prothorax cum

elytris carinatis, his apice dehiscentibus. Long. 12 lin.

Hab. Natal.

In facies somewhat like the next, but more allied to B. oblonqgus,

Fhrs. Rostrum rather short and narrow comparatively, slightly

coneave in front, the apex with two conspicuous pits, the base

bilobed, the lobes clearly marking it off from the head; prothorax

transverse, angularly spined at the sides, three ridges on the disc,

the middle one smallest ; elytra broader than the prothorax, each

with a slightly flexuous ridge on the basal half replaced by a line

of setiferous tubercles nearly to the apex, at the side a raised

nodulose line, and toward the margin three or four flattish

tubercles, the sutural region nearly impunctate, intervals of the

ridges closely covered with a dull greyish squamosity, that between

the first and second with a finely raised line, each apex prolonged

and divergent ; body beneath and legs covered with dull greyish

scales; inner angle of the posterior tibie with an acute curved

spine ; tarsi rather elongate.

Named after M. Johannes Faust, of Libau, Courland,

who has done so much for the insect-fauna of Russia

and Turkestan.

Brachycerus precursor. (Pl. 1., fig. 9).

B. oblongo-ovatus, niger; rostrum cum capite continuatum ;

prothorax costis duabus validis, elytra quatuor, instructi, interstiis

squamositate albida dense tectis. Long. 8 lin.

Hab. Cape.

This species is like the figure given by M. Peringuey of his

B. albotectus, but differs from his description in several important

particulars. Rostrum continuous with the head, moderately long

and comparatively narrow, flattish in front, scarcely narrower at

the base and reticulately punctured ; prothorax transverse, gradually

expanding into an acute angle at the sides, dise with two elevated

glossy black ridges, between which is a smaller ridge, but covered,

as is the rest of the prothorax, with a whitish squamosity; no

ocular lobes ; scutellum small but distinct ; elytra nowhere scarcely

broader than the prothorax, each with a ridge continuous with the

one on the prothorax, but only extending midway and replaced by

new species of Brachycerus. 13

a line of setiferous tubercles nearly to the apex, a shorter ridge

outside, and then a few tubercles more towards the outer margin,

the intervals with the same kind of squamosity as on the pro-

thorax ; abdominal segments, except the first, dark brown, the

sterna and legs densely covered with ivory-like seales ; tarsi slender,

but the last joint distinctly stouter.

Brachycerus phlyctenoides. (Pl. I., fig. 10).

B. oblongo-ovatus, niger, supra granulis nitidis confertim tectus ;

rostrum gibbosuim, postice bilobum, antice supra planatum et rude

punctatum; prothorax transversus, apicem versus canaliculatus,

utrinque leviter tuberculato-angulatus; elytra ovata, irregulariter

granulata. Long. 13 lin.

Hab. Guinea.

A large black scaleless species, with numerous glossy granules

above, many of them—especially on the prothorax—with a small

central puncture. Rostrum moderately long, gibbous and roughly

punctured in front, bilobed at the base, and separated from the

head by a well-marked curved groove ; prothorax not much broader

than long, the apex slightly produced and rounded, the middle

with a groove well marked anteriorly, granules very irregular on

the disc, smaller at the sides, except one more prominent and

tuberculiform ; elytra ovate, granules somewhat Hattish, irregular,

the intervals punctate; legs punctured, many of the punctures

with a small granule ; tibiz slightly bisinuate ; posterior tarsi with

the terminal joint as long as the rest together.

Brachycerus albicollis. (Pl. IL, fig. 1).

B. oblongus, fusco-brunneus, squamosus, albo-signatus; pro-

thorax latus, lateraliter tuberculatus, antice albo-squamosus et fere

impunctatus ; elytra ovata, prothorace paulo latiora, tuberculata ;

tarsi modice elongati. Long. 4$ lin.

Hab. Natal ?.

A small brownish species having the anterior half of the prothorax

and head covered with white scales, as well as a large triangular

spot on the elytra. Rostrum moderately long, roughly punctured,

the base with two oblong oblique contiguous lobes marking it off

from the head; prothorax broad, convex, each side with a small

obtuse tubercle, the apex with a quadrate impression, anterior half,

or white portion, nearly impunctate, the posterior half coarsely

pitted, the intervals more or less raised into tubercles, each mostly

with a glossy black flattish top; scutellum distinct, white ; elytra

14 Mr. Pascoe’s descriptions of some

ovate, rather broader than the prothorax, with tubercles principally

in three rows, the inner row confined to the declivity, tubercles not

prominent, each with a glossy black top, the intervals lightly

pitted; legs and body beneath closely scaled, the former with

decumbent black sete; tarsi of moderate length.

Brachycerus electilis. (Pl. I1., fig. 2).

B. oblongus, squamosus, rufo-brunneus, albo-signatus; pro-

thorax latus, lateraliter rotundatus, disco cruciatim impressus ;

elytra prothorace vix latiora, brevia, supra foveatim corrugata et

tuberculata ; tarsi breves. Long. 43 lin.

Hab. Algoa Bay.

A small rufous-brown species with white patches, minute scales

in parts and curiously wrinkled elytra. Rostrum rather short,

roughly punctured in front, towards the base two erect cylindrical

tubercles, a groove marking it off from the head; antenne short,

stout ; prothorax very conyex, broad, rounded at the sides, on the

dise a cross-shaped impression, and behind the transverse arm of

the cross a double row of oblong raised points marked with a

linear impression, and before it a band composed of whitish scales ;

scutellum distinct, white; elytra short and not much broader than

the prothorax, covered with tubercles more or less marked, with

narrow raised transverse and oblique lines, enclosing deep and

irregular pits between them, the sides with strongly marked

quadrate punctures, suture at the base and a transverse patch on

the declivity composed of closely-set minute white scales.

Brachycerus obtusus. (Pl. I1., fig. 3).

B. breviter ovatus, squamositate fusco-grisea tectus; rostrum

breve, in medio unituberculatum, basi iobis duobus obliquis obsitum ;

prothorax lateraliter obtuse angulatus ; elytra ovata, tuberculata,

apice quasi truncata. Long. 6 lin.

Hab. Natal.

A short dark grey species, the elytra broadly rounded at the

apex, but when viewed from above.apparently truncate. Rostrum

short, stout, the middle in front with a flattish tubercle and a

raised line behind it, the base with two oblique lobes ; prothorax

transverse, closely punctured, the sides obtusely angulate, a deep

depression at the apex, which is truncate; elytra ovate, the apex

broadly rounded, each with three rows of stout conical tubercles,

the sutural row confined to behind the middle, tubercles tipped

with a short seta, the apical tubercle of the second row much

new species of Brachycerus. 15

larger and bearing numerous longer sete ; body beneath shortly

setose, legs with longer setz ; no spur on the posterior tibie.

Brachycerus draco. (Pl. IL., fig. 4).

B. ovatus, nigro-fuscus, squamulis subaureis vestitus ; rostrum

elongatum, antice longitudinaliter excavatum; prothorax sub-

transversus, lateraliter fortiter angulatus, disco sparse punctatus 5

elytra ampliata, triseriatim tuberculata, tuberculis setis plurimis

subaureis coronatis, interstitiis fortiter foveatis et sparse setosis ;

tarsis elongatis. Long. 9 lin.

Hab. Natal.

A dark brown species, but, as seen under a lens, clothed with

minute rufous scales having a golden tint in certain lights.

Rostrum long, with an elevated margin on each side contiguous at

the base, marked off from the head by a slight groove, no super-

ciliary ridge ; prothorax subtransverse, angularly produced at the

sides, the angle obliquely sloped anteriovly, the side anterior to the

angle constricted, the apex truncate, with an oblong depression

above, the dise with large shallow punctures; no ocular lobes;

elytra broadly rounded at the sides, each with three rows of

tubercles; tubercles of the mner and intermediate rows mostly

depressed, the outer row and declivity composed of conical

tubercles, all tipped with a fasciculus of long recumbent rufous

golden-tinted sete; body beneath and legs densely squamulose ;

tarsi elongate, especially the claw-joint.

Brachycerus turbatus. (Pl. IL, fig. 5).

B. sat breviter ovatus, nigro-fuscus; rostrum breviusculum,

dimidio apicali reticulato, basi lobis duobus munitum; prothorax

transversus, lateraliter obtuse angulatus ; elytra ampha, tuberculis

eranulisque minutis tecta. Long. 8 lin.

Hab. Natal.

A dull dark brown species, with a bluntly angular prothorax,

-and the elytra tuberculate, with the ordinary squamosity not very

evident. Rostrum rather short, the apical half broad and unequally

reticulate anteriorly, the base with two oblong tubercles; head

marked off by a slight groove, no superciliary ridges ; prothorax

moderately transverse, bluntly angular at the sides, an oblong

excavation at the apex, dise uneven, tubercles few, not conspicuous,

some with a glossy black point; elytra broadly rounded at the

sides, roughly and rather closely covered with many large tubercles,

with smaller ones between, and scattered minute glossy black

16 Mr. Pascoe’s descriptions of some

granules over all; abdomen coarsely punctured; legs covered with

pale grey scales and with numerous short sete; tarsi moderately

elongate.

Brachycerus gryphus. (Pl. IL, fig. 6).

B. oblongo-ovatus, squamositate ferruginea tectus; rostrum

modice elongatum, antice punctatum; prothorax transversus,

lateraliter acute spinosus, antice excavatus; elytra amplia, bi-

seriatim tuberculata, tuberculis apice setigeris, a basi ad declivi-

tatem gradatim majoribus, serie exteriori tuberculis validis spina

nigra acuta terminatis, interstitiis rude foveatis. Long. 10 lin.

Hab. Usambara.

An East African species; the sculpture approximates it to

B. draco. Rostrum moderately long, the slightly raised margins

coalescing towards the base, which is bilobed, and scarcely marked

off from the head; prothorax slightly transverse, sides with a short

acute conical spine, the apex with an oblong impression, dise with

few tubercles, the largest above and a little behind the lateral spine ;

elytra broadly rounded at the sides, each with two rows of tubercles,

those on the inner row consisting of five small and two much

larger and more conical placed on the declivity, each tipped with a

glossy black spot, the outer row consisting principally of three large

conical tubercles, each terminating in a well-developed acute black

spine, the intervals irregularly pitted, towards the outer margin

several small glossy-black granules; tibiv and tarsi ringed with

black; claw-joint of the tarsi as long or longer than the rest

together.

Brachycerus strumosus. (Pl. IL., fig. 7).

B. ovatus, fuscus, squamis minutis pallidioribus tectus ; rostrum

elongatum, basin versus marginibus exterioribus elevatis; pro-

thorax vix transversus, lateraliter angulatus, apice callositate

magna munitus; elytra ampliata, biseriatim tuberculata, seriebus

internis magnis planatis. Long. 10 lin.

Hab. Senegal.

A stout dull brown species covered with minute paler scales, and

having a prominent callosity on the apex of the prothorax.

Rostrum elongate, irregularly impressed in front, the posterior

half with a raised margin on either side, and at the base two

inconspicuous tubercles marking it off from the head; prothorax

nearly as broad as long, angulate at the sides, the apex with a large

rounded elevated callosity, and on each side above the angle a

cluster of three or four unequal tubercles; elytra rather short,

new species of Brachycerus. Wve

broadly rounded at the sides, each with two rows of tubercles, the

inner row with three, large and flat, having on the top a few

setiferous punctures and a conical one on the declivity, the outer

row composed of one round and three conical apiculate tubercles,

rest of the elytra with numerous small unequal tubercles, many

with a glossy black tip; legs ratherlong; claw-joint of the posterir

tarsi as long as the rest together.

Brachycerus merens. (PI. II., fig. 8).

B. ovatus, squamosus, fuscus, albo-notatus, supra nitide tubercu-

latus; rostrum breviusculum, parte apicali excepta, albido-squa-

mosum, punctis dispersis, basi elevatum disjunctim bilobatum,

a capite profunde separatum; prothorax paulo transversus,

lateraliter acute spinosus; elytra subglobosa. Long. 6 lin.

Hab. “Gambesi.

A dark brown species with patches of white scales, the upper

parts dotted with unequal glossy black-tipped tubercles. Rostrum

comparatively short, conspicuously punctured, except toward the

apex, the intervals with pale yellowish scales, the base raised and

bilobed, marked off from the head by a deep groove; prothorax,

excluding the spines, about as long as broad, a deep oblong

impression anteriorly, dise coarsely tuberculate, a few of the

tubercles emarginate behind, a black seta issuing from the emargi-

nation, base of the lateral spine covered with white scales; a black

seutellum; elytra subglobose, each with about six rows of tubercles,

but the intervals so strongly and unequally pitted that at first they

appear to be irregularly distributed, the tubercles on the inner row

have a more granular character, the fourth and fifth rows are the

most conspicuous, all the tubercles have a glossy black tip, and

some have a seta as well, of the white patches the largest is basal,

behind it are two smaller ones, at the side another, and the fifth 1s

towards the apex ; sides of the abdomen with four pale spots; legs

covered with ashy scales.

TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1887.—PaRT I. (APRIL.) C€

18 New species of Brachycerus.

EXpLaNation oF Puates I. & II.

PAGE it

Fic. 1. Brachycerus cinnamomeus.

suturalis.

eximius.

disjunctus.

capito.

omissuUs.

rivator.

a rostrum.

Faustv.

a3 rostrum.

precursor.

phlyctenoides.

PATA ES he

1. Brachycerus albicollis.

electilis.

obtusus.

draco.

twrbatus.

gryphus.

strumosus.

Merens.

III. Pedigree Moth-breeding, as a means of verifying

certain important Constants in the General Theory

of Heredity. By Francis Gatton, F.R.S.

[Read February 2nd, 1887.]

Ir was suggested by Mr. Merrifield, in answer to my

inquiries, that moths, especially those which breed

normally twice in the year, would be very stitable

subjects for a course of such experimental breedings as

I have long desired to establish. My object at the

present time is to obtain data for the revision and

extension of a general theory of simple heredity, on

which I have lately published memoirs,* and especially

to test that portion of it which relates to Stability of

Type. In addition to this, the experiments I propose

would elicit incidentally many interesting results, some

perhaps quite disconnected with the objects immediately

in view.

The merits of moths as subjects of experiment are

that the arrangements for breeding them in large

numbers occupy comparatively little space, and involve

comparatively little cost; their generations succeed each

other quickly, and they undergo no change in length or

shape of wing, &c., during their brief lives, so that the

difficulties elsewhere connected with age and growth

disappear; the specimens that are used in the experi-

ments can be afterwards mounted in cases, and be

labelled and preserved for future reference.

Mr. Merrifield has very kindly offered to commence

the experiments for me, and trusts to be able to continue

them for some years. I lay the proposed plan before

the Entomological Society in hope of eliciting the

suggestions and help of its members before the course

of experiments is fairly begun.

* “Taw of Regression,” Journ. Anthrop. Inst., 1885; ‘‘ Family

Likeness in Stature,” Proc. Royal Soc., 1886; ‘‘ Family Likeness

in Eye-Colour,” Proc. Royal Soc., 1886.

TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1887.—PART I. (APRIL.)

20 Mr. Francis Galton on

The intention is to start from the brood of a single

pair of moths (Selenia illustraria is suggested), and to

trace the changes of some one characteristic,—say of

the wing-length,—during many successive generations,

down three parallel but contrasted lines of descent ; the

broods being reared all along out of doors, and under

healthy and perfectly identical conditions. It will be

convenient to distinguish these three lines of descent

by the letters A, M, and Z. The A line of descent is to

be produced by selecting and mating one (or more) pair

of the longest-winged males and females that are found

in the brood of the original pair. The progeny of this

selected pair I will call Ai. Out of the males and

females in A i. one (or more) pair of the longest-winged

will be selected. The progeny of this selected pair will

be Aii. Out of the males and females in A il. one

(or more) pair of the longest-winged are again to be

selected; their progeny will be A iii. This process will

be continued for, it is hoped, at least six generations,—

that is, for three years. Every moth in each of the

broods is to be preserved, and those which become the

parents of the succeeding brood are to be labelled

accordingly. It is intended to mount the moths in an

orderly series, separating the males from the females,

and severally arranging them in the order of their wing-

lengths, beginning with the longest and ending with the

shortest.

The Z line of descent is to be produced by selecting

and mating one (or more) of the shortest-winged males

and females out of the original brood. ‘Their progeny

will be Zi. Out of these a selection of one (or more)

pair of the shortest-winged males and females will be

made, whose progeny will be Z. 1., and so on as before.

Moths which are small, owing to deformity or obvious

unhealthiness, should not be selected for breeding from.

The M line of descent is to be produced by selecting

and mating one (or more) pair of medium-winged in-

dividuals out of the original brood; their progeny will

be Mi. Out of these a selection of one (or more) pair

of the medium-winged males and females will be made,

whose progeny will be M. ii., and so on as before. It

will be understood that by medium-winged I mean with

reference to the brood in question, and not with reference

to the original brocd. The use of the M line is to

Pedigree Moth-breeding. 21

afford a standard whence the divergencies of the A and Z

lines in each generation can most suitably be measured.

M will be affected, together with A and Z, by all the

influences that affect the entire stock, and will therefore

exhibit in an unmixed degree the A and Z peculiarities.

It will easily be understood how important it is to attend

to the requirement already laid down that the three

lines of descent should be carried on under identical

conditions.

The broods in the M and Z lines will be mounted in

the same way as those in the A lne. ‘Therefore for

every generation there will be three compartments in

one or more trays, each containing (say roughly) 100

moths, and, as there are two generations in a year, the

result of each year’s breeding will be to fill six com-

partments.

After the sixth generation or thereabouts has been

reached in each of the three lines of descent, it is

further desired to proceed conversely, by breeding

from medium specimens in each of the three lines, and

again from medium specimens of their several broods,

and so on until all trace of the A and Z peculiarities

shall have disappeared from their respective descendants.

I have spoken of one or more pairs, because the moths

do not emerge simultaneously, and yet they must be

paired soon after they emerge. The ideal pair in the A

line would be the very longest-winged male and the very

longest-winged female of the entire brood, and in the

Z line the very shortest-winged. In practice we must

be content with an approximation to this. Two or three

separate matings will have to be made between the

most suitable of the brood at the time when they

require to be paired, but the eggs that are to be pre-

served and reared will be those of only one or two of

the most suitable of the trial pairs. The produce of

different pairs ought not to be mixed.

There will be little difficulty about the M pairings, as

mediocrities are numerous.

The wing-length is the characteristic with which it is

at present proposed to deal, as being more definite and

easily measured than others. A similar treatment

might be adopted in respect to other characteristics,

such as the area of the wing, or the area of the patch

of colour in the wings of such moths as may possess it.

22, Mr. Francis Galton on

A would in this case symbolise large areas, and Z small

ones. Or the subject of experiment might be the depth

of the general tint. Or, again, it might be the greater

or less acuteness of the angle of the wing. Any variable

characteristic that exists in both sexes and in all

individuals can be treated in this way.

As there is no difficulty in treating the two sexes on

equal terms in statistical inquiries by first transmuting

all female measurements to their male equivalents [in

human stature’ this is effected by adding one-twelfth or

thereabouts ; I use the multiplies of 1°08], so probably

the different broods of dimorphous moths may be

rendered comparable in the same way, and it may be

found unnecessary in Selenia illustraria to confine the

comparisons between spring-brood and spring-broods,

and between autumn-brood and autumn-broods respec-

tively. Thus the advantage of double-broodness, in

giving two steps a year instead of one, will probably

not be lost by experimenting on a dimorphous species.

Measurement.—The wing-length is to be measured

from the root of the wing to its tip (that is, from 4 to B

in the fig.). A has to be estimated from

¢ the run of the upper and lower mar-

ZA o gins, and can be determined with fair

precision. B is very well-defined in a

normal wing. Should, however, the tip

be injured, the measurement is to be made from a to ¢,

and stated accordingly. Again, if both B and c are

injured, measure from a to D, and state so.

In performing the measurement with a pair of com-

passes (or other scale) it is necessary to bring the points

very close to the moth, else a slight change in the posi-

tion of the eye will give discordant readings ; and if the

eye is not moved at all the readings will be sensibly too

small. A magnifying-glassisdesirable. [or measuring

living but sluggish moths, I have contrived a pair of

compasses that work well and quickly when making

the ordinary measurements, and which carry a maeni-

fying-glass. I will not, however, now give a drawing of

it, because I want to assure myself of the handiest form

of the instrument before doing so. Its principle is this.

Imagine a pair of fine-pointed scissors with very long

arms,—say five times as long as the blades; the points

of the blades represent the compass-points. At the end

Pedigree Moth-breeding. 23

of one of the arms a scale is pivotted; its free end runs

overa pin at the end of the other arm. As the distance

between the pivot and the pin is always five times that

between the compass-points, the scale is five times the

natural size, and can be read off easily to half milli-

metres, the pin acting as index. In using these

compasses the forefinger slightly presses the scale

against both the arm on which its free end rests and the

pin over which it runs. When the compass is satis-

factorily adjusted an increased pressure is sufficient to

clamp the scale, and it can then be read off. I have

also tried the glasses from one of the tubes of an opera-

glass, with a lengthened interval between them, so as to

form a microscope of very long focus, say 18 in. This

was fixed on a light rod that carried a millimetre scale,

set across its free end at a trifle less than 18 in. from

the object-glass. On approaching the scale to within

half an inch of any small object, that object and the

scale are both in fair focus at once, and they are

sufficiently far from the eye to render the error of which

I spoke of little or no importance.

For the accurate measurement of dead moths I have

a much better instrument under construction, in which

I use a small microscope with cross wires in the short

limb of a pentagraph, and use the long limb both for

setting the microscope and for reading off the measure-

ments.

The details of the whole procedure are settled thus

far only provisionally, as it is reasonable to hope that

much has yet to be gained from the past experience of

others, and more by the earlier stages of the experiments

themselves, so far as they are new to experience. I

have considerable hopes that many persons may feel

disposed to work with me, for I am sure it will be

accepted as an obvious truth by all, whether they may

interest themselves in the technical explanations that

follow these remarks or not, that sets of broods of

pedigree moths, all of whose direct ancestors, male and

female, and all of whose uncles and aunts, great uncles

and great aunts, and so on for at least six generations,

are preserved in convenient trays for reiterated study,

would form a collection of first-class importance for

hereditary investigation.

It would be well if in each case of experiment more

24 Mr. Francis Galton on

than one stock could be reared, descended from the same

original pair of moths, but in different places, in order

that the male and female pupe may be occasionally

interchanged and the moths cross bred, by which the

evils of too close interbreeding would be diminished. I

sincerely hope that any practical entomologist who may

be disposed to further these experiments will communi-

cate with me at 42, Rutland Gate, London, §.W., or

with Mr. Merrifield.

APPENDIX.

ON THE PROPOSED METHOD OF DEALING WITH THE OBSERVATIONS.

After the results of the experiments have been obtained they

will be treated by me in somewhat the same minute and technical

way that the data I now possess were treated in the memoirs

already referred to. It may perhaps be well to give here a brief

and partial account of the guiding principles,

Pedigree Moth-breeding. 25

When we represent the wing-length of every specimen in a large

brood by a corresponding vertical line, and arrange these lines in

an orderly manner according to their lengths, and at equal

distances apart upon an horizontal base, we shall obtain a figure

like that shown in fig. 1. Here, however, only some twenty

vertical lines have been drawn, sufficient to indicate what is meant.

It is not necessary to make a larger or more minute drawing for the

sake of mere explanation. The variability of wing-length, as indi-

cated by the difference between the lengths of the longer and shorter

lines, has been purposely exaggerated to make the meaning of the

figures more clear.

In fig. 2 these upright lines had been enclosed within a dotted

boundary whose vertical sides should lie at an interval of one-half

space before the first and beyond the last of the lines respectively,

and whose upper portion is a smooth curve drawn with a free

hand, touching the tops of the vertical lines; then the vertical

lines are supposed to have been rubbed out, and only the contour

or “scheme” to remain. This scheme contains, in a most com-

pact form, the measurement of every individual in a brood, or in

a population however large. A dotted vertical line, or ordinate, M,

is drawn to the curve froma point that bisects the base, and a

horizontal line is drawn through the point O in the curve where

this ordinate, which is the ‘“‘ median ” of the curve, meets it. The

median is practically the same as the average, and it is clear from

the construction that its value is quite independent both of the

width of the scheme and of the number of individuals to which the

scheme refers, so long as they are fairly numerous. The hori-

zontal line A OB is the “axis” of the curve; it divides it into

symmetrical halves. In fig. 3 the nearer half of the axis AO is

itself bisected, and an ordinate Q is drawn to the curve from

the point of bisection. Q is what I eall the ‘‘ Quartile” of the

curve.

In fic. 4, M and Q are all that remain, and they are all that we

are mathematically concerned with. When they and the interval

between them are given the whole of the scheme can be calcu-

lated; but the interval between them is unimportant for the

objects in view. It does not in the least matter on what horizontal

seale the scheme is drawn, as the values of QM and other

ordinates at different fractional divisions of the axis are inde-

pendent of the horizontal extension. Q and M are the only values

in which we are interested, and it is with these that I work.

It has been abundantly shown by many, from Quetelet onwards,

and all my own many statistical inquiries confirm the view, that

26 Mr. Francis Galton on

the curve in the above figure* is, or at least tends to be, of as

definite a character as an ellipse or any other familiar curve; that

it equally admits of mathematical definition, and that it possesses

peculiar properties of its own that are of the highest importance

to statistical inquirers. Just as an infinite variety of ellipses may

be drawn on the axis AB, differing from one another in their

extension above and below AB, but otherwise preserving the well-

known proportion of an ellipse; so may an infinite variety of

curves of normal variability be drawn on the axis A B, differing

from one another only in the amount of their extension above or

below it, as measured conveniently by the length of Q. They will

all maintain the proportions shown in the table below, which refers

to the middle nine-tenths of the curve. The twentieth part at

either end is sure to become irregular. O A is supposed in the Table

to be divided into 50 parts, the division at O counting as 0°, and that

at A at 50°; then, when Q is taken equal to 100 units, the several

ordinates drawn from the principal divisions on the axis are of

the lengths shown in the table. For any other value of Q all

the tabular values must be changed in uniform proportion to the

new value of Q.

Division. | Length of Ordinate.

0 0

10 38

20 78

Q 25 100

30 125

40 190

45 244.

50 indefinite

As the curve is symmetrical the same measurements apply to

either half of it, but in the one half they are made from the axis

upwards, in the other half they are made downwards.

If the curve derived from a series of measurements of any

variable characteristic is found on trial to conform fairly well with

these proportions, it may be assumed that the characteristics in

question vary ‘‘normally,” that is to say, according to the recog-

nised laws of chance, which specify the relative frequency of runs

of luck of different lengths. Again, in so far as they vary

normally, all the properties of the laws of normal variation may

justly be assigned to them. It was by the use of these laws that

my deductions were made.

* The curve actually used by these writers is of another kind and

has another signification, but for all that it is the basis of the

curve that I employ.

Pedigree Moth-breeding. 27

I have exhibited to this Society, as an example of the law of

variability, a row of about 100 pods of sweet peas, the produce or

brood of a single plant, which I had arranged edgeways, like the

vertical lines in fig. 1. Their outline expresses very distinctly the

peculiar shape of the curve of variability.

The object of preserving the entire brood of moths is to obtain

careful after-measurements from which to deduce the values of

M and of Q in each case. When this is done we shall be able to

deal with each group in its entirety, and to submit it to mathe-

matical treatment.

The data I have hitherto used in my inquiries were rarely

derived from more than three generations, but the condition of

statistical constancy in the peculiarities of a population, of which

I will again speak, enabled me to extend their scope. ‘They

sufficed in this way to lead to many interesting, though perhaps

only approximative, results. One is that each parent contributes,

on the average, one quarter of the total hereditary peculiarities of

the child, each grandparent one-sixteenth, and so on. In other

words, that the two parents together contribute one-half, the four

erandparents a quarter, the eight great-grandparents one-eighth,

and so on, the whole heritage being thus accounted for. But when

none of the progenitors besides the two parents are known, their

implied peculiarities must be taken into account. They admit of

being calculated, and have to be allowed for in the form of an

increase to the hereditary contributions of the parents. It is

found that each parent should in that case be held to contribute

one-third; the difference between one-third and one-quarter (or

one-twelfth) beg the amount of the implied heritages. It is,

however, highly probable from other considerations that, though

this simple formula may be closely true for the parents, and

nearly true for the grandparents, it may become sensibly and

increasingly different for remoter progenitors. It is this that I

want to investigate, chiefly through inquiries into Regression.

Moreover, all theory concerning the cause and character of Stability

of Type, and of much else of high interest in any general view of

Heredity, must be based upon the facts of Regression, which such

experiments as those proposed can alone, so far as I see, be likely

to declare in a trustworthy way.

The laws of simple heredity, as I made them out, involve only

five constants. These admit of being separately determined, and

they are at the same time connected by an equation that serves to

verify theix observed values. The equation depends on the fact

alluded to, that successive generations of the same population

yield identical biological statistics, although each family, or brood,

28 Pedigree Moth-breeding.

is full of variations, and although the ‘‘ median” of each characteristic

in each brood is on the average always more mediocre than the

corresponding characteristic in the mean of the two parents. The

first of these events, ‘‘ fraternal variability,” increases the variability

of the population as a whole, and the latter event, which I call

**Regression,” decreases it; the two can be shown to counter- ,

balance each other, and give rise to a position of stable equilibrium.

The five constants are (1), the Median of the race; (2), the Quartile

of the race; (8), the Quartile of the broods of the same parents,

i.e., brothers or sisters; (4), the Quartile of broods of a large

number of dike parents, mixed together in a single group; (5), the

coefficient of Regression. The laws in which these constants play

a part give calculated results that prove to be closely true to

observation in the ordinary cases of simple heredity, where there

has been no long-continued selection, but it does not at all follow

that they will hold true for the descendants of a long succession of

widely divergent parents. It is this that I want to test. The

point towards which Regression tends cannot, as the history of

Evolution shows, be really fixed. Then the vexed question arises

whether it varies slowly or by abrupt changes, coincident with

changes of organic equilibrium which may be transmitted here-

ditarily ; in other words, with small or large changes of type.

Moreover, the values of the Quartile in (8) and (4) cannot be

strictly constant, and are probably connected in part with the

value of the median, and require a modified treatment by using

the geometrical law of error instead of the arithmetical one (Proc.

Royal Soc., 1879). Again, the diminution both of fertility and of

vitality that accompany wide divergence from racial mediocrity

have yet to be measured, by comparing the A and Z broods with

the M broods. It was assumed not to vary in the approximative

theory of which I spoke.

29 )

IV. Practical suggestions and enquiries as to the method

of breeding Selenia illustraria for the purpose of

obtaining data for Mr. Galton. By FRrEprERIc

MERRIFIELD.

[Read February 2nd, 1887. |

Ir being necessary for the purpose of these experiments

to bring up in a healthy state nearly all the individuals

in every successive brood, instead of merely to obtain a

fair number of cabinet specimens,—the usual object of

larva-breeders,—more than usual care will be necessary

to avoid dwarfing and casualties. No apology, there-

fore, is offered for submitting the following detailed

suggestions,—the result of answers kindly given to

many enquiries,—while at the same time further

information is invited.

Selection of Species—The species chosen should be

variable in size and easy to rear, pair, and measure ;

and regularly double-brooded species have the great

advantage of reducing by one-half the period required

for bringing the experiments to an end. After fully

weighing objections, the writer has determined to try a

species of which he has considerable knowledge, Selenia

ilustraria (the Purple Thorn), adding to his preliminary

experience by practising on the common S. ¢tlunaria,

which appears a month earlier. Other double-brooded

species are recommended, viz., the Lphyras (especially

i. pendularia), Drepana falcula, and the Closteras ; among

single-brooded moths some of the common and easily

bred Bombyces, especially Hypogymna dispar, and that

variable, interesting, and easily reared Geometer,

Angerona prunaria. Those who can get over the difti-

culty of pairing which the butterflies generally present

would probably find the common and easily fed and

double-brooded Pieris brassice very suitable.

It is much to be desired that the same species should

be taken up by more than one observer, as in this way

the accidental failure of a brood may be guarded against,

TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1887.—PaRT I. (APRIL.)

30 =Mr. F. Merrifield’s Practical suggestions and

and provision may be made for occasional cross-breeding

to promote the vigour of the breed. Observers living in

countries where there is a large choice of double-brooded

insects, especially where the climate is such as to admit

of three or four broods a year, have great advantages.

Under such conditions probably some of the silk-

producing Bombyces would be favourable subjects.

Apart from the bearing of the experiments on the

theory of heredity to be elucidated, they can hardly fail

to throw light on many problems in evolution, such as

those which have been investigated by Prof. Weismann,

as well as to furnish facts of interest in the life-history

of the insects chosen for experiment ;—such as the

proportion of males and females, and the order in which

they appear; the time of the day or night when they

emerge from pupa; the time when they are most active

on the wing, or in feeding as larve ; the number of eggs

laid; the duration of life in the several stages; the

influence of temperature, moisture, and food-plant, &e. ;

—facts many of which have a general interest for

entomologists, but which are rarely recorded with

completeness and accuracy by those who only breed for

cabinet purposes.

Attention is called to the importance, whatever species

is chosen, of starting with a healthy original stock.

Pup freshly dug or obtained from larvee found wild, or

eges from moths caught wild, are preferable, as there

need be no apprehension that they are suffering under

defects engendered by feeding under artificial conditions

or by interbreeding. In any case the origin or history

of the stock with which the experiments are begun

should be known. A supply from a foreign country

does not appear to be objectionable, if the species

obtained there is known to have the ordinary appear-

ance, size, and habits of the native specimens.

The writer will be greatly obliged to any entomologist,

having had practical experience in the rearing of larve,

for any suggestions tending to ensure success in the

experiments determined on. He would be particularly

obliged by answers to the following enquiries :—How

long can such moths as the Selenias, spring and summer

broods respectively, be kept alive and quiet, and how

can this best be done? Can any better plan be suggested

than that of subjecting them to cold and darkness, and

enquiries as to breeding Selenra illustraria. 31

what lowness of temperature will they bear without

injury? Are the Selenias ever found feeding on flowers,

or are they known to feed in confinement? Are the pup

killed or injured by severe frosts? — Please address

replies to 24, Vernon Terrace, Brighton.

APPENDIX.

General Treatment.—For the success of these experiments it

seems very important to observe the principle that the insect

should, all through its life, be subjected, as far as possible, to the

natural conditions in which it exists, while protected from its

natural enemies and from casualties. For example, S. illustraria,

in a state of nature, lives in a much cooler, moister, and fresher

air than it does when bred in-doors; its food-plant is exposed to

similar influences, to a much stronger light, and its leaves are

never in a flagging condition. On the other hand, the wild insect

is subject to the depredations of birds, mice, earwigs, beetles, ants,

ichneumon flies, and other predaceous and parasitic insects; and

is exposed to injury by storms. These considerations point to the

following precautions.

Larve.—Feed the larv, when practicable, on growing trees out

of doors, confining them by ‘“‘sleeves”’ of the material that most

readily admits light and air, but is close enough to keep in the

larvee and exclude insect enemies; muslin, leno, and calico have

been recommended for the purpose. This mode of out-door feeding

saves some trouble, but does not dispense with frequent super-

vision, especially in rough weather. The sleeves should be

frequently examined; snails and slugs will sometimes eat holes

in them. Shelter may be necessary in stormy weather; for this

reason, dwarf trees and trees in pots are advantageous. In town

gardens a fencing of wire-netting is often necessary as a protection

against larger animals. The sleeve should be opened frequently to

remove the ‘“‘frass’’ and shift the larve to fresh quarters, and

folds in which the larve may get entangled should be avoided.

When they are nearly full grown it may be expedient to remove

them to a breeding-cage. The larve of S. cllustraria seem to

move about in the latter part of the afternoon, but not in general

to feed till night. They should not be crowded.

Until the larve are so large that they cannot crawl through the

interstices of the sleeve they may either be fed on a potted tree

in-doors, or, perhaps more safely, in a glass-cylinder, such as is

described in books on larva-breeding (Rev. J. Green’s ‘ Insect

Hunter’s Companion,’ Dr. Knaggs’ articles in the early volumes of

the ‘ Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine,’ &c.), or in a jar. A simple

32 Mr. F. Merrifield’s Practical suggestions and

and handy one is a jam-pot, with the edge ground down smooth

and covered with a piece of very fine muslin, held in place by an

elastic-band, and having a piece of plate-glass laid over the top, and

occasionally shifted aside for ventilation, and to prevent the formation

of drops of water in which the larve may drown. Though the pupe

is described as subterranean, it generally spins up between leaves.

If growing trees are not available, the larve should be reared in

a breeding-cage, standing in a cool airy place out of doors, well

supplied with food standing in water-bottles, the necks tightly

stuffed with moss, &. The cage should have a thorough draught,

and for the sake of the healthiness of the food-plant it is reeom-

mended that the top at least should be of glass. There may be an

inch of fine light earth covered with a layer of moss, often renewed.

All moss and earth should be baked to kill enemies. S. illustraria

will eat birch, oak, ash, hawthorn, sallow, and alder, but the young

larve sometimes will not take to all of these, therefore it may be

expedient to try them with more than one, and when they are

found to thrive on it they should be kept to it. It is stated to be

best to cut their food from the same tree and the same side of it.

With the precautions suggested, and a very frequent renewal

of the food-plant, it is believed that the larve may be brought

up in out-door breeding-cages almost as successfully as by

“sleeving” them on growing trees. An occasional moistening

of the food with soft water from a scent-spray is useful, especially

if the breeding-cage is in an airy situation and the air is dry; but

in this case particular care should be taken to remove the layer of

moss with the frass and dead leaves collected on it, and at the first

symptom of mould or mildew the process should be stopped. All

the broods (long-, medium-, and short-winged) should be given the

same food-plant and treated in the same way.

Pupe.—As to the pupe, it is believed the best way is to keep

them out of doors, sheltered from rain, and laid in their slight

cocoons on earth covered with moss, and prevented from drying up

by placing the box containing them in a situation which will cause

the earth to be slightly moist at bottom, or, if this cannot be

arranged, by occasional watering with soft water from a scent-spray.

Though these pupe are generally found naturally in dry situations,

they are there continually exposed to more or less moist air, and

are in the winter rarely removed more than an inch or two from

moist earth; and it has been found that if the leaves in which they

are spun up become quite dry, the moth has a difficulty in coming

out. The pup should be occasionally looked at, and a watch kept

for insect enemies, including the larvee of the Tine. It would be

prudent to protect them against severe frost.

enquiries as to breeding Selenia illustraria. 33

Moths.—Double-brooded moths are very apt to be influenced as

to the time of their appearance by temperature. In an unusually

warm season if kept out of doors, and in an ordinary season if kept

in-doors, some of the moths will sometimes come out, or the cater-

pillars will spin up too soon, and the moths from them may come

out as a third brood. Conversely, if the temperature be very low

some of the larve of the spring brood will feed up very slowly, and

some of the pup go over to another year, instead of coming out as

a second brood. Any risk of this kind can generally be obviated by

moderate watchfulness, and by moving the insects to a cooler or

warmer situation, in or out of doors, as may be best. In the South

of England S. illwstraria should appear from the middle or latter

part of April through May, and the second brood (its pupa-stage

lasting only two or three weeks) in August; any material departure

from these dates that may actually appear, or be threatened by the

rapid or slow progress of the larve, should be counteracted by

shifting to cooler or warmer quarters.

Two pairs of each of the sizes (largest-, medium-, and smallest-

winged), will probably be enough to produce the required number

of eggs, and allow for casualties. After these pairs have been

selected and have mated, the rest of the brood should be killed, set,

and arranged in a drawer or store-box, according to size, the males

and females separately; the breeding pairs, when they have laid

their eggs, being set and put in their proper places with the rest,

but labelled. Each successive brood will of course be kept separate

from all the others. To ensure mating, the pair should be placed

in a round bag of muslin, &e., over a fresh spray of the food-plant.

A rather warm and moist air seems most conducive to activity in

the winged state.

To keep moths long in a living state they should be in a moist

air, and have access to honey diluted with water, best supplied by

soaking little pieces of sponge in it. A single female of S. clustraria

may lay 100 eggs or upwards. The female is apt to scatter her

eggs over the bag if left in it; if transferred to a jam-pot and

supplied with crumpled paper, she will probably lay in the creases,

which can then be cut out and attached to the food-plant as the

hatching period approaches. As it is necessary to preserve all, or

nearly all, of a brood of 50 or 100 moths in an unpaired but healthy

and vigorous condition till the whole brood is out,—a period which,

under ordinary circumstances, may last several weeks, especially

with the spring brood,—provision should be made beforehand for

this purpose. The males and females should be separated in the

pupa-stage (in all the species named they can easily be discriminated

by the different appearance of the antenn, aided by the different

TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1887.—paRr I. ‘APRIL.) D

34 Breeding Selenia illustraria.

size of the abdomen). As soon as the first moth emerges the

remaining pup should—without being exposed to a high tem-

perature or to sunshine—be placed in a warm room, and the moths,

as they emerge, be placed in a cool moist place, and there be kept

in absolute darkness. A refrigerator, or a zinc cover constructed

on the evaporating butter-cooler principle, may possibly have to be

used here. For convenience in removing the moths without excitin g

them or injuring their claws, it seems best to place each pupa in a

separate chip-box, haying a black net lid. This is the course which

the writer intends to follow. The moths can be roughly sorted by

the eye, but for the sake of greater accuracy a pair of compasses

should be used. (See the remarks on these in Mr. Galton’s paper.)

If the species to be measured is small or lively, it may be necessary

to temporarily stupify it by placing it under a glass with a few

drops of chloroform on blotting-paper.

( 85 )

V. Description of a new species of Synchloé from Kilima-

njaro. By Purr Crowtey, F.L.S., F.Z.8., &e.

|Read February 2nd, 1887.|

Puate ITI.

Amone some butterflies Mr. Watkins submitted to me

the other day, received by him from Mr. J. M.

Johnston, and collected by his brother Mr. H. H.

Johnston during his visit to Kilimanjaro, I found a new

species, which I propose to describe under the name of

Synchloé Johnstonii. It is very nearly allied to Synchloé

hellica, but differs from it in both sexes in having the

wings more pointed at the apex, and in the costal

margin of the fore wings being longer; the black on the

apical area covers rather a larger space, and the four

white spots in it are more definite. The marginal

black spots in the hind wings of the male are larger

than in S. hellica, and the spot near the inner

margin of the fore wings in the female is only repre-

sented by a few blackish scales. The male type is in

my own collection; the female in that of the Natural

History Museum, which also contains a male. Hxpanse

of wing, 1°9 to 2°0.

In the accompanying plate (No. III.) are represented

the male, female, and under side of Synchloé Johnstonii,

and also the upper and under side of the male of

S. hellica for comparison.

EXpuANATION OF Puate III.

Fig. 1. Synchloé Johnstonit, male.

2. a a female.

3. 3 3 under side of male.

AS . hellica, male.

5. ” * under side of male.

TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1887.—-PART I. (APRIL.)

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VI. Descriptions of some new species of Rhopalocera from

the Solomon Islands. By Grrvasze F. Marurw,

Staff Paymaster, Royal Navy, F.L.S., F.Z.8., &c.

[Read March 2nd, 1886. |

Puate LV.

Tur following are descriptions of new species of

Rhopalocera taken in the Solomon Islands during the

short visits of H.M.S. ‘ Espiegle’ in 1882 -3 :—

NYMPHALIDA.

DANAINA.

Euplea nechos, n. s.

3g. Upper side unspotted, deep velvety sepia-brown, slightly

paler towards margins, especially near anal angles; a very large

scent-brand on fore wings between submedian nervure and first

median nervule, oblong-oval, and occupying two-thirds of the

interspace. Under side warm sepia-brown, apex, anal angles of

fore wings, and costa and inner margins of hind wings paler.

Fore wings :—A conspicuous pale blue spot in cell near the end ; a

transverse series of four linear-shaped pale blue spots just beyond

the cell, the upper one between submedian nervure and upper

discoidal nervule; the spot between the discoidal nervules almost

obsolete; a conspicuous elongated white spot between first and

second median nervules; scent-gland pitchy-brown, and dotted

with minute white atoms, its outer margin white. Hind wings :—

At base a bluish-white spot on precostal and costal nervures, one

between median and submedian nervure, and one between internal

nervure and abdominal margin ; a conspicuous pale blue spot in

cell near the end, and a curved series of five pale blue spots just

beyond the cell, between upper subcostal and lower median

nervule. A minute white spot at base of each antenna, one on

each side of collar, and one on each scapula. Abdomen spotted

with white at sides and beneath. Exp. 94mm.

Hab. Treasury Island, Solomon Islands.

Obs. This species is remarkable for the large size of

TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1887.—PART I. (APRIL.)

38 Mr. Gervase F. Mathew’s descriptions of

the sexual brand, and does not appear to be near any

yet described, though perhaps it is somewhat allied to

EH. fraudulenta, Butl.

SATYRINAL.

Mycalesis sara, n.s. (Pl. IV., fig. 8).

3. Upper side rich tawny. Fore wings:—A broad blackish-

brown marginal border from two-thirds of costa curving slightly

to anal angle; an ocellated submarginal spot, black with minute

white centre, and dark tawny margins, situated between first and

second median nervules; a minute white spot near the apex,

Hind wings :—A broad marginal black band gradually becoming

narrower towards anal angle; a submarginal series of three

ocellated spots, similar to the one on fore wings, but the upper one

very minute, and its white pupil barely perceptible, the central

spot much the largest, and situated between submedian nervure

and first median nervule. Under side dark brownish ochreous, &

narrow and slightly waved chestnut-red fascia from costa just

beyond end of cell nearly to anal angle of hind wings, outwardly

bordered by a narrow bluish-purple stripe having opalescent

reflections; a submarginal series of eight ocellated spots, black

with white centres, and orange-yellow margins bordered by black,

two on fore wings, six on hind wings; two slightly waved sub-

marginal lines. Hind wings :—Second spot very minute, third

rather larger, neither with pupils, first and fifth the largest. Exp.

60mm.

Hab. Ugi, Solomon Islands.

Obs. Allied to M. messene, Hew., but much larger

and very different beneath.

Mycalesis splendens, n.s. (Pl. 1Y., fig. 4).

@. Wings broad and ample. Upper side deep olive-brown,

inclining to golden-brown in certain lights; outer margin with a

paler band, in which are two narrow and rather indistinct sub-

marginal lines of a darker hue. ore wings :—Two conspicuous

submarginal ocellated spots, black with white centres, and broad

orange-yellow margins, the upper about half the size of the lower,

and situated above upper discoidal nervule, the lower one placed

between second and third median nervules. Hind wings :—A sub-

marginal series of four ocellated spots similar to those on the fore

wings, of which the first and second are the smallest, and the third

the largest; these are all placed between the nervules, the first

some new species of Rhopalocera. 39

between discoidal nervules, and the fourth between submedian

nervure, and third median nervule. Under side :—Base of wings

pale ochreous, both crossed beyond the middle by a very broad

fascia, dusky in the centre, and metallic-purple at the margins,

which contains the ocellated spots, two on fore wings, six on hind

wings, and is bordered internally on both wings by another rather

broad, deep chestnut-red, fascia, its inner margin somewhatirregular,

and just entering apex of cell; outwardly there is another rather

narrow pale purple submarginal fascia, broader towards the costa,

and bordered on each side by narrow reddish-purple lines, the

inner one rather waved, and beyond this a narrow marginal

ochreous fascia outwardly bordered by a reddish-purple line.

Fore wings :—Ocellated spots same as on upper surface, but larger

and brighter, and with their outer margins pale yellow. Hind

wings :—A narrow and somewhat waved chestnut-coloured fascia

from a third of costa crosses cell and terminates just beyond sub-

median nervure; ocellated spots, second and third the smallest,

fourth and sixth about the same size, first larger than fourth and

sixth, and fifth the largest. Exp. 62 mm.

Hab. Treasury Island, Solomon Islands.

Obs. This is a very beautiful and distinct species.

NYMPHALIN/&.

Messarus melichrysos, n. s.

3S. Upper side :—Basal half of wings deep fulvous-brown. Fore

wings :—A broad transverse golden-yellow fascia crosses wings from

end of cell, its margins deep orange, and the outer strongly convex ;

costa narrowly, apex and outer margin broadly, deep velvety

blackish brown, with an indistinct round black spot between each

of the median nervules. Hind wings :—Fascia much narrower

than on fore wings, and extending from costa beyond middle to

just beyond third median nervule, where it dies away; outer

margin broadly deep velvety blackish-brown, inwardly bordered

by a band of large black square-shaped spots with their inner and

lateral margins orange-brown, between which and the fascia there

is a band composed of a series of indistinct lunules bordered on

each side by dusky; between macular band and outer margin an

indistinct line of a paler hue. Under side :—Basal area pale

ochreous, a fascia of a paler hue crosses wings from costa to near

anal angle, broad in fore wings, much narrower in hind wings.

Fore wings :—Apex and broad marginal band brownish-purple, with

a series of six blackish spots between the nervules, those between

40) Mr. Gervase F. Mathew’s descriptions of

submedian and first median and first and second median much the

largest, while those towards the apex are more or less indistinct ;

some of these spots are outwardly edged with yellowish; a sub-

marginal line of reddish-brown bordered inwardly by a band of

lunular-shaped pearly-grey spots between the nervules, those

towards the apex being rather indistinct; in apical region a few

shining purple atoms. Hind wings :—A submarginal band of sub-

oval black spots in orange rings, and bordered inwardly by a line

of crescent-shaped pearly-purplish lunules, which are inwardly

and narrowly margined with reddish-brown ; a submarginal series

of linear-shaped yellowish lunules bordered on each side by reddish-

brown; outer margin pale reddish-ochreous. Exp. 60 mm.

Hab. Uei, Solomon Islands.

Obs. Allied to M. Lampetia, L., but differs in the

breadth of the fascia on the fore wings, which is con-

stricted towards and does not touch the costa. It is

also a larger insect.

Messarus tredecia, n.s. (Pl. IV., fig. 2).

3. Upper side :—Basal half of wings fulvous-brown; a broad

transverse band from just beyond middle of costa to near anal

angle of hind wings. Lore wings :—The outer edge of band some-

what convex, its upper portion pale creamy-ochre, and barely

extending beyond the subcostal nervure, the lower part and

margins more or less suffused with orange; the whole of the apical

region and outer margin broadly deep smoky-brown, with a sub-

marginal band of six large but rather indistinct black spots

between the nervules; two submarginal waved black lines, between

which are some indistinct lunules of a paler hue. Hind wings :—

Band orange, except between costal nervure and costa, where it is

pearly-white; a narrow interrupted darker streak on its outer

margin; outer margin broadly smoky-brown, with a submarginal

band of seven black spots more or less encircled with orange, the

upper two and seventh rather small, the remaining four large and

almost square-shaped; between submarginal spots and outer

margin a paler lunular band bordered on each side by black.

Under side :—Basal half of wings ochraceous; band pale straw-

yellow, and on hind wings not as broad as on upper surface. Lore

wings :—Apex and outer marginal band broadly reddish-brown,

somewhat inclining to orange; a submarginal row of almost

round black spots, the one between submedian nervure and first

median nervule much the largest, those towards apex rather

some new species of Rhopalocera. 41

indistinct; a narrow marginal reddish-brown line bordered in-

wardly by a series of pearly-grey lunules between the nervules,

those towards apex small and indistinct; the apical spots are

bordered inwardly by some indistinct lunules composed of shining

purplish atoms. Hind wings :—A broad reddish-brown marginal

band containing a series of seven large black spots with orange

margins, situated between the nervules, and bordered inwardly by

a narrow shining purple sinuous band; a narrow submarginal

band of reddish-brown inwardly bordered by lunules of pearly-

erey; outer margin rather paler. Exp. 72 mm.

Hab. Treasury Island, Solomon Islands.

Obs. Allied to the above, but much larger. The

transverse band on the fore wings is much broader and

paler, and on the hind wings crosses nearly to anal

angle, and the spots above and below are much larger.

Rhinopalpa pavonia n. s. (Pl. IV., fig. 1).

9. Upper side rich sepia-brown, with golden reflections; a

broad transverse fascia crosses both wings from just beyond cell

on costa to anal angle of hind wines. Fore wings :—Fascia slightly

curved, pale creamy-yellow, almost white in some places, costal

edge, margins, and lower part inclining to dark orange; two

narrow, black, indistinct, and slightly waved submarginal lines,

between which the ground colour is somewhat paler; a sub-

marginal series of indistinct round black spots between the ner-

vules, those between lower discoidal nervule and second median

nervule having minute purple pupils, Hind wings :—Costal portion

of fascia almost white, remainder rich creamy-yellow; a sub-

marginal series of seven large ocellated spots, black with small

purple centres and orange margins, situated in a band of dark

brown ; spots at apex small and very indistinct, and at anal angle

somewhat blurred and without a pupil; two narrow waved blackish

submarginal bands, between which and the band enclosing the

ocellated spots is a series of clouded orange lunules. Under side :—

Basal area of wings pale reddish-ochreous; fascia not as broad as

on upper surface, pale creamy-white, and inwardly bordered by a

narrow dark reddish-brown and slightly waved line. Lore wings :—

Cell with two irregular transverse pale bands edged with dark

reddish-brown; apex and outer margins pale sepia-brown; a sub-

marginal series of six ocellated spots, black with indistinct purple

pupils, and somewhat clouded orange margins, the apical spot the

smallest, and the spot at anal angle without a pupil; two narrow

42, Mr. Gervase F'. Mathew’s descriptions of

submarginal bands, the outer nearly straight, the inner waved,

and between them some paler lunules. _Hind wings :—A narrow

dark reddish-brown line from costa crossing cell to submedian

nervure ; beyond fascia a broad submarginal band of pale sepia-

brown containing a series of seven ocellated spots, black with

purple centres and orange margins, the upper one very small and

indistinet and without pupil, the middle with largest pupil; outer

margin paler, with two submarginal stripes, the outer one narrow,

distinct, and somewhat waved, the inner one much broader and

well-defined on outer edge, the space between the two greyish;

between inner band and ocellated spots some indistinct greyish-

yellow lunules; a blackish blotch at anal angle. Exp. 73 mm.

Hab. Treasury Island, Solomon Islands.

Obs. Allied to R. algina, Boisd., but ocellated spots

on hind wings very much larger and brighter, and fascia

on fore wings concave; under side very different.

Cyrestis Solomonis, u. 8.

gS. Upper side warm brownish ochreous; outer margins dark

brown; a broad creamy-white, or white, fascia from two-thirds of

costa crosses wings, becomes narrower upon reaching the hind

wings, and terminates almost in a point at submedian nervure ;

the following markings between inner margin of fascia and base of

wings: first, a narrow oblique stripe from subcostal nervure at

base of cell to submedian nervure of hind wings; second, a short

and slightly elbowed pale stripe bordered outwardly by dark brown

across cell only; third, a narrow oblique pale stripe across cell,

continued to submedian nervure of hind wing and inwardly

bordered in cell by dark brown, beyond outwardly bordered by a

band of dark brown; fifth, a slightly curved and rather dark

stripe; and sixth, a paler and rather thicker stripe just beyond the

cell, the fifth and sixth stripes enclosing base of disco-cellulars;

apex of cell of hind wings closed by a slightly-curved stripe with dark

margins, between which and the third stripe is a short and some-

what oblique pale line. Fore wings :—A submarginal series of six

conspicuous oblong-oval black spots, with dusky fuscous margins

inwardly bordered by a pale narrow and somewhat obscure line,

outwardly by a narrow and rather waved stripe; spot at anal angle

small and sometimes divided; a submarginal rather waved whitish

line. Hind wings:—A submarginal series of six large black sub-

oval spots with bright fuscous margins, the margins twice as broad

outwardly; spot at apex the smallest; two white submarginal

some new species of Rhopalocera. 43

lines, the outer rather indistinct, the inner very distinct and

angled at apex of third median nervule, where the wing is

produced into a conspicuous and rather sharp tail; a large bright

fuscous blotch at anal angle containing two round black spots with

fuscous margins, and enclosed in narrow black and white lines.

Under side :—Markings similar to those above, but much paler, or

with an indistinct greenish tint, the white submarginal stripes

broader and more distinct: the lower half of spot at anal angle

obscured by a blackish blotch. Exp. 60 mm.

Hab. Ugi, Solomon Islands.

Obs. Allied to C. lelia, Feld., but ground colour

different and fascia, especially on hind wings, much

narrower.

Cyrestts nitida, n.s. (Pl. IV., fig. 5).

3. Upper side dark olive-brown; a white band crosses both

wings from costal nervure nearly to anal angle of hind wings;

between white band and base several narrow pale ochreous stripes,

the first slightly oblique from near base of costal nervure to sub-

median nervure of hind wing, the second short and across cell

only, the third from costa at middle of cell obliquely to submedian

nervure of hind wing, the fourth in cell almost straight, from

thence to lower median nervule of hind wing it is much broader,

of a deeper colour, and somewhat suffused, and where it crosses

cell of hind wing it 1s inwardly bordered by a narrow pale line

margined with darker brown; two more stripes at end of cell of

fore wings, the inner one merely a fine line, the outer somewhat

curved. Fore wings :—A conspicuous submarginal band, composed

of a series of six moderately large black sub-oval spots with broad

fuscous margins, inwardly bordered by a narrow whitish and some-

what clouded stripe, and outwardly by a broader whitish stripe ;

two submarginal darker stripes with a rather waved whitish line

between. Hind wings :—Submarginal bands and stripes as in fore

wings, but black spots larger, and the first two with much broader

outer fuscous margins than the others; at anal angle a large

bright fuscous patch, in which are situated two spots, one at anal

angle with black centre and fuscous margins, and enclosed by a

narrow black ring which is outwardly bordered by a fine white

line, the other at the apex of and below lower median nervule,

smaller, and with the markings less distinct. Under side white, and

submarginal bands the same as on upper side, but the black spots

with much broader fuscous margins, and the pale ochreous bands

44 Mr. Gervase F. Mathew’s descriptions of

replaced by white; the narrow white submarginal stripes broader

and more distinct; spots at anal angle smaller. Exp. 60 mm.

IIab. Treasury Island, Solomon Islands.

Obs. Allied to C. lelia, Feld., but white band quite

straight on outer edge and much narrower, and barely

extending beyond costal nervure. It is altogether a

larger insect.

Diadema fuliginescens, n.s. (Pl. IV., fig. 6).

9. Upper side deep fuliginous-black, inclining to fuscous

towards the outer margins. ore wings :—A curved band of five

white spots beyond the middle extending from costa to third

median interspace, the spot between costa and costal nervule

divided by a nervule; spot between discoidal nervules much the

largest and elongated; indications of spots between first and

second median nervules and first median nervule and submedian

nervure; three or four small white apical spots; a submarginal

row of small white spots bordered outwardly by a narrow black

stripe. Hind wings :—Outer margin with a broad whitish band

clouded with sepia towards junction with discal area and at apex;

a row of white spots through the centre between the nervules;

nervules crossing bands and between spots well-defined and deep

pitchy-brown, outer margins the same, but narrowly and well-

defined; fringes white, except at the apex of each nervule, where

they are dusky. Under side :—Markings much the same as on

upper side; basal and central area dark sienna-brown, brighter in

cell. Fore wings :—Basal portion of costal area irrorated with

minute bluish-white atoms; three white spots with black margins

in cell just below costal nervure, minute bluish-white atoms

between the two nearest the apex, and a blotch of the same below

the central one; apex light brownish-ochreous; a narrow dark

submarginal stripe bordered on each side by white, and a: sub-

marginal row of somewhat indistinct white spots, the one at anal

angle the largest and enclosed in dark sienna-brown, and with a

light bluish triangular spot above it. Hind wings :—The marginal

band considerably broader than on upper surface, and with a

distinet dark band running through its centre, in which the white

spots are more clearly visible. Exp. 78 mm.

Hab. Uegi, Solomon Islands.

Ols. This species is allied to D. Forbesi, Butl., but

differs in the shape of the apical spots, the costa is

some new species of Rhopalocera. 45

more arched, and the band in the hind wings is not as

broad or as white; it also comes near the female

D. velleda, Cram., and is probably the female of a blue-

banded species.

Parthenos thesaurus, n. 8.

3. Upper side obscure olive-brown. Fore wings :—An oblique

discal band composed of a series of ten irregular-shaped spots

margined with blackish-brown, the three at apex whitish, the

remainder dusky; three streaks within the cell, the two nearest

the base broad, oblique, pointing towards outer margin, of a

brownish-ochreous edged with black; the third bordering disco-

cellular nervule, broad above and filling apical angle of cell, of a

paler colour than the other two, and having a few greenish atoms

at its lower end; a moderate marginal and broad submarginal

dusky band; two basal longitudinal blackish-brown streaks. Hind

wings: ~ Basal third crossed by three blackish-brown bands, the

first of which is almost straight; discal and marginal areas

inclining to dark ochreous; a submarginal band of large blackish-

brown lunules between the nervules, above which is a transverse

band of large irregular linear-shaped spots outwardly concave,

inwardly wedge-shaped, and somewhat toothed; outer margin

blackish-brown. Under side paler than above. Fore wings :—The

five lower discal spots tinged with greyish-green; a conspicuous

black submarginal blotch at anal angle. Hind wings :—Basal half

pale bluish-green and without the bands; two black lines between

costal and subcostal nervures, and a waved black line across dise

from subcostal to submedian neryule; the linear-shaped spots

small, more or less streaked with pale blue atoms, and bordered

below by a band of pale bluish-grey, and above by a band of

oblique dusky spots ; a submarginal band of linear-shaped lunules ;

outer margin dusky brown. Abdomen crossed by the usual bands.

Exp. 100 mm.

Hab. Treasury Island, Solomon Islands.

Obs. Allied to P. gambrisius, Fabr., but much larger,

and differs in general coloration, in shape, size, and

colour of discal spots. In the former the spots between

the first and third median nervules are very large and

almost fill the interspace, whereas in P. thesaurus they

are very much smaller and of different shape; the one

between the first and second median nervule is long and

narrow, and does not occupy more than one-third of the

46 Mr. Gervase F’. Mathew’s descriptions of

interspace ; the spot between the discoidal nervules is

very different, as is also the coloration beneath, the

general hue of P. gambrisius being greenish-olive.

LYCANIDA.

.Lampides cerulina, 1.8.

3. Upper side pale silvery blue, through which the white

markings beneath are faintly discernible. Fore wings :—A very

narrow costal and hind marginal line, fringes dark blackish-brown.

Hind wings :—A narrow white submarginal line very near the hind

margin and bordered outwardly by a narrow black marginal line,

and inwardly from upper median nervule to anal angle by blackish

lunules, the first very indistinct; at anal angle a second short

black streak just above the lunule. Under side greyish-brown,

crossed by a series of irregular whitish lines. Fore wings :—A sub-

marginal series of six dusky lunules. Hind wings :—A_ blackish-

brown spot at apex followed by another much larger and almost

square-shaped spot of the same colour, with its interior and outer

margins white; a submarginal series of three blackish-brown

A-shaped marks bordered above and below by white, the upper

one placed between the discoidal nervules; between submedian

nervure and third median nervule a conspicuous black submarginal

spot bordered at the sides with metallic azure-blue, and inwardly

by bright fuscous ; at anal angle a few metallic azure-blue atoms

on a black stripe inwardly margined by a short fuscous stripe; a

marginal white line outwardly bordered by a blackish-brown line.

9. Upper side pale silvery blue. Fore wings :—Costa narrowly,

apex and hind margin broadly, blackish-brown; some indistinct

submarginal lunules towards anal angle; an indistinct spot at end

of cell. Hind wings :—Costa rather clouded ; a double submarginal

series of blackish-brown A-shaped marks, of which the first two

of the inner series are the largest, and the two between upper and

lower median nervules of the outer series the largest and darkest ;

a marginal narrow white line interrupted by the nervules and out-

wardly bordered by a narrow black line ; fringes dark grey. Under

side same asmale. Tails black, with a minute white tip. Exp.

80 to 83 mm.

Hab. Ugi, Solomon Islands.

Obs. Allied to L. elianus, Feld., but male has scarcely

any black marginal band, and general colour is a paler

and more delicate silvery blue. The submarginal

markings on hind wing of female are different.

some new species of Rhopalocera. 47

Sithon chromis, n. 8.

Allied to S. Phocides, Feld., but differs in the anal area and tail

being orange-ochreous, and in possessing a marginal, rather large,

and broad triangular-shaped deep purple blotch near apex, instead

of a short, narrow, blue band. Exp. 34 mm.

Hab. Ugi, Solomon Islands.

Amblypodia sophax, n. s.

3. Upper side brilliant metallic azure-blue, shaded to ultra-

marine on costa and at apex; costa narrowly, hind margin more

broadly, bordered with black; fringes blackish-brown; tail black,

finely tipped with white. Under side :—Fore wings greyish-brown;

spots and bands dark madder-brown, and very distinctly margined

with greyish-white; two spots in and one at end of cell, the basal

one small and round, the central and external ones large; a curved

band of seven conspicuous spots between end of cell and outer

margin; a submarginal lunular band. Hind wings :— Five basal

spots, two large kidney-shaped spots in cell, one large spot on

costa, followed by a conspicuous double spot, which forms the

upper portion of an irregular discal series of six spots; a sub-

marginal lunular band; a series of three metallic, greenish-blue,

linear-shaped lunules at anal angle.

Q. Upper side not as brilliant as in male; costa narrowly,

apex and outer margin broadly, black ; wnder side same as in male.

Exp. 85 to 40 mm.

Hab. Ugi, Solomon Islands.

Obs. General characters similar to others of the

eroup, but a very brilliant and distinct species.

PAPILIONIDA.

PIERINA.

Preris discolor, n. 8.

3. Upper side very pale creamy-white. Fore wings :—Costal

area, apex, and hind margin deep blackish-brown; a series of six

white linear-shaped spots in marginal band from costa to first

median neryule, the upper very small, the next two the largest,

and the other three very small and indistinct; costal area dusted

with minute white atoms from base to end of cell; base of wing

dusted with minute black dots. Hind wings:—An inwardly clouded

black marginal band from costa, narrowing very gradually to anal

48 Mr. Gervase F'. Mathew’s descriptions of

angle; an indistinct whitish spot on inner margin of band below

subcostal nervule. Under side:—Fore wings, costal and marginal

band as above, but black on costa extends into upper part of cell;

spots at apex large and bright canary-yellow; base of wings yellow.

Hind wings bright canary-yellow ; hind-marginal band irregular,

blackish-brown, with two yellow spots, the first between second

subcostal and upper discoidal nervule, the second between first

and second median nervules.

Q?. Upper side pale canary-yellow ; marginal bands broader,

and apical spots rather larger than in male. Under side :—Fore

wings pale lemon-yellow, base brighter ; marginal band the same

as above, but apical spots much larger, and bright orange. Hind

wings orange; marginal band irregular, blackish-brown, and

scarcely extending to anal angle; spots larger than in male;

neuration across orange part of wings white. Exp. 65 mim.

Hab. Ugi, Solomon Islands.

Obs. <A distinct species, but somewhat allied to

P. quadricolor, Salv. and Godm. It is, however, con-

siderably larger, differs in colour, and the marginal

bands of the wings below are spotted.

PAPILIONINAL.

Papilio polydemon, n. 8.

g. Upper sideblack. Fore wings :—Three short and indistinct

sreyish streaks in cell, and duplex greyish streaks between the

nervules. Hind wings :—A large white spot in cell near the end,

and a series of large spots beyond, the first situated above the dis-

coidal nervule, and the fifth, which has its lower part crimson,

between lower median nervule and submedian nervure; a sub-

marginal row of clouded crimson spots placed between the nervules,

of which the upper three are almost obsolete, and the other three

more or less irrorated with minute black dots, the one at anal

angle being the brightest. Under side :—Fore wings same as above,

but grey streaks broader and more distinct. Hind wings :—The

submarginal row of crimson spots much larger and clear and

unspotted; head and thorax above and below black; last three

segments of abdomen scarlet beneath, the remainder black. Exp.

110 mm.

Hab. Ugi, Solomon Islands.

Obs. Allied to P. polydorus, L., but differs in the

absence of the red collar and the red on thorax beneath,

some new species of Rhopalocera. 49

and in size and shape of white spots in band on hind

wings ; the hind wings are not so pointed, and there is

less grey on the fore wings.

Papilio polypemon, n. s.

Upper side blackish-brown. Fore wings with obscure greyish

streaks in cell, and duplex streaks between the nervules. Hind

wings :—A small white spot in cell towards end, and a series of

small white spots just beyond, the first situated above discoidal

nervule, and the fifth, which is much the smallest, between lower

median nervule and submedian nervure; a submarginal row of

six pale pinkish spots, the first four very indistinct, and the

remaining two irrorated with black atoms. Under side:—Fore

wings as above, but grey markings more distinct. Hind wings :—

Submarginal row of spots almost circular, pale pink, and unspotted,

the upper one whitish on its upper margin; two last segments of

abdomen below and at sides bright pink; head, collar, thorax, and

remainder of abdomen black. Exp. 98 mm.

Hab. Treasury Island, Solomon Islands.

Obs. Allied to above, but the hind wings are much

shorter, the white spots much smaller and of different

shape, the submarginal band paler and underneath of

quite a different shape, and much further from hind

margin. It is also considerably smaller.

EXXPLANATION OF PuatEe LY.

Fie. 1. Rhinopalpa pavonia, 2.

2. Messarus tredecia, g.

3. Mycalesis sara, 3.

4, a splendens, Q.

5. Cyrestis nitida, 3.

6. Diadema fuliginescens, 2.

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PuaTE V.

IV. POLYMORPHI.

Of the ten subfamilies brought together under this

heading, the two first only have a natural affinity. The

others, as explained at the beginning of Part I., are

isolated and heterogeneous, being, in fact, each of them

the type of a higher division. ‘To effect their rational

arrangement it would be necessary to take into account

all the exotic forms, when it would probably be found

that many or most of the subfamilies and their genera,

constituted for the reception of Huropean species, would

have to be modified or exploded. With regard to the

first two subfamilies, they might be classed together as

one group Petiolarti, equivalent to the Areolarii, &c.,

established by Wesmael; but it would avail nothing to

commence a system of division which could be carried

no further.

XIV. EUPHORIDES.

Maxillary palpi 5—6-, labial 2—8-jointed. Occiput margined.

Clypeus rounded, usually discrete, marked with a punctiform

impression on each side of the base. Antenne varying in length

and in the number of the joints; in Streblocera geniculated and

with an elongate scape; in Hustalocerus geniculated and clavate.

Mandibles hardly bidentate. Mesothoracic sutures distinct or

obsolete. Fore wings with 2 cubital areolets, sometimes obsolete ;

prediscoidal often confused with the Ist cubital; radial either

cultrate, reaching nearly to the tip of the wing, or minute, sub-

lanceolate or semicordate, the metacarpus being then shorter or

not longer than the stigma. Pobrachial areolet of the hind wings

scarcely shorter than the prebrachial; prebrachial transverse

nervure sometimes obsolete. Abdomen petiolated; suturitorm

articulation obsolete; segments 2—3 much longer than the rest,

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52 Rey. T. A. Marshall’s monograph of

which rapidly decrease in size to the anus. Terebra concealed or

exserted.

The petiolated abdomen and two cubital areolets

combine to distinguish this group from all others in

Kurope; but exotic species exist having three cubital

areolets, and thus tending to coalesce with the next

subfamily. The Muphorides of Forster take their name

from Huphorus pallidicornis, Nees, ranked by that author

erroneously among the O.yura, subsequently transferred

by Haliday and Curtis to the Liophronides, and to its -

present place by Reinhard and Férster simultaneously

(1862). In its most recent acceptation the group com-

prises Section I. of the genus Perilitus, Nees (Act. Ac.

L. C., 1819, p. 802), except his last species P. conjungens,

which belongs to the Hxodontes, genus Chenusa. Hali-

day in 1835 (Ent. Mag., iii., pp. 34—88) made two

subgenera of Perilitus, which name he restricted to

Section I. of Nees, giving to Section II. a new name,

Meteorus. Wesmael, also in 1835, made two similar

divisions of Perilitus, Microctonus and Perilitus, whereof

the former represents Perilitus, Hal., and the latter

Meteorus, Hal. A Prodromus of a monograph of

Microctonus by Ruthe, containing only diagnoses,

appeared in the Stett. Zeit. for 1856 (pp. 289—808),

of which Reinhard published a resumé, with the addition

of all other known species, in the Berl. ent. Zeits., 1862

(pp. 821-—3829); the names adopted by Reinhard are

Perilitus for Section I. Nees, and Meteorus for Section LI.

Westwood, in 1838, discovered Streblocera; Ratzeburg,

in 1848, Cosmophorus ; and Forster (Verh. pr. Rheinl.,

1862, p. 250) raised the total number of genera to 11.

The views of Haliday and Wesmael (1835), and of

Reinhard and Forster (1862) are substantially the same,

but the coincidence of dates causes a difficulty in the

choice of names. On the whole it seems preferable to

keep Perilitus (= Section I. Nees = Microctonus, Wesm.)

among the Huphorides, and to employ Haliday’s Meteorus

for the next subfamily. It is necessary therefore, in

Part I., p. 10, for Subfam. 15, Perilitides, to read

Meteorides. Some additional descriptions of Huphorides

may be gathered from Curtis, B. E., 476, but they are

insufficient, except where further interpreted by Haliday ;

the species figured by Herrich-Schiiffer (i'n. Germ., 156)

have been referred to their proper places by Reinhard.

British Braconide. 53

Only four instances of the parasitism of these insects

have been brought to light, from which it appears that

they attack Coleoptera. Cosmophorus Klugii, Ratz.,

was bred out of Polygraphus pubescens, Hx., and Perilitus

terminatus, Nees, from adult Coccinelle, but neither

parasite has been noticed in England. Euphorus

pallidipes, Cur., has been reared from Orchesia minor,

Walk., and Perilitus faleiger, Ruthe, from Tuimarcha

coriaria, F'.

TABLE OF GENERA.

(8) 1. Antenne not geniculated.

(7) 2. First segment not longer than the rest of

the abdomen; condylus wider than the

petiole. Head smaller than the meso-

thorax.

(6) 3. Radial areolet semicordate or sublanceolate,

ending much before the apex of the wing.

(5) 4. Maxillary palpi 5-jointed. Metathorax not

vertically truncated nor excavated behind.

Terebra concealed .. 58 oe .. 1, HupHorvs.

. Maxillary palpi 6-jointed. Metathorax ver-

tically truncated and excavated behind.

Terebra exserted .. ee Se ac

(3) 6. Radial areolet cultrate, nearly reaching the

apex of the wing ae ae St

(2) 7. First segment longer than the rest of the

abdomen; condylus not wider than the

petiole. Head as large as the mesothorax ii, WESMAELIA.

(1) 8. Antenne with one or two geniculations.

(10) 9. First cubital areolet distinct from the pre: |

—

vy. PERILITUS.

vil. Microcronus.

discoidal. Antenne 9? clavate .. .. li, EusraLocervs.

(9) 10. First cubital areolet not distinct from the

prediscoidal. Antenne ? not clavate iv. STREBLOCERA.

i. Eupnorus; Nees.

Euphorus, Nees, Mon., ii., 360 (1834).

Leiophron, Cur., B. H., 476 5 Hal., Ent. Mag., i1., 462.

Euphorus and Peristenus, Forst., Verh. d. pr. Rheinl.,

1862, p. 251.

Clypeus transverse, rounded, fitting closely to the mandibles.

Maxillary palpi 5-, labial 3-jointed. Antenne straight, in the g

filiform, in the 2 shorter, often submoniliform, and incrassated

towards the apex. Head rotundo-cubie, as wide as the thorax, or

wider. Occiput faintly marginal. Fore wings with 2 cubital

areolets, sometimes obsolete; prediscoidal areolet separated ;

radial arcolet minute, semicordate or semilunate, ending not far

54 Rey. T. A. Marshall’s monograph of

from the stigma, which is longer than the metacarpus; radius

uniformly curved, its 1st abscissa often punctiform, or obsolete,

the 2d cubital areolet, in the latter case, touching the stigma.

Recurrent nervure interstitial; pre- and pobrachial areolets of

equal length; stigma large, triangular. Mesothoracic sutures

visible or obsolete. Metathorax elongate, not vertically truncate,

nor excavated posteriorly. First abdominal segment sublinear,

petiole and tubercles indistinct; segments 2—8 together covering

most of the abdomen, segment 4 very sliort, the rest inconspicuous,

mostly retracted. Terebra concealed, subulate or falciform,

decurved; valves ovate, stout.

Nees von Esenbeck established this genus upon two

female specimens of his H. pallidicornis, in which the

discoidal and cubital areolets are nearly obsolete; hence

he was led to place them among the Oxyura. Curtis,

however, the year before, had already brought forward a

number of English species under the name of Levophron,

with a figure of L. apicalis; but his descriptions of the

others'are mere outlines. Haliday, in the Ent. Mag. for

1834, redescribed most of the species of Curtis, and

placed the genus upon a sound basis, though still under

the name of Letophron. Wesmael in the next year

(1835) published two more species, barbiger and clavi-

ventris, which he referred to a special section of his

Microctonus, distinguished by haying the terebra con-

cealed. In 1856 Ruthe, in his paper on Microctonus in

the Stett. Zeit., assembled twelve species known to

Wesmael and himself, forming the last section of the

genus. A list of all the species, under the name of

Euphorus, is given by Reinhard in the Berl. ent. Zeits.

for 1862, divided into the two sections devised by

Haliday; and Forster in the same year gave to these

sections generic rank under the names of Peristenus and

Euphorus, the former of which is not here adopted.

TABLE OF SPECIES.

(2) 1. First abdominal segment ets longer

than broad ae : oe Ll. anitess als

(1) 2. Firstabdominal segment 35 times longer

than broad.

(14) 3. Mesothoracic sutures distinct and punctate.

(13) 4. Antenne of the 9 more than 16-jointed

(except occasionally in Sp. 4); of the

g more than 17-jointed. Pobrachial

areolet of the hind wing closed by a

transyerse heryure.

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(10) 5. Mesothorax punctate.

(9) 6. Antenne of the 9 more than 18-jointed ;

of the g 23—27-jointed.

(8) 7. Tubercles of the 1st abdominal Sepmieys

inconspicuous .. 2. pallidipes, Cur.

(7) 8. Tubercles of the 1st atideminel eoement

prominent 36 3. tuberculifer, n. s.

(6) 9. Antenne of the 9? 16—18., ai the eg 19—

21-jointed 9 .. 4. picipes, Hal.

(5) 10. Mesothorax pecan

(12) 11. First abscissa of the radius very short ;

stigma not quite touching the 2d cubital

areolet 6b

(11) 12. First abscissa of the “oes sae so

that the stigma touches the 2d cubital

areolet .. ; 6. accinctus, Hal,

(4) 13. Antenne of the 9 16-, of the So 17- jointed.

Pobrachial areolet of the hind wing not

closed, the transverse neryure being

. coactus, Marsh.

abbreviated or obsolete.. 5 ve (er sumilis, Cur.

(3) 14. Mesothoracic sutures indistinct, impunc-

tate.

(16) 15. Mesothoracic sutures inchoate, but vanish-

ing posteriorly .. ve .. 8. intactus, Hal.

(15) 16. Mesothoracic sutures wholly setet

(20) 17. Colour testaceous, abdomen dark at the

apex.

(19) 18. Wings infuscated, with or without a white

transverse fascia. First abdominal

segment linear, not sinuated at the

base nor wider at the aps tubercles

inconspicuous .. aye 20 9. apicalis, Cur:

(18) 19. Wingshyaline. Iirst ahdomizial Keumient

not linear, sinuated at the base and

widened towards the apex; tubercles

prominent is as te .. LO. ornatus, n. s.

(17) 20. Colour black or piceous.

(22) 21. Metathorax thickly punctato-reticulate.

Antenne 9 not longer than the head

and thorax, stout. Length, 3—#lin. 11. fulvipes, Cur.

(21) 22. Metathorax reticulated with larger irre-

gular aree. Antenne 9 not much

shorter than the body, slender. Length,

$—1 lin. .. oe es oh .. 12. parvulus, Ruthe.

1. Huphorus mitis, Hal.

Leiophron mitis, Hal., Ent. Mag., i., 463.

“ Black, shining: antenne alittle shorter than the body, hardly

filiform, 23-jointed, obscurely testaceous: mouth and palpi of the

same colour. Sutures of the mesothorax converging posteriorly,

punctate, the disk smooth in the middle. Metathorax granulated,

56 Rey. T. A. Marshall’s monograph of

pubescent. First abdominal segment scarcely longer than broad,

aciculated; the tubercles situated near the base; the extreme base

constricted. Legs testaceous, the hind pair more obscure; coxe

blackish. Wings hyaline, nervures and stigma pale fuscous ; radix

and squamule testaceous. Apparently a ?.”—Haliday. Length,

13; wings, 3 lin.

Nothing more is known of this insect, to the description

of which the following note is appended by the author :

—‘T have seen but one individual of this species, which

appears to have sustained some injury to the pupa, as

its wings are not fully expanded. Possibly the unusual

shortness of the first seement may have been produced

by accident also, as in its other characters the species

agrees with those of the following section,” 7. e¢., with

pallidipes, &e.

2. Huphorus pallidipes, Cur.

Leiophron pallipes, Cur., B. E., 476, 1, and pl. ff.

1—9 (dissections and wing taken from this

species).

Microctonus barbiger, Wesm., Nouv. Mém. Ac. Brux.,

1835, p. 69, pl. i. (wing); Ruthe, Stett. Zeit.,

L856, Pe BOM sidan.

Perilitus pallipes, Schaff., F. G., cliv., 18.

Microctonus brevicornis, Ruthe, lib. cit., p. 806, 3 2.

Leiophron orchesie, Cur., B. K., 476, 1a.

Black; antenne atthe base, and legs, rufo-testaceous ; hind coxe

and tips of hind tibie and tarsi fuscous. Wings dull hyaline,

squamule, stigma, and nervures rufo-fuscous; all the nervures

distinct; stigma pale at the base, and not touching the 2d cubital

areolet; hence the radial areolet is angulated under the stigma,

strongly curved, semilunate; metacarpus about half as long as the

stigma. Face covered with whitish pubescence. Prosternum

smooth, shining. Mesothorax shining, impressed with large

distant punctures. Metathorax reticulato-rugose. First abdominal

seement gradually widened to the apex, which is twice as broad as

the base, striolated; the other segments smooth and shining. $ ?.

Length, 14; wings, 2% lin.

Antenne {{ 21---23- (seldom 24- or 25-) jointed, shorter than the

body; those of the $ longer, 23—27-joited. Head large; vertex

prolonged behind the eyes; face subquadrate, covered with thick

whitish pubescence, and with a row of long outstanding hairs

above the elypeus. Mesothoracie sutures crenate, meeting some-

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what acutely before the seutellum. Metathorax regularly convex,

pubescent. First segment occupying about } of the abdomen,

insensibly widened from the base to the apex; the tubercles

inconspicuous; segments 2—3 connate, together equal to 2 of the

rest of the abdomen, which is ovate, convex, smooth, and shining,

Radial areolet smaller than the stigma, which is large and sub

triangular, more or less dark fuscous, and sometimes not paler at

the base. Pobrachial areolet of the hind wings closed.

Var. a. Head rufous; stemmaticum black; antenne testaceous,

tipped with fusecous. LZ. orchesia, Cur.

Var. 6. Antenne as in the preceding; legs testaceous, hind coxee

blackish. ¢ @. Ruthe.

Var. y. More slender; head, pro- and mesothorax, with the

scutellum, rufous; antenne almost wholly, as well as the legs,

testaceous; 2d abdominal segment piceo-rufous. ¢. Ruthe,

Wesmael.

Described from 8 females, 28 males, including two of

var.a: 14 males have 24-jointed, and 5 females 22-

jointed antenne.

The limits of this species can hardly be fixed without

more knowledge than we possess at present. MM. brevi-

cornis, Ruthe, may be distinct, appearing doubtful on

account of the shortness and thickness of the antenne

in the female; there are, however, intermediate forms,

and a separate species could not well be maintained upon

this character alone. Nees vy. HKsenbeck seems to be the

only continental writer unacquainted with this abundant

insect. Var. a, according to Curtis, was bred by Walker

from Orchesia minor, Walk., one of the two recorded

instances of the rearing of an insect of this subfamily

in England: cf. Boie, Nat. Tidsk., iii., 815.

The species is common throughout the country.

3. Huphorus tuberculifer, n. 8.

Precedenti persimilis, triplo minor. Niger, abdomine post seg-

mentum lum piceo, antennarum basi pedibusque, cum coxis

omnibus, testaceis, tiblis tarsisque posticis apicem versus fusce-

scentibus. Ale hyaline, squamulis, nervis, testaceis, stigmate

fusco, ad basin hyalino, areolam ecubitalem 2dam non attingente.

Radii abscissa lma brevissima, punctiformis. Abdominis seg-

mentum lum postice ampliatum, tuberculis prominulis.

Very like pallidipes, but much smaller. Black, abdomen after

58 Rey. T. A. Marshall’s monograph of

the 1st segment piceous ; antenne at the base, and legs, including

all the cox, testaceous; hind tibie and tarsi fuscescent towards

the apex. Wings hyaline, squamule and nervures testaceous,

stigma brown, hyaline at the base, not touching the 2d cubital

areolet; Ist abscissa of the radius very short, punctiform. First

abdominal segment widened behind; tubercles prominent. ¢g @.

Length, 13; wings, 2} lin.

Antenne of the § 24-jointed, rather longer than the body; of

the shorter than the body, 20-jointed. Head and thorax as in

pallidipes, but the face is not pubescent. Mesothoracic sutures

crenate, conniving before the scutellum; medial lobe thickly, and

seutellum sparingly, punctate. Metathorax punctato-rugulose.

First abdominal segment of the ? striolated, slender and coarctate

at the base, widened to the tubercles, which are prominent and

acute; thence to the apex the sides are nearly parallel, the apex

being twice as broad as the base; the same segment of the J

differs in being a trifle narrower. The rest of the abdomen is rufo-

piceous, darker posteriorly. The wings differ from those of

pallidipes in that the 1st abscissa is punctiform, so that the stigma

almost touches the 2d cubital areolet; the radius is somewhat

obtusely rounded beneath the stigma; the latter is larger; the

nervures paler and more obsolete. Pobrachial areolet of the hind

wings closed.

Described from two males taken at Nunton, Wilts, and

one female from the Isle of Wight.

4. Huphorus picipes, Hal.

Leiophron picipes, Hal., Ent. Mag., ii., 464, ¢ ? (not

of Curtis).

Antenne 2 16—18-jointed, subclayate, not longer than the head

and thorax; of the # 19—21-jointed, shorter than the body.

Black, abdomen after the Ist segment inclining to piceous;

antenne and legs testaceous, the former towards the apex, the

latter with the hind coxw more or less, and sometimes the tips

of the hind tibiw, fuscous; or the fore legs pale piceous, the

posterior darker, and the hind cox black. Wings dull hyaline,

squamule, stigma, and nervures piceous, more or less pale; stigma

hyaline at the base and not reaching the 2d cubital areolet. Face

not remarkably pubescent. Mesothorax shining, punctate. Meta-

thorax minutely reticulato-rugose. First abdominal segment

gradually widened to the apex, which is twice as broad as the base,

striolated; the other segments smooth andshining. g ?. Length,

1—1}; wings, 2—23 lin.

British Braconide. 59

Similar to pallidipes, and to be distinguished chiefly

by the antenne, which have fewer joints, and in the

female are remarkably short, and incrassated towards the

tips; it is also a smaller insect. Radial areolet

narrower, and 1st abscissa of the radius shorter, almost

punctiform. Metacarpus half as long as the stigma.

Legs somewhat stouter, and all their articulations there-

fore in appearance shorter. This is unquestionably

Haliday’s picipes, from his description of the antenne.

Reinhard has given Microctonus relictus, Ruthe (Stett.

Zeit., 1856, p. 805) as asynonym. But Ruthe separates

relictus from pallidipes by the 1st abscissa of the radius,

stated to be entirely obsolete in the former. This cannot

be said of the present insects, nor is it mentioned by

Halday. On the other hand, Ruthe is silent about the

antenne of relictus ; above all he does not say that those

of the male are usually 18-jointed, a character peculiar

to the present species. It follows that picipes, Hal., and

relictus, Ruthe, cannot be identical. The Leiophron

picipes, Cur., is also distinct ; see the following species.

Described from seven males and two females taken on

the banks of the Usk near Abergavenny, in Leicester-

shire, Herts, and Wilts. Capron reports it as common

at Shiere, near Guildford; he has taken five females,

one male.

5. Huphorus coactus, Marsh.

Leiophron picipes, Cur., B. H., 476, 2, 2 (not of

Haliday).

Antenne 2 16-jointed, short, subclavate. Black, abdomen after

the Ist segment, legs, and antenn piceous, the last paler at the

base. Wings hyaline, squamule, stigma, and nervures rufo-

fuscous; stigma hardly paler at the base, not reaching the 2d

cubital areolet; Ist abscissa of the radius very short; radial

areolet not angulated under the stigma, semilunate; metacarpus

as long as } the stigma. Mesothorax shining, impunctate; sutures

distinct, smooth, conniving in an angle before the scutellum, and

not effused into a punctate space. Metathorax uneven, dull,

thickly punctulate. First abdominal segment striolated, gradually

widened to the apex, which is twice as broad as the base; the other

segments smooth and shining. @. Length, 1; wings, 2 lin.

Antenne submoniliform, stout, not longer than the head and

thorax, gradually inerassated to the apex. Head large, impunctate,

60 Rey. T. A, Marshall’s monograph of

shining; vertex prolonged behind the eyes. Mesothorax as in

pallidipes, but destitute of punctures. Wings also like those of

pallidipes, but the 1st abscissa is shorter, almost punctiform ;

nervures distinct. Legs stout, short, piceous; tibie and tarsi

paler than the femora.

Distinguished from picipes, Hal., by its impunctate

mesothorax, smaller size, and darker legs ; compared by

Curtis to his similis, while Haliday compares his picipes

to pallidipes, Cur. It is highly probable that the

synonymy given by Haliday under picipes is an over-

sight, and it is necessary therefore to impose a new

name upon one of the species there apparently confused.

But the materials at hand are insufficient to decide the

difficulty absolutely.

Described from two females taken near Barnstaple.

6. Huphorus accinctus, Hal.

Leiophron accinctus, Hal., Ent. Mag., i1., 465.

“Head, thorax, and petiole black; abdomen piceous; antenne

at the base, and legs, ferruginous. Wings hyaline, radix and

squamul stramineous, stigma pale brown, lighter at the base, and

touching the 2d cubital areolet. Petiole of the abdomen nearly

linear, rugulose, the tubercles acute, slightly prominent.” ¢.

Length, 14; wings, 23 lin.

‘Antenne 22-jointed, slender, hardly shorter than the body,

fuscous, ferruginous at the base. Mesothoracie sutures crenate,

conniving before the scutellum ; medial lobe impunctate ; scutellum

obsoletely punctate. Metathorax minutely rugulose. First abdo-

minal segment nearly linear, longitudinally rugulose, somewhat

coarctate before the tubercles. Radial areolet narrow, acuminated

beneath the stigma.”—Haliday.

I have not seen this species.

7. Huphorus similis, Cur.

Leiophron similis, Cur., B. E., 476, 4; Hal., Ent.

Mag., 11., 465, 2.

Microctonus oblitus, Ruthe, Stett. Zeit., 1856, p. 308, ? .

Black; abdomen after the 1st segment piceous; antenne testa-

ceous, their apical half fuscous; legs testaceous, more or less

inclining to piceous, hind cox: piceous at the base. Wings hyaline,

squamule and neryures testaceous, stigma large, pale brown or

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testaceous, its basal third hyaline; 1st abscissa of the radius obso-

lete, so that the 2d abscissa and the intercubital nervure spring

immediately from the stigma; radial areolet very minute. Meso-

thoracic sutures distinct. First abdominal segment elongate,

linear, the tubercles inconspicuous. @. Length, {—1; wings,

3—2 lin.

Var. Rufo-testaceous, metathorax and apex of the abdomen

fuscous. Ruthe. Cf. sp. 10, which is similarly coloured, but

without visible mesothoracic sutures.

Antenne 2 16-jointed, somewhat incrassated towards the tips,

as long as the head, thorax, and petiole. Head and thorax im-

punctate. Mesothoracie sutures shallow, converging into a small

dull space before the scutellum, which is smooth and shining.

Metathorax finely reticulated. Abdomen piceous, paler and often

rufous on the 1st segment and base of the 2d; segment 1 slender,

almost linear, punctato-reticulate, coarctate at the base, and nearly

4 of the whole length of the abdomen; tubercles inconspicuous ;

the rest of the segments form a short convex oval. Pobrachial

areolet of the hind wings open.

Described from six females. Generally distributed.

8. Huphorus intactus, Hal.

Leiophron intactus, Hal., Ent. Mag., i1., 465, 2.

Piceous, head and thorax darker; abdomen rather rufo-piceous ;

antenne and legs very pale piceous. Wings dull hyaline, squamule,

stigma, and chief neryures pale yellowish, the others decolorous ;

stigma hyaline at the base, touching the 2d cubital areolet ; radial

areolet angulated beneath the stigma, semilunate, the metacarpus

shorter than | of the stigma. Pobrachial areolet of the hind wings

open. Mesothorax smooth, shining, impunctate, the sutures

obsolete, except a wrinkled depression before the scutellum. Meta-

thorax thickly punctulate, somewhat shining. First abdominal

segment linear, punctato-reticulate; the rest smooth. ?. Length,

3—1; wings, 13—2 lin.

Antenne 16-jointed, nearly filiform, somewhat incrassated and

fuscescent towards the apex, as long as the body. Entirely smooth

and shining, except the metathorax and 1st abdominal segment.

Mesothoracic sutures none, or only vestiges remain, v7z., two short

shallow grooves in front, and a slight depression before the

scutellum. First abdominal segment linear, slightly curved,

coarctate at the base ; tubercles medial, somewhat salient. The

colour of the legs and antenne is pale piceous, or, as Haliday calls

62 Rey. T. A. Marshall’s monograph of

it, silaceous, as distinguished from flavo- or rufo-testaceous. Before

the scutellum is a tranversely oval fovea, bisected by a carina.

Distinguished from fulvipes, Hal., by longer and more slender

antenne ; from parvulus, Ruthe, by longer antenne ; from both

by having traces of the mesothoracie sutures.

Reinhard conjectures this to be Microctonus clavi-

veniris, Wesm., 2 (Nouv. Mém. Ac. Brux., 1885, p. 71),

but Wesmael’s description is inconclusive through the

omission of all mention of the mesothoracic sutures ;

moreover, the types in the Brussels Museum do not

correspond with the description, and the whole is

rendered useless.

Described from two females taken in Epping Forest.

9. Huphorus apicalis, Cur.

Leiophron-apicalis, Cur., B. K., pl. eccelxxvi, ¢; Hal.,

Ent. Mag., ii., 466, 3 ?.

Microctonus fascipennis, Ruthe, Stett. Zeit., 1856,

De GO, Gy ors

Rufo- or flavyo-testaceous, antenne at the tips, apex of the abdo-

men (sometimes also the metathorax, pleure, and pectus of the @ )

fuscous; hind femora and tibie in the middle rarely infuscated.

Wings fuscescent, with a broad whitish transverse fascia including

the base of the stigma, the rest of which is brown; when the wings

are paler this fascia is absent: cubital and anal nervures very

faint, and their transverse nervures indistinct. Metathorax elon-

gate, horizontal, subtruncate. Abdomen clavate, Ist segment

slender, linear, curved; tubercles not prominent. ¢ ?. Length,

1—12 5; wings, 13—23 lin.

Variable in size, and in colour from flavo-testaceous to rufous ;

abdomen from the hinder edge of segment 2 to the apex always

blackish. The base of the petiole, the metathorax, pleure, and

pectus of the ? frequently fuscous; near the radix of the wings is

a fuscous dot. Fore wings infuscated from about the prebrachial

transverse nervure, and gradually paler thence to the apex, crossed

by a broad whitish fascia under the stigma; this coloration is less

obvious in smaller specimens, especially males, and at length dis-

appears, as in that figured by Curtis. Costa and prebrachial

transverse nervure brown; the other nervures not distinct. Po-

brachial areolet of the hind wings open. Eyes during life green;

ocelli fuscous. Antenne g 17—19-jointed; of the 9 16-jointed ;

the two apical joints imperfectly divided; 8d joint elongate.

British Braconide. 63

Sutures of the mesothorax obsolete ; the disk smooth, except a few

minute transverse wrinkles. Metathorax punctato-reticulate, elon-

gate, horizontal, abruptly rounded, or almost truncate, posteriorly.

First abdominal segment punctate, slender, curved, elongate, not

wider at the apex; tubercles antemedial; the rest of the abdomen

pyriform, smooth, shining; in the ¢ the apex is truncated.

Walker first discovered at Southgate the ¢ which was

figured and described by Curtis. Haliday must have

had several specimens of both sexes, but without coloured

wings. Ruthe’s examples, three males, one female,

appear to have been typical; they were taken in the

Brieselanger Forest, near Berlin, in May and June. The

species occurs in England not uncommonly, especially

in North Devon, where I once captured a good series of

intermediate forms, enabling me with confidence to

unite apicalis, Cur., with fascipennis, Ruthe. Others

have occurred singly, in the London district, taken by

Billups, and by myself at Nunton, Wilts; another is in

Fitch’s collection. Van Vollenhoyen records the rearing

of a specimen from an unlikely source, viz., the case

of a Coleophora.

10. Huphorus ornatus, n.s. (Pl. V., fig. 1).

Testaceus, oculis, abdominis triente postico, nigris; segmento

Imo et metathorace piceis; antennis apicem versus infuscatis.

Ale hyaline, nervis pallidis, stigmate picescente basin versus

hyalino, cellulis discoidalibus obsoletis; ale postice fere enerves.

Mesothorax levissimus. Metathorax punctatus, subelongatus, vix

declivis, apice subtruncatus. Abdominis segmentum 1Imum rugu-

losum, postice nonnihil ampliatum, antice coarctatum, tuberculis

prominulis ; cetera levissima.

Testaceous, eyes, and apical third of the abdomen, black; meta-

thorax and first abdominal segment piceous; antenne infuscated

towards the tips. Wings hyaline, nervures pale, stigma pale

piceous, its base hyaline; discoidal areolets obsolete; hind wings

without visible nervures. Mesothorax entirely smooth. Meta-

thorax punctate, subelongate, almost horizontal, subtruncate

posteriorly. First abdominal segment rugulose, coarctate at the

base, somewhat widened after the prominent tubercles; the rest

smooth and shining. g. Length, 14; wings, 2} lin.

Antenne 17-jointed, incrassated towards the apex, a little shorter

than the body.

64 Rey. T. A. Marshall’s monograph of

Regarding the colours of this insect as fallacious, I

have tried to connect it by structure only with some of

the dark species. The perfect smoothness of the meso-

thorax separates it from all those above described

except apicalis, and from this it is easily distinguished

at a glance, as in the table of species. It is much too

large to be compared with either of the following species,

fulvipes or parvulus. On the whole it most resembles

similis, Cur., a common species, and said to have a pale

variety ; but the structure of the mesothorax does not

acree. It would not be surprising if the character

derived from the development or suppression of the

mesothoracic sutures should be found hereafter to be

valueless, although Forster founds a genus upon it, but

at present there is no ground for such an assumption.

There remains the pale variety of Wesmael’s Microctonus

claviventris, already referred to under sp. 8. The meso-

thorax of this species is not characterised by Wesmael,

and, in order to arrive at some conclusion | applied to

M. de Borre, of the Musée Royal at Brussels, who took

great pains, with the assistance of Dr. Jacobs, to examine

Wesmael’s types of this and allied species. The con-

clusions at which they arrived are that Huphorus ornatus

is not identical with any species in Wesmael’s collection,

and further, that the insects standing under the name

claviventris as types, two in number, do not represent

that species, and do not correspond with the text of the

‘‘ Braconides de Belgique,” while the so-called varieties

are a mixture of other species.

The single example of H. ornatus was taken in a wood

close to my house at Nunton, Wilts.

11. Huphorus fulvipes, Cur.

Leiophron fulvipes, Cur., B. E., 476, 5; Hal., Ent.

Mag., i1., 466, 3 2.

Antenne ? 16-jointed, stout, not longer than the head and

thorax. Piceous, antenne at the base, and legs, pale testaceous.

Wings dull hyaline, squamule and nervures pale testaceous, stigma

pale brown, hyaline at the base, touching the 2d cubital areolet ;

radial areolet angulated beneath the stigma, semilunate, the meta-

carpus shorter than ! of the stigma. Mesothorax smooth and

shining, the sutures obsolete. Metathorax punctato-reticulate.

British Braconde. 65

First abdominal segment also punctato-reticulate, linear; the other

segments smooth. Antenne $ longer and more slender. $ ?.

Length, }—3; wings, 1—1{ lin.

I have not seen the g, but the short antenne of

the @ arevery distinctive. The first abdominal segment

is shorter than in the allied species, coarctate at the

base, and very slightly dilated beyond the antemedial

tubercles. Legs rather short. Capron is of opinion

that this species may prove to be a form of the following.

Common, according to Haliday, in grassy hedgerows.

My only specimen was taken near Teignmouth.

12. Huphorus parvulus, Ruthe.

Leiophron* pallidistigma, Cur., B. E., 476, 6G Halt,

Ent. Mag., 1., 466, ?.

Microctonus parvulus, Ruthe, Stett. Zeit., 1856, p. 302,

Bo.

“Antenne ? 16-jointed, slender, shorter than the body. Black;

abdomen, after the Ist segment, piceous; antenne and legs pale

piceous, hind cox infuscated at the base. Wings hyaline,

squamule and stigma stramineous, or the latter pale piceous.

More elongate than fwlvipes, the legs and petiole more slender.

Mesothorax smooth and shining, the sutures obsolete. First

abdominal segment punctato-reticulate, linear, slightly coarctate

at the base, the tubercles medial.” @. Haliday. Length, 3—1;

wings, 1}—2 lin.

I have only one specimen, in bad condition, which is

shown by its antenne to belong to this species. The

antenne of fulvipes are shorter and stouter. 4. intactus

has the antenne not stouter but longer; the mesothorax,

moreover, exhibits traces of sutures. According to

Reinhard pallidistigma, Cur., is identical with parvulus,

Ruthe. The diagnosis of the latter includes both sexes,

and is as follows :—

“Black, shining, slender, antenne and legs testaceous ; antenne

towards the apex (mostly in the ?), and hind coxe at the base,

more obscure; head and mesothorax very smooth and shining, the

former subcubic, the latter with no visible sutures ; metathorax

somewhat narrowed posteriorly, descending in a regular curve from

* “ Pallidistigma” is the older name, but parvulus is preferred

here as involving no mistakes in sense or form.

66 Rey. T. A. Marshall’s monograph of

the base almost to the apex, finely rugulose and subreticulated ;

1st abdominal segment nearly straight, hardly widened behind,

punctato-rugulose; tubercles slightly prominent. Wings dull

hyaline, nervures distinct, radius strongly curved, radial areolet

very narrow, stigma subfuscous (pale in the g), more or less

whitish at the base. Antenne ¢ 17-jointed.

‘* Described from three males, twelve females. Not

uncommon near Berlin from the end of May to the

beginning of June.”

My specimen was taken near St. Albans.

il. Wesmakia, Forst.

Forst., Verh. pr. Rheinl., 1862, p. 251; Marsh.,

HM. MS 872; ip. 250.

Male unknown. Antenne @ filiform. Fore wings with 2* cubital

areolets ; preediscoidal separate ; radial areolet semicordate ; meta-

carpus not longer than the stigma; radius slightly curved;

** The following is an undescribed exotic form, having 3 cubital

areolets, but belonging in all other respects to the Huphorides, and

nearly allied to Wesmaélia.

ARIDELUS, 0. g.

Antenne femine filiformes. Palpi maxillares 6-articulati.

Areole cubitales tres; prima cum prediscoidali confusa, se-

cunda parva, oblonga, extus aperta; areola radialis lanceolata ;

metacarpus stigmate brevior; radius subcurvatus. Al inferiores

areola radiali Detiolata. Mesothoracis suleuli nulli. Abdominis

segmentum primum sublineare, segmentis exteris simul sumptis

equale. Statura omnino Wesmaélia. ‘'Terebra vix subexserta.

Aridelus bucephalus, n.s.

Rufo-testaceus, antennis (preter articulos 5 apicales), oculis,

stemmatico, mesothoracis maculis 2 humeralibus, tibiarum posti-

carum apice, tarsorum anteriorum articulo ultimo, tarsis posticis

totis, terebre etiam valvis, nigris. Ale nigricantes squamulis

rufo-testaceis, nervis et stigmate nigris, hnea sub hoe albicante.

Rufo-testaceous, antenne (except the 5 apical joints), eyes,

stemmaticum, two humeral spots on the mesothorax, apex of hind

tibix, last joint of 4 anterior tarsi, hind tarsi altogether, and valves

of the terebra, black. Wings blackish, squamule rufo-testaceous,

nervures and stigma black; beneath the latter is a whitish line. 2.

Length, 2}; wings, 4 lin.

Antenne rather shorter than the body, moniliform, the joints

oblong ; 18-jointed, joints 1—13 black, the rest abruptly testaceous.

Head” Sa body formed as in Wesmaclia, smooth and shining

except the thorax, which is covered with circular reticulations, or

variolose, and less shining. Segment 1 proportionally r rather

shorter than in Wesmae lia, curved only near the apex, where it is

British Braconide. 67

pobrachial areolet hardly longer than the prebrachial; recurrent

nervure rejected. First abdominal segment longer than all the

rest taken together, slender, curved, not wider behind, having the

spiracles just before the middle, where it is not tuberculated but

slightly incrassated, and again decreasing gradually from thence to

the apex: the other segments forming a small compressed oval.

Terebra subexserted.

1. Wesmaélia cremasta, Marsh. (PI. V., fig. 4).

Wesmaélia cremasta, Marsh., l. c., 2.

Testaceous; eyes, stemmaticum, and valves of the terebra,

black; antennz infuscated towards the apex; metathorax rufe-

scent, becoming piceous or blackish posteriorly. Wings hyaline ;

stigma yellow, edged beneath with fuscous; nervures testaceous.

Length, 13; wings, 3 lin.

Distinguished from all other genera of this group by the form of

the abdomen, which resembles that of an Ammophila or Pelopeus.

Antenne 26-jointed, slender, as long as the body. Head rotundo-

cubic, wider than the thorax, and equal in bulk to the entire meso-

thorax; vertex ample, convex; eyes prominent; clypeus not

discrete, foveated on each side at the base, protruded at the apex,

so that a fissure appears between it and the mandibles, which are

bidentate. Prothorax deeply sunk between the elevated head and

mesothorax; the latter trilobate, not longer than the head. Meta-

thorax short, rugulose, abruptly truncated behind, and there

triangularly excavated. “Abdomen smooth and shining; 2d and 3d

segments completely connate, concealing the rest, except the

extremity of the last segment. Legs long and slender. Terebra

very short, subulate, pointing upwards.

Described from two specimens ; one taken in North

Devon, the other at Bielsa in the Spanish Pyrenees.

ili. Kustatocerus, frst.

Rhopalophorus, Hal., in Westw. Int., ii., App. 61 (mame

preoccupied in Coleoptera).

Eustalocerus, Forst., Verh. pr. Rheinl., 1862, p. 251.

Male unknown. Antenne @ clavate and geniculated ; the first

hardly widened; tubercles obsolete; the other segments are con-

cealed under the 2d and 3d, ovate above, pyriform if viewed

laterally, and not so strongly compressed. Legs shorter and

stouter. Terebra hardly exserted, its valves dilated at the

extremity, compressed, and black.

Taken in the island of Trinidad.

TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1887. PARTI. (JUNE.) @G

68 Rey. T. A. Marshall’s monograph of

joint elongate. Second joint of the maxillary palpi dilated. Two

cubital areolets, the 1st separated from the prediscoidal. Radius

not much curved. Terebra exserted.

1. Hustalocerus clavicornis, Wesm. (PI. V., fig. 3).

Microctonus clavicornis, Wesm., Nouv. Mém. Ac.

Brux., 1835, p. 65; 8. v. Voll., Schets. Bracon.,

tab. iv. (wing and antenna by Haliday).

Black ; antenne dull testaceous; clypeus at the apex, mandibles,

palpi, and legs, testaceous; hind legs slightly infuscated. "Wings

subfusco-hyaline, stigma black, nervures stout, blackish. Terebra

as long as 3 of the abdomen. @. Length, 1 lin.

Antenne about twice as long as the head, 10-jointed, the Ist

joint forming ! of the entire length, the 2d obliquely inserted,

making a geniculation with the Ist, very short and stout; 3d more

slender and twice as long ; 4—9 shorter, and successively diminishing

in length; 10th almost as long as the three preceding taken

together, and appearing, when highly magnified, as if superficially

divided into 4 or 5 rings. Head as broad as the thorax; vertex

somewhat short; face granulated, obscure. Metathorax short,

rugose, abruptly truncated behind. First abdominal segment

much widened from the middle to the apex; tubercles prominent ;

immediately above them are two deep impressions, behind which

the segment is longitudinally rugulose; the lines of rugosity are

few, and do not quite reach the apex. Valves of the terebra black,

very slightly widened towards the extremity.

This description is Wesmael’s, who discovered the ?

in an osier-ground in Belgium, May 27th. A British

specimen was known to Haliday, who created a new

genus for its reception, but left no written record of the

species, and this has not been met with since.

iv. STREBLOCERA, Westw.

Westw., Phil. Mag., 1838, p. 842; Int., ii, 61;

Tijdschr. vy. Ent., 1881—82, p. 44; Nees, Mon., ii., 411.

Antenne seated upon two frontal tubercles, the 1st and 8d joints,

or the Ist only, elongate; with 1—2 geniculations in the 9, 2 or

none in the g. Fore wings with 2 cubital areolets, the 1st not

separated from the prediscoidal; radial areolet remote from the

tip of the wing; radius curved. Mesothoracie sutures distinct.

Abdomen with a short petiole. Terebra exserted or subexserted.

British Braconide. 69

Two species are referred to this singular genus ; their

characters are so discrepant that it is very easy to dis-

tinguish them :—

Antenne 3 9? with two geniculations; terebra

subexserted .. Ae a ae .. 1. fulviceps, Westw.

Antenne ¢ filiform; of the 9 , with one genicu-

lation; 1st joint elongate in both; terebra

nearly as longas4the abdomen .. .. 2. macroscapa, Ruthe.

1. Streblocera fulviceps, Westw. (Pl. V., fig. 2).

Streblocera fulviceps, Westw., Phil. Mag., l.c.; Int.,

ii., 188, f. lxxv., 19 (antenna), 20 (wing), and

p. 154; Tydschr. y. Ent., 1881—82, p. 45, pl.

Vill, 1.6, 9, f. 7 (antenna ¢), f£..8 (antenna of);

8. v. Voll., Schets. Bracon., tab. iv.

@. Black or piceous; head and 3 basal joints of the antenne

ferruginous, the following joints fuscous; eyes and stemmaticum

blackish ; legs testaceous, tibize at the tips, and tarsi, hardly

infusecated. Wings hyaline, nervures, stigma, and squamule

testaceous; prebrachial nervure distinct; radial areolet semi-

cordate, ending nearer to the tip of the wing than to the stigma ;

radius regularly curved. Head large, wider than the thorax ;

vertex elevated, transverse; occiput broadly excavated. Antenne

16-jointed ; 1st joint longer than the head, inevassated, armed with

a curved tooth beneath, beyond which it is sinuated; 2d short,

obliquely articulated with the preceding, forming an acute angle ;

8d shorter than the Ist, incrassated and curved; 4th obliquely

inserted before the apex of the 8d, forming another angle; joints

4—16 (the flagellum) moniliform. Metathorax short, truncated

posteriorly, slightly excavated, uneven, scarcely shining. First

abdominal segment twice as long as its apical breadth, the

tubercles situated beyond the middle ; segment 2 twice as long as

3; 4 and following very short; abdomen (exclusive of the 1st

segment), viewed from above, ovate, much shorter than the thorax.

Terebra hardly exserted, the valves stout, black.

g. Antenne 19-jointed, 1st and 3d joints elongate, incrassated,

2d and 4th obliquely inserted, forming two geniculations; joints

4—19 filiform. Ihave not seen the ¢, and this is borrowed from

the figure in the Tijdschrift; in the description it appears that by

some accident the signs of the sexes (¢ 2) have been reversed.

Length, $—1; wings, 1}—2 lin.

Prof. Westwood discovered the @ in August, 1838, in

Coombe Wood. Desyignes possessed a specimen which

70 Rey. T. A. Marshall’s monograph of

is now in the National Collection; and I have another

from the Forest Hills in Leicestershire.

2. Streblocera macroscapa, Ruthe. (Pl. V., fig. 20).

Microctonus macroscapus, Ruthe, Stett. Zeit., 1856,

Dp. 20.

Streblocera macroscapa, Reinh., Berl. ent. Zeits., 1862,

p- 827, plii., f. 11, a. 2, b. head and antenna ;

S. v. Vol., Schets. Bracon., pl. iv., f. 4, 2.

S. longiscapha, Westw., Tijdschr. v. Ent. 1881—82,

p. 45, 3, pl. vii., f. 9 (antenna 3).

%. Piceous, castaneous, or rufescent, metathorax and abdomen

blackish; 3 basal joints of the antenne rufous; face, mouth, and

legs testaceous. Wings subhyaline, nervures and stigma pale ;

prebrachial nervure distinct. Antenne 18-jointed; 1st joint very

long, equal to the 10 following together; 2d obliquely inserted,

forming a geniculation ; 8d twice as long as the 4th; joints 3—6

filiform, the rest moniliform. Petiole of the 1st abdominal segment

hardly longer than broad, striated; condylus much widened,

conical. Terebra not quite half the length of the abdomen ; valves

black.

S slender; antenne a little shorter than the body, not genicu-

lated, 18-jointed; 1st joint longer than the 2d and 38d together.

Otherwise like the 9. Length, 3—13; wings, 13—3 lin.

As I have no specimen, the description is compiled

from the authorities, not without a difficulty arising

from certain discrepancies. Westwood gives the antennee

of the ? (from the Schetsen) as 17-jointed, and those of

the 3 as 16-jointed. He further mentions that the 1st

joint in the g is furnished with a small round tubercle

near the base, and that the 8d joint is produced beneath

into a deflexed spine at its apex; these characters are

not represented in the figure by Van Vollenhoven, nor

mentioned by Ruthe and Reinhard; so that it may be

questioned whether the English description does not

refer to a fresh species.

Ruthe possessed two males taken near Berlin, and

Reinhard hada ? , of which he has given a figure. ‘Two

English specimens of the ¢ are recorded by Westwood,

one from Glanvilles Wootton, in Dale’s collection, and

the other preserved in that of Matthews, at Oxford.

British Braconide. Tait

vy. Periuitus, Nees.

Perilitus, Nees, Act. Ac. L. C., 1819, p. 802; Perilitus

Sectio I., Nees, Mon., 1., 29; Hal., Ent. Mag.,

i., 84; Reinh., Berl. ent. Zeits., 1862, p. 823.

Microctonus and Dinocamptus, Férst., Verh. pr. Rheinl.,

1862, p. 251.

Antenne straight, simple. Maxillary palpi 6-, labial 2—38-

jointed. Fore wings with two cubital areolets, the 1st usually

confused with the prediscoidal, but sometimes distinct; radial

areolet ending much before the apex of the wing, semicordate or

sublanceolate ; radius equally curved throughout, or somewhat

straightened near the tip. Mesothoracic sutures distinct. Meta-

thorax vertically or subvertically truncated and excavated behind.

Terebra exserted.

Twenty European species are indicated in Reinhard’s

list (l.c.), many of which are very imperfectly described.

Haliday established two sections, founded upon the

presence or absence of the nervure dividing the 1st

cubital areolet from the prediscoidal. In six species

the two areolets are separated, and Férster has made of

them the genus Dinocamptus: they are not, however,

otherwise distinguishable, and are not here treated as a

separate genus. The sexes differ in appearance, and

are paired with difficulty ; the females have often a red

head, and other parts of the body similarly coloured ;

the males are darker, with stouter and longer antenne.

The radial areolet is always small, ending not far from

the middle point between the stigma and the apex of the

wing; the radius forms either a regular parabolic curve

(making the areolet semicordate), or it is somewhat

straightened towards the end (making the areolet acute

and sublanceolate). The radial areolet of the hind

wing is petiolated, asin Meteorus. The metathorax is

sometimes imperfectly areated.

The parasitism of one species (P. terminatus, Nees)

was discovered in 1839 by Audouin (Quelques observations

sur le parasitisme des insectes ; see Hagen, s. v. Audouin,

no. 52); if is also recorded by Westwood (Int., ii., 143),

Brullé (St. Farg. Hym., iv., 826), and Ratzebure

(Forstins, iii., 18). This insect attacks adult Coccinelle

of the species septempunctata and quinquepunctata, Lh.

Audouin ascertained simply that a Perilitus emerged

72 Rey. T. A. Marshall’s monograph of

from one of these beetles; but Ratzeburg has since

made further observations of great interest (Ichn. d.

Forst., iii., 61), showing that the parasite deposits its

ego not in the larva but in the imago of the Coccinella.

Three Coccinelle, of the species above named, were

watched by Ratzeburg, they having attached themselves

to some plant and remaining motionless. After a short

time there was found beneath the belly of each a grey,

pyriform, somewhat transparent cocoon, beset with loose

filaments, in which the legs of the beetles were entangled.

From these cocoons emerged, between June 10th and

14th, three females of P. terminatus. Two of the

Coccinelle were by this time dead, but the third

continued to linger. The parasitic maggots issued from

the sutures of the ventral segments, which afterwards

closed up, leaving no visible aperture. Dissection of

one Coccinella showed the inside to be completely

wasted, and the walls of the abdomen collapsed. Ona

second occasion Ratzeburg introduced a lively 2 Perilitus

into a glass-topped box containing a Coccinella septem-

punctata. The parasite immediately began to pay

attention to the victim, moving about with great activity,

and examining it on every side. Finally she assumed

the characteristic attitude of an Ichneumon preparing to

strike, by thrusting the abdomen forwards between the

legs, so as to project beyond the head. The abdomen

became greatly attenuated, and the terebra extended to

its utmost length, supported and embraced by its valves

as far as they could reach. Six to ten punctures were

made in one minute, always directed towards the ventral

sutures. In the course of an hour three or four such

attacks were made upon the Coccinella, which seemed

unconscious of any danger, and seldom winced. No

danger however existed, for the Perilitus was not fecun-

dated, and the whole proceeding was only a fruitless

exhibition of an instinct.

TABLE OF SPECIES.

(6) 1. First cubital areolet separated from the pre-

discoidal. Dichori, Hal., Dinocamptus,

Forst.

(5) 2. Radial areolet ending nearer to the tip of the

wing than to the stigma, sublanceolate.

Terebra straight.

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(4) 3. Abdomen of the 9, after segment 1, testa-

ceous. Petiole slender, only 4 of the t

width of the apex of the condylus .. 1. rutilus, Nees.

(3) 4. Abdomen of the 9, after segment 1, nigro-

piceous. Petiole stouter, at least 3 as

wide as the apex of the condylus .. 2. strenuus, n.s.

. Radial areolet ending half-way between the

tip of the wing and the seme semi-

cordate. Terebra falcate . : 3. falciger, Ruthe.

(1) 6. First cubital areolet not ented on the

prediscoidal. Synchori, Hal., Perilitus,

Forst.

(12) 7. Labial palpi 3-jointed.

(9) 8. Radial areolet ending nearer to the tip of

the wing than to the stigma =, . 4, brevicollis, Hal.

(8) 9. Radial areolet ending half-way between re

tip of the wing and the stigma, or nearer

to the stigma.

(11) 10. Thorax more or less, and 1st abdominal

-_~~

—

segment, rufo-testaceous .. - 5. bicolor, Wesm.

(10) 11. Thorax and 1st abdominal segment tentiely

black ae as .. 6. secalis, Hal.

(7) 12. Labial palpi sported

(14) 138. Metathorax areated; wings hyaline; ¢

black ; head of the ? testaceous; terebra

3 as long as the abdomen.. : . 7. cerealium, Hal.

(13) 14. Metathorax not areated, rugoso- Sanne

wings whitish; ¢ 9? black, the 9 with

rufous orbits; terebra + as long as the

abdomen .. AP oe .. 8. @ethiops, Nees.

1. Perilitus rutilus, Nees. (Pl. V., fig. 5).

Bracon rutilus, Nees, Mag. Ges. Berl., 1811, p. 27, 2

Perilitus rutilus, Nees, Mon., i., 81, 29; Hal., Ent.

Mag., iii., 34, d 2.

Microctonus rutilus, Wesm., Nouv. Mém. Ax. Brux.,

1835, p. 68, ¢ 2, pl. i. (wing); Ruthe, Stett.

Zeit., 1856, p. 299, °.

Perilitus ruralis g , and luteus 2°, Schaff., F. G., elvi.

@. Black; head, antenne at the base, abdomen after the 1st

segment, basal half of the petiole, and the legs, testaceous;

segment 2 often castaneous; tarsi fuscous. 6. Black; face

and orbits testaceous; hind coxze fuscous; abdomen darker than

that of the ?, fuscous at the apex. Wings subhyaline, stigma

lutescent, nervures and squamule pale fuscous; radial areolet

elongate-sublanceolate, ending just beyond the middle point be-

tween the stigma and the apex of the wing. Terebra straight, as

long as $ of the abdomen. Length, 11—13; wings, 23—83 lin.

74 Rey. T. A. Marshall’s monograph of

Var. 9. Head, mesothorax, and abdomen entirely testaceous ;

antenne 25-jointed. -Nervure dividing the 1st cubital areolet from

the prediscoidal extremely faint. An old specimen in Fitch’s

collection. Somewhat doubtful, but placed here provisionally.

Antenne ? as long as the body, filiform, 25—26-jointed, black,

with the 1st joint testaceous. Stemmaticum fuscous. Nervure

dividing the 1st cubital and prediscoidal areolets weak and sub-

interrupted; cubital nervure subobsolete. Thorax black; meso-

thoracic sutures converging into a punctate depression. Scutellum

smooth, preceded by a transverse fovea much shorter than itself.

Metathorax punctato-rugulose, not areated, truncated, and with an

oblong excavation behind. First abdominal segment slender,

tuberculated in the middle, at the apex three times wider than the

petiole, finely striated longitudinally; black, the petiole pale at the

base; the rest of the abdomen oblong-ovate. Antenne of the $

stouter, longer than the body, 28—29-jointed, the Ist joint black ;

in one § the antenne are only 23-jointed.

Described from two females, four males. Rather

common throughout the country. I have repeatedly

found the ?, and in 1885 captured both sexes in a wood

at Nunton. Capron has taken six females at Shiere.

2. Perilitus strenwus, n.s.

Niger, antennarum radicula, ore, orbitis, rufo-testaceis, vel

orbitis interdum nigris. Pedes 4 anteriores testacei ; femora inter-

media basi fusca; postici picei vel fusco-testacei tibiis apicem

versus obscurioribus; tarsi omnes nigri. Abdominis segmenta

2—8 picea. Ale fere hyaline, stigmate, nervis, squamulis, pallide

fuscis; areola radialis longior et latior quam in specie precedente.

Scutellum lieve, fovea ante basin transversa, breviore quam ipsum,

instructum. Petiolus in longitudinem striolatus, utriusque sexus

latior quam in P. rwtilo; femine duplo latior quam maris. Terebra

dimidia abdominis longitudine.

Black; radicle of the antenne, mouth, orbits, and cheeks, rufo-

testaceous; or the orbits concolorous. Four anterior legs testa-

ceous; middle femora fuscous at the base; hind legs piceous or

fusco-testaceous, their tibize darker towards the tips; all the tarsi

black. Abdominal segments 2—3 piceous. Wings nearly hyaline,

stigma, nervures, and squamule pale fuscous ; radial areolet longer

and broader than in the preceding species. Scutellum smooth,

preceded by a transverse fovea much shorter than itself. Petiole

longitudinally striolated, in both sexes broader than that of rutilus ;

British Braconide. 75

that of the twice as broad asthat of the fg. Terebra half as long

the abdomen. Length, 13; wings, 3 lin.

Antenne @ 23-jointed; of the gi 28—29-jointed, stout, longer

than the body. Mesothoracic sutures converging into a rugulose

depression. Scutellum smooth, shining, with a few lateral punc-

tures. Metathorax short, abruptly truncated, rugulose; two

medial carinze, more or less distinct, originate from its base, and

are parallel as far as the truncation, where they diverge on each

side of the posterior concavity. First abdominal segment entirely

black and striolated, twice as broad at the apex as it is at the base,

and much broader in the ? than in the ¢; tubercles medial.

Very distinct from rutilus; larger and more robust; metathorax

and 1st abdominal segment differently formed ; radial areolet more

elongate; neuration stronger; legs of both sexes, and abdomen of

the 9, differently coloured; the characters of the @ have been

given to me by Capron. P. terminatus, Nees, stands nearest to

ihis species, but differs in having a rugulose scutellum. The radial

areolet is much longer than in falciger.

al captured two males in 1885; one in the same wood

with P. rutilus, the other in the Isle of Wight. Capron

has taken at Shiere six more males and the only female.

3. Perilitus falciger, Ruthe.

Microctonus faleiger, Ruthe, Stett. Zeit., 1856, p. 3800,

goes

2 Perilitus peregrinus, Schiiff., F. G., elvi.

9. Black; head concolorous, mandibles rufous; femora and

tibie piceo-rufous, cox black, tarsi tipped with fuscous; base of

the petiole pale testaceous. Wings subhyaline, nervures, stigma,

and squamul fusco-testaceous ; radial areolet shorter than in the

two preceding species, semicordate, ending half-way between the

stigma and the tip of the wing. Abdomen truncated posteriorly.

Terebra as long as } the abdomen, its apical half decurved, faleate.

The gis similar, but the petiole is black at the base. Length,

1}—12; wings, 23—8} lin.

Var. @. Antenne at the base, face, and cheeks, rufescent ;

mouth and legs rufo-testaceous ; hind cox black. Ruthe.

Antenne @ filiform, not longer than the body, 22—24-jointed ;

those of the g longer, setaceous, 28-jointed, paler at the base

underneath. Form slender. Mesothorax as in the other species.

Ante-scutellar fovea much shorter than the scutellum, which is

smooth and shining. Metathorax short, rugulose, not quite

76 Rey. T. A. Marshall’s monograph of

vertically truncated, slightly excavated behind. First abdominal

segment striolated ; petiole about half as broad as the apex of the

condylus; tubercles medial, salient.

I have only a 2 specimen, taken in Northamptonshire,

which is very distinct owing to the form of the terebra ;

the legs are coloured as in Ruthe’s variety. The

dividing nervure between the 1st cubital and pre-

discoidal areolets is so faint as to be discerned with

difficulty. A specimen exists in the British Museum,

ticketed in the handwriting of F. Smith, ‘the larva

from a living Timarcha coriaria,” I.

4, Perilitus brevicollis, Hal.

Perilitus brevicollis, Hal., Ent. Mag., iii., 85, 2.

Microctonus retusus, Ruthe, Stett. Zeit., 1856, p. 298, ? .

@. Black; head, antenne at the base, and fore legs, rufo-

testaceous; 4 posterior legs piceo-fulvous, their tibie darker at the

tips; hind cox fuscous; tarsi blackish; occiput, together with the

middle of the front and of the vertex, fuscous; abdomen pitchy-

black; base of the Ist segment pale. Wings subhyaline, nervures

and stigma fuscous; radial areolet ovate-lanceolate, ending rather

nearer to the tip of the wing than to the stigma. Labial palpi

3-jointed. Terebra curved, somewhat less than half the length of

the abdomen. g@ unknown. Length, 13; wings, 34 lin.

Stouter than P. cerealiwm (sp. 7), and twice as large; easily

distinguished by its whole structure. Antenne 26-jointed, hardly

shorter than the body, the 1st joint rufescent. Orbits, face, and

mouth rufous. Maxillary palpi with the apical joints not remark-

ably shorter than the preceding ; joints of the labial palpi subequal

in length. Mesothoracic sutures ending in a wide thickly punctate

depression, in the middle of which is a distinct longitudinal line ;

posterior angles near the base of the scutellum gibbous. Meta-

thorax very short, vertically truncate, rugose, reticulated. First

abdominal segment elevated posteriorly, much stouter than in the

other species, obconic, rugulose, the apical angles longitudinally

striated; tubercles medial. Valves of the terebra fusco-ferru-

ginous.

Unknown to me; only two examples seem to have

occurred (one in North Ireland, taken by Haliday, the

other in Germany by Ruthe) until Capron discovered

three females at Shiere.

British Braconide. he

5. Perilitus bicolor, Wesm.

Perilitus conterminus, Hal., Ent. Mag., ii., 36, 3;

Schaff., F. G., clvi. (not of Nees).

P. secalis, var. y, Hal., l.¢., 2.

Microctonus bicolor, Wesm., Nouv. Mém. Ac. Brux.,

1835, p. 61, ¢; Ruthe, Stett. Zeit., 1856, p. 294,

3 ¢ (not of Ratz.).

Leiophron basalis, Cur., B. E., 476, 6a, 3.

Variable, rufescent, face, mouth, and legs rufo-testaceous; thorax

above, and abdomen after the 1st segment, black ; antenne fuscous,

rufo-testaceous at the base. Wings subhyaline, stigma and ner-

vures lutescent or pale fuscous; radial areolet sublanceolate, acute,

ending nearer to the stigma than to the apex of the wing. Labial

palpi 8-jointed. Terebra straight, as long as half the abdomen.

$ @. Length, $—14; wings, 13—23 ln.

Head and thorax more or less rufous, piceous, or black; abdo-

men black or piceous, the Ist segment at least generally rufo-

testaceous; in one ?, however, this is also blackish. The smaller

individuals are the males. Palpi, according to Haliday, nearly as

in secalis (sp. 6), but the 1st joint of the maxillary is less abbre-

viated, the 2d and 8d increasing in length. Antenne shorter than

the body, those of the ? 18-, of the $ 20—21-jointed; but in one

? they are 24-jointed. Mesothoracie sutures impunctate, ending

in a small aciculated space before the scutellum. Metathorax

areated, sublevigated, not sensibly excavated behind, short, almost

vertically truncated. First abdominal segment striolated ; petiole

slender; tubercles salient just behind the middle; condylus twice

as broad as the petiole, its sides almost parallel; hinder part of the

abdomen ovate-orbiculate. The 2 with 24-jointed antenne is not

otherwise different, and certainly belongs to this species.

The colour of the abdomen, black posteriorly, and

having the 1st segment rufous, is an obvious distinctive

character. P. secalis has also 8-jointed labial palpi,

but the tubercles are less conspicuous, and the abdomen

is not rufous at the base. Haliday saw in the present

species the P. conterminus, Nees, referring only to the g

with 21- (i. e., 20-) jointed antenne. The 2, according

to Nees, has 24- (7. e., 28-) jointed antenna, and may be

rightly paired with his ¢, notwithstanding Wesmael’s

just remark that the antenne of the 2 ought to have

fewer joints than those of the ¢. The difficulty, as

regards conterminus, consists in the remark of Nees that

78 Rey. T. A. Marshall’s monograph of

the antenne are scarcely half as long as the body, and

that the petiole only of the abdomen, in the 2, is black.

His omission of other characters renders the description

for ever doubtful, and conterminus must be abandoned.

Described from five males, four females, taken in the

Isle of Wight; at Milford Haven; at St. Albans; at

Nunton, Wilts; at Honor Oak (by Billups); in the

Pyrenees; and from Walker’s collection. Found several

times by Haliday in North Ireland, in autumn. Wesmael

possessed five males captured near Brussels, and Ruthe’s

collection contains fifteen males and seven females.

6. Perilitus secalis, Hal.

Perilitus secalis, Hal., Ent. Mag., iii., 86, 9; not his

var. y; and not Ichneumon secalis, Lin., F. §.,

1641.

Microctonus spurius, Ruthe, Stett. Zeit., 1856, pp. 297

and 807 (Nachtrag), ?.

M. aethiops, var. 2, Wesm., Nouv. Mém. Ac. Brux.,

1838, p. 148, ?.

M. bicolor, Ratz., Ichn. d. Forst., ii., 57, °, pl. i,

f. 26 (wing) ; not of Wesm.

Labial palpi 8-jointed. Black; antenne at the base, head, pro-

thorax beneath, and legs, rufo-testaceous; hind coxe, with their

trochanters, and all the tarsi at the apex, fuscous; some of the

abdominal segments after the Ist often piceous, and the apical

segments testaceous. Wings hyaline, nervures and stigma fusco-

testaceous, squamule dull yellowish; stigma widely ovate, lanceo-

late, broader than that of @thiops (sp. 8); radial areolet semi-

cordate, ending a little nearer to the stigma than to the tip of the

wing. Terebra straight, as long as half the abdomen. ?.. Length,

134—1}3; wings, 24—3}.

Male unknown. Variable; head sometimes black, leaving only the

mouth and orbits rufous; thorax and 1st abdominal segment generally

black, the following segments piceous, becoming paler towards the

anus, or entirely black or piceous; hind cox sometimes testaceous.

First joint of the maxillary palpi very short, 3d longer and stouter

than the 2d; 4th longer than the 3d; 6th shorter than the 4th, but

rather longer than the 5th. Labial palpi with one more joint than

those of the two following species; Ist jomt obconic, 2d and 3d

shorter, ovate. Antenne 21—25-jointed, filiform, hardly shorter

than the body, dull rufous at the base. Metathorax punctato-

rugulose, carinulated, vertically truncated, and with an oblong

British Braconide. 79

posterior impression. Segment 1 as in the preceding species, but

black at the base, and with less prominent tubercles ; longitudi-

nally striolated. Valves of the terebra filiform, black, paler at

the base.

This species is distinguished with difficulty from

the ? of ethiops, and perhaps only by the labial palpi,

which have been observed under the microscope by

Haliday and Reinhard. My specimens are old and

useless, and have not been employed in this description.

Fresh examples are required for determination, and a

note of the palpi should be taken while they are pliant ;

otherwise the destruction of the insects may be necessary

in order to verify them. It may be noticed, however,

that in secalis the metathorax is somewhat shining, with

scattered punctures, and the squamule dull stramineous ;

while in ethiops the metathorax is rugoso-reticulate, and

the squamule fuscous. Ruthe supposed his M. spurtus

to be a variety of ethiops, but Reinhard has determined

its identity with secalis. Haliday believed the Ichnewmon

secalis, L., to be the present insect. In the Linnean

collection is a ? ticketed ‘‘secalis, agricolator”’; and

another in bad condition, placed apart, and unlabelled.

Fitch has visited these specimens, which have a large

yellow head and long terebra; the wings are not easily

seen, but the insects are undoubtedly Cenocelius rubri-

ceps, Ratz. P. secalis is the species described by Ratze-

burg (l.c.) as sent to him by Hartig, and conjectured

erroneously to.be a parasite of Lasiocampa pint, L.

7. Perilitus cerealium, Hal.

Perilitus cerealium, Hal., Ent. Mag., i1., 387, S ?.

Microctonus emulus, Ruthe, Stett. Zeit., 1856, p. 298,

P. rufipes, Schiff., F. G., elvi.

Labial palpi 2-jointed. g black; antenne at the base, mouth,

and clypeus, dull testaceous; orbits broadly rufous; legs rufo-

testaceous, hind coxe fuscous above. @ black; antenne at the

base, head, and legs, rufo-testaceous; abdomen piceous, its apex

obscurely rufous. Wings narrower than in secalis, subhyaline,

nervures and stigma fusco-testaceous, squamule dull yellowish ;

stigma broadly ovate, lanceolate; radial areolet semicordate,

ending somewhat nearer to the stigma than to the tip of the wing.

80 Rey. T. A. Marshall’s monograph of

Terebra decurved, as long as half the abdomen. Length, 1—13;

wings, 2—38 lin.

The rufous head of the 9 has the stemmaticum, and sometimes

the margin of the occiput, fuscous. Thorax and 1st abdominal

segment black. Maxillary palpi short, 1st joint hardly distinct,

2d longer than the 8d, 5th and 6th closely conjoined, together not

longer than the 4th, 6th conical, attenuated. Antenne 20—23-

jointed, a little shorter than the body, filiform, the 1st joint rufous

beneath. Metathorax short, areated. Abdomen compressed, and

truncated at the apex; segment 1 forming about 4 of its length,

regularly striolated; tubercles distinct; sides of the condylus sub-

parallel. In the § the antennez are longer than the body, the

abdomen ovate, and the colours darker.

Distinguished from secalis by the labial palpi; from

ethiops by its more slender form, by the areated meta-

thorax, by the more strongly curved radius, by the

shorter radial areolet, and the decurved terebra. Very

like falciger 2 (sp. 8), but in that species the 1st cubital

areolet is separated from the prediscoidal.

Not uncommon throughout the country, although I

have no specimen. Billups has taken the ° at Peckham.

8. Perilitus ethiops, Nees.

Perilitus ethiops, Nees, Mon., i., 32, ¢; Hal., Ent.

Mag, 1il., O1,.0) &3 schati HGe. lyin tanlo.

Microctonus ethiops, Wesm., Nouv. Mém. Ac. Brux.,

1835, p. 57, 3 ¢&, pl. i. (wing); Ruthe, Stett.

Zeit., 1856, p. 292, 3 2.

Labial palpi 2-jointed. g black; legs often piceous; femora at

the apex and tibiwe at the base rufous; or fore femora, or all the

femora, dull rufous, black at the base. @ black; face, mouth,

cheeks, orbits, and base of the antenne, dull rufous; or head

entirely rufo-testaceous ; legs rufous, hind coxe black, tarsi fuscous.

Wings whitish hyaline; stigma, nervures, and squamule fuscous ;

stigma narrower than that of secalis; radial areolet semicordate,

ending a little nearer to the stigma than to the apex of the wing.

Length, 1—1}; wings, 21—8} lin.

Var. . One-half or one-third smaller; antenne 24—25-jointed.

This may possibly be the unknown & of P. secalis.

Antenne of the $ } longer than the body, 27—80-jointed. First

joint of the maxillary palpi short but distinct, 5th and 6th together

3 longer than the 4th, 6th attenuated at the apex. Abdomen

ovate-lanceolate; segment 1 much more slender than that of the ?.

British Braconide. 81

?. Very like secalis. Antenne hardly shorter than the body,

25—26-jointed. Metathorax thickly rugulose and reticulated.

First abdominal segment broader than in secalis, longitudinally

striolated; tubercles very prominent; condylus oblong, and slightly

widened at the apex.

The sixteen males described by Wesmael, with 22—28-

jointed antenne, are probably not all of the same

species; his three females with 28-jointed antenne

appear also doubtful. The same must be said of Ruthe’s

three varieties, differing structurally in the neuration,

and his males, which were only two-thirds of a line long.

Described from six males, one female. Common.

Found by Haliday on sandy coasts, the ? once only, the

$ more frequently. Capron has taken four females and

many more males at Shiere.

vi. Microcronus, Wesm.

Wesm., Nouv. Mém. Ac. Brux., 1885, p. 54; Reinh.,

Berl. ent. Zeits., 1862, p. 321.

Antenne filiform. Maxillary palpi 6-, labial 3-jointed. Fore

wings with two cubital areolets, the 1st not separated from the

prediscoidal ; radial areolet cultrate, elongate, extending nearly to

the apex of the wing; radius straight, or nearly so. Mesothoracic

sutures almost always effaced. 'Terebra exserted or subexserted.

The species are few in number, smooth and shining,

testaceous and black in different proportions. They

stand nearer to Meteorus than the other Huphorides,

having a similar radial areolet, and the same number of

joints in the palpi. The abdomen is usually ovate,

lanceolate; in one species clavate, compressed, and

obtuse ; the 1st segment is nearly as long as the rest of

the abdomen, widened gradually from the base to the

apex, and having the tubercles beyond the middle.

Suturiform articulation obsolete. Radius of the fore

wings seldom very slightly curved, in which case it ends

somewhat further from the extremity of the wing.

Metathorax smooth, or obsoletely areated, more or less

truncated and excavated posteriorly. The wings are

very like those of Leiophron and Blacus, but in both those

senera the 1st cubital areolet is distinct from the pre-

discoidal. Nees and Haliday were acquainted with one

species, Wesmael with two, and Ruthe with six; of

82 Rey. T. A. Marshall’s monograph of

the five here introduced, all except the first are new

discoveries. Their earlier states have not yet been

observed.

TABLE OF SPECIES.

(2) 1. Prebrachial nervure of the fore wings obso-

lete. Length, 1} lin. Ae aA .. L. vernalis, Wesm.

(1) 2. Prebrachial nervure of the fore wings dis-

tinct. Length, 14—2 lin.

(4) 3. First abdominal segment aciculated .. 2. splendidus, n.s.

(3) 4. First abdominal segment smooth.

(6) 5. Antenne 9? 28-jointed (g unknown), but

its antenne cannot have fewer than 28

joints bis on

6. Antenne g 9 with fewer than 28 joints.

(8) 7. Antenne g 2 19-jointed .. 30 .. 4. testaceus, n.s.

8. Antenne g 26-, 9 22—23-jointed oo 5}. Culéus, n.B.

.. 3, xanthocephalus,n.s.

1. Microctonus vernalis, Wesm.

Microctonus vernalis, Wesm., Nouv. Mém. Ac. Brux.,

1835, p. 56, pl. i. (wing); lib. cit., 1838, p. 142

(var. 2, 3); Ruthe, Stett. Zeit., 1856, p. 289;

Reinh., Berl. ent. Zeits., 1862, p. 822, 3 2.

Perilitus idalius, Hal., Ent. Mag., iii., 1835, p. 38, ?.

Microctonus politus, Ruthe, lib. cit., p. 290, 3.

Testaceous, variable; antenne after the 4th or 5th joint fuscous ;

head, thorax, and abdomen in various degrees infuscated or blackish

above; apical joint of the tarsi and valves of the terebra fuscous.

Wings hyaline, nervures and stigma pale testaceous; prebrachial

nervure obsolete. Abdomen @ compressed; segment 1 scarcely

widened behind, sublinear, as long as 2, which is somewhat longer

than all the remaining segments together. Terebra as long as } of

the abdomen. ¢ @. Length, 1—1}; wings, 2—2} lin.

Var. a. Fusco-testaceous, the pleure pale; hind coxe infuseated.

3d (M. politus, Ruthe).

Var. 6. First abdominal segment black. 9.

Var. y. Thorax almost entirely black. ¢ (Wesm., Suppl., p. 142).

Variable in colour, the § darker than the 9; the parts liable to

be infuseated are the vertex, stemmaticum, disk of the mesothorax

(in spots corresponding to the 3 lobes), scutellum, metathorax, and

abdomen above, especially at the apex. The smallest British

species. Eyes green. Antenne shorter than the body, filiform,

those of the g 23—25-, of the 9 18—2l-jointed. Body smooth

and shining. Mesothoracic sutures effaced. Metathorax short,

British Braconide. 83

its posterior declivity not vertical; concave behind, and there

faintly rugulose, with a fine medial line forming 2 lateral polished

aree. First abdominal segment shorter than in the following

species, and not wider posteriorly, smooth and shining except

some slight transverse scratches towards the apex; tubercles

inconspicuous. The rest of the abdomen, viewed from above,

appears sublinear; viewed laterally, ovate; belly compressed and

cariniform.

Not common ; I have seen no specimens but my own,

two females, taken respectively at St. Albans, and at

Nunton, Wilts. Wesmael possessed two males, one

female, taken near Brussels in May, and two males of

var. y; 8. van Vollenhoven notices one found at the

Hague, and others have been captured in Germany.

2. Microctonus splendidus, n.s.

3. Ater, splendidus, antennarum articulis 2 basalibus, palpis,

pedibusque, testaceis; coxis posticis fuscescentibus ; genis, cum

capite infra et postice, rufo-testaceis. Ale hyaline, flavescentes,

stigmate, nervis, squamulis, .pallide testaceis; nervo prebrachiali

distincto ; areola radiali quam in M. culto paulo breviore; radio per-

parum curyato. Mesothoracis suleuli null. Metathorax curtus,

postice fere in perpendiculum truncatus, et ibidem excavatus,

carina areisque nullis. Segmentum lum aciculatum v. striolatum,

nitidum, abdominis triente longius, tuberculis pone medium con-

spicuis, condylo exinde ad apicem paulo latiore. Abdomen

cxterum, desuper inspicienti, clongatum, ovatum; a latere visum

clavatum; apice oblique truncatum, forcipis masculi valvis com-

pressis, breviter exstantibus, supra quas apparet penis vagina,

Femina hucusque latet.

Shining black; palpi, legs, and joints 1—2 of the antenne

testaceous; hind coxe somewhat infuscated; cheeks and hinder

part of the head beneath rufo-testaceous. Wings hyaline, with

a yellowish tinge, nervures, stigma, and squamulz pale testaceous ;

prebrachial nervure distinct ; radial areolet rather shorter than in

sp. 5; radius very slightly curved. Mesothoracic sutures effaced.

Metathorax short, almost vertically truncated behind, and there

excavated, without medial carina or aree. First segment longer

than } of the abdomen, stouter than in sp. 5, tuberculated behind

the middle, after which the condylus is wider to the apex; the

segment is minutely striolated or aciculated, but shining. The

rest of the abdomen, viewed from above, is elongate-ovate ; viewed

TRANS. ENT. §0C. LOND. 1887.—PART U. (JUNE.) 4H

84. Rey. T. A. Marshall’s monograph of

laterally, clavate; obliquely truncated at the apex, within which

are seen the short flattened valves of the anal forceps, and above

them the sheath of the sexual organ. Female unknown. Length,

143; wings, 23 lin.

Antenne as long as the head, thorax, and 1st segment, stout,

filiform, 19-jointed. Head transverso-cubic, somewhat buccate

and wider than the thorax. The dilated cheeks and under side of

the head, together with the 1st abdominal suture, are rufous; the

rest of the body intensely black and shining.

M. Klugvi, Ruthe (Stett. Zeit., 1856, p. 290) corre-

sponds to this insect in many respects, but the frons and

mesothorax are punctato-rugulose; the antenne of both

sexes, according to Reinhard, are also 22-jointed, and

scarcely as long as the head and thorax.

Described from two males taken in a wood near my

house at Nunton, Wilts.

8. Microctonus xanthocephalus, n. 8.

@. Aterrimus, politus, capite antennarum scapo pedibusque

testaccis, stemmatico fusco. 'Tarsi omnes apice nigricantes. Ale

subfumato-hyaline, squamulis stramineis, stigmate testaceo undique

fusco cincto, nervis fuscis. Abdomen compressum segmento lo

sublineari postice vix latiore, tuberculis parum conspicuis, terebra

breviter exserta, falcata, decurva.

Very black, smooth and shining; head, scape of the antenna,

and legs, testaceous; stemmaticum fuscous; last joint of all the

tarsi blackish. Wings dull hyaline, squamule stramineous, stigma

testaceous bordered all round with fuscous, nervures fuscous.

Abdomen compressed, 1st segment sublinear, hardly widened

posteriorly ; tubercles inconspicuous; terebra short, faleate, de-

curved. Length, 2; wings, 33 lin.

Antenne filiform, shorter than the body, 28-jointed. Meso-

thoracic sutures effaced. Metathorax short, triangularly excavated

behind. Hind coxe with a piceous basal spot. First abdominal

segment occupying more than } of the whole length, linear and

depressed as far as the tubercles, condylus convex and very slightly

widened ; segments 2—38 extending nearly to the apex, the rest

retracted, annuliform. Abdomen after the Ist segment narrowly

elliptical, as viewed from above, as long as the head and thorax;

viewed laterally, clavate.

Differs from all other British species in coloration,

superior size, and greater number of joints in the

antenne.

British Braconide. 85

Discovered at Shiere, near Guildford, by Capron, and

deseribed from his unique specimen.

4, Microctonus testaceus, Capron, n. 8.

Rufo-testaceus, antennis (preter articulos 2 basales), stemmatico,

mesothoracis lineis, abdominisque segmento lo, nigris. Al sub-

infumate, nervis ad basin fuscis, extus pallidioribus, squamulis

testaceis, stigmate flavo ; areola radialis procul ab al apice clausa,

stigmate paulo longior. Abdomen leve, splendidum, clavatum 3

segmentum lum trientem fere ejus occupans, solito angustius,

apice duplo latius quam basi, tuberculis prominulis, vix nisi mediis.

Terebra abdominis trientem paulo superans.

Rufo-testaceous; antenne (except the 2 basal joints), stemmati-

cum, three lines on the mesothorax, and Ist abdominal segment,

black. Wings slightly infumated; nervures fuseous at the base,

paler towards the apex of the wing; squamuls testaceous; stigma

yellow ; radial areolet ending much before the tip of the wing, a

little longer than the stigma. Abdomen smooth, shining, clavate;

1st segment forming about } of its entire leneth, rather narrow,

about twice as broad at the apex as at the base; tubercles promi-

nent, situated nearly in the middle. Terebra a little more than

} of the length of the abdomen. § 9. Length, 2; wings, 34 lin.

Head transverse, not contracted behind the eyes, the sides

almost parallel. Antenne about $ as long as the body, black, with

the first two joints yellow, 19-jointed in both sexes. Mesothorax

very smooth, marked with 3 black lines, whereof the middle one is

abbreviated posteriorly. Metathorax faintly divided into 5 arex;

in one example it is also blackish, In the male the head and

whole body are black; the legs only and first two joints of the

antenne being rufo-testaceous.

Four males and one female have been taken by Capron

at Shiere, near Guildford; the above description has

been kindly prepared by him. WM. elegans, Ruthe (Stett,

Zeit., 1856, p. 290), of which I have specimens from

Hungary, is not unlike this species, but, beside minor

differences, the antenne are 30-jointed even in the ?.

5. Microctonus cultus, n. 8.

?. Rufo-piceus v. piceo-testaceus, oculis, faciei occipitisque

lituris, stemmatico, scutello, metathorace, abdominisque segmento

lo, nigris aut nigricantibus; segmentis 2—3 saturate rufo-piceis,

exteris pallide rufis. Antenne fusce, articulis 1—5 pallide tes

taceis, Pedes pallide testacei. Ale hyalini, nervis, stigmate,

86 Rey. T. A. Marshall’s monograph of

pallide testaceis; nervus prebrachialis distinctus. _Mesothoracis

sulculi haud penitus obliterati. Metathorax brevis, postice trun-

catus, ibidem excavatus, medio carinulatus. Segmentum lum

totius abdominis triente longius, a basi inde ad apicem perpaulo

ampliatum, tuberculis inconspicuis. Terebra abdominis quintam

partem adequans.

3 aliter coloratus; niger, prothorace, antennarum scapo, ventris

basi, testaceis; mesothoracis disco, scutello, abdominis segmento

20, saturate rufo-piceis; coxis posticis infuscatis.

?. Rufo-piceous or piceo-testaceous; eyes, a blotch on the

face and on the occiput, stemmaticum, scutellum, metathorax, and

1st abdomidal segment, black or blackish; segments 2—3 dark

rufo-piceous, the rest pale rufous. Antenne fuscous, joints 1—5,

together with the legs, pale testaceous. Wings hyaline, nervures

and stigma pale testaceous; prebrachial nervure distinct. Meso-

thoracic sutures not wholly effaced. Metathorax short, truncated

and excavated behind, carinated in the middle. First segment

longer than } of the abdomen, very slightly widened from the base

to the apex; tubercles inconspicuous. Terebra as long as } of the

abdomen.

The ¢ is black, with the prothorax, scape of the antenne, and

belly at the base, testaceous; disk of the mesothorax, scutellum,

and 2d abdominal segment dark rufo-piceous; hind coxee infus-

cated. Length, 14; wings, 3 lin.

Var. 2. Head pale rufo-testaceous, only the eyes and stem-

maticum black.

Antenne g as long as the body, 26-jointed; of the ? shorter,

22—23-jointed. Entirely smooth and shining. Mesothoracic

sutures indicated by two shallow grooves in front, which are

evanescent before reaching the scutellum. The medial carina of

the metathorax bifurecates at the declivity, its two branches

surrounding the posterior concavity and forming 3 arex, whereof

the 2 lateral are smoother and more shining than the posterior.

Terebra testaceous, with black valves. The variety, owing to its

rufous head, resembles a Dinocamptus.

Described from three males, three females, taken in a

wood near Barnstaple, a male from St. Albans, and

another in Fitch’s collection. Capron has taken five

females and one male at Shiere.

British Braconide. 87

XV. METEORIDES.

The characters are comprised in those of the single genus.

Meteorvs, Hal.

Meteorus, Hal., Ent. Mag., ii., 24.

Perilitus, Sectio II., Nees, Mon., i., 38.

Perilitus, Wesm., Nouv. Mém. Ac. Brux., 1835, p. 21.

Maxillary palpi 6-, labial 8-jointed. Occiput margined. Antenne

slender, usually filiform in the 2, setaceous in the g. Meso-

thoracic sutures distinct. Abdomen petiolated. Fore wings with

3 cubital areolets, the 2d trapeziform, the 1st separated from the

prediscoidal; radial areolet cultrate, reaching nearly to the apex

of the wing; radius straight ; metacarpus longer than the stigma.

Terebra exserted.

Head as broad as the thorax, or broader; occiput hardly emargi-

nate behind; eyes small, and scantily pubescent; clypeus rounded

anteriorly, separated from the face by an impressed line with a

fovea at each end; mandibles forcipate, bidentate. Abdomen

ovate or lanceolate, compressed at the apex in the 9; segment 1

consisting of a true petiole (as in the Ichnewmontda), linear, and

extending to the spiracular tubercles situated near the middle the

posterior part (condylus) is gradually dilated to the apex ; usually

this segment is striolated, but the petiole is sometimes smooth. In

the majority of cases the Ist segment presents at the apex of the

petiole a pair of oblong parallel apertures, separated by a ridge,

and descending obliquely to the spiracles; in the following

descriptions these are called the tracheal grooves. The remaining

segments are always smooth and shining ; segments 2—8 are con-

nate, longer and broader than the following, which decrease rapidly

to the anus. Second cubital areolet trapeziform, more or less

narrowed towards the radius, its lower and inner angle produced

prebrachial areolet generally shorter than the pobrachial, rarely

equal to it, and only in one species longer ; recurrent nervure

commonly somewhat rejected, occasionally interstitial, and more

rarely evected; radial areolet of the hind wings divided by a

transverse accessory nervure in two species, and the same structure

faintly indicated in others; wings hyaline, but in three species

infumated, and then exhibiting a whitish streak upon the ordinary

transverse fold, which commences under the stigma. The wings

have a strong disposition to bend at this place, which produces

illusions as to the direction of the recurrent nervure.. The integu-

ments of these insects are thin, and the colours inconstant; a

88 Rey. T. A. Marshall’s monograph of

permanently testaceous variety appears to exist in some of the

species.

The Meteori are nearly related to the preceding group,

but present a more advanced structure; transitional

forms may be looked for among exotic species, and one

such has been mentioned in the note on Wesmaela

(Euphorides, genus vi., ante). Some of them are among

our larger Braconids, and their petiolated abdomen and

exserted terebra give them much the appearance of

certain Ichneumonide, e.g., Mesochorus, a genus which

furnishes some of their hyperparasites. The large

testaceous Meteori have also a strong resemblance to the

insects of the genus Ophion or Paniscus. Some atten-

tion is required to distinguish them from the three

species of Zele hereafter to be described among the

Macrocentrides: the best distinction les in the Ist

abdominal segment, which, although very slender in the

genus Zele, is not petiolated, having the spiracular

tubercles close to the base.

Few of the insects of this genus are mentioned by the

older authors: DeGeer, in 1771, noticed pensile cocoons,

which were white, in the neighbourhood of the nests of

Bombyzx processionea, L. (Mém., ii., xi., p. 449) : Latreiile,

Spinola, and Nees von Esenbeck in his earlier writings

did not distinguish them from Ichnewmon and Bracon.

The last-named writer, in 1834, effected their separation

as a section of his Perilitus, and brought together in his

monograph 18 species, of which 12 are genuine. Haliday,

in 1835, with the assistance of Curtis, described 17

British species, and in the same year 23 Belgian species

were published by Wesmael. The latest and most

important work upon the subject is a posthumous paper

by Ruthe, published by Reinhard in the Berl. ent. Zeits.

for 1862 (pp. 1—58), containing 37 species, and preceded

by a synoptical table. A few species may also be found

in the work of Ratzeburg.

It has already been shown that Perilitus, Sectio IL.,

of Nees may with equal propriety be called Meteorus or

Perilitus ; but the preponderance of usage appears to be

in favour of Meteorus; the name is sanctioned by Hali-

day, Blanchard, Brulle, and Reinhard, and refers appro-

priately by its meaning to the pensile cocoons made by

many of the larve. Zele of Curtis (B. E., 415), if duly

authenticated, would be the earliest name, but, while

British Braconide. 89

the illustration in the ‘ British Entomology’ applies to

the present genus, the type adduced (7%. testaceator, Cur.)

belongs to the Macrocentrides, and Zele has been placed

in that group, with the required correction, by Haliday.

Zemrotes and Protelus are genera proposed by Forster

(Verh. d. pr. Rheinl., 1862, p. 253) for two species of

Meteorus, but I have found it impossible to adopt them

here. The only differential character assigned to

Zemiotes is the partition of the radial areolet of the hind

wings by a transverse nervure, as in MW. albiditarsis, Cur.

But this character includes M. caligatus, Hal., which in

other respects differs widely, while it excludes three other

large species which are closely allied. Protelus was

devised in order to isolate M. chrysophthalmus, Nees, on

the ground that the prebrachial areolet of the fore

wings is longer than the pobrachial. Jiven if this were

always true, the extreme triviality of such a character

must strike any one who looks at the insect; but it

happens that the two areolets are sometimes equal in

length, and therefore the genus Protelus cannot be

maintained.

Most of the Meteort are parasites of Lepidoptera,

either singly, or, in the case of the smaller species,

eregariously; a few have also been found to infest

fungivorous Coleoptera. Several species form shining

brown cocoons, in which they are found suspended by a

thread of silk from leaves or branches of trees, and

hence Latreille named one which he observed pendulator,

supposed by Haliday to be ictericus, Nees, but it cannot

now be identified with certainty; the cocoon of ictericus

is figured by Curtis (B. E., 415). The head of the

insect is always turned downwards, and, as it spins by

the mouth, we have to account for the fact that somehow

it is able to reverse its position in the air, since at the

moment of its first suspension the head would naturally

be uppermost; so far as I know, no observation has yet

been made to explain this circumstance. Other species,

including all the largest, and some smaller, weave

whitish cocoons of a felted texture, which are never

pensile, but fastened to leaves, &c., in the ordinary way.

Some gregarious species heap their cocoons together in

the manner of Microgasters; and those which live

singly in the fungivorous larve of beetles attach the

cocoon to the under side of the dead victim. This

90 Rey. T. A. Marshall’s monograph of

diversity of habits appears to have no correspondence

with variations of outward structure in the perfect

insects, and offers no assistance in the classification of

the numerous species.

TABLE OF SPECIES.

Sxction I. Tracheal grooves of the 1st abdominal

segment distinct.

(4) 1. Radial areolet of the hind wings gemi-

nated by a transverse nervure.

(3) 2. Pre- and pobrachial areolets of the

fore wings equal in length. An-

tennee 43—49-jointed ie .. 1. albiditarsis, Cur.

(2) 3. Prebrachial areolet of the fore wings

shorter than the pobrachial. An-

tenns® 34—36-jointed ae .. 5. caligatus, Hal.

(1) 4. Radial areolet of the hind wings not

geminated by a transverse nervure,

or rarely with a faint vestige of one.

. Prebrachial areolet of the fore wings

longer than, or cane to, the po-

brachial .. A .. 2. chrysophthalmus, Nees.

(5) 6. Prebrachial areolet of the fre wings

shorter than (rarely equal to) the

pobrachial.

(32) 7. Recurrent nervure rejected into the

1st cubital areolet.

(11) 8. Antenne with about 40 (rarely with

only 35—38) joints.

(10) 9. Abdomen longer than the head and

thorax. Hind femora, with their

coxe, as long as the abdomen.

Condylus twice as ae as its epee

breadth Bc : 56 . 3. deceptor, Wesm.

(9) 10. Abdomen not longer ian the fiend

and thorax. Hind femora, with

their coxe, longer than the abdo-

men. Condylus less than twice as

long as its apical breadth .. 4. pallidus, Nees.

(8) 11. Antenne usually with fewer than 30

joints (rarely with 30, and more

rarely with 36).

(21) 12. Stigma pale, luteous or flavo-piccous ;

unicolorous or bordered beneath

with fuscous.

(14) 13. Face fuscous .. oe ste .. 9. facialis, Ruthe,

(13) 14. Face testaceous or rufescent.

(20) 15. Furrow of the mesopleure deeply im-

pressed, faintly cancellated.

‘17) 16. Colour entirely testaceous .. .. 6. ictericus, Nees, var.

(6)

(16) 17.

(28) 23.

(22) 29.

. Metathorax regularly convex, rugu-

. Abdomen lanceolate, as long as the

British Braconde.

Colour testaceous and black, or en-

tirely black except the face, orbits,

and 2d abdominal segment, which

last is in that case piceous.

. Antenna more or less testaceous, the

joints annulated with fuscous. Se-

cond abdominal segment,and some-

times the following peemente tes-

taceous

9, Antenne entirely black or biseiieht

Second abdominal segment piceous,

the following segments black

. Furrow of the mesopleure indistinct,

and almost smooth

. Stigma fuscous, usually pale at the

inner angle, sometimes also at the

outer; or fuscous with a pale ex-

terior margin.

. Wings hyaline, or subhyaline, but

neyer dark enough to show a pale

streak beneath the stigma. Second

cubital areolet hardly or not at all

narrowed towards the radius.

Terebra as long as, or shorter than,

the abdomen. Wings hyaline, but

not whitish.

4, Abdomen ovate, not longer than

the thorax. Head large, broader

than the thorax. Stigma large,

hardly smaller than the 1st cubital

areolet.

. Metathorax sloping gradually, not

conyex, almost smooth

lose .

head and thorax. Head not broader

than the thorax. see not re-

markably large :

. Terebra much longer than ne Arnie:

men. Wings whitish hyaline, or

exceptionally subinfumated. (Re-

current nervyure sometimes inter-

stitial)

Wings more or less eotuminteds enone

ing a pale streak beneath the

stigma. Second cubital areolet

narrowed towards the radius.

. Second abdominal segment rufous.

Antenne 9 blackish, sometimes

testaceous towards the base

dark piceous. Antenne 9 white,

the apical half determinately fus-

cous ..

6. ictericus, Nees.

7. pallidipes, Wesm.

8. confinis, Ruthe.

10.

nla

7 16.

. Second abdominal segment black or

mls

veaator, Hal.

atrator, Cur.

abdominator, Nees.

albicornis,

. obfuscatus, Nees.

Luthe,

. punctiventris, Ruthe.

33.

34.

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. Recurrent nervyure interstitial, or

subinterstitial, 7.e., falling (but

rarely) into the apex of the Ist

cubital areolet, or the base of

the 2d.

Terebra as long as the abdomen

with the metathorax. Smallest

species, 14 lines long :

Terebra shorter than, seldom as

long as, the abdomen. Larger

species.

. Stigma fuscous, with or without a

pale exterior margin.

. Stigma with a pale margin; recur-

rent neryure g ? subinterstitial

. Stigma without a pale margin; re-

current neryure 9 evected, ¢

subinterstitial or evected

fuscated; sometimes margined

with fuscous.

. Terebra as long as the abdomen ..

. Terebra as long as 4 or 2? of the

abdomen.

. Antenne blackish; body blackish,

with the scutellum and some

other portions rufous; tips of

the tarsi and of the hind tibixe

fuscous

Antenne testaceous tipped with

fuscous ; bodyand legs testaceous,

only the 1st abdominal segment

more or less infuscated; tips of

the hind tibie seldom subinfus-

cated

. 13. jaculator, Hal.

18. pulehricornis, Wesm.

. 19. melanostictus, Cap., n.s.

. Stigma pale or only shghtly in-

2. consors, Ruthe.

. 20. scutellatar, Nees.

. 21. unicolor, Wesm.

Section II. Tracheal grooves of the Ist abdominal

segment obsolete.

(2)

1S or

Wings narrow, hardly longer than

the abdomen, infumated, with a

whitish streak beneath the stigma

. Wings fully developed and hyaline,

or nearly so,

. First abdominal suture white;

petiole whitish at the base (ex-

cept in avar.) .. nt

the petiole concolorous with the

rest of the surface,

. Stigma fuscous, its inner angle pale.

. Head broader than the thorax.

. First abscissa of the radius much

shorter than the second. 'Terebra

shorter than the abdomen. Petiole

stout, shorter than the condylus

17. micropterus, Hal.

.. 23. versicolor, Wesm.

. First abdominal suture and base of

26. profligator, Hal.

British Braconidae. 93

(7) 8. First abscissa of the radius as long

as the second. ‘Terebra as long

as the abdomen. Petiole slender,

longer than the condylus .. 24. filator,* Hal.

(6) 9. Head narrower than the thorax.

(11) 10. Petiole shorter than the condylus 27. cinctellus, Nees

(10) 11. Petiole and condylus of ees

length .. a . 28. tenellus, n. Ss.

(5) 12. Stigma entirely pale.

(16) 13. Antenne 9? filiform, almost always

26-jointed; those of the % seta-

ceous, not more than 28-jointed.

Recurrent nervure interstitial or

subinterstitial.

(15) 14. Head, thorax, and abdomen more

or less black éc 3 .. 29. leviventris, Wesm.

(14) 15. Head, thorax, and eudemen rufo-

testaceous, except the metathorax

and Ist abdominal ences

which are black .. oi . 30. rubens, Nees.

(13) 16. Antenne of both sexes Sees

30—84-jointed. Recurrent ner-

yure evected.

(18) 17. Colour entirely pale testaceous .. 32. luridus, Ruthe, var.

(17) 18. Colour black and testaceous.

(20) 19. Abdomen g @ black, segment 2

eae CeOUe, often with 2 fuscous

spots Se)

(19) 20. Abdothen 9 (except the. Lat seg-

ment) sas or fusco-testaceous ;

of the g infuscated at the apex 32. luridus, Ruthe.

. fragilis, Wesm.

1. Meteorus albiditarsis, Cur. (PI. V., fig.8, hind wing).

Zele albiditarsis, Cur., B. E., pl. eccexv., 3.

Meteorus albiditarsus, Hal., Ent. Mag., iii., 25, ¢; M.

albitarsis, Hal., lib. cit., 24, 9; S.v. Voll., Pinac.,

pl. xliv., f. 1, 3 with details ot, palpi; 92; 2)

Perilitus albsvavuass Nees, Mon., 1., 84, ?.

M. albitarsis, Ruthe, Berl. ent. Re LSO2 seo Gut

P. dispar, Wesm., Nouv. Mém. Ac. Brux., 1835, p. 22,

o 2s plei., £. 3: (wine).

9. Rufo-testaceous; eyes during life green; stemmaticum,

claws, and valves of the terebra, fuscous; hind tarsi whitish. ¢.

Nigro-piceous; orbits, abdomen in the middle more or less, and

legs, dull rufous; hind cox, femora, and tibie infuscated, their

tarsi whitish. Wings ? testaceo-hyaline, squamule and stigma

** Sp. 25, delator, Hal., requires to be rediscovered, and is here

omitted.

94 Rey. T. A. Marshall’s monograph of

luteous, nervures fuscous; of the g fusco-hyaline, squamule

testaceous, nervures and stigma fuscous; pre- and pobrachial

areolets of the fore wings of equal length; radial areolet of the

hind wings divided by a distinct transverse nervure. Terebra as

long as the 1st abdominal segment. Length, 3—4}$; wings,

6—9 lin.

The larger size is more usual, but one ¢ of those before me is

only 3 lines long. Head transverse; front excavated; eyes large,

glabrous; face transverse, beset with short white hairs; clypeus

with longer hairs, convex, prominent ; mandibles dark at the tips 5

palpi elongate, pallid. Antenne 4 longer than the body, slender,

setaceous, those of the J usually 47—49-, of the 9 43—49-jointed.

Mesothoracie sutures strongly impressed. Mesopleure punctate,

beneath the wings smooth. Metathorax short, rounded, irregularly

(in the 9 subobsoletely) rugose and reticulated, with a fine medial

carina. Abdomen as long as the head and thorax and as wide,

after the middle; that of the 2 subfaleate, compressed; suturi-

form articulation subobsolete ; segment 1 forming 3 of the whole

abdomen, obsoletely aciculated, three times broader at the apex

than at the base; tubercles placed just before the middle; tracheal

grooves distinct. Nervures of the wings stouter and darker in

the $3; recurrent nervure interstitial or rejected ; 2d cubital areolet

somewhat longer than broad; 1st intercubital nervure much

longer than the 2d.

The ¢ is very like that of deceptor, sp. 3; the 2

strongly resembles both chrysophthalmus and deceptor in

the present genus, as well as Zele testaceator, Cur.,

among the Macrocentrides.

Not uncommon from May to September. Described

from five males, six females, contributed by Bignell,

Billups, Bridgman, and Fitch; taken in Darenth Wood,

in Devonshire, near Cardiff, Lynn, St. Albans, &e. A

solitary parasite; the ¢ was bred by Bridgman, but

from what source Iam not informed. Cocoon 6 lines

long, felted, stramineous, with some loose flocculence.

2. Meteorus chrysophthalmus, Nees.

Bracon chrysophthalmus, Nees, Mag. Ges. Berl., 1811,

De ole

Perilitus chrysophthalmus, Nees, Mon., i., 834; Wesm.,

Nouv. Mém. Ac. Brux., 1885, p. 24; M. chry-

sophthalmus, Ruthe, Berl. ent. Zeits., 1862, p. 11,

& 9; 5. vy. Voll.,Pimac., pl. xhiy., 1.18; 4; hata

Ichn. d. Forst., i11., 59.

British Braconide. 95

? Bracon chlorophthalmus, Spin., Ins. Lig., 1., 1383, 2.

M. chlorophthalmus, Hal., Ent. Mag., iil., 26, 3 2.

Rufo-testaceous; antenne fuscous except at the base; front,

vertex, occiput, thorax, especially the metathorax, and petiole of

the 1st segment, often more or less infuscated; eyes during life

green; stemmaticum, claws, and valves of the terebra fuscous ;

hind tarsi often whitish at the apex. Wings testaceo-hyaline,

squamule and stigma luteous; nervures fusco-testaceous; pre-

brachial areolet of the fore wings longer than, or sometimes equal

to, the pobrachial; recurrent nervure interstitial (seldom sub-

rejected) ; radial areolet of the hind wings not divided, or rather,

the transverse nervure is decolorous, Terebra more than 3 the

length of the abdomen. $9. Length, 23—8}; wings, 5—6} lin.

The sexes are alike in colour, and subject to the same variations;

Ruthe and Wesmael had males with the entire thorax fuscous, but

usually the infuscation is confined to the parts above mentioned.

Head as in the last species, but the eyes are much smaller, and not

glabrous. Antenne longer than the body, setaceous, those of the

$ 88—42-, of the 9 31—389-jointed. Mesothorax punctulate, the

sutures distinct, enclosing a large rugulose depression before the

scutellum. Mesopleure punctulate throughout, and beneath the

(usually fuscous) furrow, almost rugulose. Metathorax short, regu-

larly rounded, finely rugulose and reticulated, more strongly

behind, where it is beset with white pubescence, and haying a fine

medial carina. Abdomen as long as the head and thorax, rather

narrower than the latter; that of the 2 not subfaleate, and hardly

compressed; suturiform articulation nearly effaced; segment 1

more or less finely punctato-rugulose, often smooth posteriorly,

forming ? of the whole abdomen, about three times wider at the

apex than at the base; petiole very slender; tubercles dntemedial ;

tracheal grooves distinct. Wings hyaline with a yellowish tinge,

sometimes subfusco-hyaline ; stigma luteous in both sexes: radial

areolet of the hind wings at first sight not divided; the transverse

nervure, however, is visible in certain lights, paler and more

attenuated than in M. caligatus; 2d cubital areolet subquadrate.

The terebra is not black, as described by Ruthe, but rufous, subu-

late, with stout fuscous valves.

This species is difficult to distinguish from I. deceptor,

in the female sex ; but in chrysophthalmus the prebrachial

areolet of the fore wings is never shorter than the

pobrachial. Bracon chlorophthalmus, Spin., referred by

Haliday to this species, but by Nees to the genus Rhogas,

cannot now be certainly determined.

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Not uncommon, but the notices of its occurrence are

mostly doubtful, owing to its having been confused with

M. deceptor. Described here from four females and one

male in Fitch’s collection, taken by him, Bridgman, and

Bignell in their respective districts; found also by

Billups at Peckham, and by me in Yorkshire. Bignell

bred the @ from Odontoptera bidentata, Clerck, and

S. v. Vollenhoven reported the rearing of another at the

Hague from Heterogenea limacodes, Hufn. According to

Ratzeburg it was bred by Brischke from Rhodophea

suavella, Zinck. The cocoon is not noticed, but probably

resembles that of MW. deceptor.

3. Meteorus deceptor, Wesm. (Pl. V., fig. 6 2, fig. 7 3).

Perilitus deceptor, Wesm., Nouv. Mém. Ac. Brux.,

1885, p. 26, c° 2.

M. deceptor, Ruthe, Berl. ent. Zeits., 1862, p.12, 3 ¢.

?. Rufo-testaceous; eyes during life green; antenne towards

the tips, claws, and valves of the terebra, fuscous ; hind tarsi

testaceous. g. Nigro-piceous; base of the antenne, face, orbits,

scutellum, abdominal segments 2—8, or more, and legs, rufo-

testaceous; hind femora infuseated, their tibiz blackish except at

the base, their tarsi rufo-testaceous. Wings of the ? testaceo-

hyaline, squamul and stigma luteous, nervures fusco-testaceous }

of the # fusco-hyaline, nervures and stigma fuscous ; prebrachial

areolet of the fore wings shorter than, sometimes as long as, the

pobrachial, but never longer; recurrent nervure rejected ; radial

areolet of the hind wings not divided. Terebra as long as half the

abdomen. ¢ 2. Length, 3—3}; wings, 5,—6} lin;

Var. 2. Coloured like the g, only the abdomen after the Ist

segment is entirely testaceous. Reinhard.

The g strongly resembles that of sp. 1, and must be distinguished

by the hind wings. The discrimination of both sexes from chry-

sophthalmus is less easy, inasmuch as the few differences that

exist are liable to exceptions. The recurrent nervure, however, is

always rejected, and the prebrachial areolet never longer than the

pobrachial. The present species is somewhat smaller, the g\ more

darkly coloured, especially as to the hind tibix, and the terebra of

the @ shorter. Antenne longer than the body, setaceous, those of

the ¢ 38—44-, of the 2 85—40-jointed. Vertex and occiput of the

° sometimes infuscated; mandibles dark at the tips; petiole of

the 1st segment occasionally fuscous at the base ; abdomen obliquely

truncated at the apex; tarsi a little paler towards the tips. The

British Braconide. 97

hind tarsi of the g appear paler than they really are, an illusion

caused by the blackness of the tibie. The frontal excavation

behind the antenne is geminated by a carina. Pleure finely rugu-

lose. Mesothorax impunctate, the sutures deeper behind, enclosing

a wide rugose space bisected by a longitudinal carina. Abdomen

as in the preceding species; condylus twice as long as its apical

breadth. Hind femora, with their cox, as long as the abdomen.

Described from 18 males and 22 females. More com-

mon than chrysophthalmus throughout the country, and

found now in all collections, yet it does not seem to have

been known to Haliday. Capron describes it as abun-

dant near Guildford. I obtained five males in a very

short time by beating a single hedge near Abergavenny.

It has been repeatedly bred in England, but some of the

cases recorded perhaps belong rather to chrysophthalmus :

the following are selected as certainly authentic. Fitch

reareda ¢, June 14th, and Bignell two males, June 17th,

from Crocallis elinguaria, L.; the latter has also obtained

the ° from Himera pennaria, L., and Hadena oleracea,

L.; the & from Odontoptera bidentata, Clerck, and

Anarta myrtilli, L. Probably also it is the species

referred to as chrysophthalmus in Ki. M. M., xi., 66, bred

by Hellins out of Hrastria fasciana, L.; 8. v. Vollen-

hoven mentions the rearing of three females at the

Hague from the same host. Wesmael found it com-

monly near Brussels, and many examples are in his

unnamed collection, which is nowin my hands. A soli-

tary parasite. Cocoon white, felted, papyraceous, 5 lines

long, not pensile, fusiform, the head of the insect being

turned towards the smaller end.

4, Meteorus pallidus, Nées.

Bracon pallidus, Nees, Mag. Ges. Berl., 1811, p. 22;

not of Bouché, which is Rhogas cirewmscriptus,

Nees; cf. Nees, Mon., 11., 899.

Perilitus pallidus, Nees, Mon., 1., 385, 3 2.

Rufo-testaceous; antenne except the base, head more or less,

prothorax, pectus, and metathorax (of the g') fuscous or piceous ;

hind tarsi paler ; claws fuscous. Wings testaceo-hyaline, squamule

and stigma luteous, the latter rufous in the g; nervures fusco-

testaceous; prebrachial arcolet of the fore wings shorter than the

pobrachial; recurrent nervure rejected (or sometimes almost inter-

stitial) ; radial areolet of the hind wings not divided by a transverse

98 Rev. T. A. Marshall’s monograph of

nervure. Abdomen shorter and broader than in deceptor, in the 3

clavate ; Ist segment punctato-rugulose on the petiole; the condylus

smooth, except a few basal scratches, and less than twice as long

as its apical breadth; tracheal grooves distinct. Hind femora

with the addition of their coxex, longer than the abdomen. Terebra,

seen from above, as long as the 4 last segments. g @. Length,

+; wings, 54 lin.

Antenne longer than the body, filiform, in the ? testaceous,

annulated with fuscous, gradually darkened to the apex, the 2 basal

joints piceous, 86—89-jointed ; in the g broken, blackish, except

the 4 basal joints. Head rather broader than the thorax; orbits

black (in the 2 described by Nees); occiput and stemmaticum

sometimes fuscous. Metathorax irregularly subreticulate, with or

without a faint medial carina. Abdomen of the ? ovato-clavate,

somewhat compressed; ot the ¢ broader and flatter; not longer

than the head and thorax; 1st segment subdeplanate, shorter and

broader than in deceptor; tubercles medial, salient. The ¢ is

darker than the ?, having the whole thorax rufo-piceous, except

the disk of the mesothorax.

Differs from deceptor in size, and in the proportion of

parts, as stated in the table; and distinguished from all

the following species by the greater number of joints in

the antenne, for the ¢, though mutilated, must once

have had at least 40 joints. There is nothing like it in

Ruthe’s collection, nor was it known to Wesmael and

Haliday; Forster, however, quotes it as a type of the

whole genus. Nees states that he has united the two

sexes with some hesitation ; but there is nothing doubt-

ful about the male and three females which I have seen.

Nees captured the ? among oaks in Franconia, Aug.

93rd; the g was communicated to him by Gravenhorst.

With us it seems to be a northern species; I founda ?

in the Yorkshire moors, two more from Sutherlandshire

are in Bridgman’s collection, and Champion presented

me with ¢ ? from the pine-forest of Rothiemurchus in

the Grampians.

5. Meteorus caligatus, Hal.

Meteorus caligatus, Hal., Ent. Mag., ii1., 25, 3 2.

Black, shining ; 2d abdominal segment and legs rufo-testaceous ;

hind femora at the apex, hind tibize, and their tarsi, fuscous ; base

of the former pallid or whitish. Wings fusco-hyaline, squamuls

British Braconide. 9QY

flavo-testaceous, stigma and nervures fuscous; prebrachial areolet

of the fore wings shorter than the pobrachial; recurrent nervure

rejected; radial areolet of the hind wings divided by a faint

transverse nervure. Abdomen subpetiolated, 1st segment short,

broad. Terebra shorter than the Ist segment. ¢ @. Length, 22;

wings, 5 lin.

This species stands alone ; with those already described it has no

near connection, except the divided radial areolet of the hind

wings, and differs from all species in the shortness and width of the

Ist abdominal segment. The sexes are similar, Antenne

setaceous, of the § 36-jointed, much longer than the body; of

the 2 34-jointed, a little longer than the body ; piceous beneath at

the base. Mandibles testaceous; palpi very pale, the maxillary

elongate. yes large. Mesothorax shining, with a few lateral

punctures, the sutures shallow, surrounding a rugulose space before

the scutellum, bisected by a longitudinal carina. Metathorax

shining, not very convex, with some punctures and transverse

wrinkles, rectangular behind. First abdominal segment almost

smooth, having a stout short petiole about } as broad as the

segment at the apex ; tubercles medial; tracheal grooves distinct 5

condylus obconic, not much narrower than the 2d segment; seg-

ments 2—3 connate, testaceous, black at the apex, and more or

less at the sides. Coxe testaceous; hind legs infuseated, the base

of their tibie narrowly pallid; in the g all the legs are less

brightly coloured. 'Terebra short, its valves stout, black.

Apparently uncommon, not noticed by any writer but

Haliday, who discovered it in North Iveland and the

Hebrides. Bignell, however, has bred a female in Devon-

shire, June 23rd, and W. H. B. Fletcher two males and

two females out of Mupithecia expallidata, Guenee ; these

last are from Abbot’s Wood. In Fitch’s collection is a

male ticketed as having been found in a gall of Cynips

Kollarii, Hartig. <A solitary parasite. Cocoon oval,

whitish, felted, papyraceous, not pensile.

6. Meteorus ictericus, Nees.

Bracon ictericus, Nees, Mag. Ges. Berl., 1811, p. 22,

pl. u., f. 6, @; not of Bouché, Naturg. (1834),

p- 148.

Perilitus ictericus, Nees, Mon., 1., 87, 2; Wesm., Nouv.

Mem. Ac, Brux., 1835, p. 27; Ratz., Ichn. d.

Borsts iis, 00, oo.

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100 Rey. ‘T. A. Marshall’s monograph of

Meteorus ictericus, Ruthe, Berl. ent. Zeits., 1862, p. 14,

& 2; S. v. Voll. Pinact, pl. xiv, f-40)o (and

abdomen magnified).

M. pendulator, Hal., Ent. Mag., iii., 28, 3 2 partim ;

his 3 vars. ©, ¢, are probably M. pulchricornis,

Wesm.

Zele ephippium, Cur., B. K., 415.

Variable ; rufo-testaceous, usually black above, except the head

and 2d abdominal segment; stemmaticum black; antenne fuscous,

the base rufous; hind tibie at the apex, and tarsi, infuscated ;

valves of the terebra black. Wings hyaline, squamule yellow,

stigma the same or luteo-fuscous, its inner edge often fuscous,

nervures fusco-testaceous; recurrent nervure rejected ; 2d cubital

areolet slightly narrowed towards the radius. Tracheal grooves

distinct. 'Terebra not much shorter than the abdomen. ¢ @.

Length, 2i—21; wings, 43—5 lin.

The varieties are thus arranged by Ruthe, from 56

examples :—

Males: posterior segments constantly dark.

Var. 1. Head and mesothorax rufo-testaceous, immaculate; or

the latter fuscous in the middle of the base.

Var. 2. Head rufo-testaceous ; mesothorax with 3 inchoate fus-

cous lines; disk of the metathorax blackish ; 1st abdominal seg-

ment scarcely darker than the 2d. .

Var. 3. Head the same; mesothorax with 3 fuscous lines ; meso-

pleure rufous, bounded with black.

Var. 4. Head the same; entire thorax above infuscated or

blackish ; pleure and pectus rufo-testaceous, or more or less in-

fuscated.

Var. 5. Frons, vertex, and oeciput infuscated; mesothorax with

8 fuscous lines; scutellum paler or darker fuscous; pleure and

pectus fuscous.

Var. 6. Frons, vertex, and occiput infuscated, leaving (as in

var. 5) the orbits broadly testaceous; entire thorax, as well as

pieure and pectus for the most part, fuscous; 2d abdominal seg-

ment yellow.

Females: posterior segments more or less testaceous.

Var. 7. Entirely dull testaceous.

Var. 8. Only the 1st abdominal segment fuscous; sometimes the

metathorax slightly infuscated.

Var. 9. Metathorax and Ist abdominal segment fuscous; meso-

thorax unicolorous, or with 1—3 faint fuscous lines.

British Braconide. 101

Var. 10. Mesothorax and scutellum more or less infuscated.

Var. 11. Mesothorax rufo-testaceous ; metathorax, 1st abdominal

segment, as well as the 4th and following more or less, fuscous.

Var. 12. Mesothorax entirely, pectus and pleure more or less,

fuscous; pleure usually fuscous, with a rufous medial spot; abdo-

men blackish at both ends.

The species is extremely difficult to determine, as well from

variations of sculpture as from the instability of the colours.

Nevertheless, English specimens are less variable than those in

Ruthe’s collection, and will be found in general to correspond with

the diagnosis. Described from 27 females and 2 males. Face

subquadrate, flat, sometimes with a slight elevation above the

clypeus, looking, from above or below, like a carina. Palpi pale,

whitish. Antenne 3 ? about the length of the body, setaceous,

27—85-jointed, testaceous, dusky towards the apex, each joint also

annulated with the same colour. Eyes villose; ocelli prominent.

Prothorax always rufo-testaceous. Metathorax usually rugulose

and reticulated, with greater or less distinctness ; without a medial

carina; but often exhibiting on the disk two smooth subquadrate

are separated by a carina; intermediate forms are not wanting.

Abdomen as long as the head and thorax ; Ist segment } or 2 of its

entire length, striolated; petiole slender, elongate, but varying

somewhat in length and thickness. Stigma yellow, more or less

pale, usually unicolorous, but not seldom bordered with fuscous,

especially beneath ; 2d cubital areolet narrower than its height,

and very slightly narrowed towards the radius; recurrent nervure

always more or less rejected, never absolutely interstitial.

This is perhaps the commonest British species, and

abounds likewise in other parts of Europe. Bignell

bred the 3 from Dictyopteryx Bergmanniana, L.; Elisha

the ?, July 6th, from Laverna conturbatella, Hub.; J.

K. Fletcher another from a larva found rolled up in a

leaf of Rubus ideus. Curtis (B. E., cecexv.) has figured

the cocoon, which he says is frequently found on the

hazel, and by himself in Coombe Wood; one cocoon

produced the universal hyperparasite Hemiteles areator,

Panz. MHaliday, who had the means of knowing, is the

authority for referring Curtis’s insect to this species.

Ratzeburg bred a ? from Cheimatobia brumata, L., and

states (Ichn. d. Forst,, u., 55) that a specimen bred by

Bouché from Pyralis farinalis, L., 1s undoubtedly the

same species; but there must be a mistake here, since

the cocoon of Boucheé’s insect (Naturg., 1834, p. 148) is

102 tev. T. A. Marshall’s monograph of

described as ‘‘ albus, chartaceus,”’ and not pensile. The

cocoons described by DeGeer and referred to by Haliday

(Ent. Mag., ii., p. 29, note), although pensile, were

white, and there is nothing to show that they belonged

to ictericus ; moreover, they were obtained from Bombyx

processionea, L. I have no cocoon at hand, but,

assuming the figure given by Curtis to be correct, as is

most likely, it is pensile, yellowish brown, shining, and

semitransparent, like those of several of the following

species.

7. Meteorus pallidipes, Wesm.

Perilitus pallipes, Wesm., Nouv. Mem. Ac. Brux., 1835,

Da 29a 42

Meteorus pallipes, Ruthe, Berl. ent. Zeits., 1862,

Ap elibs Pe

Black ; face, clypeus, and orbits of the eyes broadly, rufous ;

mouth and legs testaceous ; 4 posterior tarsi fuscescent; 2d abdo-

minal segment piceous or subrufous, but often black; antenne

fuscous, paler at the extreme base. Wings nearly hyaline,

squamule and stigma yellow, the latter often edged with fuscous ;

nervures fusco-testaceous; recurrent nervure rejected ; 2nd cubital

areolet not narrowed towards the radius. Tracheal grooves distinct.

Terebra as long as 3 of the abdomen. ¢ 2. Length, 24; wings,

5 lin. ;

Var. Face and eclypeus paler; mandibles and palpi whitish;

2d abdominal segment testaceous. Ruthe.

Strongly resembles ictericus, Nees, but, besides the black colour,

it may be known by the nearer approach of the eyes in front,

whereby the face becomes narrower below than above; the shape

of the 2d cubital areolet; and the comparative shortness of the

petiole. Antenne § ? 28—38l1-jointed, as long as the body, fili-

form, nigro-fuscous, the 2 basal joints hardly paler. Under side of

the prothorax piceous. Wesmael’s specimens had the humeral

angles of the mesothorax rufous, which was not the case with

Ruthe’s, nor is it seen in the English examples. Metathorax short,

convex, almost vertical behind, intricato-rugose. First abdominal

segment striolated, more convex transversely, and with a shorter

and broader petiole than that of ¢ctericus; segment 2 entirely

black, piceous, or piceo-testaceous. Second cubital areolet large,

very little broader than long, not narrowed towards the costa;

recurrent nervure entering the 1st cubital areolet close to its lower

angle.

British Braconide. 103

Described from two females, one male, taken near

Abergavenny, St. Albans, and Northampton; and three

females in Fitch’s collection, captured by Bridgman.

Taken not uncommonly by Capron at Shiere. ~

. 8. Meteorus confinis, Ruthe.

Meteorus confinis, Ruthe, Berl. ent. Zeits., 1862,

[Oa ders tak

Rufo-testaceous, variable; palpi whitish; antenne fuscous at

the tips, and all the articulations dusky ; legs and 2d abdominal

segment always pale testaceous ; stemmaticum, occiput, 3 patches

on the lobes of the mesothorax, disk of the metathorax, with the

rest of the abdomen, more or less piceous or black; joints of the

4 posterior tarsi tipped with fuscous. Wings hyaline, squamule

and stigma yellow, the latter edged beneath with fuscous ; ner-

vures fuseous; recurrent nervure rejected; 2d cubital areolet

somewhat narrowed towards the radius; radius distinct, but the

other outer nervures of both wings decolorous. Tracheal grooves

distinct. Terebra as longas the abdomen. ¢ @. Length, 14;

wings, 3% lin. ‘

Another species closely allied to ictericus, but certainly distinct.

It is much smaller; the joints of the antenne are fewer in number >

the outer longitudinal nervures of the wings are obsolete ; the 1st

abdominal segment is broader and shorter in proportion. The

extremes of coloration (in six examples) are as follows: the palest

3 has only the apex of the abdomen black, the other markings are

pale piceous and subobsolete ; the darkest has all the markings

above mentioned equally black; the others, and the 9, are inter-

mediate. Ruthe possessed only two females ; having taken the ¢,

Tam able to complete the description. Antenne of the g longer

than the body, testaceous or fuscous, darker towards the tips, 29-

jointed; of the ? 27-jointed, about } the length of the body. Meta-

thorax intricato-rugulose, obliquely truncated behind, the posterior

surface presenting a smooth area, margined by a raised line. First

abdominal segment about 2 of the length of the abdomen, faintly

and irregularly striolated, darkest in the middle, the two ends

testaceous.

Common. Very likely to be confounded with tctericus.

T found five males, one female, in meadows near North-

ampton, and three males, one female, near Leicester.

104 Rey. T. A. Marshall’s monograph of

9. Meteorus facialis, Ruthe.

Meteorus facialis, Ruthe, Berl. ent. Zeits., 1862,

P- 2255 oe

?. Black; orbits of the eyes above and behind obscurely

rufous (or there is a dull rufous spot on each side of the vertex) ;

antenne testaceous, fuscous at the apex; or fuscous, the base of

the flagellum testaceous, the scape and the other joints piceous ;

2d abdominal segment, and legs, rufo-testaceous, hind pair of the

latter somewhat darker, their coxe piceous, and their tarsi sub-

infuscated. Wings hyaline, stigma luteous, its outer and lower

angles indeterminately brown ; squamule rufo-testaceous, nervures

pale fuseous ; recurrent nervure considerably rejected; 2d cubital

areolet very slightly narrowed towards the radius. Tracheal

grooves minute. Terebra equal to % of the abdomen.

$. Black; legs and lateral margins of the 2d abdominal seg-

ment piceous. Wings slightly infumated; squamule testaceous ;

nervures piceous; stigma fuscous, with a pale spot at the imner

angle ; recurrent nervure joining the Ist cubital areolet at about

i of its length. g ?. Length, 2—2!; wings, 44—42 lin.

. The form is that of ictericws, and the size nearly equal. Heada

little narrower than the thorax, much contracted behind the eyes;

face subquadrate, shining brown in the ?, clypeus of the same

colour, convex, smooth; on each side of the vertex is an orbital

spot, dull red, narrowly prolonged towards the antenne, and con-

tinued round the posterior margin of the eyes, becoming wider

beneath (in the English 9 there is merely a vertical spot). Palpi

pale brown. Antenne filiform, longer than the body, 35-jointed ;

of the ? rather stout, shorter than the body, filiform, 28—82-

jointed. Pro- and mesothorax entirely black or blackish, beset

with whitish pubescence more thickly than in most other species.

Mesothorax with two crenulate strie ending before the scutellum

in a rugose depression. Pleure rugose, with a shining smooth

medial space ; the usual furrow wide, shallow, and rugose. Meta-

thorax convex, intricato-rugulose, with a faint medial carina.

Abdomen as long as, and narrower than, the head and thorax ;

segment 1 black, its apex piceous; segment 2 in the @ testaceous,

the rest nigro-piceous ; inthe § only the margins of the 2d segment

are piceous ; belly of the same colour. Segment 1 slender, but the

petiole not much narrowed, finely striolated, the strix confused

and subreticulate; tubercles situated at about 4 from the base.

First abscissa of the radius shorter than the 2d. According to

Ruthe the recurrent nervure is rejected into the 1st cubital areolet

somewhat more than the length of the Ist abscissa.

British Braconide. 105

For the description of the ¢ Iam indebted to Capron ;

it is remarkable for having dark-coloured legs, not often

seen in the present genus.

The $ was taken by Capron at Shiere, and the ? by

me near Barnstaple.

10. Meteorus vexator, Hal.

9. ‘Black, shining; mouth, antenne at the base, and legs,

ferruginous ; segment 1 obconic, elongate, and attenuated at the

base; stigma very large, fuscous, with a pale spot; terebra as long

as the abdomen. Very like delator (sp. 25), and filator (sp. 24),

intermediate in size, and distinguished from filator by a shorter

petiole. Eyes large; clypeus narrowed inferiorly, fusco-ferruginous ;

antenne 19—20-jointed.”’ Haliday.

g. Antenne longer than the body, 29-jointed, fuscous, joints

1—2 rufous. Sides of the prothorax testaceous; 1st abdominal

segment at the apex, and 2d at the base, indeterminately pale

piceous; legs testaceous. Wings subfusco-hyaline; squamule

testaceous ; nervures piceous; stigma fuscous, conspicuous, as

large as the 1st cubital areolet; 2d cubital areolet much narrowed

towards the radius, forming a truncated triangle; recurrent ner-

vure interstitial. Metathorax not convex, sloping gradually from

the base, almost smooth, crossed near the base by a transverse

carina. Abdomen shorter than the thorax; 1st segment irregularly

striolated, short, three times broader at the apex than at the petiole ;

posterior segments broad, ovate. Head large, broader than the

thorax. Tracheal grooves distinct. g. Length, 1}; wings,

34 lin.

Not common, according to Haliday. The ? is unknown

to me; the ¢ I took in Leicestershire ; the great size of

the stigma refers it to this species, but the condition is

bad, and the colours obscured; that of the wings may

be entirely fallacious.

11. Meteorus obfuscatus, Nees.

Bracon obfuscatus, Nees, Mag. Ges. Berl., 1811,

De 22,6 -

Perilitus obfuscatus, Nees, Mon., 1., 37, ¢; Ratz., Ichn.

de Borstal... 0,.ae 2:

Meteorus obfuscatus, Hal., Ent. Mag., i1., 31, 3 °.

Zele thoracicus, Cur., B. H., 415, 9.

106 Rey. T. A. Marshall’s monograph of

Perilitus formosus, Wesm., Nouv. Mém. Ac. Brux.,

1835, p. 36, 9; Meteorus formosus, Reinh., Berl.

ent. Zeits., 1862, p. 26, note, Sd ?.

Variable; usually black, palpi and legs testaceous; pro- and

mesothorax, with the scutellum, and abdominal segments 2—3,

rufo-testaceous ; 8 fuscous spots on the mesothoracic lobes ; antennze

rufo-testaceous on their basal half, thence to the apex fuscous.

Wings hyaline; squamule testaceous; nervures fuscescent, be-

coming testaceous outwardly ; stigma large, fuscous, its inner angle

determinately testaceous; recurrent nervure rejected or sub-

rejected; 2d cubital areolet not narrowed towards the radius.

Tracheal grooves distinct. Terebra somewhat shorter than the

abdomen. § 9. Length, 2—24; wines, 4—44 lin.

In varieties the mesothorax or the abdomen may be entirely

black or piceous, and the pectus rufo-testaceous; or the abdomen

more or less piceous, and paler in the middle; but in any case the

species is sufficiently declared by its structure. Head broader than

the thorax, hardly contracted behind the eyes. Antenne of the 2

not much longer than > the body, submoniliform at the apex,

24—27-jointed (according to Reinhard even 23-jointed) ; those of

the g longer than the body, filiform, 29—80-jomted. Metathorax

short, abruptly sloping, almost truncate behind, hardly excavated

posteriorly, reticulato-rugulose, indistinctly areated by a medial

carina which bifureates at the declivity. First abdominal segment

irregularly striolated, with a short, margined petiole; tubercles

not salient, antemedial.

Described from 16 females, 10 males. The synonymy

above given is not at all doubtful, notwithstanding some

small diser epancies in the authors cited, due to the want

of sufficient examples, or to the attachment of too much

importance to colours. A common, solitary parasite of

fungivorous larvee of Coleoptera. Wesmael was the first

to suspect this circumstance: he received specimens

from Lieve found among boleti, and considered it

probable that they came out of Orehesia micans, Panz.,

which was common in the same locality. This has since

been abundantly confirmed: according to Ratzeburg

many examples were reared from this beetle by Reissig,

Wissmann, and Tischbein. In my collection are six

specimens, the remains of a larger number, which were

given to me together with an Orchesia, to show from

what source they were bred. In [itch’s collection are

20 on a card, procured from a boletus on an apple-tree at

British Braconide. 107

Maldon in July; Capron finds the species at Shiere,

near Guildford. According to Reinhard, Sichel’s col-

lection at Paris contains a set of 10 reared from the

larve of Triplax russica, L., by Lespés. The whitish

cocoons of the parasites are attached to the bellies of

the larve.

12. Meteorus punctiventris, Ruthe.

Meteorus punctiventris, Ruthe, Berl. ent. Zeits., 1862,

205 d42

Black; variable; clypeus, mouth, palpi, mesothorax sometimes

in part, 2d abdominal segment, and legs, flavo-testaceous; hind

cox sometimes more or less piceous; antenne not paler at the base,

only the radicle testaceous. Wings subhyaline; squamule testa-

ceous; stigma fuscous, more or less determinately pale at the base ;

recurrent nervure falling into the extreme apex of the Ist cubital

areolet, subinterstitial; 2d cubital areolet not narrowed towards

the radius. Tracheal grooves distinct. First abdominal segment

punctate in the middle longitudinally, rimulose at the sides.

Terebra as long as the abdomen. § 2. Length g 1;—2}; wings,

3—4 lin.; ? 13—13; wings, 23—3 lin.

Var. a. 9. Mesothoracie sutures, the space before the scutellum

into which they connive, and sides of the prothorax, testaceous.

Var. 8. %. Stigma fuscous, hardly paler at the base; 2d abdo-

minal segment fuscous at the sides.

Var. y. ¢ 2. Face, orbits, and sides of the thorax obscurely

rufous. Antenne fusco-testaceous, darker towards the apex.

Ruthe’s two specimens.

Head black, only the clypeus.and sometimes the lower part of

the face, testaceous; vertical orbits in one specimen with an

indistinct rufous line. Thorax either entirely black, or the sides

and disk testaceous, but so that black patches remain upon the

8 mesothoracie lobes. Four posterior tarsi, and tips of the hind

femora, with their tibie, subinfuscated. Both sexes vary con-

siderably in size, but the smallest 2? was bred together with the

others, leaving no doubt of its identity.

Head as wide as the thorax, rounded behind the eyes; face

somewhat transverse, narrowed beneath; clypeus shining, mode-

rately convex. Antenne $ 31—32-jointed, setaceous, longer than

the body; of the @ 28—29-jointed, longer than the head and

thorax, the 6 ante-apical joints as broad as long. Pleure shining,

sparingly aciculated. Metathorax intricato-rugulose. Abdomen

as long as the head and thorax, equally attenuated at both ends in

108 Rev. T. A. Marshall’s monograph of

the 2, more obtusely lanceolate in the $; segment 1 shaped as in

ictericus, with a medial row of confused punctures which become

striz on each side, and are a good character for the determination

of the species; segment 2 blackish on its hinder margin; the rest

nigro-piceous, becoming paler towards the anus. Stigma half

fuscous, half yellow, or the dark colour predominates more or less ;

2d cubital areolet trapeziform. The males are larger than the

females (those at least seen by me), and less disposed to exhibit

testaceous markings.

Described from nine males, four females. The latter

were bred by Porritt from Scoparia angusta, Ste. Two

males in Fitch’s collection were reared from Scoparia

murana, Cur., by W. H. B. Fletcher. Bignell captured

sixteen females, two males, on a plum-tree, and four

other males elsewhere in South Devon. I found several

specimens, all males, in the neighbourhood of Teign-

mouth.

18. Meteorus jaculator, Hal.

Meteorus jaculator, Hal., Ent. Mag., iii., 34, 2.

M. obscurellus, Ruthe, Berl. ent. Zeits., 1862, p. 29, 2 .

Black; metathorax and abdomen sometimes piceous; mouth

and clypeus testaceous; palpi pale; mandibles tipped with fuscous ;

antenne and 4 posterior tarsi fuscous, the rest of the legs testaceous

or pale piceous, hind tibiz sometimes darker. Wings whitish

hyaline; squamul pale; stigma piceous, scarcely paler at the base ;

nervures pale ; recurrent nervure subinterstitial ; 2d cubital areolet

narrowed towards the radius. Tracheal grooves distinct. Terebra

as long as the abdomen and metathorax. g 2. Length, 14;

wings, 24 lin.

The smallest British species. Antenne of the only ¢ 26-jointed,

rather longer than the body; of the ? equal to 3? of the body,

20—25-jointed, entirely piceous, the subapical joints scarcely

longer than broad. Face transverse, not narrowed inferiorly, with

an impression at the base of the clypeus. Pleure nearly smooth,

the usual furrow having only a few wrinkles. Metathorax nar-

rowed posteriorly, finely reticulato-rugulose, its hinder declivity

not defined. Anterior margin of the 2d abdominal segement paler

than the rest of the surface ; segment 1 obconic, hardly curved,

finely rimulose, its apex almost smooth; tracheal grooves minute.

Wings and stigma rather large; nervures of great tenuity; cubital

and anal nervures decolorous. Legs pale, with a piceous shade on

the hind coxe, tibiae, and tarsi.

British Braconide. 109

Described from six females, one male, in Fitch’s col-

lection and my own, taken near St. Albans and Leicester.

Found by Haliday rarely in North Iveland ; in Germany

once by Ruthe. Capron has taken a ? at Shiere.

14. Meteorus atrator, Cur.

Zele atrator,; Cur., B. ., 415, 1, 2.

Meteorus atrator, Hal., Ent. Mag., ill., 382, 2.

Perilitus similator, Nees, Mon., i., 41, 2; Wesm.,

Nouv. Mém. Ac. Brux., 1885, p. 34, 3 2.

Meteorus similator, Ruthe, Berl. ent. Zeits., 1862,

Ds 005.0 9:

Black; antenne at the base, mouth, elypeus, prothorax wholly

or in part, and legs, testaceous; hind legs infuscated ; 2d abdo-

minal segment rufo-testaceous or piceous. Wings hyaline or sub-

infumated ; squamuli testaceous; stigma fuscous, hyaline at the

base and more narrowly at the apex, or unicolorous; recurrent

nervure slightly rejected, sometimes interstitial ; 2d cubital areolet

broad, subquadrate. ‘Tracheal grooves distinct. Terebra as long

as the abdomen and metathorax. g ?. Length, 2—2%; wings,

33—43 lin.

The English @ specimens correspond to the mutilated example

described by Curtis and Haliday; in them the prothorax is either

wholly black or only testaceous at the sides; the antenne are

piceous at the base, or testaceous only on the under side of the

2 basal joints; the 2d abdominal segment is rufo-piceous; the

wings are not lacteo-hyaline as described by Ruthe; the hind coxe

are fuscous at the base, and the hind legs altogether infuscated.

The $ (which I have not seen) is similar, according to Ruthe, but

the piceous portions of the body are darker; according to Wesmael

the humeral angles of the metathorax are testaceous. No doubt

the species varies, and a good series is required to exhibit its

changes completely. Head as wide as the thorax; palpi, man-

dibles, and clypeus testaceous, the last broad and depressed.

Antenne of the ? stout, filiform, half as long as the body, 22—27-

jointed; those of the 3 setaceous, longer than the body, 35-jointed.

Metathorax short, not very convex, rugulose, with traces of a

medial area and of a longitudinal carina. First abdominal segment

rimulose at the sides and apex, punctato-rugulose in the middle,

elongate, its apex only twice as wide as the base. Nervures of the

wings very fine; cubital and anal nervures hardly visible; one ?

in Fitch’s collection wants the 2d intercubital in both fore wings.

110 Rey. T. A. Marshall’s monograph of

Described from 11 females in Fitch’s collection, mostly

taken by him at Maldon in June and July; three marked

‘* Huddersfield”? were bred by Porritt, but it is not stated

from what larva: three females sent to Bridgman by W.

H. B. Fletcher were found in old birds’-nests containing

several different insects.

Obs. Nees v. Esenbeck has referred to this species

the Bracon cis of Bouché, bred from the larve of Cis

boleti, Scop. (Mon., u., 899); but the small size of the

beetle renders this impossible. See MW. profligator, Hal.,

sp. 26, infra.

15. Meteorus albicornis, Ruthe.

Perilitus brevipes, Wesm., Nouv. Mém. Ac. Brux.,

1835, p. 388, ¢; not of his Supplement, lb. cit.,

1838, p. 141, ¢.

Meteorus brevipes, Ruthe, Berl. ent. Zeits., 1862,

D004 0).

M. albicornis, Ruthe, lib. cit., p. 84, 2.

Black; antenne ? white tipped with fuscous; mouth and legs

dull rufo-testaceous; 2d abdominal segment piceous. Wings

small, especially of the 9, infusecated, with a whitish streak under

the stigma; squamule testaceous; nervures and stigma fuscous,

the latter hyaline at the inner angle; 2d abscissa of the radius

obsolete; recurrent nervure rejected; 2d cubital areolet sub-

triangular, much narrowed towards the radius. Metathorax

gibbous, coarsely rugose. Legs stout, short. Tracheal grooves

distinct. Terebra less than ! of the length of the abdomen. $ 9:

Length, 2; wings, 33 lin.

Head very little narrower than the thorax; vertex short; cheeks

produced below the eyes; face almost twice as broad as long,

carinated in the middle, punctulate ; mandibles tipped with fuscous ;

palpi short, dull testaceous. Antenne of the ? stouter than in

any other species, rather shorter than the body, filiform, 32-jointed,

joints 8—15 yellowish white, the following joints blackish; two

basal joints piceous; those of the g 4 longer than the body,

setaceous, 383—386-jointed, blackish, piceous towards the base.

Thorax stout, coarsely sculptured, the prescutellar fovea longer

than usual, whence the scutellum itself appears small. Sides of

the prothorax and furrow of the mesopleure rugoso-punctate.

Metathorax subelongate, gibbous, somewhat excavated behind,

coarsely and irregularly reticulato-rugose. Abdomen about as long

as the head and thorax, and in the middle as broad as the latter ;

British Braconide. Tid

segment 1 forming less than 4 of its entire length, gradually

widened from the base to the apex, the latter of which is about

4 times as wide as the former, regularly and deeply striated.

tracheal grooves large ; segment 2 more or less piceous or testaceous

anteriorly, darker behind, sometimes entirely black. Terebra

shorter than in any other species, the valves slender, whitish,

piceous at the base. Wines short, reaching very little beyond the

abdomen; those of the ? are also narrow; radial areolet small ;

2d abscissa of the radius nearly extinct, the 8d abscissa being con-

nected with the lst by a short sudden curve.

Wesmael discovered the % near Brussels, and obtained

seven specimens ; afterwards he described what he sup-

posed to be the ?, in his Supplement, but this is a

different species, having the terebra elongate, &c., and

probably the 2° of brunnipes, Ruthe. The brevipes of

Wesmael being thus made up of two different species, I

have discarded the name in favour of albicornis, Ruthe.

Ruthe possessed 26 males of Wesmael’s brevipes collected

near Berlin; and some years afterwards detected two

females near the same place, which he described as

albicornis, hesitating to jom them with brevipes, on

account of Wesmael’s mistake, though well aware of

their affinity to that species. Accident threw both sexes

in my way at the same time, before I had read Ruthe’s

monograph; of their identity I never had any doubt,

and the question may be regarded as settled.

Described from one female, six males, in the collections

of Fitch, Bignell, and in my own. ‘Two males are from

Devonshire ; the rest, with the female, I found near St.

Albans. ,

16. Meteorus abdominator, Nees. (Pl. V., fig. 9).

Bracon abdominator, Nees, Mag. Ges. Berl., 1811,

[Oe oe

Perilitus abdominator, Nees, Mon., i., 115, 9; Wesm.,

Nouv. Mém. Ac. Brux., 1835, p. 47, pl. 1., f. 5

(wing), d 2.

Meteorus abdominator, Hal., Ent. Mag., iii., 27 ; Ruthe,

Berl. ent. Acits.,. 1862, p. 88, ¢ 2; 8. v. Voll.,

Pinac:, plexliy., 1.°5, 3.

Black ; palpi pale fuscous; basal half of the flagellum in the 9

sometimes, mandibles, 2d abdominal segment, and legs, more or

less clear rufous ; hind femora and tibix black at the apex. Wings

112 Rev. T. A. Marshall’s monograph of

infumated, with a whitish streak under the stigma; squamule

rufous; nervures stout, fuscous, rufo-testaceous at the base of the

wing; stigma fuscous, its inner angle rufous; recurrent nervure

rejected; 2d cubital areolet narrowed towards the radius; 2d

abscissa of the radius distinct. Metathorax convex, coarsely

rugose. Tracheal grooves distinct. Legs stout. Terebra longer

than } the abdomen. ¢ 9. Length, 2—23; wings, 8}—4} lin.

Head as broad as the thorax; face almost twice as wide as long,

not narrower below, not carinated, punctulate; above the clypeus

is a shining oval protuberance; mandibles tipped with fuscous.

Antenne ? 4 of the length of the body, filiform, 22—25-jointed ;

of the 3 longer than the body, setaceous, 28—82-jointed, not paler

at the base of the flagellum. Thorax less robust than in the last

species, coarsely sculptured, the prescutellar fovea large and deep,

bisected by acarina. Sides of the prothorax gibbous, rugose, as is

also the furrow of the mesopleure. Metathorax not elongate,

regularly convex, somewhat excavated behind, coarsely and irregu-

larly reticulato-rugose. Abdomen as long as the head and thorax,

more attenuated behind than in albicornis, segment 2 more

brightly rufous; segment 1 about + of the whole length of the

abdomen, widened suddenly at the tubercles and thence more

gradually to the apex, which is about 4 times wider than the base,

striolated; tracheal grooves elongate, conspicuous; segment 2

seldom entirely black, rufous at least anteriorly, even in the 9;

segment 3 also sometimes rufescent at the base. Terebra exceeding

3 or } of the abdomen; the valves black. The infumated wings

are rather narrow in both sexes, and reach but little beyond the

anus; 2d cubital narrowed towards the radius, but not so much as

to destroy the 2d abscissa. Hind tarsi entirely, the others at the

apex, fuscous.

Described from ten females, three males. Common.

Taken at Maldon by Fitch ; by Thurless near Norwich ;

by Capron near Guildford ; by me in Birch Wood, near

St. Albans, Abergavenny, Teignmouth, &c. According

to Haliday frequent in Ireland.

17. Meteorus micropterus, Hal.

Meteorus nucropterus, Hal., Ent. Mag., iti., 27, 3 2.

Head, thorax, Ist abdominal segment, and hind cox, black;

mouth, antenne, legs, and the rest of the abdomen, piceous;

or the abdomen black with only segment 2 piceous; g% often

entirely black, with piceous legs. Wings narrow, hardly longer

British Braconide. 113

than the abdomen, infumated, with a whitish streak beneath the

fuscous stigma; squamule and nervures piceous; recurrent ner-

vure rejected ; 2d cubital areolet narrowed towards the radius, of

which the 2d abscissa is as long as the Ist. Tracheal grooves

obsolete. Terebra longer than } the abdomen. g @. Length,

13}—21; wings, 21 —4 lin.

Head broader than the thorax; face gibbous; eyes small; palpi

short. Antenne ? as long as the head and thorax, stout, sub-

moniliform, piceous or subferruginous, darker at the apex, 283—25-

jointed; those of the g similar but 24—27-jointed, not much

shorter than the body. Thorax subeompressed. Metathorax finely

reticulato-rugose. First abdominal segment narrow, curved, with

medial tubercles, behind which it is very slightly dilated to the

apex, which is rather more than 3 times wider than the petiole ;

almost smooth, or sparingly exarated; the rest of the abdomen, or

only the 2d segment, piceous or subferruginous; belly compressed,

truncated behind. The wings of the g are less narrowed and

abbreviated than those of the 2, which are probably too small for

flight.

The species is nearly akin to brunnipes, Ruthe, also

short-winged, but differmg in the possession of distinct

tracheal grooves, slender legs, &c. ; the same characters

distinguish the preceding species from micropterus, but

the two are nearly allied.

Deseribed from two females, four males. Fitch has

taken the @ at Maldon. The rest are from the Yorkshire

moors near Scarborough. ‘The species has not been

noticed on the Continent.

18. Meteorus pulchricornis, Wesm.

Perilitus pulchricornis, Wesm., Nouv. Mém. Ac. Brux.,

1835, p. 42, d 2.

Meteorus pulchricornis, Ruthe, Berl. ent. Zeits., 1862,

Dese0se 2

Rufo-testaceous, variable; face, prothorax, and legs flavo-testa-

ceous; femora and tibie rufescent, in the hind pair tipped with

black ; antenne after the 2d joint testaceous, becoming gradually

darker towards the apex; disk of the metathorax, Ist abdominal

segment always, 3d and 4th generally, black. Wings hyaline ;

squamule rufo-testaceous; stigma fuscous, with a pale anterior

margin; nervures pale fuscous, testaceous at the base ; recurrent

nervure subinterstitial; 2d cubital areolet slightly narrowed towards

114 Rey. 'T. A. Marshall’s monograph of

the radius. Thorax broad, robust; metathorax as wide as the

mesothorax. IT irst abdominal segment much dilated posteriorly.

Tracheal grooves distinct. Hind coxe punctulato-rugulose. Terebra

about equal to ¥of the abdomen. g @. Length, 2—23; wings,

4—4$ lin.

Var. a. Posterior segments of the abdomen rufous or testaceous,

with or without a black common patch on the disk. $ 9.

Common.

Var. 6. Entirely black above except the face, orbits, scutellum,

and 2d abdominal segment ; this last is nearly filled up by a trans-

verse fuscous fascia. Two males.

Var. y. Like the last, but the sutures and central space of the

mesothorax are rufous. One male.

Var. 6. Occiput black ; mesothorax rufous with black sutures ;

metathorax rufous at the sides. One male.

Var. «. Metathorax and tips of the hind femora slightly infus-

cated; abdomen rufo-testaceous, 2d segment flavo-testaceous.

Wesmael.

Head narrower than the large gibbous thorax; face subquadrate,

somewhat rugulose transversely. Mandibles and palpi flavo-

testaceous. Antenne $ ? filiform, 29—31-jointed; in the @ as

long as the body, testaceous nearly to the middle, each joint annu-

lated with fuscous, thence to the apex gradually darkened ; in the

$ longer than the body, the flagellum to a greater extent, or

entirely, fuscous. Mesothoracic lobes prominent, forming (as seen

from above) with the scutellum, 4 equidistant shining tuberosities;

prescutellar fovea crenate. Furrow of the mesopleure broad,

shallow, rugoso-punctate. Metathorax broader than usual, convex,

densely reticulato-rugose, abruptly sloping behind, and there éxea-

vated. Abdomen as long as the head and thorax, and at its widest

part somewhat narrower than the latter ; segment 1 forming more

than 2 of its entire length; tubercles post-medial; regularly

striated ; petiole dilated at the extreme base, and often rufous; it

begins to dilate again before the tubercles, and is gradually widened

to the apex, which is about 4 times wider than the base; tracheal

grooves large and deep. Stigma dark brown, margined with pale

colour on its costal edge, and with its two angles paler; but the

border is sometimes confused more or less with the fuscous disk.

Ground colour of cox and legs flavo-testaceous; femora and tibie

rufescent in the middle; tarsi pale ; claws fuscous.

Described from 18 females, 24 males. A common

species, and singularly omitted by Haliday, unless per-

haps it is included in some of his varieties of pendulator

British Braconide. 115

(Ent. Mag., iii., 29), especially vars. ¢,¢, from the banks

of the Shannon. The specimens used by me, 42 in

number, are mostly in Fitch’s and Bignell’s collections,

and many of them have been bred. Bignell has obtained

them from Agrotis agathina, Dup., several out of the

same larva; from Agrotis strigula, Thunb., May 10th ;

Teniocampa stabilis, View.; Hibernia leucopheria, Schiff. ;

Anisopteryx escularia, Schiff.; Cheimatobia brumata, L. ;

Oporabia dilutata, Bork. ; and Harpella Geoffroyella, Li.

Bridgman reared one from Scoparia truncicolella, Staint. ;

and three came from a geometrical larva in my keeping,

the name of which 1 did not ascertain; one of the

cocoons thus obtained produced the hyperparasite Meso-

chorus confusus, Holmer. It appears that two, three, or

four of these Meteort infest the same caterpillar, if it be

large enough ; in other cases they are solitary. Cocoon

like that of ictericus (sp. 6), pensile, greyish brown and

glistening, as if varnished.

19. Meteorus melanostictus, Capron, MS., n. s.

Nigro-piceus ; prothoracis latera cum capite femine rufo-testacea,

stemmatico, occipite, rigricantibus; maris caput nigro-piceum ;

orbitze plus minus, prothoracis latera cum pectore toto, nonnun-

quam etiam cum scutelli apice, rufo-testacea. Pedes testacei, tibiis

posticis apice et ante basin fuscis, basi ipsa exalbida, tarsis fuscis.

Ale subhyaline ; squamule testacex ; stigma unicolor cum nervis

nigro-piceum ; nervus recurrens femine plane evectus, maris

plerumque interstitialis, rarius paulo evectus; areola cubitalis 2da

radium versus non angustata. Metathorax convexus, medio cari-

natus, postice excavatus, intricato-rugosus. Abdominis segmentum

lmum striolatum, apice triplo latius quam basi, tuberculis mediis,

fossulis spiracularibus conspicuis. Terebra abdonainis dimidio

brevior.

Nigro-piceous; head and sides of prothorax in the ? rufo-

testaceous, stemmaticum and occiput piceous; head of the J nigro-

piceous, the orbits more or less, sides of prothorax, pectus, and

sometimes apex of scutellum, rufo-testaceous; legs testaceous;

hind tibize fuscous at the apex and faintly before the base, which is

whitish ; tarsi fuscous. Wings subhyaline ; squamule testaceous ;

stigma unicolorous, and, with the nervures, nigro-piceous; recurrent

nervure of the ? distinctly evected, of the g interstitial, in one

example only evected; 2d cubital areolet not narrowed towards

the radius. Metathorax convex, carinated in the middle, excavated

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116 Rey. ‘I’. A. Marshall's monograph of

posteriorly, intricato-rugose. First abdominal segment striolated,

3 times wider at the apex than at the base; tubercles medial ;

tracheal grooves distinct. Terebra shorter than 4} the abdomen.

36 2. Length, 23; wings, 5 lin.

Head transverse, slightly contracted behind the eyes. Antenne

nearly filiform in both sexes; in the g longer than the body,

34—35-jointed; in the ? about as long as the body, 25—28-jointed,

the two basal joints testaceous. Palpi pale. The whole under side

ot the thorax is testaceous, except the pectus of my 2 specimen ;

this character, as well as the rufous scutellum of one example, and

the general structure of all, brings the species very near to scwtel-

lator (sp. 20); the differences, however, are obvious; in melano-

stictus the stigma is uniformly blackish ; the recurrent nervure in

Capron’s specimens of the 9, and in one of my males, is distinctly

evected; in the other males itis interstitial, as in scuwfellator. The

direction of the recurrent nervure is not constant in the different

species, and causes a difficulty in determining their limits; but it

is at most only a secondary character.

Described from three females, five males. The de-

scription of the ? was communicated by Capron, to

which I have added what relates to the other sex. The

females were taken at Shiere, the males at Nunton, but

there is no doubt that they belong to the same species,

and that the species is new.

20. Meteorus scutellator, Nees.

Perilitus scutellator, Nees, Mon., i.,38; Wesm., Nouv.

Mem-7Ac> Brux., lesnepyo Osan on

Meteorus scutellator, Ruthe, Berl. ent. Zeits., 1862,

p41, 3.25 Sv. Voll Ringe. plexi. ace

Black; palpi pale; face, clypeus, mandibles, antenne at the base

beneath, more broadly in the ?, orbits of the eyes sometimes,

pleure, pectus, scutellum and 2d abdominal segment, rufo-testa-

ceous; mesopleure sometimes blackish in front; hind tibie and

tarsi more or less infuscated at the apex. Wings hyaline;

squamule and stigma yellow; nervures flavo-fuscous; recurrent

nervure interstitial ; 2d cubital areolet scarcely narrowed towards

the radius. ‘Tracheal grooves small, distinct. Terebra as long

as 2of the abdomen. ¢ 9. Length, 2—23; wings, 44—6 lin.

Var. Rufous; metathorax black; Ist abdominal segment

piceous towards the apex; stigma rufo-fulvous. One male in

Fitcn’s collection.

British Braconide. iby

Somewhat variable. Prothorax usually testaceous, the neck

blackish, seldom entirely pale; sometimes black at the sides, and

margined above with rufous. Disk of the mesothorax from black

passing into piceous and testaceous ; scutellum, pleur, and pectus

rufo-testaceous. Metathorax black, but with a more or less rufous

triangular patch above the hind cox, sometimes overspreading

the whole disk except the middle. Segment 2 paler than the

pleure ; the following segments seldom concolorous, usually more

or less blackened, especially in the j. Belly rufo-testaceous or

piceous, in various shades. Head rather narrower than the thorax 5

face flat, quadrate; clypeus convex. Antenne ? as long as the

body, subsetaceous, 33—35-jointed; of the g much longer, also

subsetaceous, 35-jointed; entirely fuscous, or the 2 basal joints in

the g and more in the ? are testaceous underneath. Furrow of

the mesopleure shining, smooth, finely crenulate at the base.

Metathorax not very convex, finely reticulato-rugose, with a medial

carina. First abdominal segment regularly striolated, more than

x Of the abdomen in length, gradually widened from the post-

medial tubercles to the apex, which is 8 times broader than the

base; tracheal grooves comparatively minute. The stigma is

sometimes infuscated on its inner margin, and rarely altogether of

a darker colour; the recurrent neryure is usually interstitial, but

sometimes deviates slightly to one side or the other.

Described from seven females, four males. Common.

In Fitch’s collection are a 3 ? bred by him and Bignell

from Teniocampa stabilis, View. Bignell and Hellins

bred it from Scopelosoma satellitia, L.; and Bignell

others from Noctua triangulum, Hufn., Calymnia trape-

zina, L., and Ocneria dispar, L.; the last-mentioned

larva was from Switzerland. Cocoon pensile, exactly

like that of pulchricornis and ictericus, only larger.

21. Meteorus unicolor, Wesm. (Pl. V., fig. 10).

Perilitus unicolor, Wesm., Nouv. Mem. Ac. Brux.,

1835, p. 41, go 2; not of Ratz., 1., 76, 11., 56.

Meteorus unicolor, Ruthe, Berl. ent. Zeits., 1862,

p. 43, 0 2

Testaceous with hardly a rufous tinge; antenne fuscous beyond

the middle, and all the articulations ringed with the same colour ;

1st abdominal segment piceous, paler at the base ; tarsi pale; claws

fuscous. Wings hyaline, squamuli, stigma, and nervures at the

base yellow, the rest of the neuration fuscescent ; recurrent ner-

vure interstitial; 2d cubital areolet subquadrate, not narrowed

118 Rey. 'T. A. Marshall’s monograph of

towards the radius. Tracheal grooves distinct. Terebra equal to

} or 3 of the abdomen. $9. Length, 24; wings, 5 lin.

Apart from the colour there is little to distinguish this from the

last species. It is, however, somewhat smaller, the antenne are

longer, and their basal half is always pale; those of the ? are

32—34-jointed; those of the g 29- (in one British example), in

that adduced by Ruthe 33-jomted. Metathorax regularly rounded,

reticulato-rugulose, with or without a medial carina. First seg-

ment forming nearly } of the entire length of the abdomen,

regularly striolated.

Described from one male, five females, in the col-

lections of Fitch and Bignell; the former has taken the

? at Maldon; the latter bred the ¢, June 28th, from

Tethea retusa, L., and the remaining females also in

June from Orthosia lota, Clerck.

22. Meteorus consors, Ruthe.

Meteorus consors, Ruthe, Berl. ent. Zeits., 1862,

p. 44, 2.

Rufo-testaceous, face and legs paler; vertex, occiput, 3 bands on

the lobes of the mesothorax, metathorax, pectus, and 1st abdominal

seement blackish; antennie except the base, hind femora and tibize

at the tips, with their tarsi, fuscescent. Wings hyaline; squamule

testaceous; nervures fuscescent; stigma flavo-testaceous, its outer

lower half indeterminately fuscous; recurrent nervure interstitial

or subinterstitial ; 2d cubital areolet hardly narrowed towards the

radius, ‘Tracheal grooves distinct. ‘Terebra as long as the abdo-

men. 9. Length, 24; wings, 44 ln.

Head a little narrower than the thorax, black above and on the

occiput; face and mouth rufo-testaceous ; palpi whitish. Antenne

nearly as long as the body, filiform, 81—#4-jointed, fuscous, paler

beneath, joints 1—2 dull testaceous. Ground colour of the thorax

testaceous ; according to Ruthe only the metathorax and post-

scutellum, occasionally also the middle lobe of the mesothorax, are

infuseated; but in British examples the 3 mesothoracic lobes,

pleure, and pectus are often blackish. Metathorax somewhat

elongate, reticulato-rugulose, slightly excavated behind. Abdomen

slender, at its broadest part narrower than the thorax; segment 1

a little shorter than all the rest taken together, black, rimulose,

with a short petiole and inconspicuous tubercles, behind which it is

insensibly dilated to the apex, this last being 3 times wider than

the petiole ; the remaining segments are either wholly testaceous

British Braconide. 119

or slightly infuscated at the sutures. Between the tracheal grooves

is an elevated ridge. Hind coxe, femora, and tibie sometimes

rufescent.

Described from seven females. In Fitch’s collection

are several specimens bred from Bryotropha domestica,

Haw.; and I have captured two others, one at St.

Albans, and the other at Nunton, Wilts.

23. Meteorus versicolor, Wesm.

Perilitus versicolor, Wesm., Nouv. Mém. Ac. Brux.,

1835, p. 48, 3 2.

Meteorus versicolor, Ruthe, Berl. ent. Zeits., 1862,

p. 45, 3 2; 8. v. Voll., Pinac., Dinxlive dt ee

Perilitus bimaculatus, Wesm., lib. Cit., p. 45, 92:

Meteorus bimaculatus, Ruthe, lib. cit., pai, oe

Variable. Rufous; metathorax and abdomen black ; petiole and

Ist abdominal suture whitish; base of antenne, face, mouth, pro-

thorax, humeral angles of the mesothorax, a variable patch on

segments 2—3 in the gf, anus, and legs flavo-testaceous; hind

coxe, with their femora and tibie, more or less blackish, these

femora and tibie whitish at the base. Wings hyaline, squamule

testaceous, stigma yellow or fuscous, nervures fuscescent ; recurrent

nervure interstitial, sometimes slightly rejected; 2d cubital areolet

subquadrate, not narrowed towards the radius. Tracheal grooves

obsolete. Terebra about das long as the abdomen. 3 ?. Length,

2—21; wings, 4—5 lin.

The typical form may be known by the jet-black abdomen,

spotted with yellowish white, the whitish petiole, and the absence

of the tracheal grooves; also by the white 1st abdominal suture of

the @. p

Var.a. 3. Head and thorax rufous ; metathorax black above;

hind cox rufous ; legs flavo-testaceous. Abdomen with a whitish

petiole; hind margin of segment 1, 2 triangular transverse fascia

on segments 2—3, united by a longitudinal stripe in the middle,

yellowish white. In Wesmael’s collection.

Var. 8. 9. Head black; mesothorax and scutellum rufous ;

abdomen black, except the petiole and the 1st suture, which are

yellowish white. Hind coxa, femora, and tibie black, the last

broadly white at the base, the femora more narrowly. Bred by

Bignell.

Var. y. 2. Rufo-testaceous ; metathorax more or less infuseated ;

Ist abdominal segment with a whitish petiole, and marked before

the apex with 2 blackish confluent spots; hind femora and tibie

120 Rey. T. A. Marshall’s monograph of

tipped with fuscous; recurrent nervure subinterstitial. M. bimacu-

latus, Wesm.

Var. 6. 9. First abdominal segment not whitish at the base ;

hind femora and coxe rufous. Taken by Capron.

The typical form has the head rufo-testaceous ; face yellowish ;

antenne fuscous, testaceous towards the base; palpi whitish ;

thorax rufo-testaceous, sides of the prothorax paler ; metathorax

rufous, more or less black above, or entirely black ; Ist abdominal

segment whitish nearly to the tubercles, afterwards jet-black with

a white hind margin; 2d segment either yellow, with 2 lateral

black spots varying in size in the f; or in the ? entirely black

from the coalescence of the spots, which leave only the fore

margin narrowly yellow; segment 3 (connate with 2) black in the

?, or only the suturiform articulation is pale; the following seg-

ments are entirely black, or the apex of the abdomen, with the

belly, more or less testaceous. Stigma pale, or the inner margin

brown, and that colour more or less diffused over the disk. Legs

either wholly testaceous, or the femora and tibie of the hind pair

blackened, except at the base; hind cox fuscous at the base.

Head narrower than the thorax; face flat, quadrate ; eyes and

ocelli prominent; cheeks narrow. Antenne setaceous, as long as

the body, and nearly equal in both sexes, 29—30-jointed in the ?,

32-jointed in the g. Metathorax short, reticulato-rugulose, the

posterior declivity in the ? distinct and margined above; less con-

spicuous in the J; somewhat excavated behind. Abdomen hardly

longer than the head and thorax, at its broadest part not narrower

than the latter; segment 1 occupying almost 4 of the entire

length, curved at the end of the petiole, which is smooth; from

thence gradually dilated to the apex, and striolated; the apex less

than 4 times wider than the base. Tracheal grooves none. Terebra

about 4 as long as the abdomen; Wesmael, according to his usual

practice, makes it longer, and equal to the whole abdomen.

Described from a pair, of which the @ is British ; the

3g is preserved in one of Wesmael’s boxes sent to me

from Brussels, and containing all the Braconids of the

Musée Royal, except Wesmael’s types. In the same

boxes are several specimens of M. bimaculatus, Wesm. ;

and I find three more in the Hungarian collection of

Dr. Cornelius Chyzer: one of these has the metathorax

infuscated ; their cocoons are paler than those of the

typically coloured examples. Capron has twice taken

the @ at Shiere; Bignell bred the same sex from

Geometra papilionaria, L. Reinhard, ina note appended

British Braconide. 121

to Ruthe’s description (lib. cit., p. 46), records the

rearing by himself in two successive years of about 100

of M. versicolor from the larve of Laria L-nigrum, Mull.

About a fifth part of them had the recurrent nervure

rejected, as in Bignell’s specimen, but not in Wesmael’s.

The second ceneration was not so highly coloured as the

first, corresponding to Ruthe’s description rather than to

that of Wesmael. The latter writer mentions that in

June, 1831, he found two caterpillars of Asteroscopus

sphinx, Hufn., on a lime-tree near Charleroi, which pro-

duced a number of these parasites. They made oval

brown cocoons about 2 lines long, irregularly heaped

together, and connected by threads of silk. In this

case the cocoons were evidently not suspended by a

thread ; but that of Bignell’s specimen, produced singly,

is pensile, resembling the cocoons of ictericus, except in

being of a darker colour. Van Vollenhoven mentions

the capture of this species near the Hague, and Leyden;

he has figured one of the specimens. “Ruthe possessed

four males, two females, from the neighbourhood of

Berlin.

24. Meteorus filator, Hal.

Meteorus filator, Hal., Ent. Mag., ii., 32, S 2.

Perilitus laticeps, Wesm., Nouv. Mem. Ac. Brux., 1835,

Dette?

Meteorus laticeps, Ruthe, Berl. ent. Zeits., 1862,

D495 2.

Black ; palpi whitish; face, clypeus, mandibles, and sides of the

prothorax partly, dull testaceous; legs, and (in the 2) the base of

the antenne, rufo-testaceous; hind femora and tibize sometimes

infuscated. Wings hyaline; squamule testaceous; nervures

fuscescent ; stigma fuscous, its inner angle paler; recurrent ner-

vure subrejected; 2d cubital areolet not narrowed towards the

radius. First abdominal segment elongate, with a linear, slender

petiole; reticulato-rugulose, with arcuate striz on each side of the

suddenly dilated condylus; tracheal grooves obsolete. Terebra

curved, aslong asthe abdomen. g @. Length, 24—23; wings,

4—4° lin.

Distinguished from the other black species by the elongate

petiole, and absence of the tracheal grooves; also, in the female

sex, by the short antenne. Head large, broader than the thorax ;

eyes large, prominent; ocellismall; face subquadrate, not carinated,

sparingly punctured. Antenne of the ? scarcely longer than the

122 Rey. T. A. Marshall’s monograph of

head and thorax, stout, filiform, 23—24-jointed, testaceous, the

apical fourth part, or more, fuscous; 8 ante-apical joints sub-

quadrate ; those of the g setaceous, longer than the body, 28—31-

jointed, entirely fuscous, or with the extreme base pale. Prothorax

above and on the sides sometimes more or less rufescent. Meta-

thorax rather short, obliquely subtruncate behind, finely and irre-

cularly rugulose, indistinctly divided into 2 discal arew by 3 carine.

First abdominal segment almost as long as the rest taken together;

tubercles not salient ; petiole and condylus reticulato-rugulose, the

latter towards the apex with some additional lateral curved strie.

Segment 2 sometimes piceous at the base. Valves of the terebra

brown, darker at the apex. Hind cox sometimes infuscated at

the base; their femora and tibie at the apex, with the tarsi,

slightly infuseated. Recurrent nervure inserted into the extreme

apex of the 1st cubital areolet.

Described from one female, four males. Not un-

common. ‘Taken by Bignell in Devonshire; by me in

South Wales and Wiltshire. Wesmael possessed only

one ?, and Ruthe two. According to Haliday the ¢

occurs amongst fungi in autumn; it probably has the

same habits as obfuscatus, Nees (sp. 11). Common at

Shiere, near Guildford: ‘I have taken,’ says Capron,

in litt., ‘many females of this species by shaking pieces

of Polyporus versicolor. They were in a semi-torpid

condition, and fell from the fungus with their legs

doubled up, and feigned death; the males were abundant

in the autumn by sweeping.”

25. Meteorus delator, Hal.

Meteorus delator, Hal., Ent. Mag., iii., 33, 2.

“ Black, shining; mouth, antenne at the base beneath, and legs,

ferruginous, the posterior infuscated; segment 1 obconic, elongate

and attenuated at the base; stigma fuscous with a pale spot;

terebra as long as the abdomen. 9. Length, 1}; wings, 23 lin.

“Very like filator, but readily distinguished by the form of the

petiole, which is shorter than that of cinctellus (sp. 27), and

sculptured as in the preceding species; segment 2 piceous; pos-

terior legs fuscescent, the base of the articulations paler; antenne

slender, 23-jointed, obscurely ferruginous at the base beneath.

“Tnhabits with the preceding, but is much rarer.”

Haliday.

British Braconde. 128

26. Meteorus profligator, Hal.

Meteorus profligator, Hal., Ent. Mag., 11., 33, 2.

Bracon cis, Bouche, Nature. (1834), p. 149.

Black; abdominal segment 2, or all after the Ist, nigro-piceous ;

antenne fuscous, their base and the legs testaceous. Wings

hyaline ; squamule testaceous; nervures fuscescent; stigma fus-

cous, its inner angle broadly and indeterminately pale; recurrent

nervure slightly rejected; 2d cubital areolet not narrowed towards

the radius. First abdominal segment short; the rest of the abdo-

men ovate, as broad as the thorax. Tracheal grooves obsolete.

Terebra nearly as long as the abdomen. 92. Length, 14; wings,

22 lin.

Head large, wider than the thorax; palpi pale. Antenne

filiform, shorter than the body, 20—21-jointed, the last 8 joints

subquadrate. Metathorax short. reticulato-rugulose. First abdo-

minal segment with a broad, short petiole, tubercles and tracheal

grooves obsolete; insensibly dilated nearly from the base to the

apex, which is 4 times broader than the petiole, irregularly rugu-

lose ; extreme base of the petiole subdilated and pale.

Haliday’s descriptions of delator, vexator, profligator,

and jaculator are incomplete, and it is necessary to

possess them all, in order to determine any one with

certainty. The present species he compares with delator,

of which no specimens are now known. It is said to be

nearly akin to delator but smaller, with a shorter pro-

thorax and metathorax ; 1st abdominal segment coarctate

near the base, not linear; delator has 23-jointed antenne ;

the specimens before me have them 21-jointed, and are

therefore most probably projligator.

Bignell bred eight or nine females from Cis boleti,

Scop., in Polyporus versicolor. Hence it may be inferred

with something hke certainty that this is the Bracon cis

of Bouché, reared from the same beetle, and not M.

atrator, as conjectured by Nees v. EKsenbeck, which is

much too large an insect (see sp. 14). According to

Bouché the parasitic maggot is oblong, rugose, white,

with a rounded head, and the parts of the mouth

blackish. Capron has taken a ? at Shiere.

124 Rey. T. A. Marshall’s monograph of

27. Meteorus cinetellus, Nees.

Bracon cinctellus, Nees, Mag. Ges. Berl., 1811, p. 28,

?; not of Spinola.

Perilitus cinctellus, Nees, Mon., i., 40, ¢ ?; Wesm.,

Nouv. Mem Ac. Brox.) 1885, p-.00) or

Meteorus cinctellus, Hal., Ent. Mag., iii., 81, 2; Ruthe,

Berl. ent. Zeits., 1862, p. 50, ?.

Black ; face, mouth, orbits, disk of the mesothorax partly, 2d

abdominal segment, and legs testaceous; hind femora and tibie

fuscescent at the apex; antennz fuscous, those of the ? broadly

testaceous in the middle. Wings of the 3 subinfuscated, of the ?

more hyaline ; squamule testaceous ; nervures fuscescent ; stigma

fuscous, its base more or less pale ; recurrent nervure evected, but

sometimes interstitial; 2d cubital areolet slightly narrowed towards

the radius. Tracheal grooves obsolete. Terebra about 2 of the

abdomen. $2. Length, 2—21; wings, 31—4 lin.

Var. 2. Length, 13 lin. Hind coxe almost entirely black ;

2d abdominal segment and antenne obscurely testaceous. Ruthe.

Head narrower than the thorax, rufo-testaceous; front and

vertex in the middle, as well as the occiput, black, leaving the

orbits rufous, most broadly upon the vertex; eyes large; face

narrow; clypeus prominent; palpi whitish at the tips. Antenne

of the ? filiform, flagellum testaceous for about half its length,

thence gradually darkened to the apex, + shorter than the body,

25—27-jointed; those of the § setaceous, fuscous, the scape paler,

much longer than the body, 28—80-jointed. Thorax black, but

the disk of the mesothorax in the sutures and the medial space

usually more or less rufescent; pleure and scutellum sometimes

also rufescent. Metathorax subelongate, obliquely descending

behind, thickly and finely rugulose. Abdomen of the ? somewhat

longer than the head and thorax, of the $ shorter; segment 1

hardly equal to 3 of its length, of which the petiole makes !, and is

smooth and shining; condylus rimulose, dilated from the incon-

spicuous tubercles to the apex, which is about 38 times the width of

the petiole; segment 2 flavo-testaceous on its anterior or posterior

half, or on both; remaining segments black, or the posterior more

or less flavo-piceous. Wings of the % slightly coloured, yet enough

to show sometimes a whitish streak beneath the stigma; those of

the 2 nearly hyaline. In the British specimens which I have seen

the recurrent nervure is uniformly evected, but according to Ruthe

it is often interstitial. Hind coxe at the base, hind femora and

tibie at the apex, often broadly fuscous. The ¢ strongly resembles

that of punctiventris (sp. 12), especially when the rufous colour of

British Braconide. 125

the orbits is deficient ; but the presence of the tracheal grooves on

the 1st segment will distinguish punctiventris.

Perilitus cinctellus, Bouché (Naturg., 1884, p. 149) is

inadequately described, but Nees refers it to this species,

with what degree of certainty I know not. Bouché’s

insect is a parasite of Tortrix viridana, L., and makes

a ‘snow-white ’’ cocoon: it was known to Ratzeburg,

like all Bouche’s insects, but he is silent as to its identity

with the cinctellus of Nees.

Described from two males, four females, captured in

Devonshire and South Wales. Not common: found by

Haliday in North Ireland, and, besides the authors above

cited, mentioned by Van Vollenhoven as taken at Middel-

burg. Capron has captured two females at Shiere.

28. Meteorus tenellus, n. 8.

Niger, facie, ore, genis, verticis macula orbitali utrinque, anten-

narum basi subtus, pedibusque, rufo-testaceis ; abdominis cingulo

medio anoque flavidis. Ale hyaline squamulis testaceis, nervis

cum stigmate fuscis, hujus basi indeterminate pallida; nervo

recurrente vix evecto; areola cubitali 2da radium versus parum

angustata. Fossule tracheales nulle. Abdominis seementum

Imum petiolo elongato tereti levigato, condylo rimuloso. Terebra

abdominis dimidii longitudine.

Black; face, mouth, cheeks, an orbital spot on each side of the

vertex, antenne at the base beneath, and legs, rufo-testaceous; a

medial fascia on the abdomen, and the anus, yellow. Wings

hyaline; squamule testaceous; nervures and stigma fuscous; the

base of the latter indeterminately pale; recurrent nervure hardly

evected; 2d cubital areolet very slightly narrowed towards the

radius. ‘Tracheal grooves obsolete. Petiole of the 1st abdominal

segment elongate, smooth, cylindrical; condylus rimulose. Terebra

as long as zthe abdomen. ?. Length. 13; wings, 23 lin.

Head somewhat narrower than the thorax, rufo-testaceous; front,

vertex, and occiput black, leaving two large orbital spots and the

cheeks broadly, rufous. Face subquadrate; eyes not approxi-

mating in front; clypeus smooth, prominent; palpi testaceous.

Antenne filiform, very little shorter than the body, blackish,

rufescent at the base and beneath, 27-jointed, the ante-apical joints

longer than broad. Thorax black, except sometimes a rufous patch

on the mesopleure. Metathorax subelongate, thickly and finely

rugulose, not carinated, nor excayated behind. Abdomen not

126 Rev. T. A. Marshall’s monograph of

longer than the head and thorax; segment 1 forming 3 of its

length, black; petiole equal to half the segment, subcylindrical,

smooth, slender; condylus gradually dilated to the apex and finely

rimulose; segment 2, and sometimes the base of 3, yellow; the

rest black, or those near the apex coloured like the 2d. Wings

short, hardly extending beyond the apex of the abdomen. Legs

uniformly testaceous, or the hind cox rufescent; tarsi fuscous.

This species will only compare with cinctellus, Ns.,

and from that it is easily distinguished. Described from

six females bred by Bignell singly from Peronea hastiana,

L. Cocoons not preserved.

29. Meteorus leviventris, Wesm.

Perilitus leviventris, Wesm., Nouv. Mém. Ac. Brux.,

1835, p. 46, 2.

Meteorus leviventris, Ruthe, Berl. ent. Zeits., 1862,

pa, 2).

M. medianus, Ruthe, lib. cit., p. 58, 3 &.

Perilitus rubens, var. 8, Nees, Mon., i., 86.

Meteorus rubens, var. y, Hal., Ent. Mag., ii., 30, d 2.

Variable; black; mouth, face, orbits, antennz beneath and at

the base, sides of the prothorax, mesothorax in the middle of the

disk, scutellum, and legs, dull rufo-testaceous; hind cox and 2d

abdominal segment piceous. Wings hyaline; squamule testaceous;

nervures fuscescent; stigma luteous; recurrent nervure interstitial

or slightly rejected ; 2d cubital areolet somewhat narrowed towards

the radius; radial areolet sublanceolate, not reaching the extremity

of the wing. First abdominal segment more or less rimulose or

levigated. Tracheal grooves obsolete. Terebra } as long as the

abdomen. g 9. Length, 1$—21; wings, 33—4$ lin.

Var. Front, stemmaticum, middle of the vertex, occiput,

3 patches on the mesothoracic lobes, metathorax, and abdomen,

except the piceous 2d segment, black; the rest rufo-testaceous;

legs pale testaceous. ¢ 9. M. medianus, Ruthe.

Head somewhat narrower than the thorax ; face transverse, flat,

not narrowed below, subrugulose in the middle. Palpi pale. An-

tenn of the ? + shorter than the body, fuscous, more or less

reddish beneath and towards the base, filiform, 26-jointed; those of

the g longer than the body, setaceous, 28-jointed. Metathorax

short, semiglobose, reticulato-rugulose, hardly excavated behind.

Abdomen in the ? as long asthe head and thorax, in the § shorter

and narrower; segment 1 about 3 of its entire length, with a short

British Braconide. 127

petiole and medial tubercles; usually rimulose except at the base,

but often levigated in different degrees, especially on the condylus ;

I have specimens in which this segment is almost smooth; they

differ in no other respect from the rest, some are intermediate, and

it appears to me that leviventris, Wesm., and medianus, Ruthe,

are the same species. Ruthe remarks that the examination of a

long series of specimens would very likely show that the next

species, M. rwbens, should also be united with these two. Another

allied species is M. obsoletus, Wesm. (lb. cit., p. 49), having a

longer terebra; but its identity with the present is more doubtful.

Described from four females, one male. Common;

taken by me in Kent, Yorkshire, and Leicestershire ; by

Bignell also in Devonshire.

30. Meteorus rubens, Nees.

Bracon rubens, Nees, Mag. Ges. Berl., 181], p. 22;

Perilitus rubens, Nees, Mon., 1., 86, d 2.

Meteorus rubens, Hal., Ent. Mag., ui., 80; Ruthe,

Berl. ent. Zeits., 1862, p. 54, 3 @.

Rufo-testaceous; antenne towards the apex fuscous; legs testa-

ceous; metathorax and Ist abdominal segment more or less

blackish. Wings as in sp. 29; recurrent nervure interstitial. First

abdominal segment rimulose, often more or less levigated. Tracheal

grooves obsolete. Terebra 4 as long as the abdomen. Length,

4—21; wings, 3i1—4$ lin.

Var. g. Third and following abdominal segments black, or

with a blackish spot upon the disk.

Head as in the preceding species; antennie rather shorter and

stouter, those of the 2 26- (seldom 25- or 27-) jointed, as long as

the head, thorax, and Ist abdominal segment; those of the g§ 28-

jointed, longer than the body. The average size is somewhat less

than that of leviventris, but besides the colour no further means of

distinction appear. Head usually rufo-testaceous, unicolorous, or

the occiput and stemmaticum fuscous. Thorax rufo-testaceous 5

metathorax more or less blackened above, or black with a rufous

patch on each side. First abdominal segment usually infuscated

or black, seldom rufo-testaceous. The males bred by Bignell have

the posterior segments more or less black, and the same character

appears in the smaller females.

Nees v. Esenbeck and Haliday seem to have regarded

this and No. 29 as varieties of the same species ;

128 Rey. I. A. Marshall’s monograph of

Wesmael and Ruthe (the latter doubtfully) considered

them distinct. It is hard to settle the question even by

breeding, for individuals of the same brood are always

uniform, while one brood is found to differ slightly from

another. It is probable that they all belong to one

inconstant species, the leading characters of which are

the absence of tracheal grooves, the tendency of the Ist

abdominal segment to become smooth, and the habit of

gregarious parasitism.

Described from thirteen females, three males. The

form known as rubens occurs, according to Haliday, on

sandy coasts; I have obtained it at Sandwich, and

among the roots of rushes at Freshwater Bay, Pembroke-

shire, where it was very abundant. But it is equally

common ata distance from the sea. Bignell bred two

broods from Agrotis tritici, L., oregariously, like Micro-

gasters. Their cocoons are irrecularly heaped together,

and not pensile. The individuals of one batch are

larger than those of the other; the latter came out

May 31st, to the number of thirteen, and continued in

the pupa-state eighteen days.

31. Meteorus fragilis, Wesm.

Perilitus fragilis, Wesm., Nouv. Mém. Ac. Brux., 1835,

Oss eee

Meteorus colon, Hal., Ent. Mag., i11., 30, 2.

M. fragilis, Ruthe, Berl. ent. Zeits., 1862, p.55, 3 2.

Perilitus fasciatus, Ratz., Ichn. d. Forst., 1., 77, pl. vii,

Pals eles

Black above, beneath flavo-testaceous ; face, mouth, orbits, 2d

abdominal segment, in the g also the apex of the abdomen, and

legs, pale; 2d abdominal segment with 2 indeterminate black

spots; scutellum sometimes rufescent. Antenne fuscous, except

the extreme base, long and slender, like the petiole and legs.

Wings ample, hyaline; squamule and stigma flavo-testaceous ;

nervures fuscescent; recurrent nervure evected into the 2d cubital

areolet, which is prolonged for its reception, and is also much

narrowed towards the radius. Tracheal grooves obsolete. Terebra

about i the abdomen. ¢ 2. Length, 2—2}; wings, 4—4$ lin.

Head not narrower than the thorax. Palpi whitish. Antenne

setaceous, fuscous, or fusco-testaceous, becoming darker after the

base; those of the ? longer than the body, 81—82-jointed; of the

British Braconide. 129

& half as long again as the body, 31—86-jointed. Disk of the

thorax entirely black, or sometimes piceous; scutellum, or its

apex, with the neighbouring sutures, rufescent. Mesopleure ruto-

testaceous, beneath the wings blackish. Metathorax sloping

gradually behind, scabriculous, the posterior declivity ill-defined.

First abdominal segment elongate, with medial inconspicuous

tubercles, from whence to the apex it is slightly and gradually

dilated; apex 3 times wider than the base; petiole almost smooth;

condylus finely rimulose. Hind femora and tibie fuscescent at the

apex, the latter also obsoletely annulated near the base. According

to Wesmael the terebra is as long as the abdomen; but for this

allowance must be made.

Described from four females, five males. Not very

common. Found by Wesmael near Brussels ; by Hali-

day on the banks of the Shannon; Capron has taken

three females at Shiere, and it occurs occasionally at

Nunton, Wilts. Bignell possessed five males, which

he bred from Teniocampa stabilis, View. Ratzeburg

obtained it in July from Phalera bucephala, L., and

Gnophria quadra, L.; the latter, he says, is sorely

infested with this parasite. On emerging from the

victim it spins a thread 2—8 inches long, from which it

suspends itself head downwards and weaves its cocoon,

which resembles that of ictericus.

32. Meteorus luwridus, Ruthe.

Meteorus luridus, Ruthe, Berl. ent. Zeits., 1862, p. 57,

de ee

? Perilitus dilutus, Ratz., Ichn. d. Forst., i., 77 (im-

perfectly described).

Testaceous ; face, mouth, cheeks, base of the antennx beneath,

prothorax, and legs paler; 1st abdominal segment, metathorax,

head, mesothorax, and antenne towards the apex, more or less in-

fuscated ; abdomen of the g also usually darkened at the apex.

Wings subfumato-hyaline ; stigma and squamule yellow; recur-

rent nervure evected into the 2d cubital areolet, which is prolonged

for its reception, or sometimes interstitial; 2d cubital areolet very

slightly narrowed towards the radius. Tracheal grooves obsolete.

Terebra hardly longer than } the abdomen. $ 2. Length, 23;

wings, 5 lin.

Var. a. Entirely testaceous; metathorax and posterior abdo-

minal segments inclining to rufous; antenne fuscous at the tips,

and all the articulations annulated with fuscous. 3 @.

130 Rey. T. A. Marshall’s monograph of

Var. 8. Three fuscous patches on the lobes of the mesothorax 3

front, vertex in the middle, and occiput, black; metathorax and

1st abdominal segment more or less infuscated; antenne fuscous,

the base pale.

Var. y. Meso- and metathorax black or infuscated on the disk ;

hind tibiee sometimes ringed with fuscous before the base. 9.

Var. 6. Head or mesothorax infuscated; scutellum rufescent ;

abdomen black, only the 2d segment anteriorly testaceous. 3.

Very like fragilis, but somewhat stouter and larger; differing

also in colour, in the habits of the larve, and in the structure of

the cocoons. Out of twenty 2 examples, says Ruthe, not one

presented any black or fuscous shade on the abdomen behind the

2d segment. The 2d segment, however, is often of a paler yellow

than those which follow. The striole on the condylus are finer

and more numerous, often extending over a portion of the petiole.

Wings larger and more obscure. Antenne of the ? as long as the

body, 830—83-jointed, in pale specimens testaceous almost to the

apex, in darker specimens more or less fuscous, and paler beneath,

the 2 basal joints always testaceous;-those of the g about half as

long again as the body, 34-jointed. The varieties above mentioned

are taken from Ruthe, as all the British examples that I have seen

are pale.

Common near Berlin, according to Ruthe, from June

to October. Only recently noticed in Britain ; Capron

has taken three females at Shiere. In Bridgman’s col-

lection is a ?, bred Aug. 15th by W. J. Cross at Ely,

out of Hupithecia venosata, F. Twenty-three specimens

of both sexes were sent to Bignell by Mrs. Hutchinson,

bred gregariously from a single larva of Noctua brunnea,

F’. Cocoons pale brown, irregularly heaped together,

each covered with a thin web of filaments which hinders

them from shining, not pensile. ‘‘ The bunch of cocoons

was found on the surface of the earth and moss in the

cage, attached to one dead larva.”

British Braconide. 131

EXXpLANATION OF PuaTE VY.

Fic. 1. Huwphorus ornatus, Marsh., 9.

mS ON OO

. Streblocera fulviceps, Westw., 2; 2a, antenna ¢, after

Westwood; 206, antenna of Streblocera macroscapa,

Ruthe, 2, after Reinhard.

. Wing; and 3a, antenna of Hustalocerus clavicornis,

Wesm., from Van Vollenhoven’s copy of Haliday’s

drawing.

. Wesmaclia cremasta, Marsh., ?.

. Perilitus rwtilus, Nees, ?.

. Meteorus deceptor, Wesm., 3.

. M. deceptor, Wesm., 2; Ta, ecsoon of M. deceptor.

. Hind wing of Meteorus albiditarsis, Cur.

. Meteorus abdominator, Nees, ?.

. M. wnicolor, Wesm., °.

*RANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1887.—PaRr Ul. (JUNE.)

(> 153 ey)

VIII. Description of a new species of the lepidopterous

genus Carama, together with a few notes on the

genus. By Grorce T. Baxsr, F.E.S.

[Read March 2nd, 1887. |

Puate VI.

Carama Butler, nis: (Pl: Vic, fies..1, 2, & 3):

Alis anterioribus et posticis albis, thorace et capitis vertice eum

anteriore parte pectoris et femoribus anticis nigricantibus.

Anterior and posterior wings white. In the male the costal

border of the fore wings beneath is black, the vertex of head and

collar white; front of pectus, palpi, and femora of anterior legs

smoky black. In the female the black markings are replaced by

a light tint of grey, and there is no trace beneath of the black

costal margin. In one of my female specimens there is a dark

mark on the costa just in front of the apex, but this does not

appear in the others, neither is it visible in those in the Museum

collection. The yellow bands on the upper surface of the abdomen

are more marked in this species than in any other of the genus.

Expanse, 38 mm.

All these specimens were sent me from Goya, Cor-

rientes, South America, where it appears to be not

uncommon.

Carama Butleri can be at once distinguished from any

other of the genus by the vertex of the head and collar

being white, whereas in all the rest either one or both

are sulphur-yellow.

The whole of this group is a New World genus, all

being found in South America. All are pure white, of

a silky texture, the specific characters being mainly in

the coloration of collar, head, pectus, and lees. The

abdomen of the female is ringed above with yellow, but

it is rarely much visible owing to the very long white

hairs with which the body is clothed. Mr. Butler ‘having

monographed the genus (vide ‘Cistula Entomologica,’

vol. il., pp. 203 and 204), it is unnecessary to give

TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1887.—PART II. (JUNE.)

134 Mr. G. T. Baker’s description of a new

detailed accounts of the species, though a few notes on

each, with a short table of their points of difference,

may not be without use, more especial reference being

made to the plate ; and with this object I have carefully

examined the specimens in the Museum, and, with

Mr. Butler’s permission, made free use of his mono-

graph.

Carama Walkeri, Buti. (Pl. VI., fig. 11).

This is the largest species of the genus; the vertex of head

is yellow, collar white; palpi, front of pectus, and inside of

anterior legs smoky brown.

This was the species under which Walker included all,

except nivea, of the then known species of the genus ;

it may, however, at once be distinguished from the others

by its much larger size.

Carama virgo, Butl. (Pl. VI., fig. 10).

Vertex of head and collar sulphur-yellow ; palpi, front of pectus,

and anterior legs blackish brown; tarsi of other legs black.

This is easily recognised from Walkert by its smaller

S1Ze.

Carama ovina, Sepp. (PI. VI., fig. 9).

Vertex of head and collar pale sulphur-yellow; palpi, front of

pectus, and inside of tibiee of fore legs pale brown; other legs all

white.

Differs from Walkeri in its smaller size, and from

virgo in the two pairs of posterior legs being all white.

Carama plumosa, Butl. (Pl. VI., figs. 4, 5, 6, & 7).

Collar only sulphur-yellow ; palpi, front of pectus, and fore legs

smoky brown; hind tarsi brownish; rest of legs white.

Differs from Walkert in its smaller size, and from

virgo and ovina in that the vertex of the head is white

and not yellow.

This species presents a very curious case of sexual

aberrant neuration. On reference to the plate it will be

seen that the male (having the normal neuration of the

genus) emits all its branches in regular order, the fourth

and fifth subcostal branches being emitted from a foot-

stalk, whereas the female emits the third and fourth

species of the lepidopterous genus Carama. 135

branches from a footstalk, and the fifth from the inferior

margin of the main vein, between the second and third

branches, like unto a misplaced radial. This, though

not overlooked by Mr. Butler, was not mentioned in his

monograph ; it cannot, however, be regarded as any-

thing else than an aberration, the species in every other

character being identical with the rest of the genus.

Carama pura, Butl. (Pl. VL, fig. 8).

Vertex of head and collar sulphur-yellow; face, palpi, front

of pectus, and front of anterior legs smoky brown; rest of legs

white.

Nearest allied to ovina, but differs in that its face and

front of anterior legs are smoky brown, which is not the

case with that species.

Carama Butleri, n.s. (Pl. VI., figs. 1, 2, & 8).

3. Vertex of head and collar white; palpi, front of pectus,

and femora of anterior legs smoky black; costal margin beneath

black.

@. Similar to the male, but the black is replaced by a light

shade of grey; and the costal margin beneath has no trace of

black.

This may at once be separated from all its allied

species by both the vertex of head and the collar being

white.

Carama nivea, Cram.

There is no specimen of this in the Museum, but

Cramer gives a description and a poor figure of it in his

Pap. Exot., from which it appears very doubtful if it:

belongs to this genus. It is represented as larger than

Walkeri, and has three reddish spots at the anal angle

of the hind wing; these, however, may not improbably

be stains, and is evidently a larger and altogether more

robust insect.

The following table shortly sums up the main specific

differences :—

186 = Species of the lepidopterous genus Carama.

Vertex of head and Ag

collar white. i C. Butleri.

Vertex of head white ; )

collar pale sulphur- } C. plwmosa.

yellow. j

Tarsi of four a C. virgo.

Palpi and front legs black.

of pectus smoky-

brown. Vertex of head Face and SG)

and collar pale

sulphur-yellow.

of anterior legs; C. pura.

Four pos- | smoky brown. j

terior legs

white. Inside of tibie

in anterior es] C. ovina.

pale brown.

[ Vertex of head yellow ;

collar white. C. Walkert.

EXXPLANATION OF Prater VI.

Fic. 1. Imago of Carama Butleri.

2. Front view of head, ¢, C. Butlert.

3. ” ” ” 2 ’ ”

4, re 6 3, C. plumosa.

5. ” ” ” 25 oe)

6. Neuration, $, C. plwmosa (typical).

the 9 2, a (aberrant).

8. Front view of head, C. pura.

9. % “5 # C. ovina.

10. 4 A C. virgo.

11 ry) PA C. Walkeri.

sie)

IX. A revision of the genera Acrolophus, Poey, and

Anaphora, Clem. By The Right Honble. Lord

Watusineuam, M.A., F.L.8., F.Z.8., &c.

[Read April 6th, 1887. |

Puates VII. & VIII.

Apout a year ago I received from Mons. Emile Ragonot,

President of the French Entomological Society, a box

containing thirteen specimens which had the general

appearance of the genus Anaphora, Clem. Perhaps,

owing to their unlucky number, they had suffered woeful

treatment on the journey. On carefully examining the

remnants I found myself quite unable to recognise any

named species, and at once determined to devote my

first week of leisure to a study of the group to which

they belonged. The literature of the subject is not

voluminous. Taking the genera Acrolophus and Ana-

phora* together, the number of species described amounts

to fourteen only, some of which are already admitted to

be synonymous. The peculiar form represented by

these genera, having for its chief characteristic hirsute

and ereatly recurved or elevated palpi, appears to be

confined to the two continents of America and to the

West Indies, but extending to the Sandwich Islands,

the Hawaiian genus Stewberhinus, Butl., obviously be-

longing to the same group. ‘There are probably an

infinite number of species scattered throughout the

Nearctic and Neotropical Regions.

In general appearance these insects have a strong

superficial resemblance to certain Asiatic forms chiefly

included at present in the Indian genus Alavona, WIk.,

but represented also in Africa. ‘The different shape of

* I find on examination that the types of Tirasia granulatella,

Walker, from Villa Nova, and Eddara zylinella, Walker, from

Jamaica, are both females of some spec ies of the Anaphorine, but

itis not possible to adopt these generic names without knowing the

structure of their respective males.

TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1887.—PaRT Il. (JUNE.)

138 Lord Walsingham’s revision of the

the palpi and of the anal appendages usually serves to

separate them with precision, although their relation-

ship is probably not remote. A discussion of the

affinities of Alavona must be reserved for a separate

paper. ‘The genera now under revision may conveniently

be placed in a subfamily of the Tinetde under the name

Anaphorine, but no arbitrary limitations can be placed

upon this subfamily without a careful study of the

structural characters of several presumably allied genera,

such as Tiquadra, Walk., Amydria, Clem., Setomorpha,

Pie OGG

The description of the larva of Anaphora popeanella

(“agrotipennella’’), contributed by Miss Murtfeldt to the

‘Canadian Entomologist,’ vol. vili., pp. 185-6, shows

that the “thoracic legs” are “ unusually long,’ that

the ‘‘ segmentation ” is ‘‘ strongly marked,” and that the

whole larva ‘tapers posteriorly from its greatest

diameter at the head and first joint.” The colour is

described as ‘‘a dark purple-brown, the general surface

dull, having the appearance of very fine stippling, but

variegated with conspicuous, slightly elevated, polished

spots, eight on each thoracic, and ten on each abdominal

joint.” ‘‘ Head horizontal, broad and thick, of a highly

polished black colour, the triangular face outlined by a

fine line of brown.” Its habits are decidedly peculiar,

and remind one rather of a trap-door spider than a

lepidopterous insect. It inhabited a tough silken gallery,

“white and smooth inside,” ‘which had an open

entrance at the surface of the ground, from which its

inmate emerged at night to feed” upon white clover.

‘The chrysalis was slender, elongate, the abdominal

segments sharply edged but not serrated, and of a

mahogany-brown colour. The palpalsheaths conspicuous,

extending down on the ventral side as far as those of

the antenne.” The chrysalis was ultimately found in

the middle of the long subterranean silken gallery.

These larval habits, as well as the differently-formed

sexual appendages and palpi seem to separate Anaphora

and its allies from Tiquadra, Walk., which, under the

name Acureuta, is described by Zeller (Hore Soc. Ent.

Ross, xiil., p. 201) as having a case-bearing larva.

No great difficulty is likely to arise in distinguishing

all other known or rather described genera from those

included in this paper; but intermediate forms may

genera Acrolophus and Anaphora. 139

probably be found. Some apology appears to be needed

for the creation of an unwonted number of new generic

names, but if the future study of the group is to be

facilitated it is not well to ignore structural differences

of palpi, antenne, and neuration, such as are usually

considered to possess generic value. The whole group

has been very little studied, although largely represented

on the other side of the Atlantic, and the time may

probably come when some lover of the Micro-Lepidoptera,

more fortunate or more industrious than myself, may

be not ungrateful for this attempt at orderly subdivision,

if it should enable him to distinguish and classify a

much larger accumulation of specimens and species

than I have ever had the pleasure to examine.

The generic characters have been taken chiefly from

the form of the labial palpi and antenne, and from the

double or single apical vein of the fore wings. The

sexual appendages on the ultimate segments of the

bodies of the males have been found reliable in sepa-

rating the species, although certainly not uniform

throughout the genera. These appendages, both as to

the form of the uncus,—sometimes single, sometimes

double, sometimes arched, and sometimes angulated,—

and as to the form of the lateral claspers presenting

various modifications, seem to afford a not unnatural

basis for specific distinction, inasmuch as they must

more or less affect the process of mating and the trans-

mission of hereditary peculharities.

Full descriptions of these appendages are to be found

in a paper by Dr. Buchanan White in the ‘ Annales de

la Societé Francaise’ for 1878, p. 467, et seq., entitled,

‘Observations sur l’armure génitale de plusieurs especes

frangaises de Zygenide.’” In that paper the term

‘‘teoumen’”’ is used to indicate the organ here referred

to under the name ‘‘ uncus’’; whilst what I have called

‘lateral. claspers’’ are entitled ‘“‘ harpagones.” This

terminology is discussed in a valuable paper in the

‘Transactions’ of the Linnean Society, 2nd ser., 1883,

vol. ii., pt. 6, p. 270, by Mr. P. H. Gosse, who uses the

terms “uncus” and ‘ harpes,” both of which I should

perhaps have done better to have adopted,

140 Lord Walsingham’s revision of the

TABULATION OF GENERA OF ANAPHORINAE.

A. Palpi erect or slightly recurved.

a. Apical vein of fore wing forked.

1. Palpi erect — Kunepistr, Wlsm.

11. Palpi appressed to the head = Nronoputs, JWIsm.

b. Apical vein of fore wing not forked.

1. Antenne bipectinate — AnkisrRopHoRus, IWIsm.

ir. Antenne simple or serrated towards apex.

1. Tarsal joints of hind legs strongly fringed above

— THYSANOSKELIS, Wlsm.

2. Tarsal joints of hind legs not strongly fringed above.

AA. Palpi erect, with distinct separate tufts on each joint

= OrtHoLoPHus, Wism.

BB. Palpi slightly recurved, uniformly hirsute throughout

—= PsrupanaPHora, Wlsm.

B. Palpi strongly recurved.

a. Antenne bipectinate — Fripmrta, Wlsm.

b. Antenne serrated throughout.

1. Apical vein forked = Cmnocrnrs, Wism.

ir. Apical vein not forked = Anarnora, Clem.

c. Antenne simple, compressed, or slightly serrated at the ends.

1. Apical vein forked.

1. Head with erect crest = Ursana, WIk.

2. Head without erect crest = Hyrocnuorus, Wlsm.

1r Apical vein not forked.

1. Palpi roughly clothed throughout = Acroxornuus, Poey.

2. Palpi not roughly clothed throughout = Sra@peruinvs, Butl.

The following six species cannot at present be included

in any tabular arrangement, so far as it may be depen-

dent on the form of the uncus and lateral claspers :—

Acrolophus (Pinaris) hamiferellus, Hb., A. cervinus,

Wlsm., A. vitellus, Poey, A. pallidus, Moschl., Anaphora

leucodocis, Z., A. minima, Wlsm. ‘The genus Pinaris of

Hubner, in which he places his Brazilian species hami-

ferella, included a number of ae forms with

short palpi; and Poey (Cent. Lep. I. Cuba) properly

declines to recognise it as the type of that genus. We

know nothing of its structure except that the palpi are

long and recurved, and the antenne apparently simple ;

expanse, 80 mm. Of Acrolophus cervinus I have not

seen a male, but the form of the palpi in the female is

precisely similar to those of the females of Anaphora

plumifrontella. Acrolophus vitellus, Poey, having simple

genera Acrolophus and Anaphora. 141

antenne, is taken as the type of that genus throughout

this paper, but I have had no opportunity of examining

the structure of its anal appendages. Acrolophus

pallidus, Méschl., appears to be described from a single

female from Parimaribo, the male not being known.

Anaphora leucodocis, Z., has the antenne serrated,

and may therefore safely be left in the genus in which

it was placed by Zeller, as corresponding with A. popea-

nella, Clem. For the same reason A. minima, Wlsm.,

goes with it. The anal segments of my single specimen

are somewhat injured ; although much smaller it shows

some affinities to A. pusilla.

NEOLOPHUS, Ni. g.

(Neos = new, Aogos =a crest).

Type. Neolophus furcatus, Wlsm.

Labial palpi of male somewhat recurved, flattened against but

not reaching beyond the crown of the head; of female shorter than

in the male, not erect or recurved. Mazillary palpi small, de-

pressed. Antenne simple, but with lines of raised scales, giving

an appearance of serration. Hore wings elongate, with the costa

nearly straight, the apex shghtly rounded, the apical margin

oblique, scarcely convex ; with 12 veins, 8 and 9 from a common

stem. Hind wings as wide as the fore wings; with 8 veins, 6 and

7 parallel.

Neolophus furcatus, n.s. (Pl. VIL., figs. 1, la, 1b).

Labial palpi, 3, slightly recurved, reaching to the back of the

head; the apical joint roughly clothed with appressed scales, not

brush-like. Antenne brownish ochreous, not serrated, although

having that appearance at the tips, owing to the presence of raised

scales. Head, thorax, and palpi dull greyish fuscous. Fore wings

rather narrow, the costa almost straight, the apical margin oblique,

scarcely convex; apical vein forked; greyish, sprinkled and

striated around the margins with brownish fuscous; a broad

irregular streak of brownish fuscous, from the base to the end of

the cell, partly connected with two ill-defined spots of the same

colour on the inner and outer thirds of the fold; fringes greyish

fuscous. Hind wings pale greyish brown. Abdomen the same;

lateral claspers narrow towards the base, rather triangular and

upturned beyond it, obtusely rounded at the apex; uncus double,

142 Lord Walsingham’s revision of the

nearly straight, scarcely at all bent over, its opposing branch below

being of nearly equal length with itself. Hap.al. §,19 mm.

Hab. <A single male from Arizona, collected by

Morrison.

Evuuepiste, Wism., Trans. Am. Eint. Soce., x., p. 169

(1882).

Type. Hulepiste cressoni, Wlsm.

‘Head rough; maxillary palpi none,* tongue none, ocelli none.

Labial palpi ascending, with the second joint roughly clothed with

coarse scales, projecting beneath ; terminal joint coarsely scaled,

tapering to a blunt point; about equal in length to the second

joint. Antenne (with the basal joint thickened and coarsely

scaled) slightly serrated and pilose beneath. Anal appendages of

the male greatly developed; the side claspers elongate-ovate,

projecting well beyond the triangular-pointed upper shield, which

is clothed with long scales; the anal segment with short diverging

bristles beneath. Fore wings: costa arched, apex rounded, apical

margin oblique, slightly convex; dorsal margin nearly parallel

with the costal, but slightly emarginate before the anal angle ;

apical vein forked. Hind wings ovate, rather wider than the fore

wings, widest on the basal half, tapering outwards towards the

rounded apex, and not emarginate below it. Veins of the fore

wings twelve, not including the false vein after vein 1 on the dorsal

margin ; two of these from the same stem; cell closed. The vein

running from the upper corner of the cell in the fore wings is

forked, one branch ending on the costal margin and one in the

apex.”

TABULATION OF SpEcIES oF HULEPISTE.

A. Lateral claspers narrow, with straight upper edge.. cressoni, Wlsm.

B. Lateral claspers wider, with arched or dilated upper

edge... Sie ae a¢ Se a6 .. maculifer, Wlsm.

Eulepiste cressoni, Wlsm.

Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., x., p. 169 (1882).

** Palpi brown, with ochreous scales intermixed, the apical joint

with an indistinct pale ochreous band around its middle. Antenne

pale brown. Fore wings brown with scattered purplish fuscous

and ocbreous scales, the former collected in raised tufts, especially

about the dorsal margin; the latter aggregated in the form of

* T find very short maxillary palpi in this genus and species,

which were overlooked when the original description was made.

genera Acrolophus and Anaphora. 143

three or four square patches, one before and one beyond the middle

of the dorsal margin, one about the middle of the costa, and one

at or just before the apex. ‘These in some specimens are so

arranged as to form an indistinct chess-board pattern, the dark and

pale squares being alternate on the costal and dorsal halves of the

wing; in some specimens the median costal and the antemedian

dorsal pale squares, which are always somewhat the more con-

spicuous, are joined in an angulated fascia. Abdomen with the

hind wings and their cilia dull brown. The first two pairs of legs

conspicuously spotted with brown and ochreous, the third pair

ochreous on the tibix, spotted with brown on the tarsal joints.

Expanse, 15 to 20 mm., the female being larger than the male.

Texas.”

To this I may add that the thorax is crested posteriorly, the

uncus double with the points abruptly bent over, very closely

approximate, and laterally compressed or flattened; the lateral

claspers of approximately even width throughout, the ends rather

square, but slightly oblique.

Eulepiste maculifer, n.s. (Pl. VII., figs. 1c, 1d).

Labial palpi, g, erect, the first joint thickly scaled beneath, the

second and third joints without distinct tufts, brownish fuscous,

paler on the inner sides and above. @ porrect, the first and second

joints clothed with a coarse projecting tuft; the third joint only

exposed, slender. Antennae brownish, having a spotted appear-

ance owing to thin lines of rather darker raised scales at the joints.

Head brownish fuscous, tufted above the eyes. Thorax and fore

wings brownish fuscous, the latter mottled with dark ferruginous and

bearing a dingy white spot on the outer half of the fold and a more

diffused and ill-defined patch of the same colour on the apical

portion of the wing; there are some dull whitish markings in the

cilia and before the anal angle; along the costa the brownish

fuscous colouring is interrupted by paler and more greyish fuscous

before and beyond the middle. Hind wings brownish. Abdomen

and hind legs the same; tarsal joints spotted with fuscous; uncus

slightly bent over, double, the points closely approximate; lateral

claspers elongate, attenuated posteriorly, oblique at the ends,

their upper extremity rather pointed. Hap. al. §, 20 mm; 2,

20—24 mm.

Hab. Three males and two females from Arizona

(Morrison).

144 Lord Walsingham’s revision of the

Hypocorpvs, n. g.

(umcxaoros = hidden or furtive).

Type. Hypoclopus griseus, Wlsm.

Labial palpi, 3, overarching the thorax; all the joints roughly

clothed; @ short, porrected. Antenne pilose, slightly serrated

towards the apex. Fore wings with the costa rather straight, the

apical margin oblique, somewhat attenuated towards the base;

apical vein forked. Hind wings slightly wider than the fore wings;

uncus single.

The necessity for establishing this genus rests upon

the wide difference in the structure of the palpi from

those of Neolophus, with which in all other respects it

perfectly agrees. It differs from Cenogenes in its

antenne, and from Urbara, Walk., in the absence of an

erect crest at the top of the head, as well as in the form

of the wings.

Hypoclopus griseus, n.s. (Pl. VIL., figs. 2, 2a, 2b).

Palpi, 3 , overarching the thorax and reaching to its posterior

margin; ? short, standing straight forward from the head about

1mm. Antenne dull greyish ochreous; g compressed, ovate,

pilose, having a serrate appearance owing to lines of partially

raised scales on their anterior sides; ? simple. Head, thorax,

and palpi with an equal admixture of hoary and greyish fuscous

scales. Fore wings greyish fuscous, profusely sprinkled with

hoary scales, which predominate in a patch below the middle of

the fold; a sprinkling of dark fuscous scales is also noticeable,

especially along the costa, where they form a series of small dots,

and at the outer end of the cell, where they are concentrated into

an ill-defined dark fuscous patch; a smaller dark fuscous patch

occurring beyond the middle of the fold. In the fringes patches

of hoary and greyish fuscous scales alternate with each other.

The apical vein is forked. Hind wings reddish brown; fringes

cinereous. Abdomen cinereous; lateral claspers attenuated in the

middle and widened posteriorly, their ends rounded above, obtusely

angulated below. The uncus is bent over and is single, but a

supplementary point with a double stem in the form of the lower

mandible of a bird, coming from below it, reaches nearly as far as

the uncus itself. Hap. al. 26 mm.

Three males and one female received from Morrison,

collected in Arizona. ‘This species may be distinguished

by its almost square-ended lateral claspers, and by the

length of the opposite branch of the uncus, which,

genera Acrolophus and Anaphora. 145

although it occurs in other species, does not appear to

attain the same proportions; the forking of the apical

vein and the single uncus separate it from other species

having much the same general appearance.

Urnzara, Wlk., Cat. Lep. Het. B. M., xxix., 835 (1864).

Type. Urbara galeata, W1k.

“3. Body rather stout. Head above with a thick erect tuft

of hairs. Eyes large, prominent. Proboscis distinct. Palpi

thick, erect, thickly clothed with long erect hairs, nearly twice

longer than the breadth of the head; first joint long, but much

shorter than the second; third about half the length of the second.

Antenne slender, minutely setulose, much shorter than the fore

wings. Legs stout, squamous; spurslong. Wings rather narrow,

rounded at the tips; exterior border very oblique hindward.”

To this may be added that the apical vein is forked.

Urbara galeata, W1k.

WI1k., Cat. Lep. Het. B. M., xxix., 885 (1864).

*“g. Brown. Head above and palpi blackish brown. Legs

cinereous. Fore wings with four black points in the disk; two of

these in a direct line between the other two and the interior border;

a row of black points along the exterior border. Length of the

body, 4 lines; of the wings, 12 lines.

‘““a. Ega. From Mr. Bates’s collection.”

The apical jomts of the palpi are broken off, but have

evidently been long and recurved, asin Anaphora and

Acrolophus.

THYSANOSCELIS, N. &.

(ddoavos = a fringe, oxéaros =a leg).

Type. Thysanoscelis hirsutus, Wlsm.

Labial palpi recurved, closely appressed to the head, but not

reaching above the crown; second joint thickly clothed with a

stout, close brush of scales; apical joint short, also concealed in

rough scales. Maaillary palpi depressed. Antenne with the

basal joint tufted or bearing a close brush of scales, simple. Tongue

very short. Thorax tufted. Lore wings elongate, rounded at the

apex, with the costa slightly arched near the base, the costal and

dorsal margins beyond parallel; bearing patches of raised scales ;

all the veins separate, 8 and 9 from the same point. Hind wings

slightly wider than the fore wings, ovate. Posterior legs with the

inner spurs much longer than the outer, with strong erect brushes

146 Lord Walsingham’s revision of the

of scales above to the penultimate tarsal joint. Abdomen, lateral

claspers wide at the base, slender and straight beyond; the uncus

double, points closely approximate. The form of the uncus and

lateral claspers should probably be regarded as having rather a

specific than a generic value.

Thysanoscelis hirsutus,n.s. (Pl. VIL, figs. 3, 3a, 3b, 3¢).

Head and palpi whitish fawn, inclining to ochreous above ; the

palpi with a few brown scales at the sides. Thorax whitish fawn,

speckled and mottled with brownish ochreous, sparsely irrorated

with dark brown scales, some beneath the costa, some on the dise

and beyond it, others on the fold; the extreme base of the costal

margin is umber-brown; three patches of raised scales are espe-

cially noticeable, one above, the other below the middle of the fold,

the third on the fold and near its outer end. Hind wings greyish

brown; fringes cinereous. Abdomen greyish brown; anal tuft

cinereous; lateral claspers slender, rounded at the apex; uncus

double, bent over, not angulated. Hap. al. 17}—20 mm.

Espirito Santo, Brazil. I have two males of this

curious species, purchased of Deyrolle in Paris many

years ago. ‘They obviously belong to the same group as

Acrolophus, Anaphora, &c., but cannot, so far as I can

determine, be rightly included in any hitherto described

genus.

ANKISTROPHORUS, Nn. g.

\"Aymoreov = a hook, gogetv = to carry).

Type. Ankistrophorus corrientis, Wlsm.

Labial palpi erect, thickly clothed; apical joimt short, not

brush-like, not reaching the thorax. Mawillary palpi 3-jointed,

slender, not folded. Ocelli wanting. Antenne bipectinate, the

pectinations short, fringed with delicate hairs. Fore wings, costa

straight, apical margin oblique, scarcely convex; neuration as in

Anaphora; apical vein not forked. Abdomen, lateral claspers

more or less spoon-shaped, inverted; uncus double, with small

supplementary lateral processes.

Ankistrophorus corrientis, nu. s. (Pl. VIL, figs. 4, 4a, 40).

Labial palpi cinereous, somewhat darkened above at the base.

Antenne cinereous. Head and thorax cinereous, the latter

strongly tufted posteriorly. Fore wings cinereous, much clouded

and speckled with dark greyish fuscous, of which the more con-

spicuous patches are at the base and end of the cell, and above the

genera Acrolophus and Anaphora. 147

outer third of the fold. The wings vary considerably in colour in

different specimens, the dark shading being much reduced in some

and increased in others. Hind wings fuscous, with a decided

purple tinge in good specimens; the fringes cinereous. Abdomen

greyish fuscous; the lateral claspers somewhat spoon-shaped and

inverted, but of approximately even width throughout, except at

the extreme base; the uncus is double, the points slightly diverging

and wide apart; in three out of four males under observation

these points are completely bent under from the base, reaching

nearly to the narrow stem of the lateral claspers; two small

supplementary processes reach to the base of the uneal points; the

opposing point beneath the uncus is short and double. Heap. al.

27 mm.

Five males collected at Goya, Corrientes, Argentine

Republic, by Mr. L. K. Perrens.

Acrotopuus, Poey, Cent. Lep. Cuba (1832).

Type. Acrolophus vitellus, Poey.

Poey thus describes this genus :—

“Lingua nulla, antenne simplices; palpi longissimi,

recurvi, post tergum rejecti; articuli omnes usque ad

apicem barbati; fimbria anali longa.

Genre Acrolophe, Poey.

“Point de langue distincte, antennes simples, palpes

tres longs, couchés sur le dos, avec tous les articles

barbus jusqu’a’ l’extremité; frange longue vers l’angle

de l’anus.”’

TABULATION OF SpEcIES oF AcRoLoPHUS, Poey.

A. Uncus single = simulatus, Wlsm.

B. Uncus double.

a. With supplementary lateral processes = plumifrontellus, Clem.

b. Without supplementary lateral processes.

1. Points of the uncus laterally compressed — argentinus, Wlsm.

u. Points of the uncus not laterally compressed.

1. Lateral claspers spoon-shaped, widened in the middle

= arizonellus, Wlsm.

2. Lateral claspers slender, scarcely dilated.

AA. The points of the uncus acute = texanellus, Cham.

BB. The points of the uncus obtuse = mortipennella 2, Grote.

Not included in the above tabulation (see p. 140) :— hamiferellus,

Hiib.; cervinus, Wlsm. ; vitellus, Poey; pallidus, Moschl.

TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1887.—PART II. (JUNE.) M

148 Lord Walsingham’s revision of the

Acrolophus vitellus, Poey.

Poey, Cent. Lep. Cuba (1882).

‘““Alis lutev-fuscis, atomis anticarum nigris, costa

“nigra punctata.”

Acrolophe vitellus.— Ailes Vun jaune brun; les supé-

rieures couvertes d’atomes noirs, plus distincts sur la

cote.

After this short description Poey refers to the figure,

which shows the expanse of the wings to be about 20 mm.

The neuration of the fore wings, which is also figured,

proves that the apical vein is not forked. One. speci-

men, Cuba.

Acrolophus simulatus, Wlsm. (Pl. VII., fig. 7).

Acrolophus ? simulatus, Wlsm., Trans. Am. Ent. Soc.,

x., 168—9 (1882).

‘* Head rough; maxillary palpinone; tongue none; ocelli none.

Labial palpi recurved over the head and part of the thorax ; the

second joint very long, roughly clothed with projecting scales

beneath; third joint about half as long as the second, brush-like,

with very long diverging scales on the under side. Antenne

strong, slightly pubescent, somewhat serrated on both sides,

especially towards the apex. The anal appendages in the male

much developed, the elongate ovate side claspers not reaching

beyond the upper shield, which is triangular and pointed.* Fore

wings with the costal margin arched, apex rounded, apical margin

oblique, slightly convex, the dorsal margin somewhat convex, not

emarginate before the rounded anal angle. Hind wings ovate,

wider than the fore wings. Fore wings with twelve separate

veins. The vein from the upper corner of the discal cell in the

fore wings ends on the costal margin, and is not forked; cell of

hind wings not closed. Alternate brown and whitish ochreous

patches along the costal and dorsal halves of the fore wings, the

paler portions apparently predominating rather more than in

Hulepiste cressoni, the darker portions assuming the form of two

angulated fasciz ; there are numerous raised bluish fuscous scales

scattered especially about the darker patches. Hind wings and

cilia dull brown. Expanse,15 mm. Texas.”

To the description of this species | should wish to

add that the antenne are not strictly serrated in struc-

* As seen from above.

genera Acrolophus and Anaphora. 149

ture, but have a serrated appearance caused by rings of

slightly elevated scales. The lateral claspers slender,

attenuated near the base, dilated downwards beyond ;

their upper edge being nearly straight, the tapering ends

evenly rounded and slightly bent inwards. The uncus

is single, with the point short and very little bent over.

On re-examination of the cell of the hind wings I find

a slender nervure closing it at the end.

Acrolophus plumifrontellus, Clem. (Pl. VII., figs. 5—5e).

Anaphora plumifrontella, Clem., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci.

Phil, 1859, 26s Tin. Nor: Amer:, 39;.575-09, 00:

7 Bele. we Kennt... xxi... 217 (1873):

A. bombycina, Z., Bei. z. Kennt., xxiii., 216—7 (1873).

** Labial palpi reddish brown. Thorax dull brown, tinged with

reddish. Fore wings rubescent and maroon-brown intermixed, the

former hue prevailing along the fold, at the base along costa and

disc, dusted with dark brown; with a dusky or dark brownish spot

on the end of the disc, one about the middle of the fold and

another near the base. In some specimens these spots are quite

indistinct. Hind wings dusky brown. Exp. al. 17 lines (= 386mm.)

Females not known.”

To this description we may add that the antenne are compressed,

not strictly serrated throughout, but only slightly so towards the

tip; lateral claspers spoon-shaped, rather abruptly dilated and bent,

with a pair of supplementary claspers above them, nearly as long

as themselves; uncus double, the points parallel and divided.

I have four females from North Carolina, of which the

following is a description :—

Labial palpi extended straight out beyond the head, roughly

clothed but tapering to a point, 5 mm. long.

Fore wings full 6 mm. wide, with the costa slightly rounded ;

the apical margin also convex. Hap. al. 35 mm.

I have a considerable number of males from North

Carolina which agree with a specimen compared with

the type at Philadelphia in 1871. In Zeller’s series are

four specimens; two from Massachusetts, sent by Mr.

Packard and labelled ‘‘bombycina, Z.’’; a third from

New York, with a label in Mr. Grote’s handwriting,

nlumifrontella, Clem.” ; the fourth is labelled ‘‘ bomby-

cina”’ in Zeller’s writing, and is a female, evidently of a

different species, from Buenos Ayres, received from

150 Lord Walsingham’s revision of the

Lederer.* We may thus safely conclude that bombycina

and plumifrontella are one and the same species.

Although plumifrontella, being the first species de-

scribed by Clemens under his genus Anaphora, has been

regarded as his type, it does not so well agree with his

generic description in the matter of serrate antenne as

popeanella, a fact which he emphasises by putting a

heading in italics above the description of the latter

species, “‘ Antenne of & distinctly serrated beneath.” It

will therefore be convenient to regard popeanella as the

type of the genus Anaphora, and to place plumifrontella

in Acrolophus under the distinguishing character of

‘“‘ Antenne simple, compressed, or slightly serrated at the

ends.”+ Arcanella falling into Ortholophus on account of

its erect palpi.

Acrolophus mortipennellus, Gr.

Anaphora mortipennella, Gr., Can. Ent., iv., 1387 (1872),

Can. Ent., xviii., 199; Wlsm., Trans. Am. Ent.

D0C., x: 167.

“ %, Labial palpi reflexed, thrown back over and as long as the

dorsum of thorax, but not closely applied, thickly scaled, but less

so than in allied species, fuscous outwardly along the sides, dead

whitish on the inside. Head and thorax above dead or dirty

whitish. Primaries pale, dirty whitish, with heavily sprinkled

black scales on costal region at base, fading outwardly. A black

scale patch at extremity of discal cell, and a larger one on sub-

median fold, below median vein, at about the middle of the wing;

parallel with this at base a few black scales. There is a faint

sprinkling of black scales over the median neryules, and about

internal angle are two or three better marked black points on the

margin. Four costal black marks before the apex, the first of these

above discal spot; other costal marks towards the base of the

wing. Fringes fuscous, faintly lined. Secondaries fuscous, much

darker than, and strangely contrasting with, the pallid primaries.

Beneath both wings fuscous with ochrey stains. The basal joint

of labial palpi is prominently dark fuscous or blackish outwardly.

Expanse, 25mm. Central Alabama. June.”

* Professor Zeller (Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, 1873) mentions his

doubts about this South American female, but remarks that his

scruples were removed by the fact that ‘‘ the wing-veins correspond

exactly’ with those of the male from Massachusetts.

+ See foot-note to p. 155.

genera Acrolophus and Anaphora. 151

“Smaller than A. plumifrontella, and easily recognised

by its pallid discolorous fore wings, which are also a

little more determinate at apices and internal angle

than usual.”

I am not absolutely certain about the identity of this

species; the only specimen I have seen with that name

attached was in a box sent to me for examination by

Prof’ Fernald. I understood it had been obtained from

Miss Murtfeldt, but was very doubtful at the time

whether it was truly Grote’s mortipennellus. The

memorandum [ have about it shows that the apical

vein was forked, which would probably throw it into the

genus Neolophus, but its colouring differed considerably

from the two species of that genus now described. In

Mr. Grote’s collection in the British Museum are several

specimens with antenne simple and apical vein not

forked, which agree with the description, but are not

labelled. These have the uncus double, not sharpened

at the points, which slightly diverge ; the lateral claspers

long and slender, of almost even width beyond their

narrow stem, and evenly rounded at the ends. I have

little doubt that they represent the true A. mortipen-

nellus, Grote.

Acrolophus cervinus, n.s. (Pl. VIL., fig. 6).

Palpi, 2, porrect, about 5 mm. long; whitish fawn-colour.

Head and thorax the same. Antenne, 2, simple. Fore wings

pale fawn-colour, the apex obtuse, apical margin oblique, costal

margin straight and nearly parallel with the dorsal margin

throughout; a few dark fuscous scales are sparsely sprinkled about

the apical margin of the fore wings. Abdomen and legs of same

colour as hind wings. Heap. al. 34 mm.

Two females collected by Belfrage in Texas on the

16th and 18th May (about 1868) respectively. I have

not seen the male of this species, but, although probably

closely allied to plumifrontellus, the narrow fore wings

with straight costa and almost straight oblique apical

margin show it to be distinct from that species.

Acrolophus argentinus, n.s. (Pl. VII., fig. 8).

Palpi, $ , recurved and reaching beyond the middle of the thorax.

Antenne greyish ochreous, serrated. Head, thorax, and palpi

dull greyish fuscous. Fore wings greyish fuscous, slightly mottled

152 Lord Walsingham’s revision of the

with dark fuscous along the extreme costal margin, with a con-

spicuous dark brownish fuscous blotch on the middle of the fold,

dilated upwards and blending with the ground colour of the wing

its lower edge overlapping the fold, somewhat angulated and more

clearly defined; beyond it is a less conspicuous small patch of the

same colour at the end of the cell, followed by a few brownish

ochreous scales ; apical vein not forked. Hind wings pale brownish

fuscous. Abdomen greyish fuscous ; the anal appendages are of an

ordinary form, the lateral claspers being somewhat narrowed

towards the base, of even width beyond, the ends rounded; the

uncus is double, evenly curved, somewhat laterally compressed,

the points closely approximate and converging. Hap. al. 27 mm.

Hab. Two males sent by Mons. Ragonot labelled

“Buenos Ayres.”

Acrolophus texanellus, Chamb. (Pl. VIL., fig. 9).

Chamb., Bull. U. 8. Geol. and Geog. Survey, iv. (1),

Dp. T9878):

Chambers describes this species as follows : —

“Very distinct from plumifrontella, popeanella, and arcanella,

Clem., and from agrotipennella and mortipennella, Grote; nor

ean I recognise it at all in Scardina or Bombycina, as described by

Zeller. Palpi overarching the thorax, dark brown on the outward,

luteous-brown on the inner surfaces. Antenne compressed, straw-

yellow ; thorax dark grey-brown; fore wings brown, tinged with

ereyish yellow; the usual spot at the end of the disk indistinct ;

the other spots common to the wings of the other species I cannot

find in this. One of them may be represented by an indistinct

blackish line beneath the middle of the fold. Hind wings and

abdomen fuscous-grey, like the thorax, and a little darker or rather

less yellowish than the fore wings. Under surface of both wings

ereyish fuscous. Smaller than any specimens that I have seen of

the other species, having an alar expansion of only nine lines.

Bosque County, Texas.”’

To this I may add that the antenni are compressed, flattened,

having a roughened or serrated appearance caused by lines of

slightly raised scales around each joint. The apical vein of the

fore wing is not forked. ‘The lateral claspers are narrow, elongate,

slightly upturned from near the base, but straightened beyond, not

spoon-shaped, but evenly rounded and slightly inverted at the apex.

The uncus is double, straight, the points scarcely at all bent over,

very short, not closely approximate, slightly diverging.

genera Acrolophus and Anaphora. 158

Acrolophus arizonellus, n.s. (Pl. VIL., fig. 10).

Palpi, 3, recurved, reaching beyond the middle of the thorax;

? short, slightly upturned, but scarcely reaching more than the

length of the head beyond it. Antenne subochreous, rather

flattened, simple, having a very slight notched appearance owing

to the scales on the upper side being a little raised at the joints.

Head, thorax, and palpi pale brownish, with a slightly hoary

appearance from an admixture of grey hairs. Fore wings greyish

brown, sprinkled with dark brown scales; the costal margin very

narrowly subochreous, with about six pairs of ill-defined dark

brown dots along it; a conspicuous dark brown spot at the end of

the cell and another on the fold at one-third from the base; below

this in one specimen is a pale patch; the fringes slightly paler

than the wing, but mottled with brown ; under side pale brownish, |

the margins narrowly greyish ochreous. Hind wings brown, with

pale tips to the fringes; under side pale brownish. Abdomen: the

long hairy clothing of the base of the abdomen above is pale

greyish ochreous, the abdomen itself inclining to brown ; lateral

claspers elongate, spoon-shaped, curved inwards, tending to form

a slight angle at their upper and outward extremity; the uncus

double, with the two points very slightly diverging and not widely

separated. Hep. al. §,25mm.; 2, 86 mm.

I have a male and two females from Arizona, collected

by the late Mr. Morrison.

Acrolophus pallidus, Méschl.

Moschler, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges, in Wien, xxxi., p. 488,

n. 188, t. 18, f. 46 (1881).

I am indebted to Mr. Kirby for the following transla-

tion of the original description, which I have not seen :—

‘“Tntermediate in size between P. hamiferella, Hiibn., Zutr.,

441, and scardina, Zell., but may be at once distinguished from

both by the ground colour of the wings. Antenne ochreous

(lehmgelb), palpi ochreous, the basal and middle joints dark brown

at the sides. Head and thorax reddish ochreous, upper side of the

abdomen dark umber-brown, under surface and pectus light

ochreous; front legs dark brown on the outside and pale yellow on

the inside; middle legs pale yellow, the tarsi dark brown on the

outside; hind legs pale yellow, the tibiz dark brown on the outside,

and the tarsi spotted with brown on the outside. Fore wings

reddish ochreous, the inner margin suffused with brownish towards

154 Lord Walsingham’s revision of the

the anal angle, the costa marked with black dots, and the rest of

the wing sparingly sprinkled with less distinct ones. Fringes of

the colour of the wings, and brownish at the tips. Hind wings

dark umber-brown, costa pale yellow, fringes greyish brown,

divided by a greyish yellow line. Under side umber-brown. Fore

wings dirty ochreous, in the marginal area, dusted with brown.

Hind wings with the costa narrowly ochreous, and the hind

margin still more narrowly edged with ochreous, and ochreous-

yellow scaling is visible over the whole surface of the wings;

marginal line finely brown. Fringes of the fore wings yellowish

at the base and greyish yellow at the tip, the hind wings greyish

yellow, with a more brownish line of separation. 33.6 mm.

‘“‘One female from Paramaribo.”

Acrolophus hamiferellus, Hb.

Pinaris hamiferella, Hb., Zutrage, figs. 441, 442;

Poey, Cent. Lep. I. Cub.

Hiubner’s description is short and somewhat vague :

it may be rendered as follows :— ‘‘ This remarkable

species, whose palpi curve back over the head to the

base of the abdomen, can at most be compared with

heracliella, with which it has some resemblance in

general habit, but scarcely any at all in the shape of the

wings.” The locality given is Rio Janeiro, and, if the

figure is correct, the apical vein is not forked, the

antenne are simple, and the expanse of the fore wings

is 80 mm.

CNOGENES, Nn. &.

(ncewos = new, yévos = race). ‘

Type. Cenogenes perrensella, Wism.

Labial palpi, 3, recurved, overarching the thorax; 2 short,

porrected. Antenne serrated throughout on both sides and pilose.

Fore wings with the costa slightly arched, apical margin oblique ;

the apical vein forked. Hind wings scarcely wider than the fore

wings; uncus single.

This genus belongs to the section of the subfamily

Anaphorine, which is distinguished by strongly recurved

palpi. The structure of the antenne at once separates

it from the other genera in this section, which resemble

it in having the apical vein of the fore wings forked.

I believe it will be found to be represented in North

genera Acrolophus and Anaphora. 155

America. A specimen sent to me for examination some

years ago by Prof. Fernald under the name Anaphora

mortipennella, Grote, greatly resembled it in structure ;

the apical vein was forked, which is not the case

with specimens in Grote’s collection at the British

Museum; these I think may be more correctly regarded

as the types of that species.

Cenogenes perrensella, Wlsm. (Pl. VIL., figs. X, Xa).

Labial palpi dull whitish, recurved over the thorax, touched

with fuscous on the outer sides at the extreme base. Antenne

luteous, serrated on both sides and pilose. Head, thorax, and fore

wings dull whitish, the latter smeared with dark fuscous at the

base of the costal margin with two patches of fuscous scales, the

one at the commencement of the outer third of the fold, the other

less conspicuous on the outer end of the cell; the surface of the

fore wings is more or less sprinkled with short lines of fuscous

scales, especially along their costal and apical portions. Hind

wings very pale brownish fuscous. Abdomen the same; the

lateral claspers are slender, slightly dilated posteriorly, obliquely

terminated, the uncus single, bent over, not angulated. Hxp. al.

a Loam" 9, 17, mm.

A pair received from Mr. L. K. Perrens, collected at

Goya, Corrientes, Argentine Republic.

AnapHora, Clem., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 1859,

pp. 260—1; Tin. Nor. Am., pp. 56—7.

Type. Anaphora popeanella, Clem.

Dr. Clemens thus described the genus Anaphora:—

‘‘ Head hairy, concealed by the labial palpi in the g, free in the

9. Ocelli none. Eyes small. Antenne but little longer than

the thorax, serrated beneath, with the ends of the articles finely

ciliated. Maxillary palpi moderately long, scaly, and three-

jointed in both § and ?. Labial palpi in the g* greatly developed,

ascending and thrown back on the dorsum of the thorax, which

they equal in length; the first article scaly, arctate and equal, to

the superior margin of the eyes, and the two succeeding ones

equal and furnished with abundant spreading hairs; in the ? short,

not ascending above the eyes, articles nearly equal, the first and

** Mr. Stainton’s note in his edition of Clemens’ papers is as

follows :—‘‘ This is printed @ in the original, but Dr. Clemens has

marked in pencil that it should be ¢.”—H. T. 8,

156 -Lord Walsingham’s revision of the

second hairy beneath, the third rather smooth and porrected.

Tongue wanting. Wings exceeding the tip of the abdomen; the

anterior with costa nearly straight, hind margin obliquely convex,

inner margin nearly straight, but slightly emarginate above the in-

terior angle; the posterior ovate, and both with rather short cilia.”

The types of this genus, according to Clemens, are

popeanella, plumifrontella, and arcanella; but of the

latter he writes, ‘‘ Labial palpi shorter in 3 than in the

preceding ; ascending, but not recurved.” This deserip-

tion conflicts with his statement that in this genus the

labial palpi equal the thorax in length, and if we take it

that it is an essential character of the genus that they

should do so, arcanella should properly be eliminated,

but its exclusion renders a new generic description

necessary. Taking the shorter palpi as the main

character of the new genus, I have proposed to separate

it under the name Pseudanaphora. The antenne of

plumifrontella are certainly not serrated in the strict

sense of the word;* those of popeanella are distinctly

serrated. Popeanella therefore is the species which

most precisely agrees with the characters of the genus

Anaphora, and may conveniently be taken as the type ;

while plumifrontella may more properly be relegated to

the older genus Acrolophus. One correction should

certainly be made in Clemens’ tabulation of genera,

** Antenne serrated beneath in both 3 and 2 Anaphora.”

The females of all the species appear to have simple

antenne. I can certainly answer for those of popeanella

and plumifrontella.

TABULATION OF SpEcrES oF ANAPHORA, Clem.

A. Uncus abruptly angulated.

a. Lateral claspers with a notch at the ends — bogotensis, Wlsm.

b. Lateral claspers without a notch at the ends.

1. Lateral claspers toothed on the under side = ferruginea, Wlsm.

11. Lateral claspers not toothed on the under side.

1. Points of the uncus distinctly separate = popeanella, Clem.

2. Points of the uncus closely approximate = morrisoni, Wlsm.

* See p. 148. Prof. Zeller (Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien., 1873) draws

attention to this difference, and points out that whereas in one

species the serrations are long and separate, in the other they

are yet distinguishable under a miscroscope, but are shorter,

broader, truncated at the end, and so closely pressed together that

they are only divided from each other when the antenne are bent

backwards.

genera Acrolophus and Anaphora. 157

B. Uncus curved over.

a. With supplementary processes on each side of the uncus.

1. These long and conspicuous = ornata, Wlsm.

11. Short and inconspicuous — tenuis, Wlsm.

b. Without supplementary processes on each side of the uncus.

1. Uncus long and slender, with lateral excrescences at its middle

=unceigera, Wism.

ir. Uncus without lateral excrescences at its middle.

1. Lateral claspers evenly rounded at the ends

= propinqua, Wlsm.

2. Lateral claspers terminated obliquely.

AA. Points of the uncus closely approximate — pusillus, Wlsm.

BB. Points of the uncus distinctly separete

== macrogaster, Wlsm.

Not included in the above tabulation (see p. 140) :—minima, Wlsm. ;

leucodosis, Zell.

Anaphora morrison, n.s. (Pl. VIIL., fig. 12).

Palpi recurved, reaching to the posterior margin of the thorax,

purplish fuscous. Antenne cinereous, stout, serrated, the ends of

the articles being fringed with delicate hairs. Head and thorax

greyish fuscous. Fore wings purplish fuscous, without conspicuous

markings, the usual discal and apical spots being indicated by dark

fuscous scales; apical vein not forked. Hind wings greyish

fuscous-cinereous. Abdomen purplish fuscous; lateral claspers

approximately of equal width throughout, evenly rounded at the

ends; the uncus double, abruptly angulated above and _ bent

straight down, with a small protruding knob at the angle; the

points very closely approximate. Hap. al. 18 mm.

~ Florida (Morrison) ; two males.

Anaphora propinqua, Nn. 8.

Palpi recurved, reaching to the posterior margin of the thorax,

purplish fuscous. Antenne cinereous, stout, serrated, the ends of

the articles being fringed with delicate hairs. Head, thorax, and

fore wings purplish fuscous, the latter without conspicuous

markings, the usual discal and apical spots being indicated by dark

fuscous scales; no ferruginous shade on fold or dise; a few irreeu-

larly distributed white scales, single or in groups of two to four, are

noticeable on the outer portion of the wing and on the end of the

fold; these appear to be loosely attached and very fugitive; apical

vein not forked. Hind wings greyish fuscous-cinereous. Abdomen

purplish fuscous ; the lateral claspers of much the same form as in

morrisont, ‘Lhe uncus is double, arched over, not angulated, and

158 Lord Walsingham’s revision of the

with the points closely approximate; differing very decidedly in

form from that of morrisoni, from which species the whole insect

is otherwise scarcely distinguishable. Hap. al. 18 mm.

Florida (Morrison) ; two males.

Anaphora pusilla, Z. (Pl. VIII, fig. 13).

Zell., Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross., xiii., 196-—7 (1877).

“Parva; antennis 3 arcte serratis, palpis preter basim teretibus,

apice barbato; alis aut latis, rotundatis, brunnescentibus, macula

vene transverse una, duabus plice margineque postico nigro-

fUSCIS ae7;

The following is a translation of Zeller’s description :—

“The smallest species known to me; with broad wings, and very

similar in colour and pattern to my A. scardina; but it differs

from all others in the naked palpi, only furnished with a tuft of

hair-like scales at the end.*

“Smaller than Depressaria applana. Body brown. Palpi

recurved to the end of the roughly-scaled thorax, cylindrical,

clothed with short thickly appressed scales, very pale brownish, the

basal joint thickened by longer raised scales, and for the most part

dark brown; the terminal joint ends in a compressed brown brush

of scales. Antenne very pale brown, compressed, the under

surface very closely serrated, pubescent. Abdomen brownish grey.

Legs pale brownish grey, front femora and tibiz brownish, the

middle tibize only of this colour outwardly. Fore wings 3% lines

long,+ broad, rather widened behind, with a well-marked tip, and

gradually rounded hind margin, pale greyish brown, palest on the

inner marginal half; the hinder three-quarters of the costa is

marked with obsolete dark dots. The markings consist of three

* To this character, somewhat prominently mentioned by Zeller,

I am not disposed to attach any great importance. In a series of

A. popeanella I find the palpi in many different positions, and

greatly varying in the degree to which they are denuded. Some

have precisely the appearance of Zeller’s type of A. pusilla, and I

cannot but regard the absence of long scales on the first and second

joints of the palpi in that species as the result of denudation.

These remarks do not apply to the genus Stewberhinus, Butler

(Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 1882, p. 402), founded on a somewhat

similar peculiarity. The palpi of the type of Steberhinus,

although probably not quite in a natural position when erect, are

quite natural in having their stem smoothly sealed, the apical joint

only brush-lke.

} The type-specimen measures 153 mm.

genera Acrolophus and Anaphora. 159

blotches formed of coarse dark brown scales, one in the fold at

one-third, a larger streak before the transverse nervure, which is

larger than the first. The hind margin of its fringes are pretty

thickly sprinkled with dark brown scales, except at the tip and

anal angle. Hind wings rounded at the tips, greyish brown, paler

than the fore wings. The terminal half of the hind marginal

fringes, and the whole of the inner marginal fringes, light grey.

The whole under side coloured like the hind wings above. One

male taken at the lamp at Barranquilla, 3lst December, by Baron

von Nolcken.”

To this I may add that the apical vein is not forked; the lateral

claspers are dilated downwards below the middle, thence tapering

upwards to an obtusely rounded point; the uncus is double, bent

over the points. touching each other.

Anaphora minima, n. 8.

Palpi overarching the thorax, reaching to its posterior margin.

Antenne greyish ochreous, strongly serrated and fringed with fine

hairs. Head, thorax, and palpi greyish ochreous; the palpi dark

fuscous beneath at the base. Fore wings greyish ochreous, reticu-

lated with dark fuscous ; a spot of ferruginous-brown scales at the

end of the cell. Hind wings and fringes cinercous. Abdomen

cinereous. The anal appendages in this specimen are too much

injured to admit of description, but in other respects the specimen

is extremely perfect. Hap. al. 13mm.

Hab. I am indebted to Mr. J. H. Leech for a

single male from Ceara, Brazil, collected in August,

1884. It is allied to pusilla, but differs not only in its

markings, but in its narrower fore wings and smaller

size: its palpi are amply clothed throughout.

Anaphora leucodocis.

Fell., Hor. Hnit.Ross:, xu, p. 197—s8;, no. 2:(1877).

Parva, antennis setaceis, palpis ultra thoracem reflexis, valde

pulosis ; alis aut acuminatis, griseo-lutescentibus, stria ex basi in

apicem perducta alba, antice nigro-marginata. 3.

Translation of original description (Mr. Lirby) :—

“This species, which stands next to A. pusilla in size, is

distinguished from all others by the sharply-pointed fore wings,

and the straight white longitudinal streak, which is produced to

the tip. Body pale clay-colour, or pale greyish clay-colour. The

pointed palpi are clothed with long thick hair to the tip, and are

160 Lord Walsingham’s revision of the

recurved over the whole thorax, and are paler on the side turned

towards the back. Antenne slender at the tip, so shortly serrated

as to appear cylindrical, slightly pubescent. Anal tuft as pale as

the legs. Fore wings 5 lines long,* rather narrow, pointed, with the

hind margin curving back, pale ochreous-grey, more or less shading

into yellowish ochreous, and irregularly sprinkled with scattered

black scales. A white longitudinal stripe runs from the shoulder

to the tip of the wing; its front edge is irregularly bordered with

black, except at the base, anda black transverse streak extending

from this border runs nearly across it. The ground colour between

this and the costa is rather dark. One specimen has five brown

dots along the inner margin, and another has a continuous series of

brown particles. Fringes not much paler than the ground colour.

Hind wings pointed, but ending much more obtusely than the fore

wings; dark brownish. Fringes paler round the tips of the wings,

and on the inner margin. Under side unicolorous dark grey-

brown, but the abdominal area of the hind wings and the adjacent

fringes conspicuously pale. One of the specimens in Staudinger’s

collection is from Cuba, and the other two are perhaps from

Brazil.”

This species, having the antenne shortly serrated, is

probably rightly placed in the genus Anaphora.

Anaphora bogotensis, n. 8. (Pl. VIIL., fig. 14).

Palpi recurved, reaching to the posterior edge of the thorax.

Antenne stout, strongly serrated. Head, thorax, and palpi

greyish brown. Fore wings greyish brown, blotched and sprinkled

with brownish fuscous, a brownish fuscous spot on the end of the

cell, another more conspicuous about the middle of the fold,

preceded by a smaller one of the same colour, a row of indistinct

brownish fuscous spots along the costal margin, others less notice-

able along the apical margin, with a line of three extending

obliquely inwards from below the apex. Hind wings brown, with

somewhat paler fringes. Abdomen greyish brown ; lateral claspers

rather wide, slightly depressed, and decidedly concave at the ends;

the uncus is double, abruptly angulated above, the angle projecting

in an obtuse point, the points or hooks below diverging; at the

base of the uncus above is a small supplementary point or pro-

tuberance from the end of the same segment. Hap. al. 28 mm.

Hab. Eleven males from Zeller’s cabinet, collected

* If English lines are intended this would give an expanse of

about 21 mm. when measured in the same manner as A. pusillus.

genera Acrolophus and Anaphora. 161

at Bogota by Baron von Nolcken, and labelled in Zeller’s

handwriting, ‘‘ Anaphora sp. bei scardina.”” This species

is in appearance almost undistinguishable from the

variety of scardina described as popeanella by Clemens,

but the concave ends of the abdominal claspers enable

it to be instantly recognised.

Anaphora ferruginea, n.s. (Pl. VILL, fig. 15).

Palpi reaching as far as the posterior edge of the thorax

Antenne slightly paler than the palpi, naked, stout, and shortly

pectinate anteriorly. Head, thorax, and palpi ferruginous. Fore

wings ferruginous, slightly blotched above the fold and on the cell

with fuscous, also sprinkled towards the costal and apical margins

with small groups of fuscous scales; fringes purplish fuscous,

slenderly tipped with whitish, especially at the anal angle. Hind

wings brownish. Abdomen the same; lateral claspers dilated in

the middle, narrowed towards the apex, which is evenly rounded ;

about their middle on the under side is a tooth-like projection

turning inwards and resembling the structure of these organs in

the Indian genus Alavona, Wlk.; the uncus is double, flattened

above, and abruptly angulated, the angle projecting somewhat over

and beyond the points; these are triangular when viewed laterally,

and are sharply pointed and divergent. Hp. al. 831; mm.

A sinele male in Zeller’s collection, labelled as collected

by Baron von Nolcken at Bogota. It is very distinct

both in colour and structure from other known species

of this genus.

Anaphora popeanella, Clem. (Pl. VIII., figs. 11, 1la,

LAhbs Lic).

Anaphora popeanella, Clem., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci.

Phil., 1859, 261; Tin. Nor. Amer., 57—8; Gr.,

Can. Ent., iv., 187 and 148; Z., Bei. z. Kennt.,

1878, 215.

A. agrotipennella, Gr., g , Can. Ent., iv., 187; ?, 143

(1872), xvili., 199; Wlsm., Trans. Am. Ent.

Soe., x., 167; Murtf., Can. Ent., viii., 185.

A. scardina, Z., Bei. z. Kennt., xxiii., 215—216 (May,

1873).

“ Antenne of the g distinctly serrated beneath. Labial palpi

dark brownish, whitish? at the tip in the 2. Thorax dull

brownish in the g, with the tegule tipped behind with grey;

whitish ? tinged with brown in the 2. Fore wings brownish

162 Lord Walsingham’s revision of the

luteous or dull reddish brown, with luteous or yellow along the fold

and inner margin; a spot on the dise and one on the middle of the

nervules of the same hue, with a dark brown spot on the fold

beneath the median vein, most frequently semicircular, with a

short dark brown streak at the base on the submedian vein, and

another parallel to it beneath the median. The anterior margin

striated from the costa with dark brown, with a subterminal row

of dark brown spots above the branches of the median vein, and

the ends of the nervules dotted with the same hue; cilia pale

yellowish brown. Hind wings brownish yellow, cilia the same.

Exp. al. 12 to 18 lines (=%5}—88 mm). Male and female alike.

Texas.”

Now, so far as the antennz and palpi are concerned, Clemens’

observation ‘‘male and female alike” is certainly misleading. The

antenne of the male are stout and deeply serrated, ‘‘ with the ends

of the articles finely ciliated,” as described by him. Those of the

female are simple. The lateral claspers are elongate, spoon-

shaped, scarcely dilated, and evenly rounded. The uncus double,

angulated above, and bent over at right angles, with a conspicuous

thickening at the angle.

Mr. Grote, in describing his agrotipennella, points out

that this differs from popeanella as follows :—‘‘ A. popea-

nella disagrees with A. agrotipennella by, among other

characters, its being described as luteous along the

inner margin.”

An examination of my extensive series shows that

both varieties belong to the same species. The anal

appendages do not differ, and intermediate variations of

colouring are noticeable. ‘There can be no doubt that

they differ only in the extension of the pale colour of

the fold in the direction of the dorsal margin. In

confirmation of this view it is noticeable that both forms

are labelled in Zeller’s collection ‘‘ Anaphora scardina,

Z.”; the typical form of agrotipennella received from

Grote, as well as from Boll from 'l'exas, being placed in

the same series, and evidently regarded by Zeller as

synonymous.

I have two specimens compared with what was sup-

posed to be the type of popeanella at Philadelphia; a

third specimen bred by Miss Murtfeldt, and received

from her under the the name agrotipennella, Gr.; one

specimen from Mons. Ragonot from boll’s collection and

labelled ‘‘ scardina, Texas’; several similar specimens

genera Acrolophus and Anaphora. 163

from Morrison from North Carolina; in all twenty-two

males and one female, including those from the Zeller

cabinet. A female in the British Museum, in Grote’s

collection, measures 38 mm., and in colour and markings

resembles the typical form of the male.

Anaphora ornata, n.s. (Pl. VIII, fig. 16).

Palpi recurved, reaching nearly to the posterior margin of the

thorax; greyish fuscous, having a speckled appearance owing to

the scales being tipped with dirty whitish. Head and thorax of

the same colour as the palpi. Antenne dull ochreous, stout, and

strongly serrated. Fore wings brownish fuscous, blotched with

whitish ochreous, especially upon and below the fold; slightly

beyond the middle of the fold is a conspicuous quadrangular dark

fuscous patch, its upper edge blending with the ground colour of

the wing above it, its lower edge straight and clearly defined ;

between this patch and the base of the wing is a smaller dark spot

of the same colour, the dorsal margin below the pale ochreous

fold is shadéd with brownish fuscous, and some small dark spots

are evenly distributed along the costal margin; a small ill-defined

pale ochreous patch beyond the outer edge of the cell; the whitish

ochreous colour of the fold extends in an undulating line above it

before and after the quadrangular dark patch; apical vein not

forked. Hind wings brown; fringes the same. Abdomen greyish

fuscous ; the anal appendages are very peculiar: lateral claspers

spoon-shaped and evenly rounded at the ends, tending slightly

upwards; the unecus double, curved over, with the points con-

verging at the apex; two supplementary lateral processes extend

from the margin of the penultimate segment, and are of even

width, but slightly turned up at the ends, reaching to half the

length of the uncus. Hap. al. 25 mm.

A single male in Zeller’s collection, taken by Baron

von Nolcken: probably in Columbia, but no locality is

marked on the specimen. I have received from Mons.

Ragonot for examination a specimen from Buenos Ayres,

which has a somewhat similar pattern of colouring on

the fore wings, but differs completely in the form of the

anal appendages.

Anaphora uncigera, n.s. (Pl. VIIL., fig. 17).

Palpi overarching thorax and reaching to posterior margin.

Antenne pale brownish, strongly serrated. Head, thorax, and

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164 Lord Walsingham’s revision of the

palpi pale brown. Lore wings pale brown, rounded at the apex 5

the costa slightly arched, pale brown, sparsely sprinkled with dots

of darker brown, especially along the costal margin; the extreme

base of the costa dark brown; there is but a slight indication of

the usual discal spot; apical vein not forked. Hind wings darker

than the fore wings, brownish fuscous ; fringes inclining to greyish;

on the under side the hind wings are paler than the fore wings.

Abdomen greyish fuscous. The peculiarity of this species consists

in the anal appendages: the lateral claspers are narrow at the base,

dilated into a wide triangle posteriorly, having a distinct pro-

jecting point at their lower apex; the uncus is much bent over,

consisting of two very long slender converging points, thickened

below their middle with irregular knobs on the outer side. Hap.

al. &, 20 mm.; ? 2, 2385 mm.

One male and one female in Zeller’s cabinet, collected

by Baron von Noleken at Bogota. The form of the

uncus distinguishes this species from all its known

congeners.

The female, if [am right in believing it to belong to

this species, has the palpi projecting forward about

13} mm., not recurved. The spot at the end of the cell

more apparent than in the male.

Anaphora tenuis, n.s. (Pl. VIII., fig. 18).

Palpi recurved, reaching as far as the posterior edge of the

thorax; fuscous at the sides, tending to ochreous or brownish

ochreous beneath (the under side being turned upwards their paler

colour renders them conspicuous). Antenne brownish ochreous,

serrated, the end of each article fringed with slender hairs. Head

and thorax purplish fuscous. Fore wings purplish fuscous, with

scarcely any markings; such as there are in some specimens

consist of a dark spot on the disc, and a larger one on the fold

preceded by a darkish patch; in one variety collected by Boll in

Texas, which I believe to belong to this species, the dark spot on

the fold assumes the form of a rather conspicuous triangular

blotch. Hind wings brown, with scarcely paler fringes. Abdomen

the same ; much more slender than in the species allied to plumi-

frontella; lateral claspers somewhat attenuate near the base,

elongate-ovate beyond, evenly rounded at the ends; the uncus is

curved over, not angulated, the two points very short, slightly

diverging, with a pair of small supplementary lateral processes at

its base. Hap. al. 24 mm,

genera Acrolophus and Anaphora. 165

Seven males from North Carolina, collected by

Morrison; there is also a single male in “Zeller’s

collection without locality.

Anaphora macrogaster, n.s. (Pl. VIL, figs. 19, 19a).

Labial palpi, 3, recurved, reaching nearly to the posterior edge

of the thorax; 92 erect, reaching somewhat above the elongate

basal joint of the antenne. Antenne 3, bipectinate, the pectina-

tions wider at their bases than outwardly, fringed with short hairs ;

subochreous; Q simple. Head, thorax, and palpi mottled ereyish

and brownish fuscous. Lore wings brownish fuscous, slightly

mottled with paler along the costal and apical margins; with an

elongate patch of dull whitish running irregularly along the length

of the fold; a smaller spot of the same colour immediately beyond

the outer end of the cell. Hind wings brown; the fringes scarcely

paler. Abdomen the same colour as the hind wings, that of the

male about 7 mm., of female 10 mm.; the lateral claspers of the

male spoon-shaped, scarcely inverted, dilated outwardly, but

tapering slightly upwards and rounded at the apex; uncus double,

the points parallel and somewhat closely approximate. Eup. al.

3, 22 mm.; 2, 29mm.

Three males and three females from Arizona, collected

by Morrison.

FELDERIA, n. g.

Type. Acrolophus cossoides, F. & R.

Labial palpi overarching the thorax, roughly clothed with long

loose scales. Maxillary palpi 3-jointed, rather long and slender.

Antenne strongly bipectinate, the pectinations fringed with delicate

hairs. Fore wing, the form of the wings and neuration as in

Anaphora. Abdomen, lateral claspers of varying form, more or

less spoon-shaped.

TaBuLatTion oF Sprctes oF FELpERta, Wism.

A. Uncus single = pygmea, Wlsm.

B. Uncus double.

a. Lateral claspers squared at the ends = doeri, Wlsm.

b. Lateral claspers rounded at the ends.

1. Uncus abruptly bent over = maculatus, Wlsm.:

11. Uncus not abruptly bent over.

1. Lateral claspers spoon-shaped, tapering posteriorly

= filicicornis, Wism.

2. Lateral claspers with edges parallel, not tapering posteriorly

= cossoides, F. & R.

166 Lord Walsingham’s revision of the

Felderia doeri, n. 8. (Pl. VIIL., figs. 20, 20a, 20d).

Labial palpi overarching the thorax, and reaching beyond its

posterior margin. Antenne subochreous, strongly bipectinate, the

pectinations fringed on both sides with slender hairs. Head,

thorax, and palpi mottled cinereous and greyish brown. Fore

wings cinereous, blotched and mottled with greyish brown

throughout; the costa obscurely spotted with fuscous from base to

apex ; a conspicuous brownish fuscous spot at the end of the cell,

a more conspicuous spot of the same colour beyond the middle of

the fold, preceded by a smaller one also on the fold. Under side

with a slight ochreous tinge about apex and apical margin. Hind

wings cinereous-brown. Abdomen greyish brown; anal tuft paler;

the lateral claspers of peculiar form, being thickened at the base,

attenuated and abruptly arched upwards in the middle, with the

dilated spoon-shaped apex depressed and terminated in several

small tooth-like processes, evidently adapted for firm grasping ;

the uncus is double, curved, but with the points parallel and closely

approximate.

Received from Herr H. Doer; Petropolis, near Rio

Janeiro, Brazil. Five males in my collection.

Felderia maculata, n.s. (Pl. VIII., fig. 21).

Palpi overarching the thorax and reaching to its posterior edge.

Antenne subochreous, strongly bipectinate, the pectinations

fringed with slender hairs. Head, palpi, and thorax dull umber.

Fore wings dull umber, with a few brownish ochreous scales at the

base of the fold and costal margin; a conspicuous whitish ochreous

patch occupies the apical portion of the wing, reaching to the

middle of the apical margin; a projecting point of umber scales

encroaches upon it from the costa at its inner edge; a few whitish

ochreous scales are scattered throughout the umber fringes. Hind

wings wmber-brown, slightly paler than the fore wings. Abdomen

the same ; the lateral claspers are dilated from their base upwards,

but of equal width beyond it; they are rounded at the apex, and

indented along their immer edge; the uncus is abruptly angulated

above. the two points being very long and reaching straight down-

wards to beyond the ends of the claspers; they are closely approxi-

mate and parallel, except at their extreme points, which are

slightly divergent. Hap. al. 85mm.

Hab, Two males received from Herr H. Doer from

Petropolis, near Kio Janeiro, Brazil.

genera Acrolophus and Anaphora. 167

Felderia filicicornis, n.s. (Pl. VIIL., figs. 22, 22a).

Labial palpi strongly recurved, reaching to the posterior margin

of the thorax. Antenne strongly bipectinate, the pectinations

being slightly narrower at their bases, wider outwardly, sub-

ochreous. Head, thorax, and palpi thickly clothed with fuscous

hair-like seales, tipped with hoary white. Fore wings mottled

greyish and brownish fuscous; about twelve brownish fuscous ill-

defined dots along the costal margin, not arranged in pairs, but

distributed at approximately equal distances ; a brownish fuscous

spot at the end of the cell, from which a streak of the same colour

extends obliquely downwards to the anal angle; fringes greyish

fuscous, speckled with whitish. Hind wings brownish, with a

faint purplish tinge; fringes pale greyish brown. Abdomen

brownish. Under side of all the wings pale cinereous, the costal

margin of the fore wings not defined by a pale line as in arizonella.

Exp. al. §,26mm.; 2, 27—31 mm. The lateral claspers of the

male spoon-shaped, widened in the middle, tapering outwardly,

and rounded at the apex; the uncus double, the two points pavallel,

shorter and wider apart than in arizonellus.

Hab. One male and five females from Arizona,

collected by Morrison.

This species has much the appearance of arizonella,

Wlsm., but the peculiar form of the antenne in the

male at once serves to distinguish it.

Felderia cossoides, Rog. (Pl. VIIL., fig. 23).

Feld. and Rog., Nov., t. cxxxix., f. 35.

A single specimen of this species in Zeller’s collection

is in poor condition, scarcely admitting of any descrip-

tion of the markings. No description is published with

the figure, the only remark made being ‘‘ Pinaris hami-

ferella, Hb., Zutr., 441, etiam hujus generis esse videtur.”’

The figure represents a not very dark reddish brown

species with hind wings approximately the same colour

as the fore wings, with a dark spot on the end of the

cell, and another before and below it lying above the

commencement of the outer third of the fold; there is

also a series of small darkish spots around the costal

and apical margins, the palpi rather paler than the

wings, and the antenne obviously pectinate.

In all these particulars Zeller’s specimen may fairly

168 Lord Walsingham’s revision of the

be taken to agree, so far as its condition enables a com-

parison to be made. The antenne are very strongly

bipectinate, each tooth fringed with slender hairs on

both sides. The lateral claspers are elongate, evenly

rounded at the end, and of even width throughout, so

far as they can be seen beyond the terminal segments

of the abdomen. ‘The uncus is double, with the points

parallel, but not closely approximate. It measures

32mm. in the expanse of the fore wings.

m ° .

The specimen figured by Rogenhofer came from

Ypanema, and was collected by Natterer; the label on

Zeller’s specimen shows that it came from the same

locality.

Felderia pygmea, n.s. (Pl. VIIL., figs. XX, XXa).

Palpi recurved, overarching the thorax, clothed with long mixed

cinereous and brownish fuscous scales. Antenne strongly bi-

pectinate, the pectinations placed widely apart, fringed with slender

hairs. Head and thorax cinereous, strongly shaded with brownish

fuscous. Fore wings with the costa somewhat arched; the apex

depressed, rounded; the apical margin oblique, ground colour

cinereous, suffused with brownish fuscous, the darker shades of

which are concentrated along the costal margin and in four

separate patches on the wing-surface ; the first of these is situated

at one-third from the base on the costal half of the wing, a smaller

patch of the same colour lying below it beneath the fold; beyond

this, near the middle of the dorsal margin, is a similar patch, a

more conspicuous one being placed on the outer end of the discal

cell; each of these patches is followed by a few scales of the pale

cineveous ground colour of the wing; there are also some few

inconspicuous dark spots upon the apical portion of the wing and

about the apical margin, but none of the markings are clearly

defined. Hind wings pale brownish fuscous. Abdomen the same,

slightly darker posteriorly; lateral claspers slender, somewhat

dilated and upturned posteriorly ; uncus curved, single. Exp. al.

12 mm.

A single male from Goya, Corrientes, Argentine

Repubhe, collected and sent to me by Mr. L. K. Perrens.

This species is particularly interesting, as showing that

the genus Ielderia, characterised by its pectinate

antenne, like its near allies Anaphora and Acrolophus,

is represented by species of minute size.

————— ——

genera Acrolophus and Anaphora. 169

ORTHOLOPHUS, N. g.

(Ogbos = straight, ropos = crest).

Type. Ortholophus variabilis, Wism.

Labial palpi, 3, erect, not recurved over the head, the joints

thickly clothed; 4 porrected. Mawillary palpi short, depressed.

Antenne simple, or slightly serrated. Ocelli none. Fore wings

elongate, narrower in proportion to their length than in Anaphora

or Acrolophus; neuration as in Acrolophus; apical vein of the

fore wing not forked ; uncus single or double.

Ortholophus variabilis, n.s. (Pl. VIIL., figs. 24, 24a,

24 b, 24 ¢).

Labial palpi, 3, erect, not recurved, dirty whitish, more or less

tinged with greyish fuscous, with which they are sometimes

entirely suffused, about 8} mm. long, separately tufted on each

joint; @ porrect, standing out about 2 mm. beyond the head.

Antenne subochreous; ¢ serrated; ? simple. Head, thorax, and

fore wings dirty whitish, sprinkled and suffused with greyish

fuscous, varying with the colour of the fore wings. ore wings

elongate, narrow, the costa slightly rounded, apex rounded, apical

margin oblique, convex, presenting several varieties of colouring ;

apical vein not forked. Var. a. dirty whitish, mottled along the

apical and costal margins with greyish fuscous; a triangular

fuscous patch overlapping the fold, and more or less connected with

a spot of the same colour at the end of the cell; fringes mottled

alternately greyish fuscous and dirty white both in fore and hind

wings. Var. 8. greyish fuscous, with scarcely any admixture of

whitish scales, the darker fuscous patches distinctly visible, and a

few brownish ochreous scales on the dise. Var. y. pale greyish

fuscous, the dark patches almost obsolete, with no admixture of

whitish scales, except in the fringes. Hind wings in all the

varieties brownish, with a slight purplish tinge; the fringes

scarcely paler. Abdomen pale greyish fuscous ; lateral claspers of

nearly even width from the base outwards, slightly angulated

downwards about their middle, the ends rounded, but more so

below than above; uncus single, evenly bent over, but very little

longer than its opposing branch coming from beneathit. Hap. al.

og, 24—27 mm.; 2, 30—34 mm.

I have a considerable series of this species collected

by Morrison in Arizona, and had always regarded it as

equivalent to mortipennella, Gr., the only described

species with whitish fore wings and darker hind wings;

170 Lord Walsingham’s revision of the

but Mr. Grote’s remark that in his species the labial

palpi reach as far back as the dorsum of the thorax

proves that it is distinct.

PSEUDANAPHORA, N. g.

Type. Anaphora arcanella, Clem.

Labial palpi ascending, not recurved to the thorax. Maxillary

palpi scaled, 3-jointed, of moderate length. Antenne simple, or

slightly serrated towards their apex. Fore wings with the costa

scarcely arched, of approximately even width throughout, except

at the extreme base; the apical margin oblique, slightly convex;

the apical vein not forked. Hind wings slightly wider than the

fore wings, with the costal margin arched; apical vein not forked ;

uncus double.

The single species known to Dr. Clemens was placed

by him in his genus Anaphora, although differing very

widely from the other types of the genus in the form of

the labial palpi; these, as noticed by that author, are

shorter than in other species of Anaphora, and, according

to his description, are ‘‘ascending but not recurved.”

I find the second joint is somewhat recurved, so that,

although the palpi have an erect appearance, they

differ considerably from those of Ortholophus, in which

the first joint is so long as to enable the other two to

stand erect above the head. Although the second joint

is absolutely straight, Clemens’ Anaphora arcanella

differs also in structure from my genus Neolophus by

having the apical vein of the fore wings not forked,

although in other respects it greatly resembles it. I have

a second species obviously belonging to this genus,

represented by a single specimen in Zeller’s collection

from North America, but without a special locality label.

It differs from arcanella chiefly in the form of the anal

appendages, and in the greater width of the fore wings.

The specimen is not in good condition.

Pseudanaphora arcanella, Clem. (Pl. VIII., fig. 25).

Anaphora arcanella, Clem., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci.

Phil., 1859;) 262 Bins ‘Nor... Am... ol p0,0Ur

Gr:, Can. Eint.; iv:, 148:; Chamb., Bull;Ucs:

Geol. and Geog. Survey, iv., 79; Wlsm., Trans.

Am. Ent. Soc., x., 167.

genera Acrolophus and Anaphora. fej

“Labial palpi shorter in the 3 than in the preceding ( popea-

nella and plumifrontella) ascending, but not recurved. Palpi

luteous-brown in front, dark brown externally. Thorax dark

brown, almost blackish. Fore wings dark brown, with an obscure

purplish hue; with luteous-brown on the dise and in the fold,

interrupted by a blackish brown, nearly square, submedian spot in

the fold, and a small one near its base of the same hue,—sometimes

merely a few blackish brown scales,—with an irregular blackish

brown spot on the end of the disc, and the costa and apical portion

of the wing dusted and dotted, sometimes striated with blackish

brown. Hind wings dark brown, tinged with black. Exp. al.

12 lines (=25 mm.). Female not known.”

To this may be added :—Antenne slightly serrated towards apex.

Fore wings with 12 veins, all separate; apical vein not forked.

Hind wings 8 veins, also separate, 7 and 8 parallel. Lateral

claspers slender, widening slightly towards their posterior extremi-

ties, which are rather square. Uncus double, rather abruptly bent

over, but not angulated, the points parallel, separated by about the

width of ene of them.

Srapernines, Butl., Ann. Mag. N. H., April, 1881, 402.

Type. Steberhinus testaceus, Butl.

“Urbare affine genus Ypsolopho* simile, differt autem palpis

maris permagnis crassis, scopis terminalibus expansis, feminz

palpis simplicibus longulis porrectis ; antennis crassis.”

“The development of the male palpi in this genus is

considerably greater than in the little South American

eenus to which Walker has given the name of Urbara:

this organ curves upwards far above the head in

Steberhinus, and is broadly fringed at the back, so as to

present the appearance of a hearth-broom.”t

Steeberhinus testaceus, Butl.

Butl., Ann. Mag. N. H., April, 1881, 402—3. .

‘« Primaries above pale testaceous ; six dark brown spots arranged

in pairs, two at the base, two just beyond the basal third, the fifth

(which is largest) just below the end of the cell, and the sixth in an

oblique line with it on the dorsal margin; two or three widely

* «© Y, verbascellus especially.”

+The development is quite different from that in Anaphora,

being quite slender and only emitting divergent bristles from the

back of the last joint.”

172 Lord Walsingham’s revision of the

separated brown costal spots, and an arched series close to the

outer margin; a slender brown marginal line, and a paler line

near the base of the fringe, beyond which it (the fringe) is almost

pure white; secondaries silvery white, with faint cupreous re-

flections ; an indistinct marginal testaceous line ; body testaceous ;

palpi with the terminal bristles dark brown; abdomen silvery at

the base. Primaries below greyish testaceous, with a narrow buff-

coloured border ; fringe silvery ; secondaries with greyish testaceous

costal area ; otherwise as above; body below shining golden buff.

Expanse of wings, 6 lines. A pair. Honolulu.”

The antenne are simple, not serrated.

Eixpnuanation oF Puates VII. & VIII.

PG ATE eaves

Fie. 1. Neolophus furcatus, Wism.; 1a, head of $; 16, terminal

appendages of 3%.

Hulepiste maculifer, Wlsm.; 1c, head of $; 1d, head

of @.

2. Hypoclopus griseus, Wlsm.; terminal appendages of 3;

2a, side view of head of 9; 20, neuration of fore

wing.

3. Thysanoskelis hirsutus, Wlsm.; 3a, head of 3; 86,

tarsal joints of hind leg; 3c, terminal appendages

OM eye

4. Ankistrophorus corrientes, Wlsm.; 4a, head of 3; 40,

terminal appendages of ¢.

5. Acrolophus plumifrontellus, Clem., g; 5a, head of 3;

5b, head of 9; 5c, terminal appendages of ¢; 5d,

terminal appendages of 9; 5e, neuration of fore wing.

6. A. cervinus, Wlsm.; head of ?.

7. A. stmulatus, Wism.; terminal appendages of g.

. A. argentinus, Wism. ; ‘3 3 »

9. A. texanellus, Chamb. ; a 3

10. A. arizonellus, Wlsm. ; a5 a *

X. Cenogenes perrensellus, Wism.; antenna of g; Xa,

terminal appendages of 3g.

genera Acrolophus and Anaphora. 173

PLATE, VIE:

Fig. 11. Anaphora popeanella, Clem., 3; lla, head of g; 118,

head of 2; 11c, terminal appendages of 3.

12. A. morrisoni, Wlsm.; terminal appendages of 3.

13. A. pusilla, Z.;

14. A. bogotensis, Wlsm.; fs se >

15. A. ferruginea, Wlsm. ; id

9 ” ”

9” ”

16. A. ornata, Wlsm. ; 3 5 .

17. A. uncigera, Wism. a ~

18. A. tenuis, Wlsm.; Ne ss aA

19. A. macrogaster, Wlsm., 2; 19a, terminal appendages

Ol a.

20. Felderia doeri, Wlsm.; 20a, head and antenne of 3;

20 b, terminal appendages of 3.

XX. FL. pygmea, Wism.; terminal appendages of f; XXa,

antenna.

21. Felderia maculata, Wlsm.; terminal appendages of 3.

22. F. filicicornis, Wlsm.; terminal appendages of 3;

22a, antenna of g.

23. F. cossoides, F. & R.;3 terminal appendages of 3.

24. Ortholophus variabilis, Wlsm., 3; 24a, head of 3;

246, head of 9; 24c, terminal appendages of 3.

25. Psewdanaphora arcanella, Clem.; terminal appendages

of g.

X. Description of a new genus of Rhopalocera allied to

Anteros, Hew. By Groner T. Baxer, F.E.S.

[Read March 2nd, 1887.]

PuaTE IX.

OUROCNEMIS, Nn. &.

Head very prominent, square, with collar. Palpi deflexed. Body

robust. The three pairs of legs stout, with long hairy tufts, the

second pair having very long tarsal tufts. Neuration as usual,

viz., costal vein short, extending to not over a third of the costa;

subcostal vein quadriramose, the first two branches emitted before

the end of the cell, the last two making a long fork to the costa

just in front of apex; upper radial emitted from anterior angle of

cell, lower radial from centre of cell; median and posterior veins

normal. Hind wings with quite normal neuration. Fore wings

subfaleate; hind wings deeply excavated between the first median

branch and submedian vein, with fringe lengthened into a caudal

appendage at the extremity of the latter.

I have two female specimens of this insect from Goya,

Corrientes, South America, and at first thought it was

altogether new; but, with the kind assistance of Mr.

Osbert Salvin, I now find it to have been placed by

Hewitson in the Hrycinid genus Anteros, and named

axiochus. Though somewhat nearly allied to Anteros,

the structure and clothing of the palpi preclude it being

placed in that genus, and necessitate the formation of a

new one.

Hitherto the only sex that appears to have been known

in this country was the male, from a poor specimen of

which Hewitson took his description ; and, as this differs

somewhat from my females, it may be as well to describe

them in detail.

Ourocnemis axiochus, Hew. (Pl. IX., figs. 1 & 2).

The entire upper surface of all the wings is sooty black, with a

very faint bluish lustre over the basal half. Fringes of same

TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1887.—PaRT II. (JUNE.)

176 ~—- Description of a new genus of Rhopalocera.

colour, but with the extremities tipped with white. Body and

thorax same hue as the wings. Expanse, 86 mm.

Under surface, 9: Fore wings black-brown, with a large costal

yellow spot near the base, and a second of the same colour

extended transversely over the end of cell; between these spots,

at the base, and near the costa beyond the cell, are three shining

plumbageous markings; costal and external borders at apex

yellowish, with a subapical tawny suffusion ; posterior margin and

fringe black, divided by a plumbageous stripe, with an ill-defined

plumbageous submarginal patch near the centre of outer border.

Hind wings with base of costa yellow, divided by a transverse

black e-shaped dash, a large triangular black patch occupying the

subbasal area, crossed by a A-shaped silvery mark; the whole

centre of the wing being occupied by a very irregular belt of sandy

ochraceous irrorated with grey, and bounded externally by an

irregular blackish belt, suffused externally with plumbageous.

Margin of fringe black, divided by a plumbageous stripe. Body

blackish, with scattered shining plumbageous scales. Antenne

rusty reddish, with base of club blackish ; legs black and lustrous,

stout and very hairy, with the extremities of tarsi ochraceous.

The irregular belt of sandy ochraceous on the under

surface of the hind wing is entirely wanting in the

male sex.

EXPLANATION OF PuatE IX.

Fig. 1. 2 imago of Ouroenemis axiochus, upper surface.

2 a" A 5 under surface.

Neuration of wings.

Bo:

Head, front view.

» profile.

Palpi (magnified).

» showing structure of 3 (magnified).

Legs (magnified).

Structure of fore leg of ¢, showing how the coxa is

produced beyond the coxo-trochanter joint; together

BIB s

ie)

with the imperfect tarsus; both typical of Hrycinide.

(alae)

XI. New genera and species of Buprestide. — -

By Cuartes O. WaATERTOUSE,

[Read May 4th, 1887. |

Waist I have been engaged in determining the

Buprestide of Central America, I have found it necessary

to propose several new genera. Some of them are not

founded on Central American species, and I have there-

fore thought it best to publish them in the present

paper, as they cannot conveniently be inserted in the

‘Biologia Centrali Americana.’

MixocHLoRvs, 0. g.

Antennal pores in a cavity on the lower internal margin of the

joints. Scutellum small, transverse, trapezoidal. Sternal cavity

formed by the meso-. and meta-sterna. Head gently convex in

front. Antennal cavities small, round. Thorax a little broader

than long, not much narrowed anteriorly, with three longitudinal

impressions above; the central one extending from the base to the

front margin, broader at the base than in front; the lateral

impressions do not reach the anterior margin. Posterior angles

acute, scarcely diverging. The base gently bisinuate. Elytra at

the base as broad as the thorax, scarcely sinuate at the sides,

gradually narrowed to the apex; punctate-striate ; longitudinally

impressed at the suture. Tarsi short, the basal joint about as long

as the two following joints together. Claws angularly dilated at.

the base beneath.

The species for which I propose this genus might at

first sight be taken for one of the Agrilide. It is,

however, clearly allied to Ay@ocera (Waterh., Biologia

Cent. Amer., Coleopt., iii., pt.1., p. 4), and should be

placed near Pelecopselaphus. It differs from Ageocera

in its narrower form; the elytra are not costate, and the

claws are dilated at the base.

TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1887.—PART Il. (JUNE.)

178 Mr. C. O. Waterhouse’s new

Mixochlorus suturalis, n. s.

Lete aureo-viridis, crebre punctulatus; fronte, thoracis elytro-

rumque vittis duabus rufo-cupreis. Long. 13 mm.

Head densely punctured, gently convex; the forehead reddish

coppery, with a green median line on the vertex. Thorax rather

straight at the sides, a little narrowed in front, broadest at the

posterior angles, which are acute; rather strongly and moderately

closely punctured on the raised parts, densely punctured in the

impressions. Scutellum green. Elytra somewhat strongly punc-

tate-striate ; the suture with a broad green stripe, which is im-

pressed, finely rugulose and punctured; the two interstices next to

the green stripe finely and not very closely punctured, the lateral

interstices closely and finely strigose. The extreme margins

green; the epipleural dilatation at the base blue. Prosternum very

strongly punctured; the abdomen rather less strongly and less

closely punctured, the apex semicircularly emarginate.

Hab. Honduras (Brit. Mus.).

Note.—There is a species of Agrilus from Mexico,

which so much resembles this that it might at first

sight be mistaken for it. The thorax is, however,

uniform in colour, and the punctuation of the elytra is

not in lines.

PERONZEMIS, 0. g.

Form nearly that of Cinyra albonotata, but with the thorax

more convex and more parallel at the sides. Antennal pores

anterior. Scutellum transverse and trapezoidal. Sternal cavity

formed by the meso- and meta-sterna. Basal joint.of the posterior

tarsi scarcely as long as the 2nd and 8rd together. Head slightly

convex; antennal cavities small and round. Thorax a little

broader than long, very convex anteriorly ; with three rather deep

ovate impressions at the base; the posterior angles slightly

diverging and acute. Elytra as broad as the thorax, subparallel

for two-thirds their length (slightly sinuate at the sides), gradually

and obliquely narrowed at the apex; the apex of each elytron

angular in the middle. First and second segments of the abdomen

separated by a suture. The lateral line of the thorax runs obliquely

downwards and vanishes in front.

Peronemis thoracicus, n. 8.

Elongatus, subnitidus ; capite viridi, medio rufo-cupreo ; thorace

lete rufo-cupreo, crebre sat fortiter punctato, basi infuscato;

genera and species of Buprestidae. 179

seutello cyaneo, nitido; elytris eneis, fortiter striatis, plaga scu-

tellari, altera ad medium (ad suturam non attingenti) brunneo-

eneis nitidis. Long. 10} mm.

The head is closely and moderately strongly punctured. The

thorax is rather more strongly punctured ;

the three basal impressions extend nearly

to the middle, the central one is rather

wider than the others; they are slightly

tinted with bluish green at the base. The

suture of the elytra is green; the interstices

are slightly costiform, except below the

shoulder and near the suture in the middle. |

There is a quadrangular patch occupying @

the scutellar region, and a second square

spot about the middle of a more brown

colour, more shining, and slightly more y&

raised than the rest of the elytra; the

humeral callosity and the margin near the

base are also of the same bronzy-brown

colour; the margins near the apex are finely denticulate. The

sterna, abdomen, and legs are bluish green, varied with blue,

purple, and neous.

Hab. Jamaica.

TRYPANTIUS, 0. g.

I propose this name for Stenogaster biteniatus, Chey.,

and an allied species. The chief character of Steno-

gaster is the somewhat remarkable fact that only the

4th joint of the tarsi is furnished with a lamina; it is

therefore quite inadmissible that S. biteniatus, which

has the 2nd and 8rd joints also furnished with a short

lamina, should be included in the genus. The costa of

the elytra does not reach the base, which is the case

in Stenogaster; the forehead has a deep longitudinal

furrow, and the channel on the inner margin of the eye

is also very deep.

Trypantius infrequens, n. s.

Elongatus, angustus, depressus, «neus, nitidus, crebre punc-

tatus, parce griseo-pubescens, pube ante apicem elytrorum in

fasciis duabus congesta. Long. 10 mm.

Very similar in form to 7’. biteniatus, but narrower and more

regularly narrowed posteriorly. Head moderately strongly and

TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1887.—PaRi Il. (JUNE.) 0

180 Mr. C. O. Waterhouse’s new

closely punctured, the frontal furrow deep and clearly defined.

Thorax longitudinally impressed in the middle, declivous and

impressed at the sides, somewhat closely punctured, the punctures

very irregular in shape and size; close to the margin there is a

ridge as in 7’. biteniatus, but it is not so clearly defined, closer to

the margin and more parallel with it. Scutellum strongly trans-

verse, the middle of the posterior margin prolonged into a point.

Elytra gradually narrowed from the base to the apex, depressed,

closely punctured, the punctures not clearly defined and irregular

in size. Each elytron has an obtuse costa, commencing about

one-third from the base, and nearly extending to the apex; the

apex is obtuse and slightly serrated. There are two rather

indistinct fasciz of whitish pubescence, the upper one directed

upwards at the suture. Prosternal process closely and finely

punctured: the middle of the metasternum shining and more

sparingly punctured. All the under surface is sparingly clothed

with whitish pubescence.

Hab. Mexico (coll. Brit. Mus.).

CYPHOTHORAX, N. g.

Intermediate between Stenogaster and Agrilus. Head gently

concave, deeply channelled between the eyes. Thorax transverse,

narrowed in front of the middle; the disk in the middle with an

elevated swelling. Scutellum nearly equilaterally triangular.

Elytra somewhat flat, subparallel, obliquely narrowed at the

apical third; irregularly punctured, with scarcely any trace of

lines. Tarsi moderately short, the basal joint of the posterior

pair about as long as the two following joints together; the 2nd

and 8rd joints are furnished below with a pilose pad, but have no

distinct lamina ; the 4th joint has a lamina as in Stenogaster.

I propose this genus for Stenogaster palleolatus, Cheyr.

AUTARCONTES, N. g.

I proposed this name for Agrilws mucoreus, Klug, and some

allied species. The thorax is broad and transverse, with an

angular prominence at the sides close to the base. The elytra are

somewhat parallel for two-thirds their length, and then obliquely

narrowed to the apex; the apex of each elytron truncate or

slightly sinuate. Each elytron has an obtuse costa for two-thirds

its length, the dorsal space between them more or less flat. The

basal joint of the posterior tarsi in A. mwcoreus is short; the other

species show a gradation to the longer tarsi of ordinary Agrilus.

genera and species of Buprestide. 181

The four species which I propose to associate, although

differing in the length of the posterior tarsi, appear to

me to form a natural group, for which it is convenient

to have a name as distinct from Agrilus.

Autarcontes planus, 0.8.

Elongatus, sat latus, dorsim planatus, sneo-niger, subtus

eyaneus; elytris ante apicem guttulis numerosis griseis ornatis.

Long. 183—14 mm.

Black above, slightly tinted with zneous (sometimes with violet).

Forehead deeply incised between the eyes. Thorax twice as broad

as long, broadest just before the base, narrowed anteriorly ; rather

flat above, with a shallow double impression at the base ; obliquely

declivous at the sides and irregularly impressed; irregularly and

not very closely punctured. Scutellum gently concave, smooth ;

transverse, with the middle of the posterior margin produced into

a point. Elytra flat on the back, and very closely punctured ;

sides beyond the costa, and the apex more shining and less closely

and more irregularly punctured. A few small greyish spots are

scattered over the surface, but in the apical region they are more

numerous. The apex of each elytron is truncate, slightly sinuate,

the outer angle very acute. Prosternal process and metasternum

strongly punctured; the abdomen much less strongly punctured.

Posterior tarsi short.

Hab. Para and Nauta, Amazons (Bates) ; Bahia.

Autarcontes pictiventris, n. 8.

Statura A. mucorei, Kl., magis tamen elongatus, depressus,

niger, opacus ; elytris pube grisea irroratis ; corpore subtus cyaneo,

nitido, abdomine maculis coccineis utrinque ornato. Long. 18 mm.

Thorax short and broad, obliquely narrowed in front, flattened

(or very slightly concave) on the disk, declivous and impressed at

the sides; the angle at the side near the base is very prominent

and very acute. Elytra relatively much longer than in 4.

mucoreus, flattened dorsally; densely punctured; with numerous

vermiculate greyish marks; two bands behind the middle and the

apex are almost without spots. The red spots on the last three

segments of the abdomen are quadrate, with an oval smooth space

at the base. The apex of each elytron is truncate and slightly

emarginate; the outer angle acute. Posterior tarsi rather long.

Hab. Amazons, Santarem.

182 Mr. C. O. Waterhouse’s new

Autarcontes abdominalis, n. s.

Niger; elytris inter costas snescentibus immaculatis, fascia

anguste ante apicem e pube grisea ornatis; corpore subtus cyaneo,

maculis coccineis utrinque ornato. Long. 17 mm.

This species much resembles the preceding, and has the thorax

acutely angular at the sides in the same way, closely punctured.

The impression on the disk, which in the preceding species is

somewhat trefoil in shape, is more distinctly divided into three

impressions, of which the anterior one is small. The dorsal

region of the elytra is slightly tinted with brassy; the sides and

apex black, the apex with a fascia of grey pubescence. The red

spot on the basal (2nd) segment of the abdomen is large and

transverse; those on the three following segments are a little

smaller (but larger than in the preceding species), each with a

smooth oval spot at the base. Posterior tarsi long.

Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales (7. Belt).

OMOCHYSEUS, 0. g.

General characters of Agrilws. Thorax transversely quadrate,

deeply excavated on the disk. Scutellum triangular, broad at the

base, gradually acuminate. Elytra not much narrowed posteriorly,

each with a single costa; the shoulders much elevated into a sort

of curved costa; the apex suddenly obliquely inclined, forming a

distinct but obtuse angle with the dorsal line of the elytra.

I propose this name for a Brazilian insect closely

allied to Agrilus, but which, from its peculiar form,

I think merits generic distinction ; the chief characters

being the much elevated shoulders of the elytra, and the

suddenly inclined apex.

Omochyseus humeralis, 0. 8.

Niger, vix purpurascens ; pectore abdomineque cyaneis, pedibus

cupreis; capite profunde excavato; thorace transverso, quadrato,

disco fortiter impresso, transversim strigoso, antice guttis duabus

elevatis nitidisinstructo; lateribus declivibus rugulosis, guttis duabus

nitidis elevatis instructis; scutello elongato triangulari; elytris

sicut griseo-marmoratis, confertim subtiliter punctatis, guttis

numerosis irregularibus parum elevatis nitidis seriatim dispositis,

fascia post-medium nigro-velutina; apice ipso inclinato utrinque

arcuatim paulo dilatato; singulo elytro unicostato; humeris bene

elevatis. Long. 11} mm,

genera and species of Buprestide. 183

The head is closely punctured, with a deep shining excavation

between the eyes. The elytra at the base are as broad as the

thorax, narrowed slightly just below the

shoulders, and then subparallel to the ex- \y —

panded apex. The shoulders are elevated

into a short curved costa, deeply impressed

within; the usual costa reaches from the

shoulder to the apical declivity. The pro-

sternal process is closely and very coarsely

punctured. The middle of the metasternum

is brassy. The abdomen is not very closely ¢

punctured.

Hab. Brazil, Santa Martha. C

Since the above was written I have

seen M. J. Thomson’s description of

Agrilus omocyrius (Typi, Append.,

p- 58), and think it possible that they

may refer to the same species. In that case, however,

M. Thomson’s description appears incorrect. The

shoulders of the elytra do not project, but are elevated.

The elytra have a black fascia before the middle and a

second behind, not two behind the middle. The pro-

sternum is not striolate, but deeply punctured.

Omochyseus terminalis, n. 8.

Precedenti similimus; thoracis lateribus postice minus angu-

latis, plagis discoidalibus elevatis punctatis; elytrorum costa ante

apicem evanescenti, apice haud dilatato. Long. 12mm.

This species very closely resembles the preceding. The thorax

is, however, less angular at the sides, but especially the raised spot

on each side of the front of the disk, instead of being smooth, is

coarsely punctured. The costa on the elytra does not quite reach

the apical declivity. The apical declivity is slightly cyaneous,

transverse, somewhat trapezoidal in outline, not dilated and

rounded on the outer side.

Hab. Mexico, Oaxaca.

PARADOMORPHUS, N. g.

I propose this name for Agrilus frontalis, L. & G.,

and some allied species, which differ from Agrilus in

having the basal joint of the posterior tarsi comparatively

short.

184 New genera and species of Buprestide.

Paradomorphus albicollis, n. s.

Niger, hie et illic eneo-tinctus; capite quadrinodoso; thorace

transverso, subquadrato, dense albo-tomentoso; elytris unicostatis,

basi cyaneo-seneis, medio eneis, ad apicem nigrescentibus; apice

ipso albomaculato. Long. 93 mm.

The head has four nearly equal round nodes, the two anterior

ones neous. The thorax is evenly convex, nearly straight at the

sides ; the basal median lobe broadly truncate. The elytra at the

shoulders are as broad as the thorax, gently sinuous at the sides,

obliquely narrowed at the apical third; densely punctured; the

base impressed ; the shoulders elevated; the apex of each elytron

rounded and denticulate. Besides the apical chalky white spot

there are three small pale grey pubescent spots between the suture

and the costa, and behind the middle there is a narrow flexuous

greyish fascia, which does not reach the suture. The 2nd segment

of the abdomen (united with the 1st) broad and swollen. The

antepenultimate and apical segments each with a conspicuous

white spot on each side.

Hab. Jamaica (Brit. Mus.).

( 185 )

XII. On Pyralidina from Australia and the South

Pacific. By EH. Meyricr, B.A., F.E.S.

[Read June 1st, 1887. |

As the discovery or recognition of additional species in

this group, and of additional synonyms for known

species, continues to make progress, I hope from time

to time to publish such notes and descriptions as will

keep the knowledge of the subject up to date. The

present paper is a collection of such notes; but before

proceeding to their systematic consideration I desire to

call attention to the identification of the species of this

group in the paper by Mr. Butler, published in the

‘Transactions’ of this Society for 1886, pp. 420 sqq.,

and treating specially on Lepidoptera from these regions.

In doing so I hope not to appear discourteous ; I am

much indebted to Mr. Butler for the courtesy with which

he has assisted me to examine the types of these and

other species ; and it is also only just to point out that

his paper was read before mine, published earlier in the

same volume, was in print, and he therefore had not

the opportunity of correctly identifying some of the

Pacific species described therein.

The following are my identifications of the Pyralidina

described in his paper :—

Aporocosmus bracteatus (described as a Noctuid) is a

synonym of HMurycreon lamprodeta, Meyr. Mr. Butler

himself subsequently made this identification, and was

kind enough to call my attention to it.

Microsea plagifera is a variety of Striglina myrtea,

Drury (= fenestrina, Feld., and fenestrata, Gn.), with

the spot (which varies very much and is sometimes

absent) unusually large.

Pharambara reticulata is a Siculodes; it is a good

species, but there is already a Siculodes reticula of

Guénée, and I conceive therefore that the name cannot

stand; I propose for it the name of crypsiria, by which

it is already known in Australian collections.

TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1887.—PaRT III. (SEPT.) Pp

186 Mr. E. Meyrick on Pyralidina from

Graphicopoda hecate is a synonym of Hrebangela

melanauges, Meyr.

Pseudephyra straminea belongs to the Noctuina.

Niphadaza bicolor is a synonym of Compsophila

iocosma, Meyy.

Oligostigma pallida is a synonym of Paraponyx

dicentra, Meyr.

Rinecera nigrescens is a synonym of Strepsimela siqni-

feralis, Waller.

Hormatholepis erebina is a good genus and species.

Asopia leonina appears a good species, but I was not

able to make a sufficient examination to locate it cor-

rectly; it is, of course, not an Asopia, as generally

understood.

Leucophotis pulchra is a good species, and I think

genus.

Eindotricha annuligera is a synonym of Semioceros

mesochlora, Meyr.

Endotricha obscura is a synonym (¢) of Hndotricha

ethopa, Meyr.

Rhimphalea enone is a synonym of Rhimphalea lindalis,

Walk. (= sceletalis, Ld.).

Pterygisus ochreipennis 18 a species of Hurycreon,

vid. infr.

Gonocausta asuridia is a Siculodes ; a good species.

Margaronia limbata appears to be a good species of

Margarodes.

Botys horatius is a synonym of Pleonectusa parallela,

Meyr.

Botys argyrogaster is a synonym of Dracenura pelochra,

Meyr.

Tmprepes insignis is a synonym of Deuterarcha xantho-

mela, Meyr.

Scopula auritincta is a Conogethes ; a good species.

Nymphula sordida is a synonym otf Tritea ustalis,

Walk. (= turbidalis, Walk., and afinitalis, Ld.).

Salebria squamicornis is a synonym of L’picrocis

eucometis, Meyr.; a pale specimen.

Mella arenosa is apparently a good species, but in the

absence of the male the genus must be considered

doubtful.

Anerastia nitens is a synonym of [eosphora psama-

thella, Meyr.

Diptychophora inornata belongs to the Noctuina.

Australia and the South Pacific. 187

The following notes are arranged in systematic

sequence :—

EPIPASCHIADA.

From a consideration of increased material, I now

conclude that several of the genera in this family

established by myself and others on neural characters

are not tenable; the characters employed, viz., the

anastomosing of veins 7 and 8 of the hind wings, and

stalking of veins 4 and 5, though valuable in other

families, are here found to differ not only in closely

allied species, but also sometimes in individuals of the

same species. I propose, therefore, to sink Cacozelia,

Grote, as synonymous with Stericta, Ld.; and_ to

include Catamola, Meyr., and Astrapometis, Meyr., as

well as the American Deuterollyta, Ld., and Mochlocera,

Grote, under the head of Hpipaschia, Clem. As thus

defined, Stericta will differ from Epipaschia essentially

only by the penicillate maxillary palpi of the male.

Titanoceros should have the maxillary palpi absent ; but

I have only seen the one specimen. The classification

of the Australian species will then be as follows :—

Titanoceros cataxantha, Meyr.; Epipaschia saburalis,

Walk., H. elassota, Meyr., H. capnopis, Meyr., EH. funerea,

Walk.; Stericta demotis, Meyr., S. tornotis, Meyr.,

S. habitalis, Gn., S. thyridalis, Walk., S. recurvalis, Walk.,

S. cholica, Meyr., S. costigeralis, Walk., S. xanthomelalis,

Walk., S. pyrastis, Meyr.

Eprpascuia, Clem.

Epipaschia saburalis, Walk.

Also from Albany, West Australia ; in December.

Hpipaschia funerea, Walk.

Also from Glen Innes (3500 ft.), New South Wales ;

Melbourne, Victoria; Perth, West Australia; in

November and December.

StERicra, Ld.

Stericta \?) demotis, n. s.

?, 21 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax fuscous, mixed with

whitish-ochreous and dark fuscous. Antenne whitish-ochreous,

188 Mr. EK. Meyrick on Pyralidina from

annulated with dark fuscous. Abdomen whitish-ochreous, irro-

rated with dark grey. Legs dark fuscous, ringed with whitish-

ochreous. Fore wings elongate-triangular, costa slightly arched,

apex obtuse, hind margin obliquely rounded; veins 4 and 5 from

a point; fuscous, irrorated with blackish-fuscous, sometimes mixed

with whitish-ochreous towards margins; a small blackish-fuscous

spot on costa near base, edged laterally with pale; lines cloudy,

blackish-fuscous; first from one-fourth of costa to one-third of

inner margin, obscurely edged with pale anteriorly, almost

straight; second from before two-thirds of costa to two-thirds of

inner margin, posteriorly obscurely edged with whitish-ochreous,

upper two-thirds strongly but unevenly curved outwards; a small

blackish discal spot between these, preceded by some raised

ochreous-whitish seales; cilia whitish-ochreous, mixed and

obscurely barred with fuseous, with an ill-defined dark fuscous

line near base. Hind wings with veins 4 and 5 from a point,

8 free; fuscous-grey, paler towards base and grey-whitish towards

costa; an indistinct grey discal lunule at one-third; a curved

ill-defined grey-whitish line about three-fourths, anteriorly edged

with darker grey; a cloudy dark fuscous hind-marginal line; cilia

erey-whitish, with a fuscous-grey line near base.

Geraldton, West Australia; three specimens on

flowers after dark, in November. In the case of this

and the following species the male is still unknown, and

they might therefore possibly be referable to Epipaschia ;

I think this species, however, is almost certainly a true

Stericta ; S. tornotis is more doubtful.

Stericta (2) tornotis, n. 8.

?,20mm. Head, thorax, and abdomen reddish-fuscous, some-

what mixed with whitish-ochreous; face and palpi dark fuscous.

Antenne whitish-ochreous, annulated with fuscous. Legs dark

fuscous, ringed with whitish-ochreous. Fore wings elongate-

triangular, costa gently arched, apex rounded, hind margin

oblique, slightly rounded; veins 4 and 5 stalked; reddish-fuscous,

thinly irrorated with dark fuscous and a few whitish-ochreous

scales; a transverse dark fuscous tuft of scales in disc before one-

third; lines cloudy, whitish-ochreous, edged on discal side with

dark fuscous; first from two-fifths of costa to middle of inner

margin, somewhat curved outwards near costa; second from

three-fifths of costa to three-fourths of inner margin, middle third

abruptly curved outwards; a small discal tuft of dark fuseous

scales between these; a whitish iroration towards middle of hind

Australia and the South Pacific. 189

margin; a strong blackish hind-marginal line, interrupted by

whitish dots on veins; cilia fuscous-reddish, sharply barred with

blackish-grey. Hind wings with veins 4 and 5 stalked, 7 anasto-

mosing strongly with 8; fuscous-grey; cilia grey, with a darker

grey line near base.

Helidon, Queensland ; one specimen in September.

Stericta habitalis, Gn.

Also from Albany, Geraldton, and Carnarvon, West

Australia ; in October, November, and April.

Stericta thyridalis, Walk.

Larva 16-legged, cylindrical, posterior extremity tapering; some-

what wrinkled, with a few scattered hairs; greyish-ochreous,

slightly pinkish-tinged ; spots very small, black; lines blackish-

grey, dorsal very fine, subdorsal moderately broad, lateral slender ;

head blackish-fuscous, suffusedly reticulated with ochreous. Feeds

gregariously in tubes of silk and refuse on a shrubby plant

(perhaps a Leucopogon, but not properly identified) belonging to

the Epacridacee, in September and October.

Also from Albany, West Australia ; bred in November

and December.

Stericta recurvalis, Walk.

Salma recurvalis, Walk., Cr., 107; Haacosmia rubigi-

nosa, ib., Suppl., 609; Crambus melanospilellus,

ibs, Hupplscl 759:

So ?, 28—32 mm. Head and palpi in male wholly blackish-

fuscous, in female whitish-ochreous mixed with dark fuscous.

Antenne fuscous, ciliations in male 2, basal process large, reflexed.

Thorax crested posteriorly, whitish-ochreous, in male suffused

with blackish-fuscous anteriorly, in female greenish-tinged and

mixed with dark fuscous. Abdomen whitish-ochreous, irrorated

with fuscous. Legs dark fuscous, suffusedly ringed with whitish-

ochreous. Fore wings elongate-triangular, costa slightly arched,

apex obtuse, hind margin rather obliquely rounded; veins 4 and 5

approximated at base; whitish-ochreous, in female irregularly

mixed with light olive-greenish and fuscous-reddish, and unevenly

irrorated with blackish-fuscous, in male more or less wholly

suffused with fuscous and irrorated with blackish-fuscous, a space

on costa between first and second lines and a small spot on middle

of hind margin generally remaining pale; a tuft of raised scales in

190 Mr. EK. Meyrick on Pyralidina from

dise before one-third; «a short thick cloudy blackish streak from

costa near base; first line blackish, somewhat irregular, nearly

straight, from costa near before middle to middle of inner margin,

forming a rather conspicuous spot on costa usually preceded by a

pale spot; a blackish discal dot, preceded by some raised scales,

towards costa close beyond first line; second line blackish, sub-

dentate, from three-fifths of costa to three-fourths of inner margin,

forming a small spot on costa, upper two-thirds strongly curved

outwards ; an interrupted blackish hind-marginal line; cilia grey-

whitish, sometimes reddish-tinged, with a grey line near base, and

obscurely barred with grey, forming dark grey dots on the line.

Hind wings with veins 4 and 5 approximated at base, 7 anasto-

mosing shortly with 8; fuscous, becoming grey-whitish near base ;

amore or less indistinct curved subdentate pale line about three-

fourths ; hind-marginal line and cilia as in fore wings.

Melbourne, Victoria; Launceston and Hobart, Tas-

mania; in January; several specimens. I formerly

confused females of this with Balanotis crypsaula, and

from this latter my former description of recurvalis was

drawn; it much resembles Stericta recurvalis, but the

lines are quite differently placed.

Stericta cholica, Meyr.

The female does not differ from the male in marking.

Stericta costigeralis, Walk.

The female is larger than the male, ranging to

29 mm., but not different in marking. Occurs also at

Sydney, New South Wales; Fernshaw, Victoria; in

October and December.

Stericta xanthomelalis, Walk.

| have not been able to properly examine this species,

but it is probably referable here.

Stericta pyrastis, n. s.

g, 34-35 mm. Head, palpi, antenne, thorax, abdomen, and

legs dark fuscous, mixed with whitish and reddish; antennal

process short; thorax beneath with two expansible tufts of long

hairs from base of anterior legs. Fore wings very elongate-

triangular, costa slightly sinuate, apex rounded, hind margin

Australia and the South Pacific. 191

rather obliquely rounded; veins 4 and 5 closely approximated at

base; ochreous-brown, irregularly irrorated with blackish ; base of

costa and inner margin suffused with black: first line dark fuscous,

from one-third of costa to one-third of inner margin, irrecular, on

lower half suffusedly margined on both sides with whitish ; a small

round blackish discal spot; costal space between first and second

lines irrorated with white; second line blackish, from two-thirds

of costa to two-thirds of inner margin, upper half strongly curved

outwards, lower acutely dentate, upper third strongly thickened

and preceded by a whitish irroration, lower third also thickened ;

a blackish suffusion towards hind margin beneath apex; cilia

brownish, with two darker lines and obscurely barred with blackish.

Hind wings with veins 4 and 5 from a point; bright orange; a

broad blackish-fuscous hind-marginal border ; cilia whitish, tinged

with reddish-fuscous, with a blackish line.

Neweastle, New South Wales; two specimens

(Australian Museum). The condition of the palpi did

not permit me to make sure whether this species

belongs here or to the preceding genus ; but I think

here.

PYRALIDIDA.

Bauanotis, Meyr.

Balanotis carinentalis, Walk.

Also from Townsville and Duaringa, Queensland ;

Newcastle and Kiama, New South Wales.

Balanotis didymalis, Walk.

The female differs from the male in having the yellow

colour of the costa and inner margin of hind wings

replaced by white: the specimens described by me are

male, and not female, as erroneously stated.

Also from Cape York, Queensland ; Neweastle, New

South Wales.

Balanotis crypsaula, ni. 8.

Balanotis recurvalis, Meyr., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.,

1884, 70 (nec. Walk.).

Two species having been confused, as noted above,

I propose this name for the one which I originally, but

erroneously, described as recurvalis.

The quotation of Tasmania as a locality is incorrect

192 Mr. E. Meyrick on Pyralidina from

(or at least premature), and arose from the confusion of

species.

Aguossa, Latr.

Aglossa pinguinalis, L.

An undoubted female of this species, alleged to have

been taken near Melbourne, Victoria (coll. Lucas), but I

think the locality requires confirmation ; if it occurs at

all, it will probably be found common: of course an

introduced species.

Aglossa cuprealis, Hb.

Also from Neweastle, New South Wales ; in December.

Asopta, T'r.

Asopia ducalis, Walk.

Pyralis ducalis, Walk., Suppl., 1242; P. regalis, ib.,

1241.

?, 19 mm. Head and palpi ochreous-yellow; palpi slender,

ascending, terminal joint halfsecond. Antenne purplish, beneath

yellowish. Thorax purple, anterior margin ochreous-yellow.

Abdomen purple, apex yellowish. Legs ochreous-yellowish (ante-

rior pair broken). Fore wings elongate-triangular, costa almost

straight, apex obtuse, hind margin obliquely rounded; veins 8 and

9 out of 7; purple, sprinkled with dark grey ; a moderate ochreous-

yellow triangular spot on costa about one-fourth, and a second

about two-thirds; lines hardly darker than ground colour, very

indistinct, proceeding from costal spots, tolerably straight, first to

inner margin at one-fourth, second at three-fourths; a narrow

ochreous-yellow hind-marginal fascia, indented by ground colour

below middle; cilia ochreous-yellow. Hind wings with colour,

hind-marginal fascia, and cilia as in fore wings, but hind-marginal

fascia more attenuated irregularly towards middle and abruptly

dilated near anal angle.

(Jueensland ; one specimen (coll. Lucas) ; two others

in British Museum collection. Walker's first name,

reqalis, must of course be dropped, as he overlooked the

Kuropean Asopia regalis, Schiff. Walker quotes this and

various other species received from Mr. Digeles as from

Swan River (West Australia); this is almost certainly

due to some misunderstanding : all of those with which

Australia and the South Pacific. 193

IT am acquainted [ have received from (Queensland only,

and I have no reason to suppose Mr. Diggles ever

collected in West Australia. I do not usually notice

Walker’s localities, but this error seemed worth marking.

Asopia farinalis, L.

Also from Toowoomba (2000 feet), Queensland ; Glen

Innes (38500 feet), New South Wales; Melbourne,

Victoria; Albany and York, West Australia: from

October to April, and in June.

Asopia gerontialis, Walk.

Authenticated from Cooktown, Queensland (coll. Lucas).

Asopia caustica, Meyr.

Male and female. Ranges to 20mm. ; quite constant

in marking; four specimens.

Viressa, Moore.

Vitessa hemiallactis, n.s.

I propose this name for the New Guinea species

previously identified by me (from the description) as

V. pyraliata, Walk., and described in the Trans. Ent.

Soc. Lond., 1886, 218. I have since seen Walker’s

specimens, and, although very similar to mine, they

differ as much as the other species of this genus do

from one another. V. pyraliata is distinguished from

V. hemiallactis by having all the white markings very

much reduced, and in particular by having the ante-

median white band of fore wings replaced by one or two

small spots only.

Anemosa, Walk.

Forehead with a very long horny narrow flattened projection.

Ocell present. Tongue well-developed. Antenne in male mode-

rately bipectinated, becoming filiform and ciliated towards apex.

Labial palpi very long, straight, porrected, loosely rough-scaled

above and beneath, with long expansible hairs above, somewhat

attenuated. Maxillary palpi rudimentary. Anterior tibie

thickened with dense hairs beneath. Fore wings with vein 1

furcate towards base, lower fork running perpendicularly to inner

194 Mr. E. Meyrick on Pyralidina from

margin, 2 from three-fourths of cell, transverse vein strongly

angulated, 6 out of 9 almost at base, 7 and 8 out of 9, 10 approxi-

mated to 9 near base, 11 from before middle of cell, very oblique.

Hind wings broader than fore wings ; veins 4 and 5 almost from a

point, 7 out of 6 near origin, connected with 8 at a point.

A singular genus, apparently somewhat allied to

Drymiarcha and Oedematophaga, especially the former.

Anemosa isadalis, Walk.

Anemosa isadalis (isadasalis), Walk., 849.

g, 24-27 mm. Head, palpi, antenne, thorax, and legs whitish-

ochreous; palpi somewhat mixed with dark fuscous; anterior

tibiz dark fuscous. Abdomen light yellowish. Fore wings elon-

gate-triangular, costa posteriorly moderately arched, apex obtuse,

hind margin obliquely rounded; whitish-ochreous, sometimes

faintly reddish-tinged, with a few scattered dark fuscous seales ;

lines cloudy, fuscous, more or less distinct, becoming blackish on

inner margin, first from one-third of costa to two-fifths of inner

margin, moderately curved; second from two-thirds of costa to

three-fifths of immer margin, middle third forming an abrupt

rounded projection outwards; a small round silvery-white blackish-

margined spot on second line in middle, and sometimes a smaller

one above it ; cilia whitish-ochreous, terminal half reddish-fuscous.

Hind wings pale ochreous-yellowish ; apex and hind-marginal

edge suffusedly reddish-tinged; cilia pale yellowish.

Newcastle, New South Wales; two specimens

(Australian Museum).

OEDEMATOPHAGA, Meyr.

Oedematophaga egalis, Walk.

Also from Melbourne, Victoria; | have seen galls

probably belonging to this species in ‘Tasmania.

OrnoGENEsS, Meyr.

Ocenogenes fugalis, Feld.

Also from Deloraine and Launceston, Tasmania; in

December.

Australia and the South Pacific. 195

ENDOTRICHA, Z.

Endotricha heliopa, Meyyr.

2, 24mm. Lines and discal spot as in male, but colouring

entirely grey; basal area slightly purplish-tinged, central area

faintly ochreous-tinged; cilia with basal half deep crimson,

extreme base greyish-ochreous, terminal half white. Both sexes

may be recognised by the partially crimson cilia.

Sale, Victoria (coll. Lucas).

Endotricha pyrosalis, Gn.

Also from Duaringa, Queensland; Newcastle, New

South Wales; Hobart, Tasmania; Perth and North-

ampton, West Australia; in November and December.

Western specimens are somewhat duller and less yellow

than Eastern.

Eindotricha compsopa, n. 8.

36 2?,12—13 mm. Head, palpi, antenne, thorax, and abdomen

reddish-ochreous ; palpi mixed with dark fuscous; antennal

ciliations of male 3. Legs ochreous-whitish, partly irrorated with

dark fuscous. Fore wings very elongate-triangular, costa sinuate,

apex obtuse, hind margin rather strongly oblique, slightly rounded ;

veins 4 and 5 separate; reddish-ochreous, purplish-tinged and

irrorated with black, except towards base and costa; first line

strong, white, sightly curved outwards, from two-fifths of costa to

before middle of inner margin, anterior edge finely margined with

black, posterior edge suffused; second line very slender, white,

from four-fifths of costa to anal angle, slightly angulated outwards

above middle, obscurely blackish-edged ; a hind-marginal series of

black lunules; cilia white, with a blackish line near base. Hind

wings with veins 4 and 4 separate; light ochreous-purplish, finely

irrorated with black; first line as in fore wings, running from

costa before middle to inner margin before anal angle, closely

followed by a narrow waved white line nearly confluent with it ;

hind-marginal lunules and cilia as in fore wings.

Duaringa, Queensland; several specimens sent by

Mr. G. Barnard. Intermediate between LH. heliopa and

. puncticostalis.

Endotricha puncticostalis, Walk.

Also from Rosewood, Queensland, in December.

196 Mr. EK. Meyrick on Pyralidina from

Eindotricha ethopa, Meyr.

Eindotricha obscura, Butl., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.,

1886, 427, is the female of this species.

Eindotricha aglaopa, n. 8.

3, 16 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax blackish-fuscous mixed

with ochreous; patagia terminating in long whitish hairs. An-

tenne pale ochreous annulated with lark fuscous, ciliations 3.

Abdomen blackish, somewhat mixed with purplish, anal tuft

ochreous-yellowish. Legs whitish-ochreous, anterior and middle

coxe and femora coarsely irrorated with black. Fore wings elon-

gate-triangular, costa sinuate, apex obtuse, hind margin rounded,

oblique; veins 4 and 5 separate; very deep fuscous-purple, irro-

rated with black; lines scarcely paler, almost straight and tolerably

parallel, hardly traceable except on costa, where they form con-

spicuous whitish-ochreous marks, first at one-third, second at

three-fourths ; between these are three pairs of minute whitish-

ochreous dots on costa; cilia with basal half blackish, terminal

half crimson-whitish. Hind wings with veins 4 and 5 separate ;

blackish ; a broad clear yellow band before middle, containing

some black scales above middle, on costa dilated and extending

suffusedly to base; cilia with basal half blackish, terminal half

yellow-whitish.

Victoria ; one specimen (coll. Lucas).

PrersicopteRA, Meyr..

Persicoptera pulchrinalis, Gn.

Also from Bathurst (2500 feet), New South Wales ;

Victoria; and Perth, West Australia; in October and

November.

MyYRMIDONISTIS, N. &.

Forehead vertical, loosely scaled. Ocelli present. Tongue

well-developed. Antenne almost as long as fore wings, in

male with joints angularly projecting, moderately ciliated (1),

stalk abruptly thickened and deeply notched at base on inner side,

forming a sharp projection above notch, basal joint with upper

angle sharply projecting below it. Labial palpi very long, straight,

porrected, densely rough-scaled above and beneath, terminal joint

moderate, loosely scaled. Maxillary palpi rather short, loosely

rough-scaled, terminally dilated. Posterior tibize in male with

outer median and terminal spurs very short, inner median spur

Australia and the South Pacific. 197

long (inner terminal spur apparently broken). Fore wings with

veins 3, 4, 5 closely approximated at base, 7 and 8 out of 9, 10 and

11 very oblique. Hind wings as broad as fore wings; veins 3, 4, 5

closely approximated at base, 7 out of 6 near origin, anastomosing

with 8 to near middle.

This is another eccentric genus, in essential structure

approaching nearest to Diplopseustis, but extremely dis-

similar in appearance.

Myrmidonistis hoplora, n. s.

S$, 28 mm. Head white. Palpi greyish-ochreous irrorated

with dark fuscous, lower longitudinal half white sprinkled with

reddish. Antenne whitish-ochreous. Thorax whitish-ochreous,

collar whitish, shoulders tuscous. Abdomen whitish. Legs white,

anterior femora and tibize dark fuscous (tarsi broken). Fore wings

rather elongate-triangular, costa posteriorly gently arched, apex

obtuse, hind margin rather oblique, slightly rounded; greenish-

erey, irrorated with white ; a narrow white costal streak, margined

beneath with fuscous-reddish ; ines very obscure, narrow, white,

dentate, first from one-fourth of costa to two-fifths of inner

margin, second from four-fifths of costa parallel to hind margin to

below middle, thence abruptly bent in to below middle of dise,

and again rectangularly bent to inner margin beyond middle; a

small fuscous dot beneath costa at one-third, and a transverse

linear fuscous discal spot in middle; a white hind-marginal streak,

terminated by an irregular fuscous-reddish hind-marginal line ;

cilia whitish, with two greenish-grey lines. Hind wings with hind

margin somewhat bent on vein 2; colour, second line, hind-

marginal streak and line, and cilia as in fore wings.

(Jueensland ; one specimen (coll. Lucas).

Dipetopseustis, Meyr.

Diplopseustis haplodes, n. 8.

3,12 mm. Head, antenn, thorax, and abdomen pale whitish-

ochreous, shoulders fuscous. Palpidark fuscous, labial moderately

long, apex of maxillary whitish-ochreous. Legs ochreous-whitish.

anterior tibize and first joint of tarsi dark fuscous. Fore wings

rather elongate-triangular, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, hind

margin rather obliquely rounded; veins 4 and 5 separate ; whitish-

ochreous, with a few pale fuscous scales, especially towards hind

margin; costa suffused with fuscous from base to near middle,

remainder marked with five small cloudy blackish spots; lines

198 Mr. EF. Meyrick on Pyralidina from

slender, fuscous, first from one-third of costa to two-fifths of inner

margin, slightly curved, second from three-fourths of costa to two-

thirds of inner margin, upper half moderately curved outwards ; a

conspicuous black crescentic discal spot; cilia with basal half

whitish-ochreous, terminal half whitish, with a blackish sub-

moniliform parting-line, and a dark grey spot above anal angle.

Hind wings with veins 4 and 5 separate; whitish, towards hind

margin suffused with pale grey; a grey spot on inner margin

representing first line ; second line as in fore wings, but interrupted

and indistinct; cilia whitish, with a blackish submoniliform

median line.

Toowoomba (2000 feet), Queensland ; one specimen in

December. Relatively broader winged than the other

species of the genus, and differing also in having veins

4 and 5 separate in both wings.

Diplopseustis prophetica, n. 8.

é,14mm. Head, palpi, antenne, thorax, abdomen, and legs

whitish-ochreous; eyes red; palpi mixed with dark fuscous, labial

moderately long; anterior tibie suffused with fuscous. Fore

wings elongate-triangular, costa posteriorly moderately arched,

apex obtuse, hind margin oblique, hardly rounded, sinuate beneath

apex; veins 4 and 6 stalked; pale brownish-ochreous; base of

costa suffused with dark fuscous; extreme costal edge blackish on

basal third and a small median spot; an elongate-oval transparent

spot very near base in middle; first line white, posteriorly

suffusedly margined with dark fuscous, from one-third of costa to

one-third of inner margin, slightly sinuate; a small white discal

spot beyond middle, preceded and followed by a suffused dark

fuscous dot; second line white, anteriorly suffusedly margined

with dark fuscous, from three-fourths of costa to two-thirds of

inner margin, upper half somewhat curved outwards ; cilia whitish-

ochreous, with a dark grey line (imperfect). Hind wings with

veins 4 and 65 short-stalked ; pale whitish-ochreous, becoming pale

brownish-ochreous towards hind margin; lines, formed as in fore

wings, indicated on upper half but very obscurely; cilia ochreous-

whitish (imperfect).

Warragul, Victoria; one specimen (coll. Lucas).

Australia und the South Pacific. 199

SICULODID.

STRIGLINA, Gn.

Striglina irias, n. s.

?, 85mm. Head and thorax grey, slightly purplish-tinged ;

face dark grey, forming a conical projection. Palpi dark grey,

mixed with ochreous. Antenne greyish-ochreous. Abdomen pale

grey, mixed with ochreous, anal extremity mixed with bright

crimson. Legs grey-whitish, somewhat irrorated with darker grey

and crimson. Fore wings triangular, costa almost straight, apex

round-pointed, hind margin bowed, very oblique; pale ashy-grey,

irrorated with pale crimson ; costal edge pale crimson ; numerous

short darker grey transverse strigule placed between veins, tending

to form transverse series; cilia pale ashy-grey, irrorated with pale

crimson. Hind wings with hind margin very shghtly rounded ;

colour, strigule, and cilia as in fore wings, but strigule in more

regular series ; a moderate round grey discal spot above middle.

Queensland ; one specimen (coll. Lucas); a second

unnamed in British Museum collection. Nearest to

S. myrtea.

Striglina semitessellalis, Walk.

Pyralis semitessellalis, Walk., Suppl., 1246.

1 have not obtained the species, and Walker’s type is

in poor condition, but the following is a diagnosis

of it :—

Brownish-grey ; posterior two-fifths of both wings whitish reticu-

lated with reddish, with irregular subapical and supra-anal patches

of ground colour.

Queensland.

Striglina pyrrhata, Walk.

Arhodia pyrrhata, Walk., Suppl., 1575.

SP, 26—29 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax ochreous-brown,

thorax more obscure posteriorly. Antenne ochreous. Abdomen

light ochreous, suffused with light crimson on basal half. Legs

dark fuscous mixed with pale ochreous hairs, anterior pair suffused

with crimson, posterior pair whitish-ochreous. Fore wings

triangular, costa straight, apex round-pointed, hind margin bowed,

oblique; yellow-ochreous, closely and regularly reticulated with

deeper ochreous; two or three small dark fuscous spots on pos-

terior half of costa; a purple line from dise at two-thirds to inner

margin at three-fifths; cilia ochreous-brown, with a darker line

200 Mr. KE. Meyrick on Pyralidina from

near base. Hind wings with colour and cilia as in fore wings; a

straight purple median transverse line.

Sydney, New South Wales; Warragul, Victoria; in

February ; two specimens (coll. Raynor and Lucas).

SicutopEs, H.-S.

Siculodes magnifica, Nn. 8.

?,18mm. Head and palpi orange mixed with black, face with

a conical projection; palpi porrected, roughly scaled. Antenne

black, moderately ciliated (1) (in male probably more strongly

ciliated). Thorax black, margins and posterior half of patagia

orange. Abdomen black, sides and segmental margins orange.

Lees blackish, apex of tarsal joints whitish-ochreous, posterior

tibiw orange. Fore wings rather elongate-triangular, costa some-

what sinuate, abruptly arched before apex, hind margin strongly

rounded, oblique; veins 8 and 9 separate; black; three moderate

orange fasciew, not quite touching margins; first subbasal, irre-

gular; second median, narrowed towards extremities; third sub-

terminal, contracted above middle; an orange dot on costa at

one-fourth; cilia black. Hind wings black; a broad orange

median band, not reaching costa; a small cloudy orange spot

beneath costa before apex, and a larger orange spot before middle

of hind margin, round which are some scattered orange scales ;

cilia black.

Bulli, New South Wales ; one specimen in October.

Siculodes asuridia, Butl.

Gonocausta asuridia, Butl., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.,

1886, 429, Pl. X., 5.

Queensland ; nearest allied to the preceding species.

Siculodes theorina, n. 8.

$,58mm. Head, antenne, thorax, and abdomen pale ochreous

mixed with grey-whitish, partly tinged with brownish or reddish ;

antenne shortly bipectinated throughout. Palpi ferruginous,

ascending, smooth-scaled, terminal joint very short. Legs pale

ochreous, suffused with reddish and mixed with grey. Fore wings

elongate-triangwar, costa rather strongly sinuate, apex obtuse,

hind margin bowed, oblique; vein 1 basally fureate, 8 and 9

separate ; reddish-ochreous, costal half suffused with grey-whitish

except on an apical patch; five ferruginous fasciz, darkest on

Australia and the South Pacific. 201

costa, interrupted beneath it, becoming paler towards inner mar-

gin, edged with dark grey; first three narrow, third from two-fifths

of costa to before middle of inner margin; fourth moderate, from

two-thirds of costa to two-thirds of inner margin, sharply angu-

lated at one-fourth from costa, almost confluent with an irregular

discal spot in angle, posterior edge indented towards inner margin ;

fifth narrow, parallel to fourth, posteriorly merging into irregular

reticulations ; cilia fuscous. Hind wings with apex obtuse, hind

margin rounded; reddish-ochreous, obscurely reticulated with

fuscous ; four tolerably parallel curved fascive indicated by fuscous

opposite-waved margins, space between second and third forming

four partially hyaline circular spots in disc; cilia fuscous, towards

anal angle tips whitish.

Queensland; one specimen (coll. Macleay). Pheno-

menally large as compared with allied forms from

neighbouring regions. The pectination of the antenne

is but an exaggeration of the dentation which occurs in

some other species.

Siculodes aurata, Butl.

Pharambara aurata, Butl., Ann. Mag. N. H., 1882,

233 ; Siculodes hydreutis, Meyr., Proc. Linn. Soc.

N.S. W., 1886, 253).

Since seeing Mr. Butler’s type (from New Britain) I

have been enabled to make this identification.

Siculodes crypsivia, Nn. s.

Pharanbara reticulata, Butl., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.,

1886, 420.

I make this change for the reasons stated at the

beginning of this paper.

Duaringa, Queensland; sent commonly by Mr. G.

Barnard.

Siculodes rhythmica, n. s.

9, 19mm. Head and antenne grey-whitish. Palpi whitish-

grey, slender, smooth, ascending, terminal joint moderately long.

Thorax white, anterior margin suffused with pale greyish-fuscous.

Abdomen whitish. Legs white, banded with dark grey. Fore

wings elongate-triangular, costa posteriorly gently arched, apex

obtuse, hind margin very obliquely rounded; veins 8 and 9

TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1887.—PART III. (SEPT.) Q

202 Mr. E. Meyrick on Pyralidina from

Separate ; snow-white ; costa suffused with fuscous on basal third ;

numerous irregularly scattered and partially confluent short trans-

verse fuscous strigule between the veins; a round black dot before

apex, a second before hind margin in middle, and a third above

anal angle; a short black longitudinal mark above second dot;

cilia white, barred with light fuscous. Hind wings with colour,

strigule, and cilia as in fore wings; a round black dot before hind

margin beneath apex, and a second before hind margin con-

siderably above anal angle. Fore wings beneath with a double

longitudinal streak of black scales, mixed with purple and green

metallic scales, along upper margin of cell; markings more

ochreous.

Port Darwin, North Australia; two specimens. Nearly

allied to S. anticalis, Walk.

Mesopempta, Mey.

Mesopempta polyphoralis, Walk.

Pyralis polyphoralis, Walk., Suppl., 1977; P. poly-

graphalis, ib., 1245.

So ?,15—16 mm. Head and palpi deep ferruginous. Antenne

pale ochreous. ‘Thorax and abdomen reddish-ochreous. Legs

reddish-ochreous or fuscous, tarsal joints with pale apical rings,

posterior tibiz in male with an expansible pencil of long fine

whitish hairs from base lying in a groove. Fore wings elongate-

triangular, costa posteriorly moderately arched, apex obtuse, hind

margin obliquely rounded ; pale reddish-ochreous; a darker basal

patch extending to one-third of costa and one-fourth of inner

margin, its outer edge forming an angular projection above middle;

costa between this and fascia strigulated with darker and lighter ;

a moderate darker fascia, in female more ferruginous-brown,

posterior edge straight and sharply defined by a whitish-ochreous

line from two-thirds of costa to two-thirds of inner margin,

anterior edge dilated inwards on lower half and touching projection

of basal patch ; a somewhat darker cloud on hind margin beneath

apex, and another on anal angle; cilia reddish-ochreous, terminal

half whitish-ochreous. Hind wings with hind margin slightly

rounded ; colour and markings much as in fore wings, but basal

pateh much smaller and without projection, inner edge of fascia

straight and parallel to outer, a tolerably defined streak parallel to

fascia at three-fourths, sometimes a small dark reddish-fuscous

spot near hind margin beneath apex; cilia as in fore wings.

Duaringa, Queensland; three specimens sent by Mr.

Australia and the South Pacific. 203

G. Barnard. Walker intentionally substituted the name

of polyphoralis, having used the name of Pyralis poly-

graphalis twice, in the first instance for a different

species.

TINEODIDA.

I think the curious additional genus given below dis-

closes so much affinity to the Siculodide that the family

should be transferred to this position. In the diagnosis

of the family the neuration of the hind wings should be

altered to read: Vein 5 remote from 4, 6 and 7 separate,

8 free or anastomosing at a point with 7.

HPHARPASTIS, 0. 2.

Forehead vertical. Ocelli present. Tongue well-developed.

Antenne three-fourths, in male slender, strongly bipectinated.

Labial palpi long, straight, porrected, second joint rough-scaled

above and beneath, terminal joint slender. Maxillary palpi

moderate, terminally strongly dilated with rough scales. Posterior

tibiz in male with all spurs nearly equal. Fore wings with vein 1

simple, 3, 4, 5 remote, 8 and 9 stalked. Hind wings as broad as

fore wings; 3, 4, 5 remote, 6 and 7 somewhat approximated at

base, 8 free, lower median naked.

EHpharpastis dedala, v. s.

S 2, 15—16 mm. Head bronzy-ochreous, margins of eyes

white. Palpi bronzy-ochreous, beneath white, apex of maxillary

palpi white. Antennz dark fuscous, annulated with white. Thorax

bronzy-ochreous, posteriorly mixed with white. Abdomen white,

segments coarsely irrorated with black towards base. Legs white,

irrorated with black. Fore wings very elongate-triangular, very

narrow at base, costa slightly sinuate, apex subfalecate, hind margin

concave, rather oblique, rounded beneath; bronzy-ochreous ;

markings snow-white, partially coarsely margined with black ;

seven small subquadrate spots on costa, costal edge between them

blackish ; a small cloudy spot beneath first costal; three irregular

fascie, tolerably perpendicular to inner margin, first from second

costal spot, slender, second from third costal spot, moderate, third

from fifth and sixth costal spots, moderate, sometimes dilated

towards lower extremity; a fine transverse linear white discal

mark between second and third fascie ; cilia white, with a blackish

median line, and barred with blackish except on upper half of hind

margin. Hind wings narrow towards base, apex round-pointed,

204 Mr. E. Meyrick on Pyralidina from

hind margin subconeave, short; grey, becoming dark grey towards

inner margin ; margins of three fascie indicated by white lines in

dise, coalescing to form irregular white spots on inner margin at

one-fourth, middle, and three-fourths; a darker grey spot on

middle of hind margin; cilia white, with a grey median line, and

barred with grey except on upper half of hind margin.

Perth, West Australia; two specimens, in October

and November.

MUSOTIMID.

TrRicHopHYsETIS, Meyr.

Trichophysetis cretacea, Butl.

Hydrocampa cretacea, Butl., Ill. Het., iii., 75, pl. lix.,

8; Trichophysetis neophyla, Meyr., Trans. Ent.

Soc. Lond., 1884, 287).

Butler’s type is from Japan.

Musotma, Meyr.

Musotima nitidalis, Walk.

Also from Albany, West Australia.

HYDROCAMPIDE.

Marearosticua, Ld.

Forehead flat, oblique. Ocelli very small. Tongue well-

developed. Antenne three-fourths, in male filiform, somewhat

rough-scaled on back, moderately ciliated (}). Labial palpi mode-

rate, curved, ascending, second joint roughly haired beneath,

terminal joint moderate, cylindrical, obtuse. Maxillary palpi

moderate, terminally loosely dilated with scales. Middle tibie of

male sometimes with a pencil of hairs lying in a groove; posterior

tibie with outer spurs half inner. Fore wings with veins 4 and 5

stalked, 10 out of stalk of 8 and 9, 11 absent. Hind wings as

broad as fore wings; veins 4 and 5 approximated at base,

6 anastomosing with 8 at a point near origin, 7 absent (coincident

with 8).

Margarosticha sphenotis, n.s.

32, 19—2% mm. Head and palpi pale ochreous mixed with

white. Antenne whitish-ochreous. ‘Thorax white, somewhat

mixed with ochreous. Abdomen yellow-ochreous, apex blackish.

Legs white, anterior pair ochreous-whitish, apex of joints grey ;

middle tibia in male with a tuft of long hairs in groove. Fore

Australia and the South Pacific. 205

wings very elongate-triangular, costa posteriorly arched, apex

rectangular, hind margin obliquely rounded, somewhat sinuate

beneath apex; deep ochreous-yellow, in female paler ; markings

snow-white, obscurely margined with dark grey, an elongate-

triangular spot on base of inner margin parallel to costa, reaching

dise at one-third; a moderately broad rather outwardly oblique

fascia-like spot from inner margin at two-fifths, reaching half

across wing, its apex produced into two long teeth posteriorly; a

leaden-metallic elongate mark on anal angle; a moderate out-

wardly oblique fascia from two-thirds of costa, reaching two-thirds

across wing, and a narrower fascia from costa near before and

parallel to hind margin, both attenuated and almost or quite

meeting at lower extremity; an interrupted black hind-marginal

line; cilia shining whitish-grey. Hind wings snow-white; a dark

erey irregular fascia at one-third, anteriorly suffused ; an irregular

ochreous-yellow grey-margined fascia from middle of costa to anal

angle, dilated beneath, followed by an iridescent pale grey narrow

fascia with an acute tooth beneath; space between this fascia and

marginal spots closely speckled with black; five roundish black

marginal spots on upper portion of hind margin, first and fifth

smaller, all surrounded with clear white and connected by yellow

dots; apex narrowly ochreous-yellow; cilia shining whitish-grey,

with a dark grey basal line.

Cairns, Queensland; three specimens (coll. Macleay

and Lucas).

Catractysta, Hb.

Cataclysta lampetialis, Walk.

Cataclysta lampetialis, Walk., 451.

?,17mm. Head, palpi, and thorax ochreous-yellowish mixed

with white. Antenne whitish-ochreous. Abdomen yellowish,

segmental margins whitish. Legs whitish, anterior pair with apex

of joints dark grey. Fore wings very elongate-triangular, costa

almost straight, apex rounded, hind margin obliquely rounded;

ochreous-yellow, from base to two-thirds irregularly irrorated with

black; a straight narrow leaden-metallic partially blackish-mar-

gined fascia from beneath costa at three-fifths to before anal angle;

a transverse white laterally black-margined spot in disc at three-

fourths, nearly reaching costa, narrowed beneath; a narrow leaden-

metallic blackish-margined fascia near and parallel to hind margin,

becoming white above, not reaching costa, beneath attenuated and

bent down to anal angle; an interrupted black hind-marginal line ;

cilia whitish-grey, with a darker grey line. Hind wings with all

206 Mr. BE. Meyrick on Pyralidina from

veins present; ochreous-yellow, towards base irregularly irrorated

with black; markings whitish densely irrorated with blackish,

appearing grey, blackish-margined; an irregular median band,

becoming very broad towards costa, where it includes an irregular

spot of ground colour; a narrow irregular fascia between this and

hind margin; four rounded-quadrate black spots on hind margin

towards middle, lowest rather smaller; cilia grey-whitish, with a

erey line.

(Jueensland ; one specimen (coll. Lucas).

Paraponyx, Hb.

Paraponyx eromenalis, Snell.

Cenostola eromenalis, Snell., Tijd. v. Ent., 1880, 226 ;

ib., 1883, pl. iii., 4.

3, 16 mm. Head white, crown centrally yellowish. Palpi

white, upper half of second joint fuscous, second joint roughly

tufted beneath. Antenne whitish-ochreous. Thorax whitish,

mixed with ochreous, and spotted with dark fuscous. Abdomen

whitish-ochreous (partly defaced), with a clear white subbasal

ring. Legs white, anterior tibie ochreous, with apical half dark

fuscous. Fore wings elongate-triangular, costa almost straight,

apex tolerably obtuse, hind margin obliquely rounded, somewhat

sinuate beneath apex; brownish-ochreous, mixed with whitish

towards disc; costal edge whitish, with six somewhat wedge-

shaped small dark fuscous spots; first and second connected with

base by two fine blackish lines parallel to costa, separated by an

ochreous-yellow streak continued to apex of wing; beneath this is

a silvery-white black-margined streak from near base to five-sixths,

interrupted by first and second lines and by a yellow bar in

middle; an irregular white anteriorly blackish-margined streak

from near base of inner margin to meet longitudinal white streak

before first line; first and second lines white, more or less

ochreous-tinged, margined with dark fuscous; first from second

costal spot to two-fifths of inner margin, unevenly curved; second

starting from longitudinal white streak beyond central bar, below

middle acutely bent inwards to below yellow bar, which it

surrounds with two projections, thence again acutely outwards to

near inner margin, and again acutely inwards to middle of inner

margins; velns near costa posteriorly lined with black; a snow-

white black-margined streak in dise from second to submarginal

lines; submarginal narrow, snow-white, black-margined, parallel

to hind margin, not quite reaching costa attenuated in middle,

Australia and the South Pacific. 207

leaving an ochreous-yellow hind-marginal fascia; a row of elon-

gate blackish dots on hind margin; cilia grey-whitish, somewhat

mixed with grey, with a grey apical spot, and a blackish line near

base. Hind wings white ; first line at one-third, ochreous-whitish,

margined with black, anteriorly broadly, straight, somewhat

waved; a short ochreous-yellow transverse discal streak, resting

on middle of second line; second line irregular, mixed with

ochreous, strongly margined with blackish, from two-thirds of

costa to inner margin near anal angle, upper half curved outwards ;

an irregular curved blackish line from costa near beyond second

line, running into second line near lower extremity, included

space ochreous-brown; a narrow ochreous hind-marginal fascia,

margined anteriorly with blackish, touching preceding line above

middle ; three white dots on middle of hind margin, followed by

quadrate black spots in cilia; cilia as in fore wings, with a second

grey line towards middle.

Queensland ; one specimen (coll. Lucas). If really

Snellen’s species, also from Celebes and Java. I believe

that it is so; but Snellen unaccountably refers it to

Cenostola, whereas it is an undoubted Paraponyx ; his

description is insufficient for the unusually complex

markings of this species, and his figure is also very

poor; I have therefore redescribed the species to avoid

misapprehension.

Paraponyx polydectalis, Walk.

Also from Newcastle, New South Wales.

Paraponyx responsalis, Walk.

Diasemia responsalis, Walk., Suppl., 1826.

g, 14—16 mm. Head, palpi, antenne, thorax, and abdomen

pale ochreous, sometimes mixed with darker ochreous or fuscous ;

palpi with second joint shortly rough-scaled beneath, terminal joint

about half second, rather thick, filiform, obtuse. Legs ochreous-

whitish. Fore wings very elongate-triangular, costa almost

straight, apex rounded, hind margin obliquely rounded; ochreous,

somewhat irrorated with fuscous; extreme base fuscous; an

irregular whitish transverse line at one-fifth, anteriorly margined

with a fuscous line; first and second lines rather irregular, white,

margined with fuscous, first from two-fifths of costa to before

middle of inner margin, slightly bent outwards beneath costa,

second from four-fifths of costa to two-thirds of inner margin,

208 Mr. E. Meyrick on Pyralidina from

below middle with a short rather abrupt curve inwards; included

median space suffused with fuscous, containing small white

orbicular and reniform spots, and a white cloudy spot on middle

of costa; a series of irregular white spots before hind margin,

surrounded by a more or less dark fuscous suffusion ; cilia grey-

whitish, with a darker grey median line (imperfect). Hind wings

with colour, submarginal spots, and cilia as in fore wings; first

and second lines white, dark-margined, tolerably regular and

slightly curved, converging almost to a point on inner margin

beyond middle, included median space fuscous.

Duaringa, Queensland; two specimens sent by Mr.

G. Barnard.

Paraponyx dicentra, Meyy.

Oligostigma pallida, Butl., Trans. Ent. Soe. Lond.,

1886, 428, is a synonym of this.

Hyprevretis, Meyr.

Hydreuretis tullialis, Walk.

Also from Neweastle, New South Wales.

ScHanosius, Dup.

Schenobius imparellus, Meyr.

Also from Melbourne, Victoria. The water-plant on

which the larva of this species feeds has been identified

for me as Heleocharis sphacellata.

BOTYDIDAs.

MarGaroDEs, Gn.

Margarodes limbata, Butl.

Margarodes limbata, Butl., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.,

1886, 430.

Apparently a good species.

Margarodes unionalis, Hb.

Neweastle, New South Wales; one specimen (Australian

Museum). Also from South Africa, South Europe,

and Asia,

Australia and the South Pacific. 209

Margarodes diaphanalis, Walk.

Margaronia diaphanalis, Walk., Suppl., 1865; Botys

margaronialis, ib., 1442.

?, 29 mm. Head, palpi, antenne, thorax, and abdomen

shining white; lower part of face greyish; palpi towards apex

dark purplish-grey; shoulders narrowly fuscous-grey. Legs

blackish ringed with white, posterior pair white. Fore wings very

elongate-triangular, costa posteriorly gently arched, apex obtuse,

hind margin slightly rounded, very oblique; iridescent white; a

narrow dark fuscous costal streak from base to apex, posteriorly

attenuated ; a black transverse discal dot; a submarginal series of

conspicuous black dots; cilia shining white. Hind wings and

cilia iridescent white; sometimes hind-marginal dots as in fore

wings.

Cairns, Queensland; one specimen (coll. Macleay).

IT have compared Walker’s specimens of margaronialis ;

but his diaphanalis, which is not in the British Museum

collection, I have identified from description ; however,

I believe there is little doubt about it. The former is

from Java, the latter from Aru. I think it not im-

probable that M. plumifera, Butl. (Ann. Mag. N. H.,

1882, 236), from New Britain, may be the male of this

species.

Margarodes tritonias, n. s.

3, 45—49 mm. Head, antenne, thorax, abdomen, and legs

iridescent greenish-whitish ; lower angles of face and margins of

shoulders bright yellow-ochreous; antennal ciliations one-third ;

anal tuft blackish; anterior and middle tibie suffused with

ochreous, middle tibize shortly rough-scaled above. Palpi bright

yellow-ochreous, lower half of labial white. Fore wings elongate-

triangular, costa posteriorly moderately arched, apex obtuse, hind

margin almost straight, oblique; iridescent greenish-whitish; a

moderate pale ochreous costal streak, becoming obsolete towards

apex, costal edge purplish-tinged; a blackish discal dot; a hind-

marginal series of minute black elongate dots; cilia white. Hind

wings iridescent greenish-whitish; a very fine blackish hind-

marginal line, tending to be interrupted; cilia white.

Cooktown, Queensland; two specimens (coll. Macleay).

Margarodes vertumnalis, Gn.

Also from Neweastle, New South Wales.

210 Mr. E. Meyrick on Pyralidina from

PacuyarcHEs, Ld.

Pachyarches psittacalis, Hb.

Margaronia maliferalis, Walk., Suppl., 1363, is a

synonym of this. Also from Townsville, Queensland.

(FLYPHODES, Gn.

Glyphodes tyres, Cr.

Pyralis tyres, Cr., 263 C; Pygospila tyresalis, Gn., 312.

Port Darwin, North Australia; several specimens

(coll. Macleay). Also from India and Ceylon. Lederer

follows Guénée in maintaining a separate genus, Pygo-

spila, for this species ; but he does not give any sufficient

point of distinction from Glyphodes, only alleging diffe-

rences in the anal tuft which I find imappreciable ; I

have therefore suppressed it.

Glyphodes conjunctalis, Walk.

Glyphodes conjunctalis, Walk., Suppl., 1857; G. acto-

rionalis, Ld., pl. xiv., 4 (nec Walk.) ; G. Lederert,

Butl., Ann. Mag. N. H., 1884, 208).

SY, 25—28 mm. Head and antenne dark fuscous, with a

white line above eyes. Palpi black, apex white. Thorax blackish,

with a quadrate white spot on each side. Abdomen fuscous,

towards base and apex blackish, beneath white, with black rings.

Legs dark fuscous, posterior pair white, outer spurs half inner.

Fore wings elongate-triangular, costa posteriorly arched, apex

obtuse, hind margin obliquely rounded ; blackish, with violet-white

somewhat transparent markings; a small spot in dise before one-

fourth, and a larger roundish one beyond it; an irregular elongate

spot along inner margin from near base to middle; a large suboval

transverse blotch in dise beyond middle, not reaching margins; a

small transverse spot on costa at four-fifths, beneath which is a

round dot; a straight transverse series of four subtriangular dots

on lower half of wing near hind margin, lowest marginal; from

one to three dots before hind margin below middle ; cilia blackish,

beneath apex and above anal angle white. Hind wings blackish,

with violet-white subtransparent markings; a very broad band

extending from very near base to beyond middle, outer edge

curved, waved; two dots transversely placed near beyond this

towards costa; a moderate subquadrate spot on hind margin above

Australia and the South Pacific. 211

middle ; two small triangular spots very near hind margin above

anal angle; cilia blackish, near above anal angle and sometimes

shortly beneath apex white with a black basal line.

Cairns, Queensland; four specimens (coll. Macleay

and Lucas). Also from New Guinea and Mysol.

Glyphodes Doleschali, Ld.

Glyphodes Doleschali, Lid., 478, pl. xiv., 1.

Cooktown, Queensland ; one specimen (coll. Macleay).

Also from Amboina.

Glyphodes perspicillalis, Z.

Also from Cooktown and Cairns, Queensland.

Glyphodes tolumnialis, Walk.

Duaringa and Cooktown, Queensland; Newcastle,

New South Wales.

I notice that Mr. Moore, in his Lepidoptera of Ceylon,

asserts that the Austrahan G. tolumnialis is quite

distinct from his sexpunctalis (= lomaspilalis, Snell. =

nympha, Butl.); as [ had previously asserted their

identity, and he gives no points of distinction, I should

have been justified in neglecting this statement ; I have,

however, again examined the evidence, as well as in

some other cases mentioned hereafter. I compared

Butler’s types of nympha, which Mr. Moore himself

regards as identical with his sexrpunctalis, with Walker’s

types of tolumnialis, standing in the same drawer of the

British Museum collection, and am unable to detect

even a shadow of difference between them; and Mr.

Moore’s description applies equally to both. Until,

therefore, he shall have indicated his grounds, I think

the distinction may be considered of as little value as

the characters of the new genus which he institutes to

contain this species.

Glyphodes excelsalis, Walk.

Also from Duaringa and Cooktown, Queensland.

Glyphodes Westermanni, Snell., Tijd. v. Ent., 1877, 73,

pl. v., 8, is a synonym of this; from Celebes.

212 Mr. E. Meyrick on Pyralidina from

Glyphodes ityalis, Walk.

Glyphodes ityalis (itysalis), Walk., 501; G. prepersialis,

Snell., Midd. Sum., 68, Tijd. v. Ent., 1883,

pl. viii., 11; G. malayana, Butl., Proc. Zool. Soc.,

1880, 684.

The species varies somewhat in the discal mark of the

hind wings, which tends to become obsolete. I have it

also from Ceylon.

Glyphodes bivitralis, Gn.

Glyphodes bivitralis, Gn., 298.

Queensland ; one specimen (coll. Lucas). Also from

India. Antennal ciliations of male one; posterior tibie

with outer spurs one-fourth of inner.

Glyphodes cosmarcha, n. 8.

?,46mm. Head and antenne whitish-ochreous, with a white

line above eyes. Palpi with a cloudy dark fuscous lateral line,

above it light ochreous, beneath white. Thorax pale ochreous,

with obscure whitish lines (partly defaced). Abdomen pale

ochreous mixed with whitish, apex whitish. Legs ochreous-

whitish, posterior tibize with outer spurs one-third of inner. Fore

wings elongate-triangular, costa slightly sinuate, posteriorly arched,

apex obtuse, hind margin oblique, somewhat bowed; pale greyish-

ochreous; markings violet-whitish, semitransparent, margined

with dark fuscous; a narrow basal fascia; a slender fascia from

costa near base to one-third of inner margin, preceded and followed

by faint parallel fuscous lines; a broad fascia from one-third of

costa to middle of inner margin, constricted beneath ; a narrow

irregular transverse streak near beyond this, not reaching either

margin; a subquadrate blotch on costa at three-fifths, reaching

nearly half across wing, connected with inner margin by a dark

fuscous cloudy suffusion; a line from three-fourths of costa to

three-fourths of inner margin, forming a small spot on costa,

sinuate beneath it, on lower half forming four small connected

triangular spots; a cloudy fuscous spot near hind margin above

middle ; a dark fuscous hind-marginal line ; cilia ochreous-whitish,

with a cloudy fuscous line. Hind wings violet-whitish, semi-

transparent; a short oblique yellow-ochreous streak on transverse

yein, margined with dark fuscous ; a very small yellow-ochreous

dark-margined oval spot below middle of disc; a narrow yellow-

ochreous fascia, margined with dark fuscous, from a dark fuscous

Australia and the South Pacific. 2138

blotch on costa at two-thirds to hind margin near anal angle,

where it is bent inwards ; an obscure cloudy dark fuscous line near

beyond this; a small dark fuseous apical spot; two small roundish

dark fuscous spots near hind margin beneath apex; a dark fuscous

hind-marginal line; cilia white, with an obscure grey line.

Queensland ; one specimen (coll. Lucas).

Morocosma, Ld.

Morocosma margaritaria, Cr.

Pyralis margaritaria, Cr., 867 C ; Glyphodes cramer-

alis, Gn., 293; Morocosma margaritaria, Ld.,

pl. xiv., 7; M. polybapta, Butl., Ann. Mag. N. H.,

1882, 236.

Cairns, Queensland; one specimen (coll. Macleay).

Also from Amboina and Duke-of-York Island.

Eucuasta, Ld.

Euclasta maceratalis, Ld.

Townsville and Rockhampton, Queensland.

SyncLera, Ld.

I have not satisfactory material to make out a full

description of the generic characters, but they appear to

be in the main identical with those of Glyphodes, from

which this genus is distinguished by having the antenne

nearly as long as the fore wings, and the maxillary palpi

filiform.

Synclera braurealis, Walk.

Zebronia braurealis, Walk., 971; Lepyrodes astomalis,

Feld., pl. exxxv., 22; Glyphodes astomalis, Meyr.,

Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1886, 224.

Occurs also in Ceylon and Borneo.

Although I have not been able to re-examine the

characters of this species, | expect it is referable here ;

in the single specimen which | previously examined the

antenne were imperfect, and | probably overlooked the

filiform character of the maxillary palpi.

214 Mr. E. Meyrick on Pyralidina from

Synclera onychinalis, Gn.

Asopia onychinalis, Gn., 205, pl. vi., 9.

Cooktown, Queensland; one specimen (coll. Macleay).

Also from Celebes and India.

PHALANGIODES, (7.

Phalangiodes neptis, Cr.

Also from Duaringa, Queensland.

Phalangiodes columalis, Snell.

Phalangiodes coluwmalis, Snell., Tid. v. Ent., 1880,

239';1b5 LO8a, pl. Iv-, o-

New Guinea; several specimens (coll. Macleay). Also

from Celebes.

RuHIMPHALEA, Ld.

Rhimphalea lindalis, Walk.

Botys lindalis (Undusalis), Walk., 712; Rhimphalea

sceletalis, Ld., 411, pl. xv., 3; R. enone, Butl.,

Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1886, 428.

Occurs also in Borneo.

LoncHopEs, Gn.

Lonchodes argillacea, Butl.

Tatobotys argillacea, Butl., Proc. Zool. Soc., 1880, 686 ;

Lonchodes ceramochra, Meyy., Trans. Ent. Soc.

Lond., 1885, 443.

Butler’s specimens were from Formosa.

Spanista, Ld.

Spanista ornatalis, Dup.

Cataclysta clutalis, Walk., 448; Pyralis deciusalis, ib.,

905; and Cataclysta fraterna, Butl., Ann. Mag. N. H.,

1875, 415, are additional synonyms of this species.

FinoprEs, Gn.

Forehead rounded, oblique. Ocelli present. Tongue well-

developed. Antenne considerably longer than fore wings, in male

serrate, shortly ciliated (}). Labial palpi moderate, arched,

Australia and the South Pacific. 215

ascending, second joint with dense projecting seales beneath,

terminal joint very short, cylindrical, obtuse. Maxillary palpi

moderate, terminally dilated with loose scales. Abdomen in male

elongate, anal tuft moderately large. Posterior tibie with outer

middle-spur absent in both sexes ; anterior femora and basal half

of tarsi in male clothed with dense hairs beneath. Fore wings

with vein 10 approximated to 9, 11 very oblique. Hind wings as

broad as fore wings; veins 3, 4, 5 approximated at base, 7 out of 6

near origin, anastomosing with 8 to beyond one-third (in the only

male examined coincident with 8 to apex, but possibly an abnormal

instance).

Filodes fulvidorsalis, Hb.

Pinacia fulvidorsalis, Hb., Zut., 643, 644; Filodes

fulvidorsalis, Gn., 317 ; Iid.,pletxilsi lite

Cooktown, Queensland ; one specimen (coll. Macleay).

Also from Manilla, Java, and Ceylon.

Drace#nura, Meyr.

Dracenura pelochra, Meyr.

Botys argyrogaster, Butl., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.,

1886, 431, is a synonym of this.

Pieonectusa, Ld.

Pleonectusa adhesalis, Walk.

Botys adhesalis, Walk., 664; B. atopalis, ib., 664;

B. damasalis, ib., 668; B. macaralis, ib., 709).

?, 20—22 mm. Head and thorax light fuscous, tinged with

whitish-ochreous. Palpi dark fuscous, towards base white beneath.

Antenne pale greyish-ochreous, annulated with fuscous. Abdomen

whitish-ochreous. Legs ochreous-whitish. Fore wings very

elongate-triangular, costa posteriorly moderately arched, apex

obtuse, hind margin oblique, somewhat bowed; fuscous, some-

what tinged with whitish-ochreous ; a dark fuscous dot beneath

costa at one-fourth, and a small dark fuscous transverse discal

spot in middle ; second line slender, dark fuscous, slightly waved,

from two-thirds of costa to three-fourths of inner margin, gently

curved outwards; a fine dark fuscous hind-marginal line; cilia

whitish, with a strong dark grey line near base. Hind wings with

colour, diseal spot, second and hind-marginal lines, and cilia as in

fore wings; but discal spot at one-third, smaller and less distinct,

second line somewhat irregular but hardly curved.

216 Mr. E. Meyrick on Pyralidina from

Queensland ; two specimens (coll. Lucas). Also from

Borneo, China, Ceylon, and Mauritius.

Pleonectusa parallela, Meyv.

Botys horatius, Butl., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1886,

430, is a synonym of this.

Pleonectusa modestalis, Ld.

Erilita modestalis, Lid., 426, pl. xvi., 3; Pleonectusa

chalinota, Meyr., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1886,

233.

Lederer founded the genus Hrilita on this species,

distinguishing it by a supposed peculiarity in the origin

of vein 5 of the fore wings, which I am unable to

perceive. I therefore think the genus may be rightly

suppressed. It was in consequence of this supposed

distinction that I failed at first to identify his species.

CnapHauocrocis, Ld.

Cnaphalocrocis medinalis, Gn.

Salbia medinalis, Gn., 201; Botys rutilalis, Walk.,

665; B. iolealis, ib., 666; B. nurscialis, ib., 724;

B. acerrimalis, ib., Suppl., 1449; Cnaphalocrocis

tolinalis, Lid., pl. xii., 7.

Mr. Moore has identified Guenée’s description of Salbia

medinalis with this species; and, although this pre-

supposes some inaccuracy in the description, Guénée

described a single female only, perhaps not in good

condition, and I am disposed to regard the identification

as probably correct. Mr. Moore also alleges that

Walker’s nurscialis is a distinct species, without giving

reasons ; in this case there is some colour for the suppo-

sition, as in the Australian insect there isa more or less

yellowish hind-marginal streak which seems obsolete

elsewhere, but the point is variable, and without further

evidence I prefer to regard it as a local form only.

I have not, however, examined the neuration of the

extra-Australian form.

Australia and the South Pacific.

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Marasmia, Ld.

Marasmia hemicrossa, n. 8.

3 2, 16—17 mm. Head fuscous, margins of face slenderly

white. Palpi dark fuscous, beneath white towards base. Antenne

pale greyish-ochreous. Thorax fuscous, becoming white pos-

teriorly. Abdomen whitish, base and lateral hairs of anal seg-

ment in male fuscous. Legs white, anterior tibie fuscous. Fore

wings elongate-triangular, costa slightly sinuate, apex obtuse, hind

margin obliquely rounded; whitish; a broad fuscous costal border,

containing a small dark fuscous discal spot in middle, and an

equally broad fuscous hind-marginal band, its anterior edge

triangularly indented above anal angle, and indicated on costal

band by a pale obscure line; cilia fuscous (imperfect). Hind

wings white, thinly scaled ; a transverse linear dark fuscous discal

spot at one-third; a short oblique cloudy dark fuscous streak from

anal angle; in male a broad very pale whitish-ochreous apical

suffusion, becoming fuscous at extreme apex; in female a large

quadrate fuscous apical spot; cilia white.

Tahiti: two specimens received from Mr. J. J. Walker,

R.N.

DouicHosticHa, Meyr.

Dolichosticha trapezalis, Gn.

Salbia trapezalis, Gn., 200; Botys creonalis, Walk.,

579; B. neoclesalis, ib., 685; B. suspicalis, ib.,

667; B. convectalis, ib., Suppl., 1411; Cnaphalo-

crocis bifurcalis, Snell., Tijd. v. Ent., 1880, 219 ;

ib., 1883, pl. viil., 5.

I have no doubt of this identification; the species

varies somewhat, but I have specimens agreeing perfectly

with Guénée’s description. A Tahitian form, sent by

Mr. J J. Walker, is unusually dark and large, but not

distinct.

West Indies, Tahiti, Marquesas and Ellice Islands,

Fiji, Celebes, Java, Ceylon, India, West and South

Africa.

Dolichosticha venihalis, Walk.

Also from Tahiti; sent by Mr. J. J. Walker.

Dolichosticha perinephes, Meyy.

Duaringa, Queensland; one female sent by Mr. G.

TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1887.—PARY III. (SEPT.) R

218 My. EB. Meyrick on Pyralidina from

Barnard, more ochreous-yellowish than the Fijian male,

but not otherwise different.

SYNGAMIA, Gn.

Syngamia floridalis, Z.

Also from Cairns, Queensland (coll. Macleay and

Lucas); Tahiti (Mr. J. J. Walker).

Hyalea fulvidalis, Wallgr., Wien. Ent. Mon., 1860,

174, is, I feel satisfied, an additional synonym of this

species.

AGATHODES, Gn.

Forehead flat, oblique. Ocelli present. ‘Tongue well-developed.

Antenne four-fifths, in male shortly ciliated (4), filiform. Labial

palpi moderate, arched, ascending, second joint with long dense

projecting scales beneath, terminal joint concealed. Maxillary

palpi rather short, terminally dilated with scales. Abdomen in

male with anal segment elongate, tuft short, slender, valves

retracted. Posterior tibia with outer middle-spur one-fourth,

outer end-spur one-third of inner. Fore wings with vein 10

approximated to 9, 11 very oblique. Hind wings one-third broader

than fore wings; veins 3, 4, 5 closely approximated at base, 7 out

of 6 near origin, anastomosing with 8 to one-third.

Agathodes ostensalis, Hb.

Perinephela ostensalis, Hb., Zut., 833, 884 ; Agathodes

ostensalis, Gn., 208.

Cooktown, Queensland ; one specimen (coll. Macleay).

Also from Celebes, Sumatra, Java, and India.

Dratarausta, Ld.

Forehead tolerably flat, oblique. Ocelli present. Tongue well-

developed. Antenne almost as long as fore wings (in male filiform,

shortly ciliated, according to Lederer). Labial palpi moderate,

obliquely ascending, second joint with short rough projecting

scales beneath, terminal joint moderately long, cylindrical. Mavxil-

lary palpi moderate, dilated with scales towards apex. Fore wings

with vein 10 rising out of stalk of 8 and 9, 11 oblique. Hind

wings as broad as fore wings; veins 3 and 4 from a point, 5 absent,

7 out of 6 near origin, anastomosing with 8 to near middle,

Australia and the South Pacific. 219

Diathrausta profundalis, Ld.

Diathrausta profundalis, Ld., 146, pl. xvil., 7.

2,15 mm. Head dark fuscous, sides of face and central line

of crown whitish. Palpi dark fuscous, towards base and on

terminal joint white. Antenne and thorax dark fuscous. Abdomen

dark fuscous, segmental margins more or less white. (Legs

broken.) Fore wings elongate-triangular, costa posteriorly gently

arched, apex rectangular, hind margin oblique, bowed, sinuate

beneath apex; blackish-fuscous ; second line darker, obscure, from

costa at three-fifths, preceded by a clear white oblong transverse

spot reaching half across wing, beneath which it is bent abruptly

inwards to middle of disc, thence again rectangularly bent to

inner margin beyond middle, near inner margin preceded and

followed by a small cloudy white spot; a cloudy white dot on

costa beyond second line, anda small clear white spot on costa

before apex; cilia white, with dark fuscous apical, median, and

anal spots. Hind wings with colour and markings as in fore

wings, but second line margined on both sides with white through-

out; cilia with an additional small dark fuscous spot near anal

angle.

Queensland; one specimen (coll. Lucas). Also from

Amboina, Celebes, and Java. As Lederer scarcely

describes the species, I have redescribed it.

DiasEmMia, Gn.

Diasemia ramburialis, Dup.

Lineodes leodocusalis, Walk., 947, from North America,

is an additional synonym of this.

Also from Brisbane, Queensland; Murrurundi and

Sydney, New South Wales ; from September to December.

Diasemia grammalis, Dbld.

Isopteryx impulsalis, Walk., 404, from Ceylon, is an

additional synonym of this.

IscunurceEs, Ld.

The characters of this genus are given by me under

the head of Nesolocha; those given by Lederer are

partly erroneous, and led to my renaming it.

220 Mr. . Meyrick on Pyralidina from

Ischnurges illustralis, Ld.

Ischnurges illustralis, Lid., 418, pl. xv., 12; Nesolocha

autolitha, Meyr., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1886,

240.

Neweastle, New South Wales; one specimen (Australian

Museum). Ithink there can be no doubt that Lederer’s

quotation of New Zealand as a locality for this species

is quite erroneous, and should be struck out; probably

there is here, as in some other cases, a confusion with

New Guinea.

Prssocosma, Meyr.

Pessocosma wolealis, Walk.

Also from ‘Toowoomba, (Queensland; Albany and

Geraldton, West Australia; in May, June, November,

and December.

ARCHERNIS, Meyr.

Archernis (7) octoguttalis, Feld.

Also from Cape York, Queensland; one specimen

(coll. Macleay). In this specimen (also a female) the

middle costal spot is divided into a moderate costal and

small discal spot; the yellow hind-marginal band is

narrower. Recorded also from Ceylon. I consider that

Pyralis smaragdina, Butl., Ann. Mag. N. H., 1875, 411,

from South Africa, is a synonym of this species ;

Felder’s name dates from the same year, but is appa-

rently the earlier.

Semiocreros, Meyr.

Semioceros mesochlora, Meyr.

Deuterarcha mesochlora, Meyr., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.,

1884, 8138; Hndotricha annuligera, Butl., Trans.

Ent. Soc. Lond., 1886, 427.

In the male which | originally deseribed the antennal

tuft was abraded, and therefore unnoticed; since then

Mr. Barnard has sent down numerous specimens which

enable me to correct my error. The antenne of the

male are bent once only, in the middle, with a small

simple tuft of scales on back immediately before bend.

Australia and the South Pacific. 2

bho

amare

Semioceros parapseplis, ni. s.

gd 9, 12-14 mm. Head and thorax whitish-ochreous, with a

few fuscous scales. Palpi white, terminal joint and apex of second

dark fuscous. Antenne pale greyish-ochreous, in male shortly

ciliated (4), bent before middle, tuft small, fuscous. Abdomen

light ochreous trrorated with fuscous, segmental margins white.

Legs pale greyish-ochreous, apex of jomts white. Fore wings

elongate-triangular, costa posteriorly moderately arched, apex

obtuse, hind margin rather strongly oblique, somewhat bowed ;

whitish-ochreous, suffusedly wrorated with rather dark fuscous,

except generally towards costa and inner margin; an obscure

whitish subbasal spot on inner margin; first line blackish-fuscous,

rather irregular, from one-fifth of costa to one-third of inner

margin, forming a small spot on inner margin, and preceded on

lower half by a white suffusion ; orbicular and claviform apparently

subquadrate and confluent. indicated only by cloudy dark fuscous

lateral margins; reniform similar; a white dot connecting

orbicular with first line; a narrow transverse white spot connecting

orbicular and reniform, and a larger quadrate white spot immedi-

ately below this touching second line; a white subquadrate spot

connecting reniform with second line ; second line blackish-fuscous,

rather irregular, from three-fourths of costa to near anal angle,

thence abruptly bent inwards to beneath reniform, and again

abruptly bent to inner margin at two-thirds, posteriorly narrowly

and suffusedly margined with white, forming a white spot touching

hind margin above anal angle; a blackish-fuscous hind-marginal

line; cilia whitish, with a submoniliform dark fuscous line tending

to form bars, terminal half light grey, with a white bar above anal

angle. Hind wings with colour, discal (reniform) spot, and all

posterior markings as in fore wings.

Duaringa, Queensland; six specimens sent by Mr. G.

Barnard. Nearly allied to S. murcalis, but much

smaller and more neatly marked ; best distinguished by

the presence of the quadrate white spot below middle of

dise of fore wings.

Crratocuasis, Ld.

Forehead rounded, vertical. Ocelli present. Tongue well-

developed. Antenne three-fourths, in male strongly ciliated (13),

bent in middle, bend thickened, rough-scaled above, and with

some larger roughly tufted scales beneath. Labial palpi moderate,

curved, ascending, second joint with short rough projecting scales

222 Mr. HK. Meyrick on Pyralidina fron

beneath, terminal joint moderate, cylindrical. Maxillary palpi

very short, rudimentary. Abdomen in male with moderate anal

tuft, valves retracted. Anterior tarsi in male thickened with

dense scales curved over beneath; posterior tibia with outer spurs

half inner. Fore wings with vein 10 approximated to 9, 11 oblique.

Hind wings as broad as fore wings; veins 3, 4, 5 closely approxi-

mated at base, 7 out of 6 near origin, anastomosing with 8 to near

middle.

Ceratoclasis chlorura, n. s.

3,20mm. Head dark fuscous, with an ochreous-whitish spot

between antenne. Palpi dark fuscous, base ochreous-whitish.

Antenne and thorax dark fuscous. Abdomen dark fuscous, apical

tuft and under surface ochreous-whitish. Legs ochreous-whitish,

tibie suffused with grey. Fore wings elongate-triangular, costa

sinuate, posteriorly moderately arched, apex rounded, hind margin

obliquely rounded; dark fuscous ; a cloudy subquadrate ochreous-

whitish spot in dise before middle; second line very obscure,

ochreous-whitish, starting from an ochreous-white spot on costa

at four-fifths, running to anal angle, somewhat angulated inwards

below middle ; cilia dark fuscous, with a cloudy whitish spot above

anal angle. Hind wings dark fuscous; cilia dark fuscous, above

anal angle broadly ochreous-whitish, with a grey line.

(Jueensland; one specimen, in indifferent condition

(coll. Lucas).

EREBANGELA, Meyr.

Erebangela melanauges, Meyr.

Graphicopoda hecate, Butl., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.,

1886, 421, is a synonym of this.

STREPSIMELA, Meyr.

Strepsimela signiferalis, Waller.

Rinecera mirabilis, Butl., Mem. Nat. Ac. Sci., 1884,

95, and I. nigrescens, Baal Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.,

1886, 424, are additional synonyms of this species.

The generic name Rinecera is orthographically quite

incorrect, and if corrected would become Rhinoceros ; it

is therefore inadmissible. Specimens of this species,

taken by Mr. J. J. Walker in Tahiti and the Marquesas,

show an interesting tendency to a more or less pyro-

nounced obsolescence of the white markings in the

male. I think that this species, which appears to be

Australia and the South Pacific. 223

common throughout the whole of the South Pacific

islands (occurring nowhere else), and to be lable to

eradual local variation throughout its range, would be

interesting to study; it would be worth while to take

long series of it from each island.

Strepsimela pseudadelpha, n. 8.

3 ?, 1S—21l mm. Head blackish-fuscous, on sides of crow

and between antenne orange-ochreous. Palpi dark fuscous, second

joint broadly whitish-ochreous beneath. Antenne blackish-fus-

cous, in male with space between tufts also clothed with rough

projecting scales, terminal portion beyond second tuft pale ochreous

above. Thorax blackish-fuscous. Abdomen blackish-fuscous with

a few orange scales, anal segment in male bright orange on sides,

with a very large exsertible tuft of whitish-ochreous hairs. Legs

in male pale yellow-ochreous, anterior tibie with a dark fuscous

band, femora without upper tuft, apex of lower tuft blackish-grey ;

in female wholly dark fuscous. Fore wings rather elongate-

triangular, costa slightly sinuate, posteriorly arched, apex obtuse,

hind margin oblique, rather strongly bowed; blackish-fuscous,

purplish-tinged; in female an indistinct orange-ochreous mark

near base; lines darker, tolerably distinct; first from one-fourth

of costa to one-third of inner margin, slightly curved, anteriorly

edged obscurely in male with paler, in female with orange-

ochreous; second irregular, from three-fourths of costa to near

anal angle, thence acutely angulated inwards to beneath middle of

disc, and again abruptly bent to inner margin at two-thirds,

posteriorly obscurely edged with paler, forming a distinct small

yellow-ochreous spot on costa; a quadrate discal spot, indicated

only by darker lateral margins, preceded and followed by more or

less indistinct small cloudy whitish-ochreous marks, sometimes

almost obsolete; cilia dark fuscous. Hind wings with colour,

discal spot, second line, and cilia as in fore wings; in female

sometimes a cloudy orange spot near base, and posterior margin of

second line more orange; cilia in male becoming light orange on

lower half of hind margin, with a dark fuscous line.

Fiji; several specimens (coll. Lucas). Superticially

extremely similar to Ptil@ola ulophanes, Meyr.

AXDIODES, Gn.

Forehead vertical. Ocelli present. ‘Tongue well-developed.

Antenne three-fourths, in male strongly ciliated (2), basal joint

224 Mr. EK. Meyrick on Pyralidina from

stout. Labial palpi moderate, arched, ascending, second joint

with dense projecting scales beneath, terminal joint moderate,

with short projecting scales beneath, obtuse. Maxillary palpi

absent. Abdomen in male with anal segment elongate, tuft small,

valves retracted. Fore wings with vein 10 rising out of stalk of 8

and 9, 11 very oblique. Hind wings as broad as fore wings; veins

8, 4, 5 closely approximated at base, 7 out of 6 near origin, anasto-

mosing with 8 to near middle; inner margin in male folded

beneath, with a pencil of long hairs.

Afdiodes quaternalis, Ld.

Aidiodes quaternalis, Ld., 488, pl. xvii., 1.

Queensland ; two specimens (coll. Lucas). Also from

Amboina and Java.

AGROTERA, Schrk.

Forehead rounded, oblique. Ocelli present. Tongue well-

developed. Antenne three-fourths, in male moderately ciliated.

Labial palpi moderate, curved, ascending, second joint with dense

projecting scales beneath, flatly compressed, terminal joint with

acute triangular separate tuft of scales. Maxillary palpi short,

filiform, pointed. Fore wings with vein 10 closely approximated

to 9, 11 very oblique. Hind wings as broad as fore wings; veins

3, 4, 5 approximsted at base, 7 out of 6 near origin, anastomosing

with 8 to near middle.

Agrotera effertalis, Walk.

Adiodes effertalis, Walk., 348.

9,17 mm. Head orange, face and palpi dark fuscous. Antenne

pale yellowish, spotted with dark fuscous, apex of basal joint

black. Thorax pale yellow, spotted with orange. Abdomen pale

yellow, segments irregularly orange towards base, sides posteriorly

and apex fuscous. Legs ochreous-whitish, anterior pair with

apical half of tibiee dark fuscous, apex of first and third and entire

two apical joints of tarsi black. Fore wings triangular, costa

hardly sinuate, slightly arched, apex tolerably rectangular, hind

margin obliquely rounded, somewhat sinuate beneath apex ; rather

dark purple-fuscous; basal area up to first line pale yellow

irregularly spotted with orange, with a small blackish spot on

costa near base; first line black, irregular, from one-third of costa

to two-fifths of inner margin, slightly curved; a small obscure

dark fuscous discal spot; costal edge posteriorly suffused with

Australia and the South Pacific. 225

ochreous-yellowish ; second line dark fuscous, waved, from three-

fourths of costa to two-thirds of inner margin, rather abruptly

sinuate inwards beneath middle; a blackish hind-marginal line ;

cilia whitish-yellowish, with an apical spot, a subapical dash,

median and anal spots dark grey. Hind wings with colour and

markings as in fore wings, but purple-fuscous ground colour,

together with first line, ceasing abruptly below middle and replaced

by whitish-ochreous, in which second line is obscurely indicated

with fuscous ; no discal spot.

Queensland; one specimen (coll. Lucas). Also from

Amboina, Ceylon, and India.

NosopHora, Ld.

Nosophora chironalis, Walk.

Botys chironalis, Walk., 683; Nosophora chironalis,

Ld., 407, pl. xiv., 12; N. ochnodes, Meyr., Proc.

Linn. Soc. N. 8. W., 1886, 255.

I was misled into redescribing this species by Walker’s

express implication that the hind wings were marked

with a similar spot to that of the fore wings; on

examining his specimen I find that it is unset, and the

description of the hind wings doubtless went by con-

jecture.

Prexecyntis, Meyr.

Pelecyntis abstitalis, Walk.

Also from Tahiti (Mr. J. J. Walker).

CompsopHiILa, Meyr.

Compsophala tocosma, Meyr.

Niphadaza bicolor, Butl., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.,

1886, 428, pl. x., 8, is a synonym of this.

Pycnarmon, Ld.

Pycnarmon jaguaralis, Gn.

Also from Cairns, Queensland (coll. Macleay).

Notarcua, Meyr.

Notarcha tharsalea, n.s.

o ?,29—81 mm. Head and antenne whitish-ochreous, cilia-

tions of male one-fourth. Palpi whitish-ochreous. apex of basal

226 Mr. K. Meyrick on Pyralidina from

joint dark fuscous. Thorax whitish-ochreous, with twelve black

spots, arranged one on each shoulder, one on each side, and a

dorsal series of four pairs. Abdomen whitish-ochreous, base of

second segment, a basal spot on third and fourth, and an apical

Spot on seventh and anal segments blackish. Legs whitish-

ochreous, anterior pair with an apical band on tibie and two spots

on tarsi black. Fore wings rather elongate-triangular, costa pos-

teriorly moderately arched, apex obtuse, hind margin obliquely

rounded; whitish-ochreous, costa and hind margin orange-tinged ;

inner margin broadly orange, forming a separate erect spot near

base; markings black, sharply defined; an irregular spot on costa

near base; first line irregular, from one-fifth of costa, obsolete

towards inner margin; a moderate subquadrate spot beneath costa

at one-third, a larger transverse-oblong discal spot in middle, and

a smaller round spot beneath and between these; second line

rather thick, irregular, from costa before three-fourths to near

inner margin at two-thirds, but obsolete on orange suffusion, middle

third forming a short acute angle outwards, lower third a short

curve inwards; a submarginal series of seven roundish spots,

smallest and approaching nearest to hind margin in middle; cilia

whitish-ochreous, yellow towards base, barred with blackish. Hind

wings whitish-ochreous, hind margin orange-tinged; markings

black ; a roundish discal spot at one-third; second line as in fore

wings, but more irregular; a submarginal series of six spots,

uppermost much larger and apical; cilia as in fore wings, but not

barred on lower third of hind margin.

Cooktown and Townsville, Queensland ; eight speci-

mens (coll. Macleay).

Notarcha trigalis, Ld.

This name (quoted as a synonym) should be retained

for the species formerly quoted by me as N. orissalis,

Walk. lLladopted the name orissalis from Lederer’s own

identification of his species with Walker’s; but Mr.

Butler has since kindly pointed out to me that neither

the specimen in the British Museum collection (which

is not, however, Walker’s type), nor Walker’s original

description, can be truly identical with this species. In

this conclusion | quite concur. The quotation of Borneo

as a locality should also be struck out. Cooktown,

(Jueensland (coll. Macleay), is an additional locality.

Australia and the South Pacific. 227

Conoeetuss, Meyr.

Conogethes lictor, n.s.

¢, 22—23 mm. Head, antenne, thorax, and abdomen fuscous ;

antennal ciliations one-third. Palpi dark fuscous, base white.

Legs pearly-white. Fore wings elongate-triangular, costa pos-

teriorly moderately arched, apex obtuse, hind margin oblique,

strongly bowed; fuscous; lines slender, dark fuscous, well-marked ;

first from one-fourth of costa to one-third of inner margin, almost

straight; second from three-fifths of costa, triangularly indented

inwards immediately below costa, below middle rectangularly bent

inwards to beneath discal spot, and again rectangularly bent to

inner margin before middle; costa whitish-ochreous from before

first line to beyond second, before second line dilated into a

triangular blotch reaching half across wing, its anterior edge

margined by the transverse linear dark fuscous discal spot; cilia

fuscous, with a darker line near base, with a white space above

anal angle. Hind wings with colour, discal spot, second line, and

cilia as in fore wings; but second line not indented beneath costa,

white space of cilia larger.

Townsville, Queensland; several specimens (coll.

Macleay).

Conogethes edilis, 0. s.

3,21 mm. Head, palpi, antenne, thorax, and abdomen light

fuscous; antennal ciliations one. Legs fuscous-whitish. Fore

wings elongate-triangular, costa posteriorly gently arched, apex

obtuse, hind margin obliquely rounded; fuscous; a small cloudy

dark fuscous mark from costa near base; lines slender, somewhat

regular, darker fuscous, indistinct; first from one-fourth of costa

to one-third of inner margin, slightly curved; second from two-

thirds of costa, where it forms a small spot, irregularly curved

outwards, below middle bent inwards to beneath discal spot, and

again bent to inner margin beyond middle ; costal edge immediately

before and beyond second line ochreous-white ; discal spot narrow,

transverse, somewhat inwards-curved, ochreous-white, laterally

dark-margined, touching costal edge before second line: a darker

fuscous hind-marginal line; cilia white, with a dark fuscous

interrupted line appearing to form bars on basal half, terminal

half greyish towards middle of hind margin. Hind wings with

colour, second and hind-marginal lines as in fore wings; cilia

white, basal half barred with dark fuscous.

Townsville, Queensland; several specimens (coll.

Macleay).

228 Mr. KE. Meyrick on Pyralidina from

Pacuyzancua, Meyr.

Pachyzancla bianoralis, Walk.

Botys bianoralis, Walk., 1001.

3 2, 25—26mm. Head, palpi, antenne, thorax, and abdomen

rather dark fuscous; palpi white towards base beneath ; antennal

ciliations two-thirds; abdomen with two whitish rings towards

apex. Legs ochreous-whitish, anterior pair yellowish-fuscous

above. Fore wings elongate-triangular, costa slightly sinuate,

posteriorly arched, apex obtuse, hind margin obliquely rounded ;

rather dark fuscous, with darker markings; first line from one-

fourth of costa to before middle of inner margin, somewhat curved

outwards; a dot beneath costa at one-third, and a transverse

linear discal spot in middle; second line from costa at two-thirds,

slightly curved, rather approaching hind margin, beneath middle

abruptly bent inwards to beneath discal spot, thence again abruptly

bent to inner margin at two-thirds; an interrupted hind-marginal

line; cilia fuscous, with a dark fuscous line, and a small white spot

above anal angle. Hind wings with colour, discal spot, second

and hind-marginal lines as in fore wings; cilia white, with a dark

fuscous basal band.

Queensland ; two specumens (coll. Lucas). Also from

Borneo and Ceylon. In two specimens from Ceylon |

do not see the white spot in the cilia of fore wings, but

there is no other difference.

BoryopkEs, Gn.

Botyodes asialis, Gu.

Botyodes asialis, Gn., 821; Ld., pl. xii., 8; Lygropis

siriorantha, Meyr., Trane? Ent. ha, Lond., 1886,

262

Although I have not obtained a male, 1 apprehend

there is no doubt of this identification. If so, however,

either Lederer’s generic characters or mine are at fault,

but I should like to examine the male before insisting.

STEREOCOPA, Meyr.

Stereocopa scoparialis, Walk.

Also from Carnarvon, West Australia ; and Victoria.

Australia and the South Pacijc. 229

Preryaisus, Butl.

Pterygisus fedalis, Gn.

Tsopteryx foedalis, Gn., 228, pl. iv., 7; Snell., Tijd. v.

Ent., 1872, 96; I. spilomelalis, Walk., 403;

Physematia (2) epispila, Meyr., Trans. Ent. Soe.

Lond,, 1886, 257.

The ordinary form of this species appears to differ

from the Fijian form described by me in having the sub-

marginal markings connected to form a band instead of

separate spots, but | now regard this as only local

variation. The generic characters given by me at the

head of this species are therefore referable to Pterygisus,

with the correction that the maxillary palpi should be

stated as very short, rudimentary.

Queensland; two specimens (coll. Lucas). Also from

Fiji, Celebes, Java, Ceylon, India, and Madagascar.

HELLULa, Gn.

Hellula undalis, F.

Leucochroma phidilealis, Walk., 972, and Leucinodes

exemptalis, ib., Suppl., 1318, are additional synonyms of

this species.

Also from Brisbane, Queensland ; Glen Innes (3500 ft.),

Bathurst, and Cooma, New South Wales; Albany,

Geraldton, and Carnarvon, West Australia. Its range

extends also to China and South America.

Dysauuacta, Ld.

Forehead flat, very oblique. Ocelli present. Tongue well-

developed. Antenne three-fourths, in male shortly ciliated (4),

basal joint elongate, slender, with a strong subconical horny pro-

jection trom apex on inner side. Labial palpi moderate, straight,

porrected, second joint triangularly scaled, terminal joint con-

cealed. Maxillary palpi moderately long, apex somewhat dilated

with scales. Abdomen in male with large exsertible anal tuft of

hairs. Posterior tibie with outer spurs one-fourth of inner. Fore

Wings with vein 10°closely approximated to 9, 11 very oblique.

Hind wings rather broader than fore wings; veins 3, 4, 5 closely

approximated at base. 7 out of 6 near origin, anastomosing with 8

to near middle,

230 Mr. E. Meyrick on Pyralidina from

Dysallacta negatalis, Walk.

Phalangiodes negatalis, Walk., 468 ; Botys monesusalis,

ib., 653; B. phanasalis, ib., 727; Dysallacta

negatalis, Lid., pl. xii., 6.

Duaringa and Toowoomba, Queensland; Neweastle,

New South Wales; in December. Also from Celebes,

Java, and India.

Borys, T'r.

Botys pharidalis, Walk.

Botys pharidalis (pharisalis), Walk., 726.

3, 20 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax ochreous-brown; palpi

white beneath. Antenne pale ochreous, ciliations two-thirds.

Abdomen pale greyish-ochreous. Legs white, femora and anterior

tibiz ochreous-fuscous, posterior tibiae with outer spurs half inner.

Fore wings rather elongate-triangular, costa posteriorly gently

arched, apex obtuse, hind margin obliquely rounded; ochreous-

brown, with a few scattered dark fuscous scales; markings dark

fuscous, tolerably defined; lines slender, waved, first from one-

fourth of costa to two-fifths of inner margin, obsolete towards

costa, nearly straight, second from three-fourths of costa to two-

thirds of inner margin, moderately curved outwards, slightly

sinuate beneath costa, triangularly indented at two-thirds to below

discal spot ; a discal dot close beyond first line, and a small narrow

transverse discal spot in middle; cilia grey-whitish, with a thick

basal and slenderer median line dark grey. Hind wings fuscous-

grey, becoming lighter towards base; faint traces of second line as

in fore wings; cilia whitish, with a dark grey basal line.

Sydney, New South Wales; one specimen, in March.

Walker’s original specimen is in exceedingly bad con-

dition.

Botys pheopteralis, Gn.

Botys licarsisalis, Walk., 686, is another synonym of

this species. Mr. Moore appears to think that this

species is not Guénée’s pheopteralis, but he gives no

reasons ; Lederer and Zeller were satisfied that it is.

Australia and the South Pacific. 231

Botys hipponalis, Walk.

Asopia hipponalis, Walk., 374; Botys pigresalis, ib.,

724.

S$, 20 mm. Head, antenne, thorax, and abdomen pale

yellowish-ochreous; antennal ciliations 14; shoulders narrowly

dark fuscous; abdomen with two black dots on third segment.

Palpi dark fuscous, beneath white towards base. Legs ochreous-

whitish, anterior pair with apex of joints dark grey, posterior

tibia with outer spurs one-third of inner. Fore wings rather

elongate-triangular, costa posteriorly slightly arched, apex obtuse,

hind margin rather obliquely rounded; light yellowish-ochreous:

costa suffused with dark grey from base to two-thirds; a blackish

dot beneath costa near base, and another on inner margin near

base; lines slender, wregularly subdentate, dark fuscous; first

from one-fifth of costa to two-fifths of inner margin, irregular ;

second from three-fourths of costa to two-thirds of inner margin,

middle third bent outward in an abrupt quadrate projection; a

blackish dot beneath costa at one-third, and small blackish narrow

transverse discal spot in middle; a rather narrow irregular grey

hind-marginal fascia, somewhat excavated below middle; cilia

grey-whitish, with a sharp dark grey line. Hind wings with colour,

discal spot, second line, hind-marginal fascia, and cilia as in fore

wings; hind-marginal fascia becoming obsolete towards anal angle.

Queensland: one specimen (coll. Lucas).

Botys epitrota, n.s.

3, 26 mm. Head, thorax, and abdomen light ochreous-

yellowish ; shoulders narrowly fuscous; abdomen with two dark

fuscous dots on anal segment. Palpi dark fuscous, lower half

white. Antenne yellow-whitish, ciliations one. Legs white,

anterior pair with a dot at apex of femora and tarsi, and apical

half of tibie black ; posterior tibize with outer middle-spur one-

third, outer end-spur one-half inner. Fore wings elongate-

triangular, costa posteriorly moderately arched, apex obtuse, hind

margin bowed, oblique; light ochreous-yellowish; an indistinet

fuscous subcostal streak from base to two-thirds; a dark fuscous

dot at base of costa, and another on inner margin near base ; lines

dark fuscous, interrupted into dots, first from before one-fourth

of costa towards one-third of inner margin, not reaching it, second

from three-fourths of costa to beyond middle of inner margin,

sinuate above middle, below middle rectangularly bent very widely

inwards beneath discal spot; a blackish dot beneath costa near

232, Mr. E. Meyrick on Pyralidina from

beyond first line, and a moderately large oval blackish discal spot

in middle; a waved fuscous subterminal line running from a spot

beneath costa to a larger spot on anal angle; a fuscous apical

spot; a hind-marginal row of minute dark fuscous dots; cilia

whitish-yellowish. Hind wings with colour, second line, apical

spot, hind-marginal dots, and cilia as in fore wings; discal spot

somewhat smaller, before middle; subterminal line very faint,

without spots.

Neweastle, New South Wales; two specimens (Australian

Museum).

ISOCENTRIS, 0. g.

Forehead flat, vertical. Ocelli present. Tongue well-developed.

Antenne three-fourths, in male filiform, moderately ciliated.

Labial palpi moderate, straight, porrected, triangularly scaled,

terminal joint tolerably concealed. Maxillary palpi moderate,

filiform. Abdomen in male with slender anal tuft, valves tolerably

retracted. Posterior tibia with spurs all long and almost equal.

Fore wings with vein 10 tolerably approximated to 9, 11 oblique.

Hind wings about as broad as fore wings; veins 3, 4, 5 approxi-

mated at base, 7 out of 6 near origin, anastomosing with 8 to near

middle.

| have formed this genus to include the species which

I formerly placed as a separate section (B) of the genus

Botys; I suggested at the time the possibility of this

course, and it now seems desirable. ‘he characters of

Botys, as given by me, must of course be altered by

striking out the words “or all long and equal.”

Isocentris equalis, Ld.

Botys equalis, Ld., 468, pl. x., 3.

Duaringa, Queensland ; and India.

Tsocentris rhodophilalis, Walk.

Endotricha rhodophilalis, Walk., Suppl., 1811; Botys

amenalis, ib., 1445.

g,18mm. Head yellow, with a fuscous-red spot on each side

of crown. Palpi yellow, apex dark fuscous. Antennie yellowish,

ciliations two-thirds. Thorax yellow, with some ferruginous scales.

Abdomen yellowish, segmental margins white, second and anal

segments mixed with crimson. Anterior femora fuscous-crimson

above, white beneath, tibize yellow with blackish apex, first joint

Australia and the South Pacific. 233

of tarsi yellow with white apex, second and third yellow with black

apex, second white at base, fourth and fifth white; middle legs

yellow, tarsi white; posterior legs white. Fore wings rather

elongate-triangular, costa posteriorly moderately arched, apex

rectangular, hind margin bowed, oblique; bright yellow; a

crimson dot beneath costa near base, a second at one-fifth, and a

third on inner margin at one-fifth ; lines very slender, indistinct,

ferruginous, irregularly sinuate ; first from a black dot on costa at

one-fourth to inner margin at two-fifths; second from a dark

fuscous dot on costa before two-thirds, below middle bent inwards

to beneath middle of disc, thence again bent to inner margin at

three-fifths ; a large irregularly 8-shaped crimson spot in centre of

disc. touching angle of second line; a moderate crimson waved

submarginal band, attenuated to a point on costa, its middle third

curved outwards and partially touching subterminal line; a fine

erimson waved subterminal line, and an interrupted crimson hind-

marginal line, separated by ferruginous-yellow ; cilia silvery-white,

basal third crimson, separated by a waved deep crimson line.

Hind wings with colour, second line, submarginal band, sub-

terminal and hind-marginal lines, and cilia as in fore wings.

Cape York, Queensland ; one specimen (coll. Macleay).

Also from Ceylon. Mr. Moore quotes Samea dives,

Butl., Proc. Zool. Soc., 1880, 682, from Formosa, as a

synonym of this species; but, although he has probably

seen Butler’s type, and I have not, I think there must

be a mistake somewhere, as I cannot make the descrip-

tion agree at all; for instance, the cilia are given as

dark brown.

Mecyna, Gn.

Mecyna polygonalis, Hb.

Also from Glen Innes (4500 feet), Newcastle, Bathurst,

and Mount Kosciusko (6500 feet), New South Wales;

Albany, Geraldton, and Perth, West Australia.

Mecyna reversalis, Gn.

Mecyna reversalis, Gn., 409.

Cape York, Queensland ; one specimen (coll. Macleay).

Also from North and South America. The occurrence

of this species in Australia seems difficult to believe ;

but there can be no question as to the identity of the

specimen, which is easily distinguishable from any form

TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1887.—PaART III. (SEPT.) §

234 Mr. E. Meyrick on Pyralidina from

of M. polygonalis and M. deprivalis, and I see no reason

to doubt the authenticity of the locality. Of course

some confirmatory evidence would be desirable.

Mecyna miniosalis, Gn.

Ebulea miniosalis, Gn., 8362; EH. orseisalis, Walk., 749.

A true Mecyna, with the following individual points of

structure in male: Labial palpi moderate; maxillary

palpi short, loosely dilated ; middle tibize rough-scaled,

with large loose tuft of hairs lying exposed on inner

side ; posterior tibiz with a small tuft of short hairs at

base, spurs very long, outer three-fourths of imner.

Guénée’s specific description is sufficient.

Palm Island (Halifax Bay), Queensland ; one speci-

men (coll. Macleay). Also from New Guinea and Java.

Myriotis, Meyr.

Myriotis ptoalis, Walk.

Also from Geraldton, West Australia, in November.

Mnesictena, Meyr.

Mnesictena pactolina, n. s.

3 2, 20—22 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax deep ochreous-

yellow; base of palpi white beneath. Antenne yellowish, ciliations

of male one. Abdomen whitish-ochreous. Legs white, anterior

tibie and second and third joints of tarsi ochreous-yellow. Fore

wings rather elongate-triangular, costa posteriorly moderately

arched, apex rectangular, hind margin oblique, somewhat rounded ;

deep ochreous-yellow; a grey dot towards base in middle; lines

slender, waved, fuscous-grey ; first from one-fourth of costa to

two-fifths of inner margin, somewhat curved; second from two-

thirds of costa obliquely outwards, curved round to beneath two-

thirds of disc, thence to inner margin at three-fourths; a thick

cloudy grey suffused streak from second line above middle to first

line below middle ; indications of an interrupted grey subterminal

line; cilia white, with a blackish-grey basal line, and a small grey

apical spot. Hind wings whitish-ochreous ; cilia white, basal half

whitish-ochreous.

Cooktown and Townsville, Queensland; Port Darwin,

North Australia ; four specimens.

Australia and the South Pacific. 235

Mnesictena celatalis, Walk.

Botys celatalis, Walk., 657; B. suavalis, ib., Suppl.,

1448.

9, 26 mm. Head and thorax yellow-ochreous, sides of face

narrowly white. Palpi ochreous-brown, beneath white towards

base. Antenne whitish-ochreous. Abdomen ochreous-whitish.

Legs white, anterior femora pale ochreous above, anterior tibie

ochreous at base and with a broad ochreous or dark grey subapical

band. Fore wings rather elongate-triangular, costa posteriorly

moderately arched, apex obtuse, hind margin oblique, slightly

rounded; light ochreous-yellow; costa suffused with brownish-

ochreous; markings brownish-ochreous; first line from before

one-fourth of costa to two-fifths of inner margin, somewhat bent

below middle; a dot beneath costa at one-third, and a small

curved linear transverse discal spot in middle; second line from

two-thirds of costa towards anal angle, slightly curved outwards,

below middle rectangularly bent inwards to beneath discal spot,

and again rectangularly bent to inner margin before two-thirds,

somewhat indented below costa and above inner margin; a cloudy

subdentate subterminal line from three-fourths of costa to anal

angle, thickest above, indented inwards above lower extremity ; a

cloudy irregular hind-marginal line; cilia ochreous-yellow, tips

paler. Hind wings with colour, second, subterminal, and hind-

marginal lines, and cilia as in fore wings; a small indistinct

cloudy discal spot, touching angle of second line.

Queensland; one specimen (coll. Lucas). Also from

Java and Ceylon.

MyrtostepHes, Meyr.

Myriostephes pheniccalis, Hb.

Hematia phenicealis, Hb., Zut., 115, 116; Rhodaria

phenicealis, Gn., 173; R. flegiahs, Walk., 316;

R. panopealis, ib., 818 ; Botys cacilialis, ib., 581 ;

B. onythesalis, ib., 784; Rhodaria ocellusalis, ib.,

923; R. noraxalis, ib., 926; Asopia largalis, ib.,

938; Rhodaria juncturalis, ib., Suppl., 1288 ;

R. concatenalis, ib., 1284; Myriostephes heliamma,

Meyr., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1885, 448.

Also from India, China, West Africa, the West Indies,

and North and South America. I consider all the forms

quoted above identical; but there is more or less

236 Mr. E. Meyrick on Pyralidina from

variation in the extent of the yellow suffusion, tending

to produce local forms, which nevertheless I do not find

constant. Generally there is a tendency in- Indo-

Malayan and Australian forms to show a yellow sub-

marginal streak, which is usually absent in American

specimens; but the difference seems unreliable.

Myriostephes achewalis, Walk.

Botys achealis (acheusalis), Walk., 1007.

3 2, 25—27mm. Head orange, lower part of face dark fuscous.

Palpi dark fuscous, lower longitudinal half orange. Antenne

whitish-ochreous, basal joint orange with a black dot, ciliations of

male 14. Thorax orange, shoulders narrowly black. Abdomen

orange, with a black band at three-fourths. Legs pale orange,

anterior tibiz banded with black. Fore wings very elongate-

triangular, costa posteriorly moderately arched, apex obtuse, hind

margin obliquely rounded; orange; markings blackish, shghtly

bluish-tinged ; a moderate streak along costa from base to two-

thirds ; a rather narrow straight fascia from two-fifths of costa to

two-fifths of inner margin, beneath costal streak dilated to contain

a dot of ground colour; a rather narrow fascia from three-fifths of

costa to anal angle, much dilated beneath, and confluent with an

irregular moderate hind-marginal fascia; cilia dark grey. Hind

wings orange; a moderate somewhat irregular blackish hind-

marginal fascia, narrowed beneath ; cilia dark grey.

Sydney, New South Wales; several specimens in

February and March (coll. Macleay). Rather a dis-

cordant species; but I find the resemblance to

Metallarcha apparently superficial only.

Druterarcna, Meyr.

Deuterarcha xanthomela, Meyr.

Also from Toowoomba, Queensland, in December.

Emprepes insignis, Butl., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1886,

431, is a synonym of this.

MerauuarcHa, Meyr.

Metallarcha tetraplaca, n. 8.

39, 19—22 mm. Head yellow, frontal projection flattened-

conical. Palpi blackish, lower longitudinal half yellow. Antenne

pale yellowish. Thorax yellow, shoulders dark fuscous. Abdomen

Australia and the South Pacific, 237

light ochreous-yellow. Legs dark fuscous, posterior pair yellowish.

Fore wings elongate-triangular, costa posteriorly moderately

arched, apex rounded, hind margin very obliquely rounded ; clear

yellow; markings light ashy-grey, margined with blackish; a

streak along costa from base to four-fifths, its apex attenuated;

first and second lines moderately broad, fascia-like; first from

beyond one-third of costa to two-fifths of inner margin, almost

straight; second from costa near apex, continued near and parallel

to hind margin to below middle, thence abruptly bent in to

beneath middle of disc, sometimes almost reaching first line, and

curved strongly round to inner margin at three-fourths ; a perpen-

dicular bar from three-fifths of costa to curve of second line,

representing discal spot; a black hind-marginal line; cilia grey.

Hind wings fuscous-grey ; costa suffusedly whitish-ochreous, except

on a bar before middle and another almost apical; apex and upper

half of hind margin narrowly and irregularly pale ochreous-

yellowish, sometimes continued further towards anal angle ; cilia

whitish-qchreous.

South Australia (probably near Gawler); several

specimens (coll. Macleay). Intermediate between M.

epichrysa and M. ewrychrysa.

Metallarcha eurychrysa, Meyr.

Having obtained a series of specimens, I add the

following points to the description :—

St 2, 20—27 mm. Ground colour of fore wings bright yellow ;

costal streak usually not extending beyond four-fifths; anterior

fascia slightly sinuate; second fascia containing a small spot of

ground colour on inner margin; hind-marginal yellow dots often

nearly obsolete; cilia yellow, with a dark fuscous line, sometimes

nearly obsolete, and a dark fuscous apical suffusion. Ground

colour of hind wings bright ochreous-yellow.

Geraldton and Albany, West Australia ; locally com-

mon in November.

Metallarcha pseliota, n. s.

32, 18—20 mm. Head deep yellow, frontal projection flat-

tened-conical. Palpi blackish, lower longitudinal half deep yellow.

Antenne dark fuscous. Thorax deep yellow, shoulders dark

fuscous. Abdomen ochreous-yellow. Legs blackish, posterior

pair ochreous-yellow. Fore wings very elongate-triangular, costa

gently arched, apex rounded, hind margin very obliquely rounded ;

238 Mr. BE. Meyrick on Pyralidina from

white, slightly ochreous-tinged; markings blackish; a somewhat

irregular streak along costa from base to four-fifths, with a short

rounded projection on lower edge before middle; a semi-oval spot

on inner margin at one-third, beyond which the imner margin is

ochreous-yellow; lines narrow, lower extremities meeting and

coalescing on inner margin beyond middle, first from costa at one-

third, straight, second from costa at five-sixths, below middle

rectangularly bent inwards, forming a short curve beneath two-

thirds of dise; a narrow bar from two-thirds of costa to curve of

second line, representing discal spot; a blackish hind-marginal

band, its anterior edge irregular, closely approaching second line

throughout, containing a submarginal series of seven subconfluent

round deep ochreous-yellow spots; cilia grey, with a darker line

near base. Hind wings ochreous-yellow ; a dark fuscous irregular

fascia from apex towards two-thirds of inner margin, rapidly

attenuated and not nearly reaching it; a dark fuscous hind-

marginal line not reaching anal angle; cilia pale ochreous-

yellowish.

South Australia (probably near Gawler); several

specimens (coll. Macleay).

Kurycreon, Ld.

Eurycreon ochrochoa, u. 8s.

3S ?, 18 mm. Head, palpi, antenne, thorax, and abdomen

pale ochreous; frontal projection rounded; palpi white beneath

towards base; antennal ciliations of male one. Legs white,

anterior pair fuscous above. Fore wings rather elongate-triangular,

costa posteriorly moderately arched, apex obtuse, hind margin

oblique, somewhat rounded; light yellow-ochreous, in female irro-

rated with pale red-brownish ; lines slender, cloudy, dark fuscous ;

first from inner margin at two-fifths, becoming obsolete towards

costa; second slightly waved, from three-fourths of costa, slightly

indented above middle, below middle obtusely bent inwards to

near middle of disc, thence again rectangularly bent to inner

margin at two-thirds; a small roundish discal spot obscurely out-

lined with red-brownish; cilia hight grey, with a somewhat darker

line near base. Hind wings with ground colour, second line, and

cilia as in fore wings.

Duaringa, Queensland; two specimens sent by Mr.

G. Barnard. Nearest to EH. familiaris, and equally or

more short-winged; easily distinguished from it by the

ochreous-yellowish colouring, without grey suffusion in

hind wings, and the erey cilia.

Australia and the South Pacific. 239

Eurycreon homogama, n. s.

32, 16—20 mm. Head, antenne, and thorax pale ochreous ;

frontal projection obtusely rounded; antennal ciliations of male

two-thirds. Palpi brownish-ochreous, lower longitudinal half

white. Abdomen whitish-ochreous. Legs in male whitish, in

female whitish-ochreous, anterior pair brownish-ochreous above.

Fore wings very elongate-triangular, costa sinuate, apex obtuse,

hind margin very obliquely rounded; in male whitish-ochreous,

brownish-tinged, costa obscurely suffused with pale brownish-

ochreous, in female wholly pale brownish-ochreous ; lines cloudy,

fuscous; first from one-fourth of costa to one-third of inner

margin, indistinct, towards costa obsolete; second from three-

fourths of costa, where it is darkest, above middle shortly indented

inwards, below middle obtusely bent inwards to beneath discal

spot, and again obtusely bent to two-thirds of inner margin; a

small cloudy indistinct ochreous-fuscous spot beneath costa before

middle, and a somewhat larger subquadrate discal spot outlined

with ochreous-fuscous beyond middle; cilia whitish-ochreous

sprinkled with brownish-ochreous, extreme tips fuscous. Hind

wings with colour, second line, and cilia as in fore wings.

Carnarvon, West Australia; four specimens in October.

Allied to the equally long-winged EH. xenogama and

E. aphrarcha, but distinguished from both by its ochreous

colouring; the male of EH. xenogama is very similar to

this species, but the female extremely different.

Eurycreon xenogama, Meyy.

Also from Perth and Geraldton, West Australia, in

November.

Eurycreon aphrarcha, n. 8.

g¢,16—19mm. Head, antenne, thorax, and abdomen greyish-

ochreous irrorated with dark grey; frontal projection rounded ;

antennal ciliations two-thirds. Palpi greyish-ochreous irrorated

with black, lower longitudinal half white. Legs whitish, anterior

pair dark fuscous. Fore wings very elongate-triangular, costa

sinuate, apex obtuse, hind margin very obliquely rounded; rather

light fuscous, becoming darker towards basal two-thirds of costa ;

lines irregular, cloudy, blackish, tolerably distinct; first from one-

fourth of costa to one-third of inner margin; second from three-

fourths of costa, above middle shortly indented inwards, below

middle obtusely bent inwards to beneath discal spot, and again

240 Mr. KE. Meyrick on Pyralidina from

obtusely bent to inner margin at three-fifths, preceded and followed

by a more or less perceptible white irroration, especially towards

costa; an indistinct dark fuscous dot beneath costa before middle,

and a small subquadrate discal spot obscurely outlined with cloudy

blackish beyond middle; a hind-marginal row of cloudy blackish

dots; cilia light greyish-ochreous, with two grey lines. Hind

wings pale greyish-ochreous, irregularly irrorated with fuscous ;

an obscure fuscous discal dot, sometimes obsolete; second line

fuscous, formed as in fore wings; cilia ochreous-whitish, with a

erey line near base.

Carnarvon, West Australia ; four specimens in October.

Hurycreon strangalota, n. s.

3d, 19 mm. Head and thorax dark fuscous, irrorated with

whitish-ochreous ; frontal projection rounded. Palpi dark fuscous,

beneath white towards base. Antenne greyish-ochreous, ciliations

one-half. Abdomen pale greyish-ochreous, irrorated with dark

fuscous on sides of back, segmental margins white. Legs greyish-

ochreous suffused with dark fuscous, apex of joints whitish,

posterior tibie whitish. Fore wings elongate-triangular, costa

gently arched on posterior half, apex obtuse, hind margin very

obliquely rounded; pale whitish-fuscous, coarsely irrorated with

dark fuscous; first and second lines strongly marked, irregular,

blackish; first from one-fourth of costa to one-third of inner

margin, somewhat angulated in middle; second from three-fourths

of costa, somewhat indented above middle, near above anal angle

abruptly bent in upwards to beneath discal spot, thence again

abruptly curved round to two-thirds of inner margin; a small

round pale spot strongly outlined with blackish beneath costa

near beyond first line, and a transverse-oblong pale diseal spot

strongly outlined with blackish beyond middle ; a blackish dot on

costa above discal spot; a cloudy irregular blackish hind-marginal

line; cilia grey-whitish, with a cloudy dark grey line tending to be

interrupted and to form bars, costal cilia whitish with two cloudy

blackish dots between second line and apex. Hind wings with

colour, second and hind-marginal lines, and cilia as in fore wings;

a narrow transverse strongly marked blackish discal spot before

middle.

Bathurst, New South Wales ; one specimen, in March.

Allied to 1. capnochroa; differs by the larger size, pale

centre of subcostal spot beyond first line, reduction of

subquadrate ante-apical spots of costa to cloudy dots,

Australia and the South Pacific. 241

origin of second line from costa nearer apex, paler cilia,

and other minor points.

Eurycreon hemicirea, n. 8.

Sg, 19 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax dark fuscous, irrorated

with whitish-ochreous ; frontal projection small, rounded, Antennx

pale greyish-ochreous spotted with fuscous, ciliations two-thirds.

Abdomen pale greyish-ochreous, irregularly irrorated with dark

fuscous. Anterior legs fuscous, tibie and tarsi ringed with

ochreous-whitish; middle and posterior femora fuscous-whitish

with dark fuscous subapical rings, tibie whitish with dark fuscous

subbasal and subapical bands, tarsi dark fuscous, apex of joints

whitish. Fore wings elongate-triangular, costa posteriorly gently

arched, apex obtuse, hind margin very obliquely rounded ; pale

whitish-fuscous, irregularly suffused with pale fuscous and irrorated

with dark fuscous; lines rather irregular, strong, dark fuscous ;

first from one-fourth of costa to one-third of inner margin ; second

from four-fifths of costa, tolerably parallel to hind margin, some-

what sinuate above middle, at two-thirds obtusely bent inwards to

beneath discal spot, and again rectangularly bent to two-thirds of

inner margin; asmallround spot strongly outlined with dark fuscous

beneath costa beyond first line, and a transverse-oblong discal spot

strongly outlined with dark fuscous beyond middle; three semi-

circular rings outlined strongly with dark fuscous on costa, first

above discal spot, third immediately preceding and confluent with

second line ; a hind-marginal series of cloudy dark fuscous lunules ;

cilia pale whitish-ochreous, obscurely barred with grey, and with a

cloudy dark grey line. Hind wings with colour, second line and

following shade, hind-marginal lunules, and cilia as in fore wings ;

a dark fuscous oblique transverse-linear discal spot before middle.

Launceston, Tasmania; one specimen, in January.

Very similar to H. strangalota, but with second line of

fore wings rising from still nearer apex, and distinguished

from all species of the genus by the semicircular dark

rings on costa.

Eurycreon capnochroa, Meyr.

Also from Glen Innes and Mount Kosciusko (8600 feet),

New South Wales; Hobart, Tasmania.

Eurycreon liophea, nu. s.

g, 15 mm. Head and thorax fuscous; frontal projection

rounded-conical, Palpi fuscous, lower longitudinal half white,

242 Mr. EK. Mevrick on Pyralidina from

Antenne light fuscous, ciliations one-half. Abdomen pale greyish-

ochreous irrorated with fuscous, segmental margins white. Anterior

legs dark fuscous, apex of tarsal joints whitish; middle and

posterior legs white. Fore wings rather elongate-triangular, costa

posteriorly moderately arched, apex obtuse, hind margin rather

oblique, rounded beneath; fuscous; lines slender, dark fuscous ;

first from one-fourth of costa to one-third of inner margin,

indistinct; second from three-fourths of costa, slightly indented

above middle, near above anal angle abruptly bent in upwards to

beneath discal spot, and again rectangularly bent to two-thirds of

inner margin; a very small round spot finely outlined with dark

fuscous beneath costa beyond first line, and a curved oblong-trans-

verse discal spot finely outlined with dark fuscous beyond middle ;

a cloudy dark fuscous somewhat interrupted hind-marginal line ;

cilia whitish-grey, with a cloudy grey interrupted line. Hind

wings with colour, second and hind-marginal lines, and cilia as in

fore wings; a cloudy oblique transverse-linear dark fuscous discal

spot before middle.

Sydney, New South Wales; one specimen. Very like

E. capnochroa, but quite without costal spots, bars in

cilia, or white centre of discal spot.

Eurycreon ochreipennis, Butl.

Pterygisus ochreipennis, Butl., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.,

1886, 429, pl. x., 9.

This is the insect formerly alluded to by me as Felder’s

Botys beatalis ; I now think this identification erroneous,

and regard Felder as having probably intended a species

of Metallarcha.

Eurycreon ateloxantha, n. s.

3, 10—11 mm. Head and thorax fuscous; frontal projection

small, rounded. Palpi dark fuscous, lower longitudinal half white.

Antenne pale fuscous, ciliations two-thirds. Abdomen dark

fuscous, mixed with yellowish towards base, anal tuft ochreous-

whitish. Anterior legs dark fuscous; middle and posterior legs

ochreous-whitish. Fore wings elongate-triangular, costa posteriorly

slightly arched, apex obtuse, hind margin oblique, rounded beneath ;

whitish-ochreous, suffusedly irrorated with dark fuscous, appearing

rather dark fuscous, with deep reddish-ochreous reflections ; lines

blackish fuscous; first from one-fourth of costa to one-third of

inner margin, rather irregular; second from three-fourths of costa,

Australia and the South Pacific. 243

slightly indented above middle, near above anal angle abruptly

bent inwards to below discal spot, thence again rectangularly bent

to two-thirds of inner margin; a small roundish spot beneath

costa beyond first line, and a transverse-oblong discal spot, both

strongly outlined with blackish-fuscous; second line preceded and

followed on costa by a pale spot ; a blackish-fuscous hind-marginal

line; cilia grey-whitish, with a dark fuscous line. Hind wings

ochreous-yellow; base and centre of dise irrorated with dark

fuscous ; second line and cilia as in fore wings; a transverse linear

dark fuscous discal spot before middle ; space between second line

and hind margin wholly suffused with dark fuscous, except towards

anal angle.

Toowoomba (2000 feet), Queensland ; two specimens

in December.

Eurycreon lamprodeta, Meyr.

Aporocosmus bracteatus, Butl., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.,

1886, 399, isasynonym of this. I daresay the Australian

locality quoted by Butler may be correct, but I should

like confirmation.

Eurycreon massalis, Walk.

Also from Rosewood, Queensland; Sydney, New

South Wales.

CrioputHona, Meyr.

Criophthona harmodia, n. s.

3, 15—18mm. Headand thorax ochreous-brown. Palpi dark fus-

cous, beneath white towards base. Antenne fuscous, ciliations one.

Abdomen fuscous, anal tuft pale greyish-ochreous. Legs fuscous.

Fore wings very elongate-triangular, costa sinuate, apex obtuse,

hind margin very obliquely rounded; shining ochreous-fuscous ;

lines obscurely darker ; first from one-fourth of costa to one-third

of inner margin, very indistinct, sometimes anteriorly whitish-

edged near inner margin; second from three-fourths of costa,

somewhat indented above middle, at two-thirds obtusely bent

inwards to beneath discal spot, and again rectangularly bent to

two-thirds of inner margin, posteriorly more or less partially finely

edged with white, sometimes forming a spot on costa; a roundish

spot very obscurely outlined with darker before middle, and a

subquadrate spot somewhat more distinctly outlined beyond

middle, intervening space sometimes obscurely whitish; cilia

shining grey. Hind wings fuscous-grey, towards apex darker;

244 Mr. KE. Meyrick on Pyralidina from

second line somewhat darker, formed as in fore wings; cilia grey-

whitish, with a cloudy grey line.

Albany, West Australia; three specimens, in December.

SEDENIA, Gn.

Sedenia rupalis, Gn.

Also from Glen Innes, Bathurst, and Cooma, New

South Wales; Launceston, Tasmania; Mount Lofty,

South Australia; Geraldton, West Australia.

Sedenia cervalis, Gn.

Also from Glen Innes and Cooma, New South Wales ;

Wimmera, Victoria.

Sedenia aspasta, ni. s.

3,12—15 mm. Headand thorax fuscous. Palpi dark fuscous,

beneath white. Antenne light fuscous, ciliations two. Abdomen

fuscous, segmental margins pale yellowish. Legs dark fuscous,

posterior pair yellow-whitish. Fore wings very elongate-triangular,

costa almost straight, apex rounded, hind margin very oblique,

hardly rounded; fuscous, ochreous-tinged, sprinkled with blackish ;

lines hardly perceptibly darker, almost obsolete; first from one-

fourth of costa to one-third of inner margin; second from five-

sixths of costa to very near anal angle, abruptly bent in thence to

beneath two-thirds of disc, and again rectangularly bent to inner

margin near anal angle; cilia fuscous. Hind wings ochreous-

yellow; a narrow dark fuscous border extending completely round

wing, but nearly obsolete on inner margin; cilia pale fuscous-

erey.

Carnarvon, West Australia; two specimens in October.

Tritma, Meyr.

Tritea ustalis, Walk.

Also from Rosewood, Queensland; Glen Innes,

Bathurst, and Cooma, New South Wales; Wimmera,

Victoria; Geraldton, West Australia; from October to

April.

Nymphula sordida, Butl., Trans. Ent. Soe. Lond.,

1886, 482, is an additional synonym of this,

Australia and the South Pacvfic. 245

SCOPARIAD A.

Kourpsiopes, Meyr.

Eiclipsiodes drosera, 0. 8.

3 2,18—20mm. Head, palpi, antenne, thorax, abdomen, and

legs dark fuscous, slightly mixed with white; forehead with a

short cone, sometimes obsolete; palpi rather long, terminal joint

concealed. Fore wings triangular, costa almost straight, apex

obtuse, hind margin rather obliquely rounded; dark fuscous, with

some scattered white scales tending to form a cloudy patch on

costa before second line and another on anal angle; lines sub-

dentate, black; first from one-third of costa to two-fifths of inner

margin, somewhat curved; second from three-fourths of costa to

three-fifths of inner margin, sinuate inwards below middle,

followed on costa and sometimes on inner margin by a small

cloudy white spot; orbicular and claviform roundish, outlined

with blackish, obscure, touching first line; reniform tolerably

8-shaped, outlined with blackish, almost touching second line

beneath; a cloudy darker shade near beyond and parallel to second

line; an irregular white marginal line, sometimes obsolete, mar-

gined obscurely with blackish; cilia grey, with a dark grey line.

Hind wings dark fuscous; two or three cloudy whitish spots before

middle, and a curved series of small white partially confluent

spots beyond middle, all sometimes obsolete ; cilia as in fore wings.

Victoria ; several specimens (coll. Lucas).

Eclipsiodes crypsixantha, Meyy.

Also from Duaringa, Queensland ; Blackheath (8500

feet) and Bathurst, New South Wales.

Nycrarcua, Mey.

Nyctarcha ophideres, Walk.

Also from Duaringa, (Jueensland.

Nyctarcha paracentra, n.s.

?,15mm. Head, palpi, antenne, thorax, abdomen, and legs

blackish ; palpi white beneath towards base; apex of tarsal joints

yellow-whitish. Fore wings suboblong, rather dilated posteriorly,

costa almost straight, apex obtuse, hind margin obliquely rounded ;

dark fuscous, purplish-tinged; a cloudy outwardly oblique whitish

spot on costa at two-thirds, reaching half across wing; a short

246 Mr. EK. Meyrick on Pyralidina from

white erect linear mark on inner margin at three-fourths; cilia

dark fuscous. Hind wings light orange; a small dark fuscous

basal patch, narrowly extended along inner margin to anal angle ;

a moderate blackish hind-marginal border, its anterior edge semi-

circularly excavated on upper half, and rather prominent below

middle ; cilia dark fuscous, on inner margin pale yellowish.

York, West Australia ; one specimen, in October, not

in very good condition ; it is immediately separated from

the other species with orange hind wings by the blackish

base. I have seen a second specimen, also West

Australian.

Scoparia, Hw.

Scoparia threnodes, ni. s.

36 2,15—17mm. Head, palpi, antenne, and thorax blackish ;

palpi 23, base white; antennal ciliations of male one-half; thorax

with a forwards-angulated white transverse bar very near posterior

extremity. Abdomen whitish-grey, apex whitish-ochreous. Legs

blackish, apex of joints white. Fore wings elongate, triangular,

costa slightly arched, apex rounded, hind margin obliquely

rounded; grey, coarsely irrorated with black and with some

scattered white scales, appearing almost blackish ; first line in-

distinct, whitish, posteriorly black-margined, somewhat curved ;

orbicular and claviform roundish, black-margined but hardly

traceable, touching first line; reniform 8-shaped, black-margined,

tolerably distinct except beneath, often connected with costa by a

whitish suffusion ; second line very indistinct, whitish, anteriorly

black-margined; subterminal line rather broad, cloudy, white,

more or less distinct, almost touching second line in middle; an

irregular white marginal line; cilia grey, with a blackish line near

base, narrowly barred with white, extreme tips white. Hind

wings 1}; pale grey, towards hind margin somewhat darker, with

a faint post-median line ; cilia grey-whitish, with a grey line.

Perth, West Australia; five specimens, in November.

Nearest to S. anthracias, from which it differs by the

white thoracic marking, traceable white lines of fore

wings, and other points. In my tabulation it falls under

the same head with S. chalicodes, from which it differs

widely by the dense black irroration.

Scoparia chiasta, Meyr.

Also from Melbourne, Victoria.

Australia and the South Pacvfic. 247

Scoparia spelea, Meyr.

Also from '’oowoomba, Queensland.

Scoparia plagiotis, n. s.

?, 19—20 mm. Head grey mixed with white. Palpi four,

grey mixed with black, white towards base beneath. Antenne

pale grey. Thorax ochreous-grey, somewhat mixed with blackish.

Abdomen whitish-grey, apex whitish-ochreous. Legs dark fuscous

irrorated with white, apex of joints white. Fore wings elongate,

narrow, subtriangular, costa hardly arched, apex obtuse, hind

margin nearly straight, oblique, rounded beneath; light grey,

ochreous-tinged, partially irrorated with white; veins rather

strongly and irregularly but incompletely marked with black ;

first line cloudy, white, strongly curved, posteriorly blackish-

margined near costa; orbicular and claviform very small, elongate-

oval, outlined with black, touching first line; reniform 8-shaped,

very indistinctly blackish-margined ; second line cloudy, white ;

subterminal line cloudy, white, touching second line in middle ;

cilia whitish, obscurely barred with ochreous-grey, and with a

cloudy grey line. Hind wings 13; whitish-grey, hind margin

scarcely darker; cilia white, with a pale grey line.

Campbelltown, Tasmania; two specimens in December.

Not very near any other; may be placed between S.

cleodoralis and S. manganeutis. In tabulation falls with

S. chalicodes; easily separated by the distinct white

lines.

Trrraprosopus, Butl.

Tetraprosopus Meyricki, Butl.

Also from Glen Innes (4500 feet), Newcastle, and

Bathurst, New South Wales.

XeERoscopa, Meyr.

Xeroscopa philonephes, Meyr.

Also from Mount Kosciusko (4700 feet), New South

Wales.

Xeroscopa nephelitis, n. 8.

3 2, 22—24 mm. Head, antenne, thorax, abdomen, and legs

glossy grey, slightly ochreous-tinged; antennal ciliations of male

one-half; posterior tibia ochreous-white. Palpi two, fuscous-grey,

248 Mr. E. Meyrick on Pyralidina from

base white. Fore wings elongate, subtriangular, costa almost

straight, apex rounded, hind margin rather obliquely rounded ;

glossy ochreous-grey, irrorated with grey-whitish; cilia glossy

whitish-grey, with a faint darker line near base. Hind wings

whitish-grey, ochreous-tinged; a somewhat darker very obscure

hind-marginal band ; cilia whitish, with a grey line.

Mount Kosciusko (5000—6000 feet), New South

Wales ; four specimens, in January.

CRAMBIDA,

Diatra@a, Guild.

Diatrea parramattella, Meyr.

Chilo parramattellus, Meyr., Proc. Linn. Soc. N. 8. W.,

1878, 178.

CALAMOTROPHA, Z.

Calamotropha dielota, Mey.

Also from Queensland (coll. Lucas).

Procnuostona, Meyr.

Ptochostola micropheella, Walk.

Crambus micropheellus, Walk., Suppl., 1758; Ptocho-

stola dimidiella, Meyr., Proc. Linn. Soc. N. 8. W.,

1878, 190; ib., 1882, 154.

Also from Brisbane, Queensland ; Bathurst and Black-

heath, New South Wales ; Melbourne, Victoria; Laun-

ceston and Hobart, Tasmania; Penola, South Australia;

Albany, West Australia; from September to April.

By an error of observation I formerly recorded this

name of Walker’s as a synonym of Crambus cuneiferellus.

THINASOTIA, Hein.

Thinasotia claviferella, Walk.

Aquita claviferella, Walk., Suppl., 1765; Aphomia

strigosa, Butl., Proc. Zool. Soc., 1877, 398,

pl. xlii., 10; Crambus strigosus, Meyr., Trans.

N. Zeal. Inst., 1882, 31.

Melbourne, Victoria; Hobart, Tasmania; besides the

recorded New Zealand localities. The distribution of

this species is quite exceptional.

Australia and the South Pacific. 249

Thinasotia lativittalis, Walk.

Also from Deloraine and Georges Bay, Tasmania ;

Ardrossan, South Australia; Perth, West Australia.

Hepnora, Meyr.

Hednota pleniferella, Walk.

Also from Deloraine, Tasmania.

Hednota toxotis, n. s.

3 ?,183—19 mm. Head pale ochreous, with a white line above

eyes, cone slight. Palpi three, dark ochreous-fuscous mixed with

white, beneath white. Antenne grey, in male triangularly

dentate, teeth ending in tufts of long cilia. Thorax brownish-

ochreous. Abdomen grey. Legs grey-whitish, anterior tibie

greyish-ochreous. Fore wings elongate, subtriangular, costa gently

arched, apex round-pointed, hind margin oblique, sinuate-indented

in middle; veins 4 and 5 separate, 11 bent; in male ochreous-

brown, in female greyish-ochreous, partially somewhat irrorated

with white, sometimes becoming white on posterior half; a

blackish irroration towards middle of disc; a more or less defined

narrow snow-white median longitudinal streak from base to hind

margin, partially black-margined, suffusedly interrupted towards

base and cut by discal spot; a moderate oval leaden-metallic

discal spot beyond middle, suffusedly margined with black; a

slightly sinuate leaden-metallic transverse line from five-sixths of

costa to anal angle; a white hind-marginal fascia, anterior edge

convex and preceded by a cloudy blackish irroration which is cut

by the metallic transverse line, containing five or six elongate

black hind-marginal marks on veins; cilia glossy grey, basal half

whitish with a black line near base, except on lower third of hind

margin, where it is wholly glossy metallic-grey. Hind wings with

veins 4 and 5 coincident; in male dark grey, in female grey ; cilia

grey-whitish, with a grey line.

Melbourne, Victoria; several specimens (coll. Lucas).

Somewhat allied to H. pedionoma and H. longipalpella,

but very distinct.

Hednota pedionoma, Meyr.

Also from Melbourne and the Wimmera, Victoria ;

Launceston, ‘l’asmania.

TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1887.—PART III. (SEPT.) T

250 Mr. E. Meyrick on Pyralidina from

Hednota gelastis, n. s.

3, 9mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen grey-whitish

irrorated with dark fuscous; cone slight; palpi four. Antenne

greyish, filiform, moderately ciliated (1). Legs fuscous, posterior

pair grey-whitish. Fore wings elongate-triangular, costa gently

arched, apex rounded, hind margin extremely oblique, almost

straight; veins 4 and 5 separate; grey-whitish, irrorated with

dark fuscous; two thick ochreous-brown transverse lines, partially

irrorated with blackish, first from two-fifths of costa to two-fifths

of inner margin, somewhat curved outwards, second from three-

fourths of costa to four-fifths of inner margin, upper half

moderately curved outwards; an obscure white discal dot between

them; cilia grey-whitish, with a blackish line near base and grey

subapical line. Hind wings subovate, hardly broader than fore

wings; veins 4 and 5 from a point; grey; cilia light grey.

Campbelltown, Tasmania ; one specimen in December.

The smallest and most inconspicuous species, abnormal

in appearance from the smaller hind wings and peculiar

markings.

Hednota panselenella, Meyr.

Also from Hobart, Tasmania.

Hednota acontophora, Meyr.

Also from MHobart, Tasmania; Adelaide, South

Australia.

Hednota asterias, n. 8.

3, 27 mm. Head ferruginous, face fuscous, cone moderate.

Palpi 43, fuscous, white towards base beneath. Antenne grey,

subdentate, very shortly ciliated (4). Thorax ashy-grey. Abdomen

grey-whitish, ochreous-tinged. Legs grey, posterior pair grey-

whitish. Fore wings elongate, moderately dilated, subtriangular,

costa gently arched, apex obtuse, hind margin hardly perceptibly

sinuate, slightly oblique, rounded beneath; veins 4 and 5 separate ;

glossy grey, slightly ochreous-tinged, somewhat irrorated with

whitish-grey ; margins of veins marked by fine unevenly scattered

black scales; a round clear white discal dot beyond middle; cilia

glossy light grey, with a darker ochreous-grey line near base.

Hind wings with veins 4 and 5 short-stalked; beneath with a

longitudinal fold near inner margin, its edge fringed with rough

hairs on anal half; whitish-grey, towards hind margin scarcely

darker ; cilia grey-whitish, with a light grey line.

Australia and the South Pacific. 251

Albany, West Australia; one specimen in December.

Crambus demissalis, Walk., is represented in the British

Museum collection by a rather poor specimen of this

species, but it is apparent that there must be some error ;

Walker describes his species as silvery-white, with black

discal and marginal points, and in other respects quite

distinct ; his name may therefore be dropped until the

type is discovered. As an instance of confusion of

types in the same genus, I may mention that Walker's

Crambus cuneiferellus was at one time represented in the

collection by a specimen of the absurdly different

Thudaca obliquella; his description being really recog-

nisable enough.

ERomEneE, /Hb.

Eromene ocellea, Hw.

Mount Lofty, South Australia; one specimen taken

by Mr. E. Guest. 1 was extremely surprised to receive

this species, and inquired particularly into its capture ;

Mr. Guest informed me that he took it himself in 1885,

and had never met with a second specimen, and suggested

that, as the locality was within a hundred yards of a

grocery store, the pupa might have been imported in

straw from the South of Europe. 1 am disposed to

think that this is not altogether improbable, but more

evidence is required. The species is recorded from

Europe, North Africa, Madeira, and North America ; it

therefore possesses some means of distribution.

GALLERIADA.

Herteromicta, Meyr.

Heteromicta pachytera, Meyy.

Also from Sydney, New South Wales; Melbourne,

Victoria; Quorn, South Australia; Geraldton, West

Australia. The sexes are similar; size varies from

16 to 26 mm.

MELISSOBLAPTES, Z.

The two following species are true Melissoblaptes, as

distinguished from Heteromicta.

252 Mr. E. Meyrick on Pyralidina from

Melissoblaptes sordidella, Walk.

Gyrtona sordidella, Walk., Suppl., 1728.

9,24mm. Head, palpi, and thorax greyish-ochreous suffusedly

irrorated with dark fuscous. Antenne fuscous, ringed with paler.

Abdomen ochreous-whitish, segments suffused with grey except on

margins. Legs dark fuscous, apex of joints ochreous-whitish,

posterior pair suffused with ochreous-whitish. Fore wings elongate,

suboblong, costa moderately arched, apex obtuse, hind margin

rather obliquely rounded; fuscous, somewhat sprinkled irregularly

with ochreous-whitish, and coarsely irrorated with black; an

obscure darker fascia near before and parallel to first line; lines

thick, cloudy, dark fuscous; first from two-fifths of costa to before

middle of inner margin, somewhat curved; second from close

beyond middle of costa to three-fourths of inner margin, rather

sinuate inwards beneath costa, almost rectangularly angulated in

middle; a dark fuscous discal dot between them ; a cloudy darker

band between second line and hind margin, parallel to second line ;

a hind-marginal row of small dark fuscous subconfluent spots ;

cilia fuscous, with ochreous-whitish and black points. Hind wings

whitish-fuscous, somewhat darker posteriorly; a fuscous hind-

marginal line interrupted by whitish-ochreous dots; cilia whitish-

fuscous.

Blackheath (3500 feet), New South Wales; one speci-

men in February.

Melissoblaptes egidia, n. s.

3 2, 28—382 mm. Head, palpi, antenne, and thorax light

grey; antenne in male quite naked. Abdomen grey-whitish.

Legs grey. Fore wings elongate, suboblong, costa rather strongly

arched, apex round-pointed, hind margin rather strongly oblique,

almost straight; light grey, with a few fine scattered black scales ;

basal area somewhat mixed with light brown-reddish and black

scales, especially in male; lines subdentate, blackish, somewhat

mixed with hght brown-reddish ; first from two-fifths of costa to

middle of inner margin, somewhat curved outwards, rather thick,

towards inner margin slender ; second from three-fourths of costa

to three-fourths of inner margin, slender, moderately bent outwards

above middle; some reddish scales towards hind margin, especially

in male; cilia grey-whitish, somewhat mixed with reddish, with

two dark grey lines. Hind wings pale grey, ochreous-tinged; cilia

whitish-grey. Under surface of fore wings in male with dise

wholly fulvous:

Australia and the South Pacific. 258

Mount Lofty, South Australia; two specimens taken

by Mr. E. Guest.

PHYCITIDA.

CEROPREPES, 7%.

The essential characters of the neuration (previously

not quite correctly stated by me) are: Fore wings with

veins 4 and 5 separate, 10 rising out of stalk of 8 and 9.

Hind wings with veins 4 and 5 stalked from a point

with 8. Although in the case of the following species

the male is unknown, I have little doubt of its correct

location.

Ceroprepes sebasmia, N. 8.

?,24mm. Head, palpi, antenne, thorax, and legs blackish-

grey, closely irrorated with whitish ; palpi with scales of second

joint forming a short triangular apical tuft beneath, terminal joint

obtuse. Abdomen greyish-ochreous. Fore wings elongate, narrow

at base, posteriorly moderately dilated, costa moderately arched,

apex obtuse, hind margin somewhat obliquely rounded; dark grey,

densely irrorated with whitish ; veins obscurely blackish ; first line

indicated by a very fine irregular black line from one-third of

costa obliquely outwards, in dise forming an angle and becoming

obsolete; cilia grey irrorated with white. Hind wings pale

greyish-ochreous, apex suffusedly fuscous; a cloudy fuscous hind-

marginal line; cilia ochreous-whitish, with a cloudy fuscous line.

Quorn, South Australia ; one specimen in October.

Conopatura, Meyr.

Conobathra automorpha, Meyyr.

Also from Queensland ; one specimen (coll. Lucas).

CanTHELTa, Walk.

Forehead vertical. Ocelli present. Tongue well-developed.

Antenne three-fourths, in male stout, filiform, minutely ciliated

(}), slightly sinuate at base, sinuation with a streak of slightly

rough scales above. Labial palpi moderate, arched, ascending,

with loosely appressed scales, terminal joint shorter than second,

tolerably pointed. Maxillary palpi moderate, loosely scaled.

Abdomen in male with small anal tuft. Middle tibie smooth-

sealed ; posterior tibie with outer spurs half inner. Fore wings

with veins 4 and 5 approximated at base, 7 absent, 8 and 9 stalked,

254 Mr. E. Meyrick on Pyralidina from

10 closely approximated to 9. Hind wings 13; veins 4 and 6

stalked from a point with 3, 7 out of 6 near origin, anastomosing

with 8 to near middle.

Nearly approaching Catastia in structure; differing

principally by the smooth middle tibie. The sinuation

and roughening of the antennz are much less apparent

than in Catastia, and the palpi more ascending.

Canthelea egnalis, Walk.

Pyralis egnalis (egnusalis), Walk., Pyr., 905; Can-

_ thelea gratella, ib., Cr., 26; Suppl., 1726.

S 2, 16—19 mm. Head yellow-ochreous, mixed with ferru-

ginous. Palpi yellow-ochreous, terminal joint and apex of second

ferruginous in front. Antenne yellow-ochreous, scale-streak dark

fuscous. Thorax in male yellow-ochreous, shoulders reddish-

ochreous; in female wholly reddish-ochreous. Abdomen whitish-

ochreous. Legs whitish-ochreous, anterior pair carmine-tinged,

more or less suffused with dark fuscous, middle pair with apex of

tibiz carmine, tarsi suffused with dark fuscous. Fore wings

elongate, posteriorly gradually dilated, costa hardly arched, apex

obtuse, hind margin rather obliquely rounded; ochreous-yellow;

in female an ochreous-white costal streak, suffusedly margined

beneath with dark grey mixed with crimson; markings dull

crimson, somewhat mixed with grey, especially in female, where

they are also more suffused; a thick upwards-curved streak from

middle of base to inner margin at one-third; first lime from two-

fifths of costa to middle of inner margin, narrow, irregular,

generally more or less interrupted; second line from four-fifths of

costa to four-fifths of inner margin, irregular, above middle with a

sharp indentation inwards sending a projection into disc, on which

are often two transversely placed dark grey dots; a variable

irregular hind-marginal fascia, suffusedly confluent with second

line at both extremities; cilia pale whitish-ochreous, greyish-

tinged, with two cloudy pale crimson lines. Hind wings pale

whitish-ochreous; apex suffused with fuscous; a cloudy fuscous

hind-marginal line; cilia ochreous-whitish, with a cloudy fuscous

line.

(Jueensland ; one specimen (coll. Lucas). Also from

Ceylon. I have described the species from a series of

Ceylon specimens,

Australia and the South Pacific. 255

MyeEtois, Z.

Myelois actiosella, Walk.

Aurana actiosella, Walk., 122.

36, 17 mm. Head grey-whitish. Palpi fuscous, second joint

with apex and two bands whitish. Antenne, thorax, and abdomen

grey. Legs dark fuscous ringed with white, posterior tibiz whitish.

Fore wings elongate, posteriorly dilated, costa almost straight,

apex obtuse, hind margin rather oblique, straight, rounded beneath ;

white, with a few fine scattered fuscous scales; a fuscous basal

fascia, its outer edge running from near base of costa to one-fourth

of inner margin; a slender obscure fuscous streak along basal half

of costa; first line thick, dark fuscous, becoming lighter beneath,

from one-fourth of costa to one-third of inner margin, anterior

edge concave, posteriorly connected beneath with second line by

a fuscous oblong patch covering dorsal half of median area; two

black dots tranversely placed in dise above middle; a thick dark

fuscous streak from apex of costa to posterior angle of dorsal

fuscous patch, intersected by second line, which is whitish,

margined anteriorly with dark fuscous and posteriorly with light

fuscous, running from four-fifths of costa to inner margin before

anal angle, somewhat sinuate; an interrupted blackish hind-

marginal line; cilia light fuscous, becoming white towards apex.

Hind wings grey, semitransparent; a cloudy dark grey hind-

marginal line; cilia whitish, with a grey line.

Queensland ; one specimen (coll. Lucas). Also from

Ceylon.

EUZoPHERA, Z.

Euzophera subarcuella, Meyr.

This species is correctly referable here, and it was by

error that 1 removed it to Cateremna. The fore wings

in the male have a long tuft of hairs beneath the costa,

rising from the base; a peculiar character, but I regard

it as merely specific.

Also from Glen Innes and Sydney, New South Wales;

Melbourne, Victoria; Mount Lofty and Ardrossan, South

Australia.

Euzophera holophragma, n. s.

?,14mm. Head grey mixed with white. Palpi white with a

few dark grey scales, terminal joint and apex of second blackish-

grey, terminal joint short. Antenne grey-whitish. Thorax grey,

256 Mr. E. Meyrick on Pyratidina from

irrorated with white and obscurely spotted with blackish. Abdomen

pale ochreous-grey. Legs blackish, partially irrorated with white,

apex of joints white. Fore wings elongate, moderately dilated,

costa hardly arched, apex obtuse, hind margin obliquely rounded;

light grey, with a few fine scattered black scales; a straight

transverse darker shade formed by blackish irroration from one-

fifth of costa to one-third of inner margin; an ill-defined down-

wards-curved white band, sprinkled with black scales, from costa

beyond this shade, returning to costa before second line, enclosing

a short cloudy blackish streak along median part of costa, and cut

by a strong blackish bar before middle representing first line; a

small blackish transverse discal spot beyond middle; second line

from costa near apex to anal angle, whitish, very obscure except

on costa, where it becomes white, margined anteriorly with

blackish, indented above middle, followed on costa by a blackish

suffusion; cilia grey, irrorated with white. Hind wings light

fuscous-grey, darker towards apex; a darker hind-marginal line ;

cilia grey-whitish.

Carnarvon, West Australia ; one specimen in October.

Nearly allied to EH. subarcuella, but readily separated by

the strong blackish bar cutting the subcostal band of

fore wings, and by the substitution of black for the

characteristic purple scales strewn on this band.

Evucarpuia, Hb.

Eucarphia tritalis, Walk.

Also from Duaringa and Toowoomba, Queensland ;

Glen Innes, Orange, and Cooma, New South Wales;

Albany, Geraldton, and Perth, West Australia.

TETRALOPHA, Z.

Forehead vertical. Ocelli present. Tongue well-developed.

Antenne two-thirds, in male dentate, dentations terminating in

tufts of long cilia (2), towards apex filiform, pubescent. Labial

palpi moderately long, recurved, with appressed scales, terminal

joint short, cylindrical. Maxillary palpi in male terminating in a

long single or double pencil of fine hairs. Abdomen in male with

small anal tuft. Fore wings with veins 4 and 5 from a point,

7 absent, 8 and 9 stalked. Hinds wings 12; vein 3 closely approxi-

mated to 4 at base, 4 and 5 stalked, 7 out of 6 near origin, anasto-

mosing with 8 to near middle,

Australia and the South Pacific. 257

Tetralopha piratis, n. s.

3, 28 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and anterior legs white

sprinkled with fuscous; tuft of maxillary palpi yellow-whitish.

Antenne grey-whitish. Abdomen white, segments suffused with

dark fuscous towards base. (Middle and posterior legs broken.)

Fore wings elongate, posteriorly strongly dilated, costa bent beyond

middle, apex obtuse, hind margin somewhat oblique, straight,

rounded beneath ; white, irrorated with fuscous and dark fuscous ;

basal third wholly fuscous except towards costa, bounded by first

line; a strong black line from one-third of costa to two-fifths of

inner margin, forming a tuft of raised scales in disc; first line

from two-fifths of costa to middle of inner margin, clear white,

margined with black on both sides but less completely posteriorly,

somewhat sinuate irregularly below middle; a transverse curved

fine linear dark fuscous mark in dise beyond middle; second line

white, ill-defined, obscurely fuscous-margined, from near before

apex to near before anal angle, angularly indented beneath costa ;

veins posteriorly obscurely dark fuscous, interrupted on second

line; a dark fuscous interrupted hind-marginal line; cilia white

mixed with fuscous, with an obscure fuscous line. Hind wings

grey-whitish, semitransparent; costa posteriorly and hind margin

very narrowly grey; a dark grey hind-marginal line; cilia whitish,

with a grey line.

Queensland ; one specimen (coll. Lucas).

ETIELLA, Z.

Etiella chrysoporella, Meyr.

Also from Duaringa and Toowoomba, Queensland ;

Bathurst, New South Wales ; Geraldton and Carnarvon,

West Australia.

Ktiella Behrit, Z.

Also from Brisbane, Queensland; Glen Innes, Bathurst,

and Cooma, New South Wales; Perth, West Australia.

Epicrocis, Z.

I consider this generic name is to be used for the

genus now generally known as Salebria, Hein. The

name Salebria was first used by Zeller in 1846 for that

section of Pempelia characterised by scale-tufts on surface

of wings ; afterwards Heinemann described as Salebria

258 Mr. E. Meyrick on Pyralidina from

of Zeller a genus distinguished from true Pempelia by

the presence of vein 5 in the hind wings, but this is not

Zeller’s group. Zeller did not employ the name after

1847, considering the section untenable. In 1848

Zeller founded the genus Hpicrocis on a single species,

E. festivella; this species does not, in my judgment,

differ generically from the species of Heinemann’s genus

Salebria, and the characters are given correctly and in

full; I therefore have no hesitation in adopting it. This

(with some other exotic genera described at the same

time) does not seem ever to have been re-examined by

Zeller in later years, or he would probably have noticed

this identity.

Eipicrocis eucometis, Meyr.

Salebria squamicornis, Butl., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.,

1886, 489, is a synonym of this.

Epicrocis gypsopa, Meyr.

Also from Albany, York, Perth, and Carnarvon, West

Australia.

Eipicrocis macrota, Nn. 8.

S$ 2,18—22 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax grey, thinly irrorated

with blackish; palpi in female very long, porrected; maxillary

palpi of male ochreous-yellow. Antennie grey, basal joint and tuft

black, tuft large. Abdomen pale whitish-ochreous, greyish-tinged.

Legs grey-whitish irrorated with black, tibiz with subapical black

bands, anterior tarsi blackish. Fore wings elongate, very narrow,

posteriorly somewhat dilated, costa posteriorly gently arched, apex

obtuse, hind margin rather obliquely rounded; grey, towards costa

and hind margin with fine scattered black scales; basal third

crossed by six fine longitudinal black lines; inner margin mixed

with pale reddish-ochreous; an ill-defined white spot on inner

margin at one-fourth, sometimes obsolete; first line slender,

whitish, posteriorly black-margined, somewhat irregular, from

two-fifths of costa to middle of inner margin, somewhat angulated

in middle; a pale reddish-ochreous suffusion, mixed with white,

towards middle of disc; a small black discal spot at two-thirds,

beneath which is a roundish patch irrorated with black; second

line slender, whitish, blackish-margined, from five-sixths of costa

to before anal angle, angulated obtusely inwards at one-fourth,

outwards in middle, and somewhat sinuate inwards near inner

margin; a black hind-marginal line ; cilia grey, with rows of white

Australia and the South Pacific. 259

and black points. Hind wings thinly scaled, ochreous-grey-whitish,

apex and upper part of hind margin narrowly greyish; cilia

ochreous-whitish.

Carnarvon, West Australia; six specimens in October,

principally on Hucalyptus blossom after dark. Imme-

diately recognisable by the extremely narrow fore wings ;

nearest allied to . gypsopa.

Epicrocis mesembrina, n. 8.

3,21 mm. Head, palpi, antenne, thorax, and legs dark grey

sprinkled with whitish. Abdomen dark grey, margins of segments

broadly whitish-yellow. Fore wings elongate, narrow at base,

moderately dilated, costa slightly arched, apex obtuse, hind margin

rather oblique, rounded beneath; dark grey, closely irrorated with

white ; inner margin irregularly blackish towards base, forming a

small spot before first line; first line from one-third of costa to

two-fifths of inner margin, irregular, white, on upper half obsolete,

posteriorly sharply black-margined throughout, the margin forming

a small spot on costa; a dark fuscous erect cloudy spot from inner

margin beyond middle, reaching half across wing; a blackish

transverse-linear discal dot; second line indicated by dark fuscous

margins, from four-fifths of costa to four-fifths of inner margin,

rather irregular, indented inwards beneath costa, posterior margin

suffusedly dilated towards apex; a dark fuscous hind-marginal

line; cilia dark grey, with rows of whitish points. Hind wings

ochreous-yellow; a narrow dark fuscous hind-marginal border,

uniting at apex with a somewhat broader costal border ; cilia grey,

with a darker basal line.

Albany, West Australia; one specimen (Australian

Museum).

Lipicrocis festivella, Z.

Epicrocis festivella, Z., Is., 1848, 878; ib., Caff., 77;

Pyralis ratoalis, Walk., 916; Scopula albigeralis,

ib., Suppl., 1468.

Queensland ; one specimen (coll. Lucas). Also from

Java, Ceylon, and South Africa.

Epicrocis euraphella, Meyr.

Although the male is still unknown, I conjecture that

the species should be placed in this genus rather than

in Hypophana, because of its evident relationship to

ii, macrota.

260 Mr. K. Meyrick on Pyralidina from

Pempetia, Hb.

The following species agrees with this genus so far as

the structure of the female permits a conclusion to be

formed ; but it is of peculiar facies, and may prove on

discovery of the male to be a distinct genus.

Pempelia (2) hemichlena, n.s.

?,18—21 mm. Head and thorax whitish, suffusedly spotted

with pale ochreous. Palpi pale ochreous, second joint with three

whitish bands, third apical. Antenne grey. Abdomen whitish-

ochreous. Legs whitish-ochreous, tarsi suffused with grey. Fore

wings elongate, posteriorly dilated, costa bent beyond middle, apex

obtuse, hind margin somewhat oblique, straight, rounded beneath;

fuscous ; basal half whitish-ochreous, bounded by a sinuate line

from middle of costa to middle of inner margin, bordered on lower

half by a white streak margined anteriorly with reddish and pos-

teriorly with blackish; a central longitudinal reddish streak from

base of wing to apex of white streak, having beneath its middle a

large tuft of reddish scales mixed with blackish, and margined

above by a grey suffusion which extends to costa at one-fourth ; a

tuft of raised scales near inner margin beyond white streak; a

whitish-ochreous black-margined crescentic mark in dise beyond

middle; a very faintly indicated grey-whitish subterminal line,

sinuate and dilated on costa; some reddish scales towards apex ;

a black hind-marginal line, tending to form spots; cilia grey, with

rows of whitish points, base whitish. Hind wings with veins

3 and 4 from near together ; light grey, more or less suffused with

pale whitish-yellowish towards base; a grey hind-marginal line;

cilia whitish, with a cloudy grey line.

Victoria ; two specimens (coll. Lucas).

TyLocHaREs, Meyr.

The location of the following species must also be

recarded as merely provisional, in the absence of the

male. Superficially it is very distinct from any other

Australian species.

Tylochares (2) 1anthemis, n. 8.

?, 16 mm. Head, palpi, antenne, thorax, and abdomen

whitish-ochreous ; terminal joint of labial palpi moderate, tolerably

pointed; maxillary palpi short, loosely scaled, appressed to face.

Australia and the South Pacific. 261

Legs ochreous-whitish. Fore wings elongate, posteriorly some-

what dilated, costa posteriorly gently arched, apex obtuse, hind

margin oblique, hardly rounded; whitish-ochreous, faintly tinged

with reddish-ochreous; basal and terminal areas mixed with light

ochreous-reddish, forming a suffusion towards margin of lines;

basal area suffusedly mixed with grey towards margins; lines

white, somewhat irregular, tolerably defined ; first from two-fifths

of costa to middle of inner margin, hardly curved; second from

four-fifths of costa to before anal angle, straight, faintly sinuate

above middle; median area irregularly mixed with grey; a faint

whitish discal spot, beneath which is a small cloudy dark grey

spot; a dark grey spot on costa beyond second line, connected with

a dark grey hind-marginal line; cilia with basal half ochreous-

white, terminal half light grey. Hind wings semitransparent, pale

grey ; a suffused dark grey hind-marginal line; cilia whitish, with

a dark grey line.

LASIostTIcHa, N. &.

I propose this name in place of Lasiocera, Meyr.,

preoccupied in the Coleoptera.

Lasiosticha antelia, Meyy.

Also from Victoria (coll. Lucas); two females, with

the fore wings suffused with whitish towards costa, but

otherwise quite similar.

HrospHora, Meyr.

Heosphora psamathella, Meyr.

Also from Brisbane, Queensland ; Fernshaw, Victoria.

Ancrastia nitens, Butl., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1886,

440, is a synonym of this.

ANERASTIA, Hb.

So far as my knowledge of the species of the Anerastia

sroup extends, I should be disposed at present to refer

them all to a single genus Anerastia, characterised by

the pecular and apparently constant neuration (as

described below), the obsolescence of the maxillary palpi,

and the very short or rudimentary tongue; regarding

the variation in the character of the labial palpi, the

presence or absence of a horny frontal cone, and of a

basal sinuation and small scale-streak or tuft in the

262 Mr. E. Meyrick on Pyralidina from

antenne of the male, as merely specific points; these

latter appear to me to differ more or less in every species.

If this view is correct the preceding genus, Heosphora,

would also be merged in this. I do not press my view

at present, because I believe M. Ragonot, who has had

the opportunity of examining much more extensive

material, thinks differently, and it seems desirable to

await the publication of his opinions before making

further change. I have therefore described the following

species as an Anerastia, but indicated in the specific

description the structural points in which it diverges

from other forms.

The special points of neuration, by which Anerastia

(including Heosphora) is characterised, are the absence

of vein 5 of the fore wings (which is coincident with 4),

and the free vein 8 of the hind wings, which is approxi-

mated to 7 but does not anastomose with it, as usual in

the family. his latter point I regard as most important

here; it seems to have been hardly noticed. The ocelli

appear to be always present, but sometimes more or less

concealed ; I mention this because Heinemann states

that they are absent.

Anerastia metallactis, n. s.

3d, 20—21 mm. Head, palpi, antenne, thorax, and abdomen

whitish-ochreous, slightly brownish-tinged; frontal cone long,

obtuse-conical; tongue present, very small; antenn without basal

sinuation or roughening, filiform, ciliations one-half; labial palpi

very long, straight, porrected; maxillary palpi obsolete. Legs

dark fuscous, posterior pair ochreous-whitish. Fore wings elon-

gate, moderate, posteriorly scarcely dilated, costa gently arched,

apex rounded, hind margin obliquely rounded; pale brownish-

ochreous, slightly reddish-tinged ; costal edge ochreous-white ; all

veins rather broadly ochreous-whitish mixed with fuscous-grey ;

except subcostal, which forms a clear ochreous-white straight

narrow streak from base to costa before apex, below narrowly and

suffusedly margined with dark grey; cilia grey-whitish. Hind

wings semitransparent, pale whitish-grey; cilia whitish.

Bathurst, New South Wales; three specimens taken

by Mrs. Stephenson.

Australia and the South Pacific. 268

Crocyporora, Meyr.

Crocydopora cinigerella, Walk.

Also from Duaringa, Queensland; Glen Innes, Bathurst,

and Cooma, New South Wales; Fernshaw, Victoria ;

and in New Zealand.

ERNOPHTHORA, N. &.

Forehead vertical. Ocelli present. Tongue well-developed.

Antenne three-fourths, in male subdentate, moderately ciliated,

not sinuate, with a small tuft of scales on back at base. Labial

palpi moderately long, curved, ascending, second joint with loosely

appressed scales, terminal joint short, filiform, slender, pointed.

Maxillary palpi rather short, filiform. Abdomen in male with

small anal tuft. Posterior tibia with outer spurs half inner. Fore

wings with vein 2 from close before angle, 3 and 4 stalked,

5 absent, transverse vein obsolete, 7 absent, 10 rising out of stalk

of 8 and 9, 11 closely approximated to it at base. Hind wings 13;

vein 4 absent, 5 absent, transverse vein absent, 6 and 7 both

rising out of 8 at one-third and two-thirds respectively.

Allied to Hypophana, but with remarkable neuration ;

no other genus of the family has both veins 4 and 5 of

the hind wings absent.

Ernophthora phenicias, n. 8.

$, 15mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen dark fuscous-

grey, somewhat mixed with whitish. Antenne grey. Legs

white, irrorated with fuscous-crimson, and banded with dark

fuscous. Fore wings elongate, narrow, tolerably dilated posteriorly,

costa slightly arched, apex tolerably rectangular, hind margin

rather oblique, straight, rounded beneath; white, irregularly

irrorated with fuscous-crimson; a fuscous basal fascia mixed with

blackish, outer edge from near base of costa‘to one-third of inner

margin; a moderately broad fuscous fascia, mixed with black on

upper half, from one-third of costa to middle of inner margin,

somewhat dilated and indistinct beneath, confluent posteriorly

with a cloudy fuscous suffusion along inner margin to anal angle;

a small roundish blackish spot beneath middle of costa, and a

blackish dot beneath it; second line whitish, margined with

cloudy fuscous lines spotted with longitudinal blackish marks,

from costa near apex to before anal angle, indented beneath costa,

indentation connected with dorsal suffusion by a cloudy fuscous

264 Mr. E. Meyrick on Pyralidina from

streak, a cloudy blackish interrupted hind-marginal line; cilia

whitish, mixed with fuscous (imperfect). Hind wings semi-

transparent, light grey; veins and a cloudy hind-marginal line

darker grey ; cilia grey-whitish, with a cloudy grey line.

Queensland ; one specimen (coll. Lucas).

Hypopnana, Meyr.

Hypophana homosema, nu. s.

32, 16—19 mm. Head, palpi, antenne, and thorax whitish-

grey, somewhat prismatic; tuft of antenne in male grey in front,

black behind, ciliations one-third; thorax in male beneath with

cuirass of shining pearly-white scales, concealing a large tuft of

black hairs on each side. Abdomen grey-whitish. Legs ochreous-

white irrorated with dark grey. Fore wings elongate, narrow,

posteriorly somewhat dilated, costa gently arched, apex rounded,

hind margin obliquely rounded; veins 4 and 5 stalked; grey,

closely irrorated with white, more suffusedly towards costa, and

with scattered black scales tending to collect on veins; a thick

ill-defined whitish-ochreous longitudinal streak along submedian

fold from base to anal angle, and another near inner margin from

base to two-thirds, both often partially obsolete or interrupted

posteriorly; an irroration of black scales tending to form a dot

below fold at one-third, a second in dise before middle, a third in

dise at two-thirds, and two curved shades near hind margin repre-

senting margins of second line, but these are all very obscure and

often not traceable; cilia grey irrorated with white. Hind wings

with veins 3 and 4 from a point, 5 absent; nearly transparent,

whitish-grey; a cloudy grey hind-marginal line; cilia whitish,

with a grey basal line.

Perth, York, Geraldton, and Carnarvon, West Australia ;

very common, in October and November. Nearly allied

to H. petalocosma, but without the characteristic black

scale-streak at base of hind wings in male.

BALANOMIS, 0. g.

Forehead somewhat prominent. Ocelli present. Tongue well-

developed. Antenne three-fourths (in male broken). Labial palpi

moderate, curved, ascending, thickened throughout with dense

somewhat rough scales, terminal joint somewhat shorter than

second, tolerably pointed. Maxillary palpi short, loosely scaled,

appressed to face. Middle and posterior tibie thickened with

dense scales. Fore wings in male towards base with costal fold

Australia and the South Pacific. 265

filled with downy matter; vein 2 from near angle, 4 and 5 stalked,

6 rising out of stalk of 8 and 9 almost at base, 7 absent, 11 from

middle of cell. Hind wings 13; cell extremely short, veins 4 and

5 from a point, 7 rising out of 6 about middle of wing, anasto-

mosing rather shortly with 8.

Balanomis encyclia, n. 8.

3 2, 20 mm. Head, palpi, and antenne whitish-ochreous;

thorax, abdomen, and legs light brownish-ochreous. Fore wings

very elongate, narrow, somewhat dilated, costa posteriorly arched,

apex rounded, hind margin obliquely rounded ; brownish-ochreous,

sprinkled with reddish, white, and dark fuscous scales; a large

ocellated patch indicated about two-thirds, consisting of a cloudy

whitish centre, surrounded successively by blackish, ochreous, and

whitish rings, all very indistinet except on anterior margin; a very

indistinct pale angulated line beyond this; cilia pale ochreous,

base more reddish, tips whitish. Hind wings semitransparent,

grey-whitish, hind margin greyer ; cilia whitish.

Newcastle, New South Wales ; two specimens, in bad

preservation (Australian Museum).

Hommosoma, Curt.

Homeosoma vagella, Z.

Also from Glen Innes (4500 feet), Bathurst, and

Cooma, New South Wales; Geraldton and Carnarvon,

West Australia.

Homeosoma fornacella, Meyr.

Also from Georges Bay, Tasmania.

HKPHESTIA, Gn.

Ephestia elutella, Hb.

Also from Cooma, New South Wales; Perth and

Geraldton, West Australia.

Ephestia desuetella, Walk.

I have pointed out elsewhere that this name is to be

substituted for H. ficulella, Barrett. Also from Car-

narvon, West Australia.

TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1887.—PART III. (SEPT.) U

266 Mr. E. Meyrick on Pyralidina from

PTEROPHORIDA.

Cosmocuostis, Meyr.

Cosmoclostis aglaodesma, Meyr.

The British Museum has received this also from the

Solomon Islands.

TricHopritus, Wlsm.

Trichoptilus centetes, Meyr.

Also from Queensland ; one specimen (coll. Lucas).

Trichoptilus adelphodes, n.s.

3 ?,14—16 mm. Head ochreous. Palpi ochreous mixed with

white and fuscous, base white, second joint reaching middle of face.

Antenne ochreous-whitish, with a dark fuscous line on back.

Thorax ochreous, posterior margin more or less white. Abdomen

ochreous mixed with ochreous-whitish, sides generally mixed with

dark fuscous, apex in male with a single moderate obliquely

ascending hair-pencil, valves small. Legs white, longitudinally

striped with blackish, posterior tibize banded in middle and at apex

with brownish-ochreous or dark fuscous. Fore wings cleft from

middle, segments linear; veins 2 and 10 present; brownish-

ochreous; costal edge and first segment more or less suffused with

fuscous; a black dot in dise at one-third, and another on first

segment at base; generally a few white scales before cleft ; some

white scales forming obscure bands on both segments before middle

and towards apex; cilia rather dark fuscous, or ochreous-fuscous,

on costa spotted with white on bands, on lower margin of first

segment mixed with white, with one or two black scales. on upper

margin of second segment with some white scales towards base,

some black scales towards middle, and a white apical spot, on

lower margin of second segment with narrow white bars opposite

bands. Hind wings cleft firstly from one-fourth, secondly from

base, segments linear; rather dark fuscous; cilia light fuscous,

third segment at most with one or two black scales on inner

marein at three-fifths, and a frmge of white hair-scales between

this and base.

Carnarvon, West Australia ; six specimens in October.

The species was rather common, appearing to frequent

a species of vetch, but at the time I mistook it for

T. xerodes. It is much more nearly allied to T’. centetes,

differing at first sight principally in the more pronounced

Australia and the South Pacific. 267

whitish bands of the fore wings; but the characters on

which I should rely for its distinction are the absence of

the subcostal black dot near base, the single apical hair-

pencil of the abdomen in male, and the possession of

only one or two black scales in place of the decided

spot of J. centetes. It agrees with T. centetes, and

differs from any of the other Australian species in the

presence of vein 10 of the fore wings, and of the black

dot on the base of first segment.

Trichoptilus xerodes, Meyr.

Also from York, West Australia.

TETRASCHALIS, n. g.

Forehead without tuft. Antenne minutely ciliated (3). Palpi

moderately long, ascending, with appressed scales, terminal joint

long, filiform. Tibi tufted with scales on origin of spurs. Fore

wings bifid, cleft from middle; veins 2 and 4 stalked, 3 absent,

5 and 6 very short, 7 from below angle of cell, long, 9, 10, and 11

out of 8. Hind wings trifid, third segment with tuft of black

scales in dorsal cilia; vein 2 from middle of cell, 3 absent, 5 and 6

very short, 7 to apex.

Allied to Oxyptilus, but distinguished by having vein

11 of the fore wings rising out of the stalk of 8, 9,

and 10.

Tetraschalis arachnodes, n. s.

3, 21—24 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen light

brownish-ochreous, mixed with whitish, reddish, and dark fuscous

scales. Antenne whitish. Legs very slender, whitish, irrorated

with reddish-fuscous, anterior and middle pair tending to be longi-

tudinally striped. Fore wings with segments linear, first slightly,

second posteriorly moderately dilated, pointed; reddish-fuscous,

sprinkled with whitish and irrorated with dark fuscous; a cloudy

narrow white band on base of first segment, a broader one at its

middle, and a narrow one at three-fourths, two latter also indicated

on second segment; cilia grey, irregularly mixed throughout with

black scales. Hind wings cleft firstly from one-fourth, secondly

from near base, segments linear; fuscous, third segment dark

reddish-fuscous; cilia grey, third segment with a few black scales

on upper margin, on lower margin with a tolerably continuous row

of close black scales from near base to apex and a fringe of white

268 Mr. E. Meyrick on Pyralidina.

hair-seales, a large triangular tooth of black scales beyond middle

and another at apex.

Neweastle, New South Wales; two specimens, in

indifferent condition (Australian Museum).

SPHENARCHES, Meyr.

Sphenarches caffer, Z.

Oxyptilus caffer, Z., Linn. Ent., vi., 348, Caff., 118 ;

O. anisodactylus, Walk., 984; O. Walkeri, W1lsm.,

Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1881, 279; Sphenarches

synophrys, Meyr., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1886,

Mie

Also from Sydney, New South Wales; one specimen

in February. I am indebted to the kindness of Lord

Walsingham for calling my attention to the above

synonymic identification, in which, after examination of

his specimens, I fully agree. ‘The range of the species

therefore extends from South and West Africa through

Ceylon to Australia and the South Pacific Islands.

Mimeseoptiuus, Wallgr.

Mimeseoptilus celidotus, Meyr.

Also from Albany, West Australia.

2 bo

XII. Descriptions of some exotic Micro-Lepidoptera.

By E. Meyricr, B.A., F.E.S.

[Read June 1st, 1887. |

In this paper I have described a few new genera and

species which seemed to me to have individual charac-

teristics that rendered them worth making known, from

a systematic point of view; with one or two others as to

which there has been some specific confusion.

HYDROCAMPIDA.

MIxopHyLa, 0. g.

Forehead vertical. Ocelli present. Tongue well-developed.

Antenne $, in male—?. Labial palpi moderately long, slender,

smooth-scaled, recurved, terminal joint two-thirds of second,

acute. Maxillary palpi moderate, slender, porrected, apex peni-

cillate. Posterior tibize with all spurs long and almost equal.

Fore wings with veins 4 and 5 somewhat approximated at base,

8 and 9 stalked, 10 absent, 11 from near 9. Hind wings as broad

as fore wings; veins 4 and 5 approximated at base, 6 rising from

near 7, 7 from angle of cell, anastomosing with 8 from near origin

to before middle, lower median loosely pectinated towards base.

A most singular genus, very distinct from any known

to me. It must, I think, be regarded as an early

developmental type in this family, showing some affinity

with the Musotimide and Crambide. It will hardly be

credited that this insect, with labial palpi like those of

an CGicophora (to say nothing of the peculiar neuration),

is described by Mr. Moore without remark as a typical

Crambus, presumably solely on the ground of the similar

type of marking.

Mixophyla erminea, Moore.

Crambus ermineus, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii., 380, pl.

Cleexive, we

?, 11mm. Head, palpi, thorax, abdomen, and legs snow-

TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1887.—PART III. (SEPT.)

270 Mr. E. Meyrick’s descriptions of

white; anterior legs dark fuscous above. Antenne grey. Fore

wings rather elongate-triangular, costa slightly arched, apex

obtuse, hind margin hardly oblique, faintly sinuate below apex,

rounded beneath; snow-white; two fine grey transverse lines;

first from beyond middle of costa to beyond middle of inner

margin, unevenly curved outwards, forming a dark grey spot on

inner margin; second from before three-fourths of costa to inner

margin before anal angle, obtusely angulated somewhat above

middle, lower half slightly sinuate; a series of seven irregular

elongate ochreous-yellow marks near beyond second line, four

lowest hind marginal, fifth and sixth confluent, with a round black

submarginal dot between them; a black line along upper third of

hind margin; cilia snow-white, terminal half metallic-grey, except

round anal angle. Hind wings whitish, suffused with pale grey

posteriorly; cilia snow-white.

Colombo, Ceylon; one specimen in December.

MicroscHanis, n. 2.

Forehead vertical, with a conical projection of scales. Ocelli

present. Tongue rudimentary. Antenne 2, in male sub-

dentate, moderately ciliated (}). Labial palpi very long,

straight, porrected, loosely rough-scaled above and_ beneath,

gradually attenuated to apex. Maxillary palpi short, thick,

porrected, loosely scaled. Abdomen in male with uncus developed,

prensors moderate, exserted. Posterior tibiz with outer spurs

about half inner. Fore wings with vein 2 from two-thirds of cell,

4 and 5 approximated at base, 8 and 9 stalked, 11 running into 12.

Hind wings narrower than fore wings ; veins 4 and 5 approximated

at base, 7 from a point with 6, anastomosing with 8 to near middle,

lower median naked.

Closely allied to Schwnobius, but the species is much

smaller and more crambideous-looking ; distinguished

from it by vein 11 of the fore wings running into 12 ;

and it is to be noted that this character is of frequent

occurrence in the Crambide, but very unusual in any

other family of the Pyralidina.

Microschenis immeritalis, Walk.

Dosara immeritalis, Walk. Pyr., 830; Araxes decursella,

ib.,°Cr., 194

3,11—12 mm. Head, palpi, antenne, thorax, abdomen, and

legs whitish-ochreous; anterior legs fuscous above. Fore wings

some exotic Micro-Lepidoptera. 271

elongate-triangular, costa slightly arched, apex obtuse, hind

margin somewhat obliquely rounded; whitish-ochreous, towards

margins more yellowish-tinged; cilia whitish-ochreous, yellowish-

tinged. Hind wings oblong-ovate, very pale whitish-ochreous ;

cilia whitish-ochreous.

Point de Galle, Ceylon; two specimens in November.

Walker’s genus Dosara is a synonym of Huryecreon, and

his genus Araxes a synonym of Crambus.

BOTYDIDA.

MarGaropEs, Gn.

Margarodes nereis, n. 8.

2, 52—54 mm. Head greenish-white, lower angles of face

triangularly deep ferruginous, meeting on lower margin. Labial

palpi deep ferruginous, lower half white. Maxillary palpi wholly

deep ferruginous. Antenne white above, yellow-ochreous beneath.

Thorax very pale whitish-greenish, shoulders bright ferruginous.

Abdomen greenish-whitish, apex light ochreous. Legs greenish-

whitish, anterior pair with tibie and apex of femora, middle pair

with tibiz, except towards apex, ferruginous. Fore wings elongate-

triangular, costa posteriorly moderately arched, apex obtuse, hind

margin oblique, slightly bowed; pale ochreous-greenish, irrorated

with green-whitish, especially on veins posteriorly, with prismatic

reflections ; a moderate ferruginous costal streak, beyond middle

becoming rapidly paler, beyond two-thirds reduced to a slender

line along costal edge, bordered beneath throughout by a moderate

suffused white streak, becoming less defined and more greenish-

white posteriorly; a blackish transverse-linear discal dot; a hind

marginal series of black dots between veins; cilia with basal half

green-whitish, terminal half light shining silvery-grey. Hind

wings with colour as in fore wings, but somewhat obscured by

numerous whitish hairs, becoming denser towards base; hind

marginal dots as in fore wings, but more elongate transversely ;

cilia as in fore wings.

This species is described by Walker and Moore as

M. glauculalis, Gn., which it certainly is not, if Guenée’s

description is correct, which there is no reason to doubt.

This species is closely allied to M. tritonias, Meyr., and

M. oceanitis, Meyr., but quite distinct.

Kandy, Ceylon; two specimens. The British Museum

has a series.

272 Mr. E. Meyrick’s descriptions of

SCOPARIAD.

Scoparia, Hw.

Scoparia chordactis, n. 8.

3g, 23mm. Head whitish, behind eyes fuscous. Labial palpi 2,

grey-whitish, terminal joint concealed in scales of second.

Maxillary palpi dark fuscous, apex broadly whitish. Antenne

grey, joints somewhat incised, ciliations 4. Thorax lght

fuscous, mixed with grey-whitish on back. (Abdomen broken.)

Legs whitish, anterior pair fuscous. Fore wings elongate,

posteriorly gradually somewhat dilated, costa almost straight,

apex obtuse, hind margin rather oblique, rounded beneath ; pale

ochreous-brownish, irregularly suffused with white, except on a

cloudy median longitudinal streak from base to hind margin,

becoming well-defined posteriorly; a fine black median longi-

tudinal line from base to two-fifths; orbicular represented by a

short black longitudinal line, claviform by a shorter blackish

mark; reniform barely perceptible as an 8-shaped outline, its

middle marked with a cloudy blackish dot; veins posteriorly

marked here and there with blackish, especially on median

streak; cilia pale greyish-ochreous, basal half obscurely barred

with white. Hind wings 13, pale whitish-grey, thinly scaled;

cilia white.

Straits of Magellan; one specimen, received from

Mr. J.J. Walker, R.N. Interesting because approaching

nearest in character to some of the larger New Zealand

species; perhaps most allied to S. panopla, but that

species is much more strongly marked.

CRAMBIDA.

Cramsus, F’.

Crambus signifer, Walk.

Thiallela signifera, Walk., 120; Araxes admigratella

5s . ‘ ’ ? b) U J

ib., 192; A. cesella, ib., 198; Crambus troglody-

tellus, Snell. T. v. E., 1872, 108, pl. viii., 6.

gd, 12—15 mm. Head and thorax ochreous-white, sometimes

somewhat irrorated with pale ochreous or fuscous. Labial

palpi 3, white, with obscure dark fuscous bars before and beyond

middle. Maxillary palpi white. Antenne pale greyish-ochreous,

ciliations }. Abdomen pale whitish-ochreous, greyish-tinged.

Legs white, anterior pair and base of tarsal joints fuscous

some exotic Micro-Lepidoptera. 273

above, posterior tibie with outer spurs nearly equal inner. Fore

wings elongate, posteriorly rather strongly dilated, costa almost

straight, apex obtuse, hind margin rather oblique, rounded

beneath; veins 4 and 5 stalked, 9 absent (coincident with 8);

pale brownish-ochreous, more or less irrorated with fuscous and

ochreous-whitish, on posterior half very closely; two fine white

transverse lines, sometimes partially obsolete, except margins ;

first from beyond middle of costa to beyond middle of inner

margin, irregular, incompletely margined with dark fuscous,

upper half sharply curved or angulated outwards, lower half very

strongly curved inwards, sometimes preceded on upper half by a

strong fuscous suffusion; second from three-fourths of costa to

inner margin before anal angle, acutely dentate, anteriorly finely

margined with dark fuscous, moderately curved outwards; a

cloudy more or less distinct white streak from apex of wing to

first line below middle; a fine black hind-marginal line; cilia

ochreous-grey irorated with white ; basal half in Ceylon specimens

clear white, with a median spot and one or two bars on upper part

of hind margin light greyish-ochreous; in Mauritius specimens

with several narrow white bars only. Hind wings with veins

4 and 5 stalked; grey-whitish, semitransparent, posteriorly

becoming greyer; a grey hind-marginal line; cilia white, with a

faint greyish line.

St. Denis, Réunion, and Port Louis, Mauritius, in

April and May; Kandy, Ceylon, in January; also from

Borneo and West Africa; common and widely distri-

buted. Nearest allied to C. cuneiferellus. There can be

no question of the specific identity of the slight geogra-

phical varieties noted above.

GELECHIADA.

Hypsouopuus, FP’,

Hypsolophus ianthes, n. sp.

9, 12 mm. Head and thorax pale ochreous, crown suffused

with grey on top. Palpi dark grey, ochreous-tinged and finely

irrorated with whitish-grey, terminal joint whitish-ochreous

irrorated with grey, tuft of second joint long, oblong. Antenne

whitish-ochreous, finely annulated with dark grey. Abdomen

grey. Legs whitish-ochreous, anterior and middle pair sutfusedly

irrorated with fuscous. Fore wings elongate, narrow, costa gently

arched, apex pointed, hind margin extremely obliquely rounded;

vein 3 absent (coincident with 2); ochreous; a minute obscure

274 Mr. E. Meyrick’s descriptions of

dark fuscous dot in dise at two-fifths, and a cloudy dark fuscous

dot in dise at three-fifths, beneath which is an obscure fuscous

suffusion; some fuscous scales towards hind margin and apical

part of costa, tending to form obscure marginal dots; cilia

ochreous. Hind wings with apex round-pointed, hind margin

moderately sinuate; veins 3 and 4 from a point, 6 and 7 short-

stalked; light grey; cilia pale grey. ,

St. Denis, Réunion; one specimen in April. The

neuration of this species gives me occasion to remark

that, so far as my material enables me to judge, I do

not think the genera Hypsolophus (Ypsolophus) and

Nothris are naturally distinct, or ought to be kept

separate. Heineman states several points of distinction

—the absence of ocelli, the shorter tuft of the palpi, the

constantly separate veins 2 and 3 of fore wings, and the

stalking of veins 6 and 7 of hind wings—as characteristic

of Nothris, but these seem to be illusory. The supposed

absence of ocelli is a mistake; I find them distinct in

the typical verbascellus, and in all species which I have

examined; but this character in the Gelechiadeé is of

little value. The length of the tuft is purely specific

and varies with every species, being also a mere com-

parative difference. The two neural characters cut

against one another, being found variously interchanged

in nearly allied species; thus, in H. fasciellus 2 and 3 of

fore wings are stalked, 6 and 7 of hind wings stalked

(though placed by Heinemann in his Ypsolophus ; perhaps

the character varies) ; in H. verbascellus 2 and 3 separate,

6 and 7 stalked; in H. ianthes 2 and 8 coincident, 6 and

7 stalked; in an undescribed Australian species 2 and 3

coincident, 6 and 7 separate; in H. marginellus 2 and 8

separate, 6 and 7 separate; H. ustulellus 2 and 38

stalked, 6 and 7 separate: these represent all the

possible combinations, and one might therefore as well

make six genera as two. In my type of H. lemniscellus

6 and 7 are from a point, and therefore intermediate in

character. The species being, as a whole, all very

similar in appearance, their number certainly not

excessively large, and the genus in the extended sense

being strictly definable, natural, and easily recognisable,

I think it may well remain undivided.

some exotic Micro-Lepidoptera. 275

MacrRERNIS, N. &.

Head smooth. Ocelli present. Tongue well-developed. Antenne

longer than fore wings; in male somewhat thickened above base,

subserrate, simple, basal joint elongate, without pecten. Labial

palpi (in male) with second joint moderate, subascending, termi-

nating in a long dense triangular’ projecting tuft, terminal joint

wholly concealed. Maxillary palpi very short, appressed to

tongue. Posterior tibiz clothed with dense rough hairs. Fore

wings with vein 1 fureate, 2 from angle, 3 absent, 5 absent, 7 to

hind margin, 8 and 9 rising out of 7, 11 from middle. Hind wings

as broad as fore wings, trapezoidal, apex pointed, hind margin

sinuate, cilia 4; veins 8 and 4 very long-stalked, 5 from rather

near 4, parallel, 6 and 7 stalked.

Nearly allied to Crocanthes, but with entirely different

palpi, similar to those of Anarsia, male; the female is

unknown, but perhaps also corresponds in structure of

palpi to Anarsia. I do not think, however, that there is

any close relationship with that genus.

Macrernis heliapta, n. s.

g, 14 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax reddish-ochreous, palpi

mixed with fuscous. Antenne ochreous-yellow, towards base

becoming dark fuscous above. Abdomen greyish-ochreous, apex

ochreous-yellowish. Legs dark fuscous, posterior pair with apex of

joints and hairs of posterior tibie ochreous-yellowish. Fore wings

elongate, narrow, tolerably parallel-sided, costa gently arched,

apex pointed, hind margin sinuate, rather oblique; reddish-

ochreous, with scattered black scales, especially towards costa and

inner margin; base of costa dark fuscous; a black dot in dise at

one-third, and a second at two-thirds; a blackish apical dot; cilia

light reddish-ochreous, with a few black points. Hind wings pale

grey, posteriorly paler and tinged with whitish-ochreous; cilia

pale whitish-ochreous, greyish-tinged, with a faint cloudy grey line.

Kandy, Ceylon; one specimen in December.

DEPRESSARIADA.

Pumosacnes, Meyr.

Pheosaces tetraspilella, Walk.

Gelechia tetraspilella, Walk., 633.

g,14—15 mm. Head, palpi, antennie, thorax, abdomen, and

legs whitish-ochreous; ocelli visible; palpi with apex of basal

276 Mr. E. Meyrick’s descriptions of

joint blackish, second joint very long, more brownish-ochreous,

irrorated with blackish, terminal joint half second; anterior and

middle legs suffused with dark fuscous, except apex of joints.

Fore wings elongate, costa moderately arched, apex obtuse, hind

margin obliquely rounded; whitish-ochreous, sometimes thinly

irrorated with fuscous, with a few fine scattered black scales ;

costal edge blackish at base; a rather large black dot in disc

at two-fifths, a second in dise beyond middle, and a third, smaller

and sometimes nearly obsolete, on fold obliquely beyond first; a

hind-marginal row of very indistinct cloudy minute dark fuscous

dots; cilia whitish-ochreous, with some scattered fuscous and

black points. Hind wings whitish-ochreous, irrorated with pale

grey, towards base sometimes suffused with very pale grey; cilia

whitish-ochreous, sometimes with a faint cloudy greyish line.

Kandy and Point de Galle, Ceylon; in December and

January, three specimens. ‘The generic identity of this

insect with the New Zealand species of Pheosaces is

interesting, as 1 am not aware of the genus occurring in

Australia; the only structural points in which it differs

from the New Zealand species are the presence of

ocelli, to which I attach no importance, and the

relatively shorter terminal joint of the palpi.

PLUTELLID.

ANCYLOMETIS, ND. &.

Head smooth, side tufts tolerably appressed. Ocelli appa-

rently absent. Tongue well-developed. Antenne 4, in male

serrate, joints very short, minutely ciliated (), basal joint

moderate, without pecten. Labial palpi moderately long, recurved,

second joint somewhat exceeding base of antennz, thickened with

dense appressed scales, terminal joint shorter than second, slender

or somewhat thickened with appressed scales, acute. Maxillary

palpi very short, appressed to tongue. Posterior tibiz more or less

densely clothed with rough hairs. Fore wings with vein 1 fureate,

2 from near angle, 7 absent (coincident with 8). Hind wings

slightly narrower than fore wings, elongate-ovate, cilia }; in

male with a thickened discal or marginal ridge; veins 3 and 4

from a point, 5 more or less closely approximated to 4 at base or

absent, 6 and 7 parallel.

An early form of the family, and, I think, indicating

some approach to the connection with the Gicophoride.

some exotic Micro-Lepidoptera. an

Sect. A. Hind wings with vein 5 present, ridge discal.

Ancylometis trigonodes, n. 8.

3, 11 mm. Head ochreous-yellow, face whitish-ochreous.

Palpi light ochreous-yellow, terminal joint dark fuscous except

apex, second joint somewhat rough above towards apex. Antenne

and thorax dark fuscous. Abdomen greyish-ochreous, segmental

margins ochreous-whitish. Legs dark fuscous, apex of joints and

posterior tibiz whitish-ochreous. Fore wings elongate, rather

narrow, costa moderately arched, apex obtuse, hind margin

obliquely rounded; dark fuscous, very slightly purplish-tinged; a

large ochreous-white triangular patch, mixed with pale yellow in

middle, occupying median area, its base extending on costa from

one-third to five-sixths, its apex narrowly truncate and resting on

inner margin beyond middle, its posterior side with a short

triangular projection below middle; a small dark fuscous spot on

costa at two-thirds; a few yellow-whitish scales forming an

obscure cloudy line from anal angle to posterior side of triangular

patch near costa; cilia dark fuscous, basal half obscurely barred

with whitish-grey-ochreous. Hind wings fuscous-grey, becoming

much paler and semitransparent on basal half; a thickened dark

fuscous ridge along lower margin of cell from near base to angle,

its anterior extremity suffused with ochreous-whitish ; cilia grey,

becoming whitish-ochreous round anal angle and on inner margin.

Port Louis, Mauritius; one specimen, in May.

Ancylometis sc@ocosma, N. 8.

3, 11 mm. Head and palpi dark fuscous, terminal joint of

palpi rather stout. Antenne greyish-ochreous, suffusedly annu-

lated with dark fuscous. Thorax and abdomen greyish-ochreous,

suffusedly irrorated with dark fuscous. Legs dark fuscous, ringed

with ochreous-whitish. Fore wings elongate, rather narrow, costa

gently arched, apex obtuse, hind margin obliquely rounded;

whitish-ochreous, irrorated with dark fuscous, tinged with yellowish

round dark markings; costa suffused with dark fuscous; a small

dark fuscous basal patch, its outer edge irregular and mixed with

black; a large round blackish-fuscous dot in dise at one-third, and

a second on fold slightly beyond it, connected by a fuscous

suffusion; a third in dise at two-thirds, a fourth directly beneath

it and connected with it by a pale yellow-ochreous spot, and a fifth

on inner margin beneath this; hind margin broadly suffused with

fuscous; cilia fuscous, mixed with whitish-ochreous (imperfect),

278 Mr. E. Meyrick’s descriptions of

Hind wings grey, paler and semitransparent towards base; a grey

thickened ridge along lower margin of cell from near base to angle,

its anterior extremity suffused with whitish-ochreous; cilia grey-

whitish, with a cloudy grey line.

St. Denis, Réunion ; two specimens, in April.

Sect. B. Hind wings with vein 5 absent, ridge inner

marginal.

Ancylometis astrapias, 0.8.

S$, 12 mm. Head whitish-ochreous. Palpi whitish-ochreous,

second joint externally fuscous, becoming dark fuscous towards

apex, terminal joint slender, internally fuscous. Antenne dark

fuscous. Thorax whitish-ochreous, patagia fuscous. Abdomen

light grey, anal tuft whitish-ochreous. Legs dark fuscous, posterior

pair whitish-ochreous. Fore wings elongate, narrow, costa gently

arched, apex obtuse, hind margin very obliquely rounded ; fuscous,

costa suffusedly darker; a pale greyish-ochreous median longi-

tudinal streak from base, basal two-fifths straight, margined

beneath by a blackish streak and above by a cloudy blackish dot

at two-fifths, beyond this rather dislocated upwards and less

defined, margined above by a cloudy blackish dot at two-thirds,

thence bent abruptly upwards to costa before apex, anterior edge

margined suffusedly with dark fuscous, posterior edge very

suffused and ill-defined; cilia light greyish-ochreous, basal half

obscurely barred with fuscous. Hind wings grey, towards base

more thinly scaled; inner margin thickened to form a smail

ridge; cilia whitish-grey, towards base darker.

Port Louis, Mauritius; two specimens, in May.

TINEIDA.

LASIOCTENA, 0. g.

Head with dense somewhat rough suberect hair-seales. Ocelli

absent. Tongue absent. Antennz somewhat over }; in male

moderately bipectinated throughout, pectinations densely ciliated,

basal joint moderate, densely scaled. Labial palpi moderate,

slender, ascending, with appressed scales, at base with some rough

hair-scales, terminal joint rather short, acute. Maxillary palpi

absent. Thorax hairy beneath. Posterior tibie tolerably smooth-

scaled, outer spurs half inner. Fore wings with vein 1 strongly

furcate, all veins separate, 2 from angle, 7 to hind margin, 11

some exotic Micro-Lepidoptera. 279

from middle, secondary cell well-defined. Hind wings broader

than fore wings, oblong-ovate, cilia }; 6 and 7 approximated at

base, other veins separate and parallel.

Closely approaches Melasina in structure, but distin-

suished by the quite different character of the labial

palpi.

Lastoctena sisyrea, ni. 8.

3, 27—29 mm. Head and thorax grey, ochreous-tinged, mixed

with white. Palpi white, above dark grey. Antenne white,

pectinations grey. Abdomen grey, segmental margins white.

Anterior legs dark grey, middle and posterior legs grey irrorated

with white. Fore wings elongate, costa gently arched, apex

obtuse, hind margin very obliquely rounded; grey, ochreous-

tinged, irregularly irrorated with white, the irroration tending to

form a very suffused white streak from base of costa to hind

margin below apex; markings fuscous mixed with black, ill-

defined; a small elongate spot in dise before middle, a second,

larger and subtriangular, on fold obliquely before it, a third on

fold obliquely beyond it, and a fourth in dise at two-thirds ; a more

or less perceptible row of cloudy dots from five-sixths of costa to

inner margin before anal angle; cilia ochreous-grey, mixed with

white. Hind wings ochreous-grey; cilia whitish or ochreous-

whitish, basal third ochreous-grey.

Grahamstown, South Africa; two specimens.

ELACHISTIDA.

Burauis, T'r.

Butalis chlorema, n.s.

S, 16 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen whitish-

ochreous; face brownish-tinged; palpi anteriorly suffused with

dark fuscous, except towards base. Antenne and legs dark

fuscous (posterior legs broken). Fore wings elongate, rather

narrow, long-pointed; veins 8 and 5 absent; whitish-ochreous,

paler towards disc; a fuscous-grey dot in dise at two-thirds; cilia

whitish-fuscous. Hind wings somewhat narrower than fore wings,

cilia 2; veins 4 and 5 stalked; fuscous-grey, paler towards base

cilia whitish-fuscous.

Grahamstown, South Africa; one specimen. A dis-

tinct though inconspicuous species, belonging to the

group of b. desidella.

280 Mr. E. Meyrick’s descriptions, cc.

PLACOSTOLA, 0. g.

Head smooth. Ocelli absent. Tongue well-developed. An-

tenne longer than fore wings (according to Stainton), filiform,

basal joint elongate, without pecten, with a tuft of scales above.

Labial palpi long, recurved, slender, smooth-scaled, terminal joint

shorter than second, acute. Maxillary palpi very short, drooping,

filiform. Posterior tibie clothed with dense rough hairs above,

outer spurs half inner. Fore wings with vein 1 fureate, 2—5

parallel, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to costa. Hind wings 3, linear-

lanceolate, with tooth of scales from bend of costa near base,

cilia 83; veins 2—5 tolerably parallel, 6 and 7 closely approxi-

mated towards base.

Closely allied to Stathmopoda, from which it differs by

the basal tuft of antenne. The neuration is identical.

To this genus I refer without doubt the Indian species

described by Stainton (Trans. Ent. Soc., 3rd Ser., I.) as

Gracilaria resplendens ; closely agreeing with mine in

appearance and in the structural details given, except

that, as the antenne of my specimen are broken in the

middle, I cannot verify the statement as to their being

longer than the fore wings. The peculiar shape of the

fore wings, accurately given in Stainton’s figure, is very

characteristic of Stathmopoda and allied genera (of which

I have many species), and is never to my knowledge

reproduced in the Gracilariade. Probably both Stainton’s

specimen and my own are females.

Placostola diplaspis, n. 8

?(?),8 mm. Head shining white. Palpi, antenne, thorax, and

legs whitish-ochreous, femora white. (Abdomen broken.) Fore

wings very narrow, broadest near base, gradually narrowed to

acute apex; brownish-ochreous, ferruginous-tinged; two large

shining snow-white transverse blotches, margined with ferru-

cinous; first about one-third, triangular, apex resting on costa;

second about two-thirds, subquadrate, anterior margin convex};

cilia whitish-ochreous, more ferruginous-tinged round apex. Hind

wings and cilia ochreous-grey-whitish.

Aden, Arabia; one specimen, taken by Mr. G. H.

Raynor, in January. LEasily distinguished from P.

resplendens by absence of white apical spot of fore

wings, more triangular first and less triangular second

blotches, and pale hind wings.

XIV. Notes in 1886 upon lepidopterous larve, dc. By

Hipwarp) Bil Pouuron, M-A:; 9 Pa.S, E.G:8:,

F.Z.8., of Jesus and Keble Colleges, Oxford.

| Read April 6th, 1887.}

PuaTE X.

CONTENTS.

1. Notes upon the young larve of Smerinthus populi, and upon the red

spots in Smerinthus larvee.

2. Description of an unnamed Sphinx larva from Celebes.

3. Further observations on the protective attitude of Geometer larve.

4. A further account of the defensive structures of the larva of

Dicranura vinula.

5. Additional eversible glands in larvee.

6. On markings which appear on larve before pupation, and which

correspond in position to the underlying pupal wings.

7. Further notes upon the larva of Paniscus cephalotes.

8. A special point in the protective attitude of the imago of Gonoptera

libatrix.

9. The comparatively late emergence of female moths from the pupa.

10. The hereditary transmission of pink tubercles on the larve of

Saturnia carpini.

11. Relation between phytophagous larve and various species of food-

plant.

12. The origin of carnivorous habits in phytophagous larve.

13. The young larvee of Vanessa urtice and Saturnia carpini seek light.

14, The movements of larve guided by an appreciation of the force of

gravitation.

1. NorEs UPON THE YOUNG LARVE OF SMERINTHUS

POPULI, AND UPON THE RED SPOTS IN SMERINTHUS LARVA :—

a. The markings of the young S. populi larva.—A young

yellowish green larva of this species was carefully

examined when it was advanced in the second stage,

and 13 mm. long when extended at rest. It possessed

the red spot on two of the segments, but a description

of this feature will be found below. At this stage the

yellow marginal lines of the face terminate upwards in

TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1887.—PART III. (SEPT.) xX

282, Mr. Poulton’s notes in 1886

two apical tubercles, which are especially large but not

predominant, and are without any distinctive colour.

Two dorsal tubercles are especially distinct upon the

second and the third thoracic segments, continuing

anteriorly the direction of the barely recognisable eighth

stripe, as in the young Sphinx ligustri, in which, how-

ever, the marking is far more distinct and persistent.

A. semicircular crown, of especially large tubercles,

extends in the vertical plane immediately behind the

head upon the most anterior annulus of the first

thoracic segment. There are about fifteen tubercles in

the semicircle, and they are directed forwards, and

produce a very striking effect. The first and seventh

stripe are especially lar ge and distinct; the stripes and

the subdorsal are chiefly made up of tubercles, but

there is some suffusion of the ground colour, which is

(as usual) complete in the posterior part of the seventh

stripe upon the eighth abdominal segment. The first

stripe extends anteriorly as a line of tubercles on to the

thoracic segments, becoming at first horizontal and

parallel with the subdorsal, but appearing to rise on

the first thoracic segment, and joining the ends of the

semicircular crown; but in the anterior part of its

course the line becomes very difficult to follow. The

seventh stripe is also continued forward to the anterior

limits of the sixth abdominal segment. There are

oblique stripes (chiefly made up of shagreen dots) just

above the claspers on the third, fourth, and fifth

abdominal segments. These lines are more nearly

horizontal than the ordinary oblique stripes, and their

relation to the latter is doubtful. They may represent

the forward extension of the fourth, fifth, and sixth

oblique stripes (respectively), but they have also the

appearance of a subspiracular line twisted into partial

parallelism with the oblique stripes. Hence an ex-

amination at this stage adds nothing to our knowledge

of these lines, which are also found during the whole

subsequent life of the larva, and which I have previously

described in the last stage (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.,

1885, Pt. II. (Aug.), p. 297). The extension of the first

stripe and the semicircular crown are not equally

distinct in later stages, but the latter is easily recog-

misable. The eighth stripe disappears. The whole

comparison strongly confirms Weismann’s conclusion

upon lepidopterous larve, cc. 283

as to the extreme uniformity, and therefore the

ancestral character, of the appearances witnessed in

the ontogeny of this species.

6. The young larva of Sesia bombyliformis, ¢&c.—I have

found a note, in Prof. Westwood’s ‘Modern Classification

of Insects’ (1840, vol. 1., p. 866), which proves that the

yonng larve of the genus are spinous, and thus resemble

all the other young Sphinx larve which have been ex-

amined for this character. At that time the character

had not been described in any other of the Sphingide,

and therefore Prof. Westwood looked upon the genus as

aberrant. The note is as follows :—‘‘ Sesia (S. bombyli-

formis, &c.) is certainly the most aberrant genus in the

family, the caterpillars being slightly pilose; and when

about ten days old they have several furcate spines

upon each segment of the abdomen that entirely

disappear when they are full-fed, according to the

information given by Mr. Dale to Mr. Curtis. The full-

grown caterpillar is, however, evidently Sphingideous.”’

The fact that the spines are furcate compares in an

interesting manner with the character of these structures

in the genus Smerinthus.

y. Further notes wpon the red spots of Smerinthus

larve :—i. Smerinthus ocellatus.x—In two mature larve,

captured in August, 1886, the red spots were more

developed than in any other individual of this species

hitherto described. Both were light yellowish green

varieties, although not extreme forms, and both were

found upon Salix triandra near Oxford. The most

extreme variety is represented in Plate X., fig. 1; but

the other only differed in the absence of the minute dot

of the upper row on the first thoracic segment. The

small size of the upper dot on the seventh abdominal

segment is noteworthy, and was the same in both

individuals. Comparing these larve with that figured

in one of my previous papers (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.,

1884, Pt. 1., p. 27, &c.), it is seen that in the larve here

described the spots of the two upper rows are larger

and extend on to more segments, while those upon the

claspers are much larger and more distinct. In breeding

large numbers of this species I found the spots in

various degrees of development upon many of the

whitish larve, although more frequently upon the

yellowish varieties. This observation confirms the

984 Mr. Poulton’s notes in 1886

single instance of a spotted whitish larva, which I

recorded last year.

li. Smerinthus populi.—I1 have had the opportunity

of making notes upon the red spots upon larve in

early stages. Seven young larve, fed upon Populus

nigra, were kindly given me by Mr. A. Sidgwick, of

which, on July 15th, the youngest (No. 1) was ad-

vanced in the second stage, and 183 mm. long when

extended at rest. It was a bright yellowish green

variety, and possessed distinct red spots on the third

abdominal, and very minute ones on the second thoracic

segment. The other six larve were changing their

skins for the second time, and they were all about

15°5 mm. long. ‘Two larve were yellowish green (but

not extreme forms), of which one (No. 2) had large

spots on the third abdominal and on the second thoracic

segments, the former being the larger; there were also

very small spots on the fourth abdominal, and _ still

smaller on the first abdominal. The other larva (No. 3)

had very small spots on the third abdominal only. Four

larve were bluish green, two being more distinct

varieties; and of these one (No. 4) had rather large

spots on the third abdominal only, the other (No. 5)

having no traces of the spots. Of the two remaining

larve—less decided varieties of the same colour—one

(No. 6) possessed distinct but rather small spots on the

third abdominal, smaller and less distinct spots on the

first abdominal, and far smaller, so as to be hardly

visible, on the second thoracic segment. The other

larva (No. 7) had well-developed spots on the third

abdominal only. On July 18th the larve were re-

examined. No. 1 was changing its second skin, and

the red spots were much less distinct, although visible.

The other six larve had now entered the third stage.

No. 2 possessed large and distinct spots on the third

abdominal, and small, although distinct, spots on the

second thoracic segment, while there were very faint

and minute ones upon the fourth abdominal. No. 3 had

lost all traces of the spots. No. 4 possessed a spot on

the left side only of the third abdominal. No. 5 was as

before. No. 6 had the merest trace upon the third

abdominal only. No. 7 was as before.

These observations certainly confirm Mr. William

White’s observations upon the comparatively early

upon lepidopterous larve, &e. 285

appearance of these features, but they also conclusively

show that the characters do not necessarily develop in

the successive stages, but that they may gradually

decrease and disappear in the course of development,

just as if they were features of phylogenetic significance

only. Extended observation will, I feel sure, confirm

this conclusion, and will prove that the spots are

present upon a much larger proportion of young larve

than upon those in the later stages, although it is well

known that in a certain proportion of the latter the

character reaches a pitch of perfection which has not

been hitherto described in the earlier stages. The first

appearance of the spots upon the third abdominal

seoment, and then upon the second thoracic, has

already been proved by Mr. White,—a conclusion

which is abundantly confirmed by my observations.

On September 21st I found two larve of this species

upon balsam poplar at Bembridge (Isle of Wight). Both

possessed the spots to a remarkable extent. One larva

was about half-grown in the last stage, and was of a

yellowish green ground colour. The other was adult,

and a very white variety, exactly resembling in ground

colour that figured by Mr. Bignell, and represented in

my paper (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., Pt. I., April, 1884).

The spots of the upper row in both larve are arranged

below in the order of relative magnitude, the largest

spots being numbered first :—

Yellow larva—(1) abdominal, 7; (2) abdominal, 3;

(3) abdominal, 4; (4) abdominal, 2 and 5; (5) abdo-

minal, 1; (6) thoracic, 2; (7) thoracic, 3; (8) thoracic,

1, and abdominal, 6.

White larva—(1) abdominal, 8; (2) abdominal, 4 and

7; (3) abdominal, 5 and 2, and thoracic, 2; (4) abdo-

minal, 1; (5) abdominal, 6, and thoracic, 1 and 3,—all

these very small.

There was also a reddening of the upper side of the

base of the horn in both larve.

Nos. (1) and (2) of the yellow larva were almost

equal, so that the spot which appears first in the young

larva is one of the largest in the adult, but the same

comparison does not hold with the spots which appear

next in order. It is strange that the spots should be so

large upon abdominal 7, for in S. ocellatus this segment

is remarkable for the minute size of its spot, which is

286 Mr. Poulton’s notes in 1886

only present in extreme varieties. Furthermore, in

S. tiie the red band or spot was remarkably small

upon this segment. Hence it is probable that S. populi

is abnormal in this respect. The larve here described

probably indicate that the spots in the larva already

referred to, as figured by Mr. Bignell, are represented

as too numerous in the anterior part of the body, for in

neither of these extreme varieties did the number of spots

in any row ever exceed the number of the segments.

The spiracular row of spots was well marked in these

larvee, and a small spot appeared on the third thoracic

segment and a larger one upon the second in the

yellowish larva; the latter spot being well developed in

the whitish larva, but the former and that around the

prothoracic spiracle could not be seen when the larva

Was examined (perhaps because it was examined some-

what late, after the changes of colour before pupation

had commenced).

The claspers were all marked, but this row was not

well developed, the spot on the anal clasper of the

yellowish larva being especially small.

A character, new to me, was the extension of the

system on to the head. The head of the yellowish

variety is represented from the left side in Plate X.,

fig. 2, x 2 diameters. The chief colour is on the area

of the ocelli, and it extends over the marginal line as a

linear vertical mark on the face. The apex is also

suffused, the colour extending on to the sides of the

upper part of the face. The red tint formed the ground

colour, for there were no red apical tubercles. The

whitish larva possessed the ocellar and apical red areas,

but not the extension of the former.

On July 6th I had the opportunity of examining a

number of larve, reared by Mr. Arthur Sidgwick from a

single batch of eggs, and all fed under the same con-

ditions of light, and with the same food—Populus nigra

and balsam poplar. The colours and development of

spots is seen to be very heterogeneous.

upon lepidopterous larve, de. 287

Stage of larva. Tint of ground colour. Red spots.

1. Beginning of last | Bright yellowish green. | Upper row. — Spot

stage. on 8rd abdomi-

nal; slight suffu-

sion of spiracles

on abdominal seg-

ments 2, 3, 4, 5,

and 6 of right

side; and left,

on the Ist and

7th abdominal, as

well.

Ile re 3 ms “a - No spots.

1. Near beginning h i i ¥ ;

of last stage.

1. Small (in stage | Rather yellowish. ae 5

3 or 4).

1. Almost mature. | Yellowish, but not ex-| ,, -

treme.

3. ” 9 Bluish green. . E

4. Small, in last - 5 rr i

stage.

3 <5 ‘3 On bluish side of an) A spot on the side

intermediate variety. of 8rd abdominal

only.

3. Almost mature. Pe ‘5 5 No spots.

1, ” » Intermediate. ie me

1. Small, in last . 3 “§

stage.

3. Changing 8rd or | Bluish green. Fr s

or 4th skin.

2. Intermediate. 9 ”

1. Advanced in last

On bluish side of an

stage. intermediate variety.

2. Small, in last | On yellowish side ofan] ,, “

stage. intermediate variety.

ul 5 45 PAgtG ‘5 Ps Spot on 3rd abdo-

minal, and the

faintest suffusion

of the middle

abdominal _ spi-

racles.

iii. Smerinthus tiie.—During the past summer I reared

a large number of larve from a single batch of eggs

obtained from a captured female. Many of the larve

possessed the red markings, which seemed to be

extremely linear on their first appearance, forcibly

288 Mr. Poulton’s notes in 1886

reminding me of the earliest traces of purple borders

in Sphinx ligustri. As the larve entered the later

stages the red borders contracted and became broader,

finally assuming the well-known appearance of somewhat

elongate spots on the anterior margin of the oblique

stripes. I have already mentioned the relatively slight

development of the red marking upon the seventh

abdominal segment. ‘This observation of the primarily

linear appearance of the spots seems to indicate that

these features in S. tili@ have arisen from a modification

of a normal coloured border, as I suggested last year

(Trans: Ent. Soc. Lond., 1886, Pt. II., p. 189) :—‘‘ It

seems possible that the appearances seen in Smerinthus

tlie are due to a fading away of the character (i.e.,

coloured borders) instead of its origin. In the other

Smerinthus larve the shortening borders may have been

arrested at the spot-stage, which has evidently been

made use of as an independent larval marking, and

which has received additions in the other rows.”’

2. DESCRIPTION OF AN UNNAMED SPHINX LARVA FROM

Crepes. — My friend Dr. 8. J. Hickson, of Downing

College, Cambridge, very kindly brought me a well-

preserved specimen of a mature Cherocampoid larva

from Celebes. The larva is represented in Plate X.,

fig. 3 (natural size), and is extremely interesting in

uniting the characteristics of several genera of the

Sphingide. In the first place it possesses the terri-

fying eye-like marks on the first abdominal segment,

although there is no trace of similar markings on any

of the other segments. In the genus Cherocampa

(and in closely allied genera) the chief terrifying marks

are upon the same segment, but there are generally

other smaller marks on the second abdominal and

sometimes also on the third thoracic segments, while in

many species traces of the marks are repeated on

abdominal segments 3—8. The marking itself consists

of a small and narrow black ‘“ ground area,” a normal

white ‘‘mirror,’ and an intensely black ‘‘ nucleus,”

within which again are some minute white markings.

‘The only other larva I can find described with but a single

terrifying mark (similarly placed) is Pergesa mongoliana

(A. G. Butler, Trans. Zool. Soc., vol. ix., part x., 1876).

It appears probable that a single pair of such markings,

upon lepidopterous larve, ke. 289

appropriately placed and highly conspicuous in the

terrifying attitude, must be at least as efficient in

causing alarm asa greater number of markings. And

as a matter of fact, in Prof. Weismann’s figure of

C. porcellus in the terrifying attitude, it is shown that

the single pair (which are by far the largest) on the

first abdominal segment are prominent and alone

produce any effect, the marks on the second abdominal

segment being insignificant and partially concealed,

while the marks repeated on other segments are of great

morphological interest, but of no functional importance.

Dr. Hickson informs me that the terrifying attitude was

very perfectly assumed by the larva, as we should

expect from the tapering of the body anteriorly and the

small head, by which the complete retraction into the

part possessing the eye-like marks is rendered possible.

All this is typical of Cherocampa. It is noteworthy that

the anterior part of the marking extends on to the third

thoracic segment. The marking occurs as an inter-

ruption of the subdorsal line, thus indicating its origin

from the latter, as Prof. Weismann has shown, and the

line itself persists faintly along its whole length, existing

as a lightish and often interrupted stripe immediately

below the line in which the rather darker ground colour

of the dorsal area terminates. This arrangement

very much resembles that which I have previously de-

scribed in Smerinthus. The ground colour was green, as

in the young stages of Cherocampa, and in a small pro-

portion of the mature larve (in the two English species),

but it retains distinct traces of shagreening over the

whole surface, and the caudal horn is sprinkled with

typical hair-bearing tubercles. The persistence of the

shagreen dots upon the horn resembles Acherontia (and

other genera), but the general surface of the larva has

far more distinct traces of these structures than are

found in this genus. Very large white dots remain on the

sides of the third thoracic and first abdominal segments,

in the same situation which is marked by a conspicuous

light patch in Cherocampa elpenor. The shape of the

caudal horn is peculiar, but very unlike that of

Cherocampa, beg large and strongly curved down-

wards towards the apex, and tapering very suddenly

close to the point into a conical form. Except in the

last point, which, as far as I know, is peculiar, the

290 Mr. Poulton’s notes in 1886

shape of the horn suggests Sphinx, just as its surface

suggests the closely allied genus Acherontia. There are

six oblique white stripes on the sides, with distinct

anterior borders formed of darkened ground colour,

while the borders are faintly continued on to the dorsal

area, and above the subdorsal tend to meet in a series

of Vs. This latter suggestion of the first and ‘‘ eighth

stripe”? is also present in the normal position, and the

whole arrangement almost exactly recalls that of

Smerinthus and the early stages of Sphina ligustri. Thus

the seventh stripe is especially prominent, and runs up

into the base of the caudal horn, while the posterior

part of the subdorsal is continuous with the stripe,

exactly as in the above-mentioned genera. This remark-

able union of characteristics of such different genera

serves to indicate the morphological identity of the faint

oblique stripes of Cherocampa elpenor and of C. porcellus

with the more distinct markings of Smerinthus and

Sphinx, and I have little doubt that these features will

be found to exist in the younger stages of Cherocampa,

when they are examined with this object in view. The

last character is an extremely ancestral feature,—the

permanence of the dorsal tubercles which I have de-

scribed in the younger stages of Sphinx and Smerinthus.

These persist as two pairs of white marks upon the

dorsal surface of the abdominal segments in front of the

eighth ; white spots also occur on the dorsal surface of

the thoracic segments. Traces of at least one of the

two lateral tubercles can also be faintly made out as an

especially white part of each stripe above and rather

behind the spiracle. Since my description of these

tubercles in young Sphinx larve a paper has appeared

by Dr. Wilhelm Muller (‘‘ Sudamerikanische Nymphali-

denraupen,” ‘ Zoologischen Jahrbuchern,’ J. W. Spengel.

Jena, 1886), in which he describes the same tubercles

in larve of many widely-separated groups, and calls

them the “primitive tubercles.” Before I read his

paper I had also recognised them in many different

larve, and had regarded them as very primitive features.

In fact, I had discussed with Prof. Meldola my intention

to work out these characters, which are common to

widely-separated larve, and from them to endeavour to

reconstruct, as far as possible, their arrangement in the

ancestral larva. Dr. W. Muller has, however, now

upon lepidopterous larve, cc. 291

worked out the arrangement of the primitive tubercles

very completely, and I only mention my own observa-

tions in connection with the subject as an entirely

independent confirmation of his conclusions. I think

it is extremely probable that the white spots occurring

in pairs upon the dorsal surface of the mature larve of

Cherocampa elpenor and C. porcellus (figured by Weis-

mann) represent one of the two pairs (probably the

posterior) of the dorsal primitive tubercles. If this be

the case they will be found, with the other pair, at

earlier stages of the ontogeny, and will be found to

assume the appearance of tubercles. Although the

traces of the primitive tubercles merely take the form

of white patches in Dr. Hickson’s larva, yet there

is no other Sphinx larva hitherto described in which

the position of so large a part of the primitive

characters are distinctly indicated in the later stages.

The ontogeny of such a larva is probably extremely

uniform.

3. FURTHER OBSERVATIONS ON THE PROTECTIVE ATTITUDE

oF GEOMETER LARVA :—a. The spiral or irregular position

assumed by young larvé resting on leaves.—I am now able

to add observations of two species, in addition to those

previously described. The young brown larve of Selenia

lunaria twist themselves into an irregular spiral when

seated on the leaves of their food-plant, and this attitude

is sometimes assumed by the mature larve when resting

in such a position. The young brown larve of Rumia

crategata also have the same habit, generally sitting on

the edge of a leaf close to the piece which they have

eaten out of it. In this position the larva suggests

most strongly the appearance of a small part of the

leaf which has been injured in some way, and has curled

up and turned brown, but still remains adherent by one

end to the uninjured part of the leaf.

6. The supporting thread sometimes dispensed with in

the twig-like attitude. — Although the almost invisible

thread is invariably made use of in ail the most perfect

and elaborate resemblances to twigs, I have observed

that in an effective and well-concealed form of this

protective appearance the larva (in the case of A. betu-

laria) is supported in another way, viz., by holding a

branch, leaf-stalk, or leaf in the clasp of its thoracic

292, Mr. Poulton’s notes in 1886

legs. Thus the larva often presents the appearance of

a twig passing obliquely from one branch to the other,

and, although such a position seems likely to attract

attention because it represents something unnatural,

yet in reality the concealment is very perfect, for the

twigs of the food-plant (birch) are so extremely

numerous, and present such a complicated network to

the observer, that one such oblique twig-like appearance

readily escapes detection, and may often fall into the

line along which a real twig is prolonged. Very com-

monly the larve are supported anteriorly by holding

the leaves or stem of the branch to which the claspers

cling, and in this case the concealment among the

interlacing twigs of the food-plant is even more perfect.

It is probable that the same mode of support will be

found to hold good in other species of Geometre. The

attitude is shown in Plate X., fig. 4, a green variety of

A. betularia being figured on a twig of birch.

y. The softening of the contact between a Geometer

larva and the twig on which it is resting. —In a note

to the translation of Weismann’s ‘Essay on the

Markings of Caterpillars,’ p. 292, Prof. Meldola states

as follows :—‘‘ The adaptive resemblance is considerably

enhanced in Catocala and in Lasiocampa quercifolia by

the row of fleshy protuberances along the sides of these

caterpillars, which enables them to rest on the tree-

trunks by day without casting a sharp shadow. The

hairs along the sides of the caterpillar of Pacilocampa

populi doubtless serve the same purpose.” This expla-

nation, which had been previously given by Professor

Meldola, is accepted by Sir John Lubbock (Trans. Ent.

Soc. Lond., 1878, p. 242) and by Mr. Peter Cameron

(ibid., 1880, p. 75), and the latter writer extends the

explanation to the hairy larve of certain phytophagous

Hymenoptera. I can now bring forward a confirmatory

observation which supports the explanation offered by

Prof. Meldola in the strongest manner. The larve of

Geometre, in the typical attitude of protective re-

semblance to a twig, only touch their food-plant at and

between the two posterior pairs of claspers, and this

part of the larva, in relation to the food-plant, of course

represents the point at which a twig is united with the

branch immediately below the divergence. At such a

point the bark of twig and branch are continuous, and

upon lepidopterous larve, ce. 293

anything which suggested a deep furrow between them

would destroy the protective resemblance. At one point

only in the body of a Geometer larva is there any

necessity for maintaining apparent continuity with the

food-plant, and at this point only in the larve which I

have examined fleshy tubercles like those described

above (in Catocala, &c.), are developed. In fig. 1 the

posterior part of the body of the larva of Rumia

crategata is shown (x 9 diameters), and the fleshy

processes are seen to exactly correspond to that part of

the body which would otherwise cause a dark shadow in

the deep cleft between itself and the branch. ‘The effect

of the fleshy processes is diagrammatically shown in

fig. 2, in which (a) represents a section across two

branches immediately below the point at which they

have divided, (b) represents a section across the larval

body between the two posterior pairs of claspers,

showing the formation of a deep cleft, while (c) shows

294 Mr. Poulton’s notes in 1886

how the outline of the larva on the branch is approxi-

mated to that of (a) by means of the processes.

Although the cleft is largely filled up in (c), a con-

siderable furrow remains, but this is not apparent

a ealuen iS ES

(a) (0) (c)

Fie, 2.

because of the light colour of the fleshy processes, which

prevent the attention from being directed to the shadow

which would otherwise indicate the position of the

sroove. The processes therefore attain the object of

softening the contact between the larva and its food-

plant in a two-fold manner, by partially filling up the

cleft, and by neutralising the shadow in the groove

which remains. I have also noticed the processes in

the larva of A. betularia, and I believe that they are of

very general occurrence in Geometre. The appearance

of such structures in the one small part of the larva

where such a cleft exists and their absence elsewhere,

together with their obvious function in this and the

other cases, seem to render Prof. Meldola’s explanation

a matter of certainty.

0. An extreme instance of the specialisation of a larva

to its normal food-plant. — We occasionally meet with

larve which are specialised in relation to the minute

details of their peculiar food-plants, or of their com-

monest food-plants, if the larve occur upon more than

one. Such specialisation in the details of protective

resemblance would seem to imply an extremely ancient

association of the larve with their food-plants, and it

may occasionally aid us in deciding upon the ancestral

food-plant of a larva out of the many species of plants

which may be eaten. Such an ancestral association

must have existed between the larva of Deilephila

Hippophaes and its food-plant, Hippophaes rhamnoides,

upon lepidopterous larve, ce. 295

for not only are the colours of the leaves faithfully

reproduced, but the characteristic orange berries are

represented by an orange spot at the base of the caudal

horn upon each side, as was pointed out by Weismann,

and as I can confirm from my experience of the larva

at Visp in Switzerland. In the case of Rumia crategata

it is similarly possible to affirm that hawthorn is the

food-plant with which the larva has been longest

associated out of the several species of plants upon

which it also occurs. On Plate X., fig. 5 (natural size)

a drawing was made of a living example of this larva

as it rested upon a twig of hawthorn. It is at once

seen that the dorsal tubercles placed on about the

middle of the length of the larva very faithfully repre-

sent a superficially similar structure upon many of the

side twigs of the food-plant. Not only do these pro-

jections occur towards the middle of the length of the

twigs, but they are situated on the angle of a slight

bend, a character which is also reproduced in the larval

form. Furthermore, the mode in which the different

varieties of the larva are coloured is almost exactly the

same as in the varying twigs of this plant. The bark

is covered by a thin superficial layer which is of a bluish-

erey colour, while the deeper layers beneath are brown,

or green, or mixed brown and green, becoming visible

over a large part of the surface owing to the breaking

away of the former layer. Hence the colour of the

branches is brown or green, mottled with grey, and not

only is this the exact appearance of the larva, but the

way in which the colours are blended is precisely similar

in the animal and the plant. The darker colours of the

larva may be brown, or green, or mixed brown and

ereen, mottled in all cases with bluish grey. Such

remarkable specialisation to the details of single food-

plant certainly warrants the suggestion that the associa-

tion is very ancient, —that Crategus is the ancestral food-

plant of Rumia crategata.

4. A FURTHER ACCOUNT OF THE DEFENSIVE STRUCTURES

OF THE LARVA OF DicrAaNuRA vinuLA.—In my last paper

‘Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1886, Pt. I., June, pp. 156—158)

I gave an account of defensive appearance and habits of

the larva of D. vinula. I am now able to give a figure

of the larva in the terrifying attitude (see Plate X.,

296 Mr. Poulton’s notes in 1886

fig. 6, nat. size). The larva appears to depend entirely

upon tactile stimuli for the direction in which to move

its terrifying full-face, and towards which to eject the

irritant acid secretion. Visual sensations appear to

play no part as guides in the assumption of the de-

fensive attitude. The large and full-fed larva which is

represented in fig. 6 was only sensitive to tactile im-

pressions, and the slightest touch upon either side or

upon the back was always followed by a corresponding

movement of the anterior part of the larva, and the

attitude thus taken up on each occasion was maintained

for some considerable time, although instantly altered

when another part of the body was touched.

In the same paper (loc. cit.) I described a complex

form of prothoracic ‘‘gland’”’ which was everted by

applying pressure to the larva of Dicranura furcula. I

have now found that a similar “‘ gland” is present in

D. vinula; and I wish to correct an error in the

description of this structure given in my last paper.

The account was written from the memory of an

observation made many months before in Switzerland,

and it is wrong in describing the everted gland as

consisting of six diverging processes. In reality two

lateral processes—or everted gland-tubes—are present

upon each side, while a median pouch represents the par-

tially everted sac, in which the irritant secretion is stored.

All are coloured green from the green blood which is

forced into them, on eversion. ‘These structures are

most easily everted in D. vinula at the beginning of the

last larval stage, a time when all the defensive structures

appear to be at their highest state of functional activity.

At this time the caudal filaments are large and brightly

coloured, and are extremely sensitive; while later in the

stage they decline in importance, and generally cease to

be capable of eversion. The larva does not seem to be

able to evert its prothoracic gland voluntarily, but very

slight pressure is at this very sensitive period sufficient

to cause eversion. It appears probable that this

structure, starting as an ordinary gland, became volun-

tarily eversible like the ventral glands of Crwsus and the

dorsal glands of the larve of Liparide described in the

next section, and that the power of eversion has been very

recently lost, as the larva has acquired the remarkable

power of ejecting the intensely irritant secretion to a

upon lepidopterous larve, &e. 297

considerable distance by forcing it through the narrow

chink with its closely approximated lips, which con-

stitutes the mouth of the duct leading to the sac. Such

a formidable means of defence may readily have sup-

planted the more usual method of eversion, a method

which can only give rise to the discharge of vapour into

the air, instead of a well-directed stream of fluid, which,

if volatile, as it is in these larve, of course produces

abundance of vapour.

The appearance of the everted gland is indicated in

Plate X., fig. 7 (x 2 diameters), in which the head

and prothorax of a larva in the sensitive period are

shown from below. Of the four gland-tubes the anterior

pair are seen to be much larger and longer than the

posterior pair. The position of the structures corre-

sponds with that of the horizontal slit-like mouth of

the short duct leading to the sac, through which

eversion takes place, and which is shown upon the

red prothoracic margin of the head, below the true

mouth, in fig. 6. In an earlier paper (Trans. Ent.

Soc. Lond., 1885, Pt. II., August, p. 822) I have given

an account of the eversion and introversion of the pink

flagella of the larva of D. vinula. I have now studied

the subject more thoroughly, and can add further details.

In Plate X., fig. 8 (x 8 diameters) the left conical

receptacle is seen from the left side, with its flagellum

completely everted. Immediately above the receptacle

the basal section of the flagellum is white or very

faintly pinkish, and through this part the rest of the

flagellum can be seen to pass during eversion and intro-

version. ‘The withdrawn flagellum can also be seen with

a little care in the receptacle itself. It follows from

such a constitution that the summit of the receptacle

when the flagellum is introverted represents the rim of

a tubular depression, of which the lumen is bounded

by the morphologically outermost,—the cuticular layers

of the flagellum itself. In eversion the rim rises to

successively higher levels as each section of the outer

part of the flagellar cuticle passes over its edge, and

becomes truly outermost in position, and, last of all, the

apex is unfolded, and the rim then disappears. Con-

versely, in introversion the apex sinks, and a rim at

once appears, which also sinks until the summit of the

receptacle is reached. In fact, the structure affords

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298 Mr. Poulton’s notes in 1886

an excellent example of a ‘“‘ pleurecbolic” introvert,

‘“‘acrembolic’ during introversion, very clearly de-

scribed and distinguished from the converse type of

introvert by Prof. E. Ray Lankester (‘ Encyclopedia

Britannica,’ article ‘‘ Mollusca,” p. 652). As far as

Iam aware, all the introverts in insects belong to this

type. One result of this organisation is the extreme

delicacy of the rim in the introverted organ, for the

smallest injury causing a thickening or a slight adhesion

on any part of the margin will entirely prevent eversion.

And it is in this manner that the flagella usually become

functionless: they are not otherwise injured in them-

selves, but are merely permanently introverted, and

can easily be seen lying in the receptacle.

The organ is everted by forcing blood into it, and

advantage was taken of this fact in obtaining the

material from which fig. 8 was drawn. A loose ligature

of silk was placed round the apex of the receptacle of a

larva, and when the flagellum was fully everted on

irritation the ligature was tightened, and the flagellum,

being full of blood, was incapable of introversion.

Another ligature was applied immediately below the

former, and the receptacle divided between the two, and

the flagellum was then drawn with the aid of a camera

lucida. The structure was then hardened in a warm

aqueous solution of mercuric chloride, and subsequently

in spirit, longitudinal sections being taken through the

apex imbedded after long soaking in melted paraffin.

The structure of the organ, as shown by the sections,

is represented in Plate X., fig. 9 x 188. The appa-

rently smooth cuticle is seen to be covered with

extremely minute spine-like processes. The cuticle

itself is, as usual, made up of a homogeneous, super-

ficial, and a finely lamellated deeper layer, of which the

former is alone continued into the processes. Neither

of these layers contain pigment in this part of the

larva, but the pink colour is entirely due to the

immediately subjacent hypodermis cells. These cells

possess a fusiform outline when seen from the surface,

while sections show them to be flattened and to overlap

in an imbricated manner. The pink pigment is darkest

round the margins of the cells, and especially at their

apices. Beneath the cells is a very delicate layer which

represents the ‘‘dermal” tissue in many other parts,

upon lepidopterous larve, &c. 299

and beneath this again is a space filled with blood in

the everted organ, while in the centre is the retractor

muscle, made up of several bundles arranged round an

axial space, which contains a large ganglion. ‘There is

httle doubt that the blood penetrates the axial space

and between the bundles of the muscle. The muscular

tissue consists of striated fibres, and the bundles are

surrounded by a sheath which must be highly elastic.

The ganglion cells are very large, and their processes

are often seen to be continuous with nerve-fibres. The

proportion of nervous to muscular tissue is very large,

a fact which is doubtless correlated with the extra-

ordinary rapidity and extent of the muscular contraction

and relaxation during intro- and eversion respectively.

The extent of contraction is so great that the length of

the relaxed muscle must be some considerable multiple

of its length when completely shortened. All the

structural details above described are plainly indicated

in fig. 9.

5. ADDITIONAL EVERSIBLE GLANDS IN LARVA. —I feel

sure that these defensive structures are of constant

occurrence in lepidopterous larvee.

a. The larva of Liparis auriflua.—This larva, although

well protected by its irritating hairs, also possesses two

median dorsal eversible glands of an orange colour.

In the commonest variety of this larva there is a red

dorsal band traversed by a median black line, situated

over the dorsal vessel. The black line everywhere

divides the red band, except towards the anterior

margins of the 6th and 7th abdominal segments, where,

exactly between the two tubercles which bear the long

black hairs on each segment, a bridge of the red colour

unites the opposite halves into which the band is

divided, and the glands are present upon these bridges,

their orange colour being distinct against the surrounding

red. Another variety of the larva only possesses the

merest trace of the red band, and the orange glands

are therefore peculiarly conspicuous against a black

background. The glands are not often completely

everted, but they are very sensitive to tactile impressions,

and on stimulation a clear transparent secretion appears

in the lumen, being probably raised by partial eversion.

The secretion is not acid to ltmus paper, but it

300 Mr. Poulton’s notes in 1886

possesses a peculiar and penetrating odour. These

glands are, in the case of L. chrysorrhwa, alluded to by

Duponchel, quoted in Stainton’s ‘ Manual,’ ‘A reddish

tubercle on the back of each of the 11th and 12th

segments.” In this description the sezments are wrongly

numbered ; they should be 10th and 11th. Newman,

in ‘British Moths,’ alludes to the glands in both L.

chrysorrhaa and L. auriflua: “The tenth and eleventh

segments have a circular, wax-like, cup-shaped, scarlet

spot on the very middle of the back.” They are also

described, in L. awriflua, as glands by Mr. A. H. Swinton

in the Proceedings of the Entomological Society of

London, who wrongly implies that their secretion is of

value in providing a poison for the irritant hairs of the '

species. ‘The glands are purely odoriferous, and have no

means of discharging their fluid contents on to the

hairs. Furthermore, it is probable that the hairs in

this species are merely mechanical irritants: they

are equally effectual for a long time after they have

been shed by the larva, as I know from the experience

of pulling to pieces an old cocoon in which the hairs

were interwoven.

B. In the Liparide generally.—Finding the glands in

Inparis, 1 examined the larva of Orgyia antiqua, and

found similar structures in the same position. Last

year I described a single gland on the 7th abdominal

segment of Dasychira (Orgyia) pudibunda, evidently

corresponding to the posterior of the two in the former

species. I therefore asked Lord Walsingham to allow

me to look through the preserved larve of Liparide in

his collection. Lord Walsingham kindly allowed me to

examine the larve, and greatly helped me in the search.

All the Liparide were found to possess the glands,

except the genus Demas, in which I could not detect

them. ‘Two glands occurred in all the larve of the

other genera, except in Dasychira (for D. jfascelina

resembled D. pudibunda in only possessing the posterior

eland). The glands were minute in Psilura (Lymantria)

monacha, and small in Hypogymna dispar, while they

resembled those of ZL. auriflua in all other British

species. Hxamining some species of Indian Liparide,

the two glands were found in Lymantria concolor (Walker),

and where they were small and resembled those of our

own P. monacha, to which the species is evidently closely

upon lepidopterous larve, ce. 301

allied. They were also found in Cherotricha plana

(Walker), Charnidas exclamationis, in three species of

the genus Artaxa (A. vitellina, scintillans, and guttata

fall Walker]), and in Dasychira dalbergie (Moore). 1

was unable to find them in a few Indian larve belonging

to this genus, but they may have been present and

difficult to detect in the preserved larve. Thus the

character is probably almost coextensive with the family.

Stainton probably recognises this in the general descrip-

tion of the Liparide, given in the ‘ Manual,’ containing

this sentence: ‘‘ Larva . . . frequently with two fleshy

protuberances on the twelfth segment.” As above

stated, the glands occur upon the 6th and 7th abdo-

minal segments, %. ¢., upon the 10th and 11th segments

of the other system of terminology. The single gland

of our two british species of Dasychira helps to unite

these in a single genus, and to separate them from

other species, thus confirming the classification of

Stainton’s ‘ Manual’ and controverting that of Newman.

All these eversible glands are ‘‘pleurecbolic’”’ and

‘‘acrembolic,” like the flagella of D. vinula, and all

must possess an axial retractor muscle. I have proved

this by means of sections in the case of the ventral

glands of the larva of the hymenopterous Cresus septen-

trionalis, one of which, in a state of partial eversion, is

shown in longitudinal section in Plate X., fig. 10, x 24°65.

The axial retractor muscle (r, m, fig. 10) is made up of

striated fibres.

6. ON MARKINGS WHICH FREQUENTLY APPEAR ON LARVA

BEFORE PUPATION, AND WHICH CORRESPOND IN POSITION

TO THE UNDERLYING PUPAL wiInGs. — When a larva is

examined in the contracted quiescent state which pre-

cedes pupation, the lateral region of the meso- and meta-

thoracic segments are seen to be swollen. This expan-

sion is due to the underlying pupal wings which are

formed as pouch-like diverticula from the body-cavity.

The larval cuticle is easily stripped off an insect which

has been kept in spirit, and the pouch-like rudimentary

wings are then distinctly seen to be the cause of the

swollen appearance. But the rapid morphological

changes which are going on beneath the surface are

often attended by other modifications of the superposed

larval tissues, which are far more difficult to explain.

302 Mr. Poulton’s notes in 1886

Thus in many larve the swollen lateral area of both

segments is seen to have undergone a marked alteration

in colour. Sometimes the pigment in the larval hypo-

dermis disappears, and the areas are coloured by the

green blood of the insect (e. g., Selenia illunaria, and in

many other larvee); but in other cases new pigment may

be deposited in the larval cuticle, and an entirely new

marking may thus make its appearance at the extreme

end of the larval life. The most striking instance which

has come under my observation is afforded by the bright

green larva of Gonoptera libatrix, in which the convexity

of each thoracic swelling becomes covered with a black

patch, that upon the mesothorax being the larger and

of a deeper tint. The appearance of the anterior part

of the larva just before pupation is shown in Plate X.,

fig. 11 (x 2). Thin sections examined under a high

power reveal the fact that the pigment is placed in the

superficial layer of the cuticle, thus occupying the

position in which black colouring-matter apparently

always occurs. This formation of pigment at such a

time, and in such a position, is of great physiological

interest, for either the pigment itself or its factors must

have traversed the lower thicker lamellated layer of the

cuticle in order to reach the thin superficial layer, thus

clearly showing that no part of the cuticle is beyond the

reach of physiological processes while it forms the

covering of the living larva. If there were a time in

which the larval cuticle could be looked upon as a mere

mechanical investment it would be at this very period,

when it is to be shortly cast off, and when the larval

hypodermis cells are elaborating, or are just about to

elaborate, a new (pupal) cuticle beneath the surface.

But at this very time we have the clearest indications

that the larva has not lost its organic hold upon its

superficial investment. It would be of great interest to

carefully investigate the exact time at which the pigment

appears, and to examine by means of sections its

relation to the first formation of the pupal cuticle. It

is impossible at present to form an opinion as to

whether the appearance is of any significance in relation

to the difficult question of the origin of wings, or

whether (as appears more probable) it is merely an

incidental result which attends the commencement of

new activities by the hypodermis cells. In Plate X.,

upon lepidopterous larve, Lc. 303

fig. 12 x 10, a transverse section of the mesothorax of

G. libatrix is represented, showing the superficial larval

cuticle with the black pigment present in its outer layer

over an area corresponding to the swelling, which is

seen to correspond with the pupal fore wing, shown in

section beneath and formed as a diverticulum from the

body-cavity. The pupal body and wing is covered by

its own partially formed cuticle, of which the rough

superficial layer is complete while the lower lamellated

layer is in process of development. The details of the

larval and pupal cuticle and the hypodermis cells of this

region are shown in Plate X., fig. 18 x 188. The

cells are seen to be remarkably long, and their deep

ends are prolonged into fibre-like processes, while their

superficial extremities are continuous with a layer

(coloured red in fig. 18) which represents the partially

developed lamellated layer of the pupal cuticle.

7. FurTHER NOTES UPON THE LARVA OF Paniscus

CEPHALOTES.—(1). On August 1st I found an adult larva

of D. vinula near Oxford, and eight eggs of P. cephalotes

were attached to it in the following positions: one egg

between the 8rd thoracic and 1st abdominal segment,

six between the 1st and 2nd abdominal segments, and

one between the 2nd and 8rd abdominal segments.

The eggs were not crowded, but nearly all were attached

to the left side of the larva. Three of the eggs (out of

the six described above) were near the median dorsal

line, on the purple band or its white border, one of these

being attached on the right side of the middle line. I[

was very interested to find that the larva could evert its

caudal tentacles, although they were comparatively

small and unimportant as a means of defence, this being

always the case after the first part of the last stage.

On August 11th the eggs had all developed a few days,

and the development began just as the larva ceased

feeding and darkened. On August 9th I removed seven

out of the eight parasitic larve while they were quite

small, two being in the first stage and six just beginning

the second. The larva which was left was unhealthy and

soon died.

(2). On August 24th an adult larva of D. vinula was

sent to me by Mr. W. H. Harwood: by the next day it

had become brown, and had begun its cocoon. It had

304 Mr. Poulton’s notes in 1886

five eggs of P. cephalotes attached to it in the following

positions : three eggs between the 2nd and 8rd thoracic

segments, one of these being close to the median dorsal

line and two rather farther down on the left side; two

eggs at the same level as the two last described, between

the 8rd thoracic and 1st abdominal segment. They had

all just begun to develop before the larva arrived, but

were in the first stage. When the larva darkened on

the 25th the area to which the parasites were attached

remained green. In this instance the larva was unable

to protrude its flagella. There was every reason for the

belief that the eggs had been attached to the larva

before the last stage, and that DeGeer was right in

saying that the skin can be changed without removing

the eggs. Thus there were ragged remnants of skin

round the ova at their points of attachment, and further,

one of the prothoracic spiracles contained the main

tracheal branch of the last stage, still lying in its lumen,

seeming to show the difficulty with which the skin had

been thrown off owing to the fact that it was pinned

down, as it were, by the ova, so that ecdysis was only

accomplished after the old skin had been torn to a

considerable extent. There were minute scars near the

ova, as if others had been attached to the larva, but had

been torn out in ecdysis, or they may have been due to

ineffectual attempts at oviposition on the part of the

female Paniscus. In this case also all the ova were

removed except one.

(3). On August 22nd I found another adult larva near

Oxford, and to it only three ova were attached: one

ovum between the 2nd and 8rd thoracic segments just

below the white margin of the purple band; two ova

between the 8rd thoracic and 1st abdominal segment,

close together and in the same position. These latter

ova were removed. The larva was unable to make use

of its flagella. On August 25th the larva was about

full-grown, and the parasites had just begun to develop.

On September 8rd larva (2) was examined, and the

parasite was seen to have grown immensely, being far

larger than any obtained last year. Its posterior

extremity was detached from the egg-shell, and it was

still eating the larva, although the latter was much

shrivelled and was dead (recently). The Paniscus was

very distended and glistening, being thus quite different

upon lepidopterous larve, de. 305

from those observed last year, which after detachment

lost the glistening appearance. The Dicranura larva

had not been allowed to construct a cocoon, but No. (3)

was contained in one, which was opened at this date,

when it was seen that the single parasite was still

small, although it was growing.

On Sept. 8th, when the former larva was beginning

to spin, having ceased to feed a day or two earlier, I saw

in the box a freshly formed and still undarkened pupa of

some internal dipterous parasite. Hence the D. vinula

had been simultaneously attacked by internal and

external parasites of very different kinds. On Oct. 4th

the box was opened, and it was found that the dipterous

imago had emerged from the pupa many days before,

and was dead. The species was ascertained to be

Tachina quadripustulata.

On Sept. 11th the larva had constructed a large

scaffolding of white silk over the remains of the

Dicranura and the dipterous pupa. The larva No. (3) had

now become very large, although not quite so large as

the other; it had just begun to spin, having ceased to

feed at about this date. From the previous observation

of this larva it was seen that all the increase in size

which follows an unusual supply of nourishment takes

place after detachment, and that the larvee are of nearly

uniform size when they are detached. The length of

the larva at this date was 22°5 mm., when rather

stretched and very nearly straight.

On Sept. 16th the larva was rather smaller, having

become slightly shrunken during the process of spinning

a scaffolding. At this date it was drawn from two

points of view, and it is seen in Plate X., fig. 14

(ventral view), and fig. 15 (lateral view), both figures

being of the natural size. The silk spun by both the

larve was white at first, but subsequently became dark.

No. (3) did not construct a cocoon, but expended its silk

in making a large scaffolding in the chip-box, but the

central depression in which the larva now lies has the

form of a furrow with well-defined sides, and probably

represents the beginning of a cocoon. Larva No. (2), as

it wandered over the chip-box spinning a scaffolding,

came upon the hard cocoon which had been spun by the

D. vinula, and entered through the hole by which the

latter had been removed. In the smaller cavity it

306 Mr. Poulton’s notes in 1886

constructed a perfect oval cocoon. This entirely confirms

my conclusions of last year, that the larve fail to make

cocoons in a comparatively large space, because all their

silk is exhausted in the scaffolding.

Thus larva No. (2) fed during a period of about four-

teen days, and the other for about seventeen days; so

that the duration of growth is precisely similar to that

of the larve described last year (also extending from

fourteen to seventeen days), although the size attained

was far less in the latter case. The conclusion that the

amount of growth is independent of the duration of the

whole feeding period is also shown in the fact that the

larger of the two larve (1886) ceased to feed in the

shorter time. It is also interesting in relation to the

same conclusion that larva No. (2) killed its host in

eleven days, while in 1885 the Dicranura larva lasted

through the attack of seven parasites during twelve days.

On the subject of the size of these two larve, Mr. K. A.

Fitch informs me that size is so entirely irregular

among the imagos of the Ichnewmonide that it cannot

be adopted as any criterion of specific identity. It is

exceedingly interesting to find so perfect an adaptation

to the necessarily uncertain amount of food obtainable

in the larval stage. I look forward with interest to the

appearance of the imagos of my larve, for they have

probably reached the upward limit of attainable size,

inasmuch as the Dicranura larve did not seem to be

completely eaten when the Paniscus larvee ceased to feed.

I am now able to add the duration of the pupal period

in Paniscus. In my last paper I described six larvee

(1885) as pupating May 17th—25th. On June 15th

three imagos emerged, another appeared on the following

day, and the remainder a few days later. Thus the

pupal period lasts for about four weeks. Each imago

directly after emergence ejects short white cylinders of

excreta, which from their appearance are probably some

product of nitrogenous metabolism. It is thus seen that

these imagos appear some weeks before the time at

which the larve of D. vinula have arrived at the stages of

growth in which they are liable to the attacks of these

parasites. A number of cocoons of D. vinula were kept

under the same conditions as the Paniscus larve and

pup, with the result that the eggs laid by the imagos

of the former hatched at the time when the Paniscus

upon lepidopterous larve, dc. 307

imagos emerged. I endeavoured to keep the latter

insects alive in glass cylinders, until the Dicranura

larve were advanced in size, but they only lived for

about a week. The mature larve of T’eniocampa gothica

were offered to them, and on one occasion I witnessed an

attack made upon one of these by a virgin female

Paniscus. The struggling larva was firmly held by the

hooked feet of the hymenopteron, while the mandibles

of the latter were deeply embedded in its body, so that

it bled freely ; at the same time the sheaths of the hori-

zontal ovipositor were held erect, as if the organ were

about to be used. At this critical point I was obliged to

leave in order to catch a train, but I afterwards found

that no eggs had been affixed to the larva, which had

died in consequence of the injuries inflicted upon it. I

certainly gained the impression that the Paniscus was

partially eating the larva, for so severe a bite would of

course have entirely prevented the latter from acting as

food for the offspring of the Paniscus. Furthermore, |

have not found any scar on the Dicranura larve with

eggs attached to them, which would indicate such severe

treatment.

I wish now to correct a mistaken account which I gave

last year of the ovum and the newly-hatched Paniscus

larva. The mistake was due to the fact that the ova

were partially hatched when I first examined them. In

Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., Pt. II., June, 1886, p. 164, I

thus described the ovum :—‘ The free anterior pointed

end of the ovum is marked off from the rest by a distinct

line, and after development begins it remains attached

to the young larva as a black and shining head-shield.”

The fact is that the unhatched ovum is rounded ante-

riorly, and exhibits no lines upon its surface, but in

hatching it splits along the lower surface, corresponding

to the ventral line of the enclosed larva, the line of

separation passing upwards over the anterior and on to

the front part of the superior surface of the black shell

of the ovum. The head of the larva partially protrudes

through the anterior part of the fissure thus made, and

it is black and shining on its upper surface, exactly

resembling the shell of the ovum. Gradual growth

brings the head completely out of the ovum, being

separated from it by the white larval body; but for

many hours the head can alone be seen on an

308 Mr. Poulton’s notes in 1886

examination of the ovum from above, and at such a time

it exactly presents the appearance described in my last

year’s notes. Furthermore, the head is not black and

shining at any other larval stage, so that my mistake

was very natural. The position of the young larva

Fie. 3.

relatively to the egg-shell is shown in fig. 3; at the stage

of growth which is represented the head is just outside

the shell, and separated from it by one or two of the

thoracic segments. It can be readily imagined that

when the head is alone seen between the valves of the

shell, which it exactly resembles in colour, the whole

suggests an ege-covering marked by sutural lines. The

harmony in colour is doubtless protective, for it renders

the young larva indistinguishable from the egg during

the earliest period of growth. The head is seen in the

figure to be relatively large and well-developed; it is

probable that a minute examination may show more

distinct traces of the sense-organs and other structural

features than in the later stages, and it is to be expected

that these external hymenopterous parasites will preserve

clearer indications of the ancestral non-parasitic forms

from which they have been derived than those which are

presented by the more degenerate ento-parasitic species.

Now that I have the material I hope to investigate the

structure of Paniscus larvee by means of sections.

8. A SPECIAL POINT IN THE PROTECTIVE ATTITUDE OF

THE IMAGO OF GONOPTERA LIBATRIX.— The shape and

colour of this moth forcibly suggest the appearance of a

red leaf spotted with a few white bosses of fungoid

upon lepidopterous larve, cc. 309

growth. The time of emergence and the habit of

hybernation in the perfect stage correspond with the

period of year at which the resembled objects form a

predominant feature in nature. The moth is eagerly

pursued and keenly relished by birds, so that it is of the

greatest importance that the protective resemblance

should be as perfect as possible, and that any in-

dispensable structure which would interfere with the

resemblance should be as far as possible concealed in the

attitude of rest. On examining the moth I was very

interested to find that the eyes are completely covered

by a tuft of long hairs, which droop from the base of the

antennze when the latter are directed backwards, and are

themselves concealed beneath the wings in the protective

attitude. When the moth is about to fly the antenne

are brought forward, and the same action raises the

tufts and uncovers the eyes, so that both pairs of sense-

organs are rendered efficient simultaneously. The base

of the left antenna, with its tuft of hairs, is shown in

Plate X., fig. 16, x 24°5. It is likely that the tufts

may be of use in defending the eyes from dust, &c., as

well as in preventing the brilliancy of these organs from

interfering with the protective resemblance. Instances

of an analogous arrangement, with the latter significance,

are found in the gecko and the chameleon, the strong

protective resemblance being in these cases necessary

for the capture of prey rather than the avoidance of

enemies. The capture being largely dependent upon

sight, the eyes are very large, and would tend to render

these animals highly conspicuous. Hence in the gecko

the pupil is (except in dim light) a narrow chink with

very irregular margins, while all the rest of the exposed

part of the eye is coloured in such a manner as to

harmonise with the general surface of the animal,

rendered inconspicuous by its strong resemblance to the

stone which it frequents. Inthe chameleon the arrange-

ment is even more perfect, for the large eyes are covered

with skin, except for a small aperture opposite the pupil,

through which the animal can look. This skin is

directly continuous with that of the rest of the body,

and, like it, can be changed in tint so as to correspond

with the colour of surrounding surfaces.

310 Mr. Poulton’s notes in 1886

9. THE COMPARATIVELY LATE EMERGENCE OF FEMALE

MOTHS FROM THE pupa.—LEvery entomologist who has

bred lepidopterous insects in the hope of pairmg them

in order to obtain eggs must have noticed that the great

difficulty with which he has to contend is the fact that

the males tend to emerge before the females. I have

noticed this for several years, and in the case of all the

species which I have employed in large numbers, and I

know that others have had a similar experience. At

first sight it would appear that this want of uniformity

must be a disadvantage to the species, for large numbers

of males must die before the females appear, and during

the time when the latter are only beginning to emerge

in small numbers. But, on the other hand, a more

than compensating advantage is doubtless gained by

the complete rivalry among a large number of males for

each of the females as they emerge, so that in the

majority of cases success in courtship is gained through

the possession of qualities which are of advantage to

the species, and not merely through the circumstance of

emergence at an appropriate time.

10. THE HEREDITARY TRANSMISSION OF PINK TUBERCLES

ON THE LARV# OF SATURNIA cAaRPINI.— The following

notes I owe almost entirely to the kindness of my friend

Dr. F. A. Dixey. On July 25th, 1885, eighty larve of

this species were sent to Dr. Dixey from Norfolk, where

they had been found feeding on meadow-sweet. The

larve were mostly in the last stage, or the last but one,

and after their arrival in Oxford they were fed upon

willow. The ground colour of these in the last stage

but one, whenever observed, was of a light bright green,

but in the last stage it varied from this colour to a dull

and dusky green. The black markings were also very

variable in the last stage, being, as a rule, especially

small in the bright green larve. In some larve the

black rings were incomplete, and were occasionally

reduced to a mere black line round each tubercle. The

longitudinal black marks, as a rule, only occurred in

the dull green larve. In seventy-six larve the tubercles

were yellow, varying from orange to lemon-yellow, and

the lighter tubercles were generally found upon the

bright green larve. In three larve the tubercles were

pink, without a trace of yellow or orange; in one the

upon lepidopterous larve, &e. 311

tubercles were pure white. Of the three larve with

pink tubercles, one was recognised from its size to be a

female, and it was of a dull green colour, with the black

markings largely developed. The other two were

similarly recognised as males, and they were both of

the brightest green colour, but with the black markings

well developed (unusually so for so light a ground colour).

The perfect insects emerged during the last ten days of

April, 1886, and 120 eges were obtained from the female

moth which was developed from the larva with pink

spots, the male parent being derived from one of the

two pink-spotted larve just described. The larve

emerged on May 28rd, 1886, and were fed upon haw-

thorn. During their first stages they showed a dis-

tinctly gregarious habit, and persistently sought the

side of their glass cage, which was turned towards the

light. Eighty of the larve were given to me, while the

remainder were reared by Dr. Dixey. Of these forty,

thirteen were found in the last stage to have yellow or

orange tubercles, twenty-seven to have pink spots like

the parents. The black segmental rings were not

imperfect in any of the forty larve, as was so often the

case in the original batch of larve. In this they com-

pletely resembled their parents. The green ground

colour varied, but was mostly bright lke that of the

male parent. One larva spun a cocoon with apparently

no valvular opening. Nearly all the larve had a

diarrhoeal discharge immediately before spinning, but

this appeared to be entirely normal, and to be uncon-

nected with any unhealthy condition. The eighty larve

given to me were partially used for physiological in-

vestigations, but forty-eight became sufficiently advanced

in the last stage to note the colours of the tubercles,

which were found to be pink in thirty-seven larve. The

results can therefore be tabulated as follows :—

1885. 80 larve, of which three (or 3°75 per cent.)

possessed pink tubercles.

1886. 88 larve, of which 64 (or 72°7 per cent.)

possessed pink tubercles.

It should be added that my larve were exposed to

surroundings of different colours, but that the tubercles

and the black markings were entirely unaffected, while

the dullness or brightness of the green ground colour

312 Mr. Poulton’s notes in 1886

certainly seemed to be influenced by dark or light

surroundings. While the great majority of my larve

possessed the uniformly developed well-marked black

bands described by Dr. Dixey, in a few individuals these

markings were present to a very slight degree.

11. RELATION BETWEEN PHYTOPHAGOUS LARVE AND

VARIOUS SPECIES OF FOOD-PLANT.—One of the most in-

teresting things about insects is their extraordinary

specialisation in relation to plants, and the complete

interdependence between these widely separated groups of

organisms. Not the least interesting feature of this rela-

tionship is the fact that so many species of phytophagous

larve are rigidly limited to a few or often to only a single

species of food-plant. If such larve are offered other

food-plants it is well known that they will generally starve

without touching them. And yet there can be no doubt

that the food-plants must have been often extended or

changed as the range of a species altered, and, although

such change may be frequently in the direction of allied

or representative species of plants, this is by no means

always the case. Thus, taking a single instance, the

common food-plants of S. ocellatus are sallow and apple,

the occasional food-plants laurel and poplar. But if a

larva becomes so specialised in relation to a food-plant

that it will starve without touching another species

there seems to be a great barrier in the way of any

alteration, and the continued abundance of the animal

would seem to be endangered by a double series of risks,

i.e., those which beset the animal itself, and those

which beset the plant upon which it depends. Many

observations, however, tend to prove that the rigid

specialisation largely grows up in the life of each

individual, and is therefore not inherent in the species.

This seems to be shown by the following observations :—

The larve of S. populi feed commonly upon poplar,

rarely upon sallow and laurel: during the past season I

offered laurel to some half-grown larve which had been

previously fed upon Populus nigra, and, although left

without other food for some days, the laurel was

untouched. The larve similarly refused Populus alba.

So also S. ligustri commonly feeds upon privet, lilac,

and ash, but it has been occasionally found upon holly ;

and | have unsuccessfully offered the latter food-plant to

upon lepidopterous larve, ec. 313

larve which had been previously fed upon privet, &c.

The converse relation does not hold, for Mr. Grut

informs me that a larva which he found upon holly ate

privet with complete readiness. So also S. ocellatus

found upon sallow will always eat apple, and vice versa ;

but I feel sure that in either case it would starve without

touching laurel or poplar. The last observation which

has come under my notice is the most remarkable. In

1885 I found a company of half-grown larve of

P. bucephala feeding upon hazel, and I offered them

elm and Salia triandra, both of which were untouched ;

while they readily ate oak and Salix cinerea or S.

smithiana. In this case elm is a very common food-

plant of the species, perhaps the commonest at Oxford,

where the larve were found.

It therefore seems certain that the young larva on

hatching is in a far less specialised condition, as regards

its food-plants, than that which it will subsequently

reach. And this conclusion is supported by further

direct evidence, for it is well known that young larve

will nibble leaves of plants upon which the species has

never been found, and may sometimes grow for a con-

siderable time upon such food ; while conversely the half-

grown larve offered some new food do not usually give

themselves the chance of becoming adapted to it, for as a

rule they will starve without nibbling it in the least.

There is not much difficulty in imagining the conditions

under which a change of food-plant might occur without

the most obvious cause, 7. ¢., alteration in range of distri-

bution. The instinct of laying eggs is far stronger

than that of laying them upon any particular species of

plant, for it is well known that in confinement moths

will lay eggs upon any surface which is at hand.

Sunilarly a deformed female moth could not seek a

scattered food-plant, but would be compelled to lay its

eggs in a limited area. So also, in the case of rare

plants, any larva wandering far before pupation would

render it possible that the moth might not find the

plant at all, and under these circumstances it could not

wait beyond a certain period without laying its eggs;

and the same facts would probably hold for the last

eggs laid by many strong-flying species. Again, in certain

cases it is possible that the female moth may have been

deceived by the superficial resemblance between plants,

TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1887.—PART III. (SEPT.) Z

814 Mr. Poulton’s notes in 1886

although, as a rule, the instinct is very accurate in this

respect. Thus it has occurred to me that the remarkable

association of sallow and apple, as the normal food-plants

of S. ocellatus, may have been due to the considerable

superficial resemblance between the wild crab (Pyrus

malus var. acerba) and some of the broad-leaved sallows

(such as Salix caprea or 'S. cinerea). There can be very

little doubt after the above-described observations that

holly is more recent as a food-plant of S. ligustri, and

laurel in the case of S. populi, and such cases help us to

understand how changes have occurred. The ready

erowth of a complete specialisation between such larve

and their more ancestral food-plants, and the less com-

plete specialisation to the more recent food-plants, is

probably the direct result of the far greater age and

frequency of the former relationship, so that in this case

heredity works with instead of against the specialisation

which grows up in the life of each individual. And

probably, for the same reason, the change from one

ancestral food-plant to another, or from a recent to an

ancestral food-plant, when larve are half-grown, is

rendered possible in those cases in which it has been

proved to occur. But whether these suggestions be

well founded or not, the main facts of this section must

be held as established by observation,—that the newly-

hatched larva is free to form special relations with

occasional or rare food-plants which cannot be formed

by the more mature larva in which such relations have

already grown up towards a commoner food-plant. And

this observation obviously goes a long way towards the

explanation of those changes of food-plants which we

know must have often occurred.

12. THE ORIGIN OF CARNIVOROUS HABITS IN PHYTO-

PHAGOUS LARV#.—Several observations make it probable

that cannibalism or carnivorous habits tend to arise in

larve, and have probably arisen in the past, out of the

necessities which follow the scarcity of the normal food.

During the summer of 1886 I was keeping large numbers

of larvee under conditions which rendered it probable

that the food-supply would sometimes fall short. In

order to investigate the colour-relation between larve

and their surroundings, coloured glass cages and bags

of coloured glazed lining were made use of ; within these

upon lepidopterous larve, te. 315

coverings the condition of the food-plant could not be

watched, and sometimes it withered, or was eaten earlier

than I expected. Thus the larve were sometimes

without food for a few days, and it was then found that

S. ocellatus had lost their caudal horns, while in some

cases the dorsal surface of the posterior part of the body

had been also nibbled. This habit of nibbling off the

caudal horns of other individuals is well known in this

species and in D. vinula, but I do not think that it has

been recognised as the result of hunger and as an

obvious tendency towards cannibalism. This is proved

by the fact that other lots of larve, always abundantly

supplied with food, were either not injured at all or only

in a very small proportion of cases. In one instance I

kept some larvee of D. vinula and S. ocellatus together in

a blue cage, and on one occasion the food-plant had

withered, and while it was being renewed I observed that

a D. vinula was gnawing the thoracic leg of an

S. ocellatus, and when the two were separated the former

soon returned and seized one of the claspers in its

mandibles, and bit it until it bled. Under similar

circumstances I have found an almost full-grown larva

of A. betularia which was engaged in swallowing a

small larva of the same species. The small larva was

held tightly in the clasp of the thoracic legs, and

nearly half of it had disappeared when the observation

was made.

These uniform results of the absence of food in all

three species of purely phytophagous larvee which have

been placed under such circumstances seem to offer a

probable explanation of those instances in which canni-

balism is well known to occur.

13. THE YouNG LARV% oF VANESSA URTICH AND

SATURNIA CARPINI SEEK LIGHT.—Dr. Dixey informs me

that his larve of S. carpini, when young, always

assembled on the side of the cylinder which was turned

towards the light, and I have made a similar observation

in the case of the young larve of V. urtice. In both

cases rotation of the cylinders was followed by a corre-

sponding change in the position of the larve. Both

these larve are dark coloured when young, so that the

observation, as far as it goes, supports Lord Walsing-

ham’s conclusions as to the advantage gained by the

316 Mr. Poulton’s notes in 1886

absorption of radiant energy by larve. It would be

well to test the theory by interposing a transparent

athermanous screen between the larve and the source

of light.

14. THE MOVEMENTS OF LARVH GUIDED BY AN APPRE-

CIATION OF THE FORCE OF GRAVITATION.—The following

observation seems to admit of no escape from the con-

clusion that larve are guided by this sense, which must

be of great importance to them when they have been

blown off their food-plants, or have fallen after being

disturbed. During the past summer I had great oppor-

tunities of observing the larve of Vanessa urtice. It

was necessary, for some experiments which I was then

conducting, that the larve of the different companies

should be kept apart, and accordingly they were placed

in separate boxes. But a large company contains from

100 to 200 individuals, and it was found exceedingly

difficult to put the last larve in the box without losing

or injuring many others which had been previously

captured, and which crawled up the side of the box and

endeavoured to escape when the lid was removed. The

explanation suggested in the title of this section then

occurred to me, and I at once tested it by turning the

box upside down in my pocket, when the larve immedi-

ately crowded to the bottom of the box, which was then

uppermost. On another occasion I witnessed the

practical use of this sense of direction in the case of

the same species. While the individuals of a large

company were being removed from a nettle-bed, about a

dozen larve fell to the ground and escaped among the

‘crowded leaves. Returning in the course of half an

hour all the larve were found upon the tops of the

nettles, having evidently commenced to reascend without

any loss of time. Another instance of the same sense

of direction is seen in the behaviour of larve (such as

Pygara bucephala) which have been blown off trees in

the neighbourhood of walls and houses, for under such

circumstances the larve obey the instinct to crawl

upwards upon any adjacent surface, whatever it may

happen to be, and they may often be seen patiently

ascending some object which does not lead to their

food-plant. But under natural conditions the larve are

not equally liable to be misled by this sense of direction,

upon lepidopterous larve, de. 317

and under all circumstances it is controlled by that

other sense which enables the larva to recognise its

food-plant as soon as it reaches it.

DESCRIPTION OF PuaATE X.

Fic. 1. Natural size. The mature larva of Smerinthus

ocellatus, seen from the right side. The larva was found on

S. triandra, and possessed the most developed system of red

spots which I have yet seen. The figure shows that all three rows

were highly developed, the upper row being represented on every

segment anterior to the 8th abdominal; the middle row possessing

in addition a spot upon the latter segment, while the lower row

was quite complete, all the claspers being distinctly marked.

Fic. 2, x 2 diameters. The head of a mature larva of

Smerinthus populi, seen from the right side. The patches of dark

shading upon the head indicate the position of the red markings.

The larva possessed a remarkably developed system of red spots,

which extended on to the head itself in the positions shown in the

figure. The chief masses are seen to be in the area of the ocelli,

represented as a semicircle of black points, and on the apex of the

head.

Fic. 3. Natural size, seen from the right side. An apparently

mature Cherocampoid Sphing larva, brought from Celebes by

Dr. Hickson. The larva combines, in an interesting manner, the

characteristics of many genera of Sphingide. The well-formed

eye-like mark on the 1st abdominal segment, together with the

correlated form of the anterior part of the body and the head,

rendering possible the well-known terrifying attitude,—all are as in

Cherocampa. The oblique stripes, with their dark borders, the

traces of shagreening, and the subdorsal persistent for its whole

length, especially resemble Smerinthus and the younger stages of

Sphinx. The shape of the caudal horn is peculiar, but recalls that

of the latter genus, while the fact that the shagreening is far

more prominent upon this structure than upon any other part of

the body also obtains in other genera, although it is perhaps most

characteristic of Acherontia. The white dorsal and lateral spots

are probably very ancestral features recognisable in the younger

stages of Sphing and Smerinthus. The living larva was green in

colour.

318 Mr. Poulton’s notes in 1886

Fic. 4. Natural size. A mature larva of Amphidasis betularia,

seen from the left side. The figure represents a common green

variety of this variable larva, and it is seen that in this, the usual

attitude of rest, the larva is supported by holding a portion of the

food-plant with its last pair of thoracic legs, instead of by the

thread which is usually spun by the larve of Geometre for this

purpose.

Fic. 5. Natural size. The mature larva of Rwmia crategata,

as seen from the right side attached to its food-plant—hawthorn—

in the natural attitude of rest. The larva is recognised by the

supporting thread, which, however, from its colour and fineness,

does not attract attention in nature. The figure was drawn from

an actual specimen of the larva on its food-plant, and it indicates

the remarkable resemblance between the structural details of the

animal and the plant upon which it most commonly occurs. The

twigs resemble the larva in colour, in shape, and in direction.

About in the middle of the majority of the twigs there is a

prominent projection, which is almost exactly imitated by the

dorsal tubercles of the larva; the processes form the crown of a

very slight bend in both, while the ends of the twigs greatly

resemble the head of the larva. Such a specialised protective

resemblance would seem to be the product of a very prolonged

association of the larva with this species of plant.

Fic. 6. Natural size. The mature larvaof Dicranura vinula in

the terrifying attitude, as seen from the left side. Thelarva had been

irritated on the left side of its body, and, in obedience to the tactile

stimulus, had assumed the attitude represented in the figure. In

addition to the terrifying appearance being thus brought to bear

upon the point from which the attack is made, the mouth of the

gland secreting formic acid is also directed so that an enemy

would probably be struck by the discharged fluid. The caudal

flagella are represented as everted to their full extent, although

the power of using these weapons is generally lost in the mature

larve.

Fic. 7, X 2 diameters. The head and prothorax of a larva of

Dicranura vinula towards the beginning of the last stage, looked

at from below. At this stage of growth slight pressure applied to

the larva causes the eversion of the gland-tubes which secrete the

formic acid, and of the median sae in which the fluid is stored.

There are seen to be four tubes, the anterior pair being longer and

wider than the posterior pair. The position of the everted organs

is seen to correspond with that of the horizontal slit-like mouth

through which eversion takes place, and shown upon the red

margin of the prothorax below the head in fig. 6.

upon lepidopterous larve, dc. 319

Fig. 8, x 8 diameters. The left conical receptacle of the larva

of Dicranura vinula, as seen from the left side, with its flagellum

completely everted. Comparison with fig. 6 indicates that the

flagellum curves towards the dorsal aspect of the larva. On the

dorsal side of the base of the receptacle the anal flap is seen, and a

tubercle (of which there are two) terminating in a bristle, and

made use of in removing the feces. The base of the flagellum is

faintly coloured and transparent, so that the rest of the organ can

be distinctly seen passing through this part during introversion.

As introversion commences with the apex of the organ, the latter

is seen to enter the transparent portion when the pink part is

reduced to half its length. In the normal position of rest the

transparent base is also introverted, and the deeply coloured part

of the organ can be dimly seen lying in the semitransparent

receptacle. The latter is covered with black patches, each of

which bears a tubercle terminating in a bristle.

Fie. 9, x 188 diameters. The apex of the flagellum of the larva

of Dicranura vinula, drawn so as to show the arrangement of its

structural details. From the base up to the horizon a—a the

superficial characters are shown; the cuticle, which appears

smooth to the naked eye and with very low powers, is seen to be

prolonged into very numerous fine sharp short processes (c) ; these

are also seen in section above a—a, and they are shown to be

processes of the superficial cuticular layer. Between a—a and

B—Bs the hypodermis cells (hk. c.) are seen from the surface, the

cuticle having been removed. Above a—a the cuticle is seen in

section around the rest of the structure, and it consists of the two

normal layers, a superficial cuticular layer, which is non-laminated

(s. Ul. c.), and a deep cuticular layer, which is finely laminated

(d.l.c.) Both are quite transparent in this organ, although the

former contains the black pigment in other parts of the larva.

The whole of the pink pigment is contained in the flattened hypo-

dermis cells (h. c.), and, as indicated in the drawing, it is darkest

round the margins of the cells, and especially at their apices.

Above B—B a longitudinal section along the middle line of the

organ is shown; an oblique view of a transverse section of the

structures beneath the cuticle, through half the organ, being

represented immediately below B—s. ‘The structures on the

left side of the drawing are alone shaded in the longitudinal

section. The hypodermis cells (h. ¢.) are seen to be flattened and

to overlap each other. Beneath the cells is a delicate layer (x, 1.)

representing the thicker ‘dermal’? connective tissues in many

other parts. Beneath this there is a space filled with blood in the

everted organ. Then follows the retractor muscle made up of.

320 Mr. Poulton’s notes in 1886

several bundles arranged round an axial space containing a large

ganglion. The muscle bundles (7. m.) consist of striated fibres,

and they are surrounded by a sheath (m. s.), which must be highly

elastic. Occupying the axial space there is seen to be a ganglion

made up of large ganglion cells (g. c.) and nerve-fibres (n. f.).

The proportion of nervous to muscular tissue is seen to be very

large.

Fic. 10, X 24°5 diameters. One of the eversible ventral glands

of the larva of Crewsus septentrionalis, as seen in longitudinal

section. The gland is represented as almost completely everted,

the apex being still retracted. The layers are represented dia-

grammatically: (s. 0. c.) superficial non-laminated cuticular

layer; (d. 1. c.)=the deep laminated layer; (h. c.) =the hypo-

dermis cells. The retractor muscle is shown at (7. m.); its fibres

are striated.

Fic. 11, x 2 diameters. The head and four anterior segments of

the larva of Gonoptera libatriz, as seen from the left side in the

contracted state before pupation. The larva had been taken out of

its cocoon. Two large black patches are very conspicuous on the

second and third thoracie segments: no trace of these markings

was present in the larva before the cocoon was spun. The line

parallel with the dorsal contour of all segments except the anterior

thoracic is the subdorsal, which was present in the younger larva,

and still remains distinct. The black patches exactly cover the

pupal wings which are developed beneath.

Fia.12, x 10 diameters. A transverse section through the middle

of the second thoracic segment of the larva of Gonoptera libatria,

showing the relation of the black patch indicated in the last figure

to the developing pupal wings. Only the right half of the section

is complete, the median line being indicated by the dotted line a—a,

The digestive canal is indicated at (d. c.), the commissural strands

of the ganglionic cord at (n.c.) The pupal cuticle is represented

by (p. c.), and the larval cuticle by (J. c.) The pupal wing (p. w.)

is seen to be developing as a pouch-like diverticulum of the body-

cavity. The black patch (0. p.) is shown to be due to pigment in

the superficial part of the larval cuticle; its extent is seen to

correspond with that of the rudimentary wing beneath.

Fig. 18, x 188 diameters. A portion of the developing wing of

the last figure, together with the larval cuticle which covers it,

seen in transverse section. The larval cuticle consists of the two

normal layers, of which the superficial one (s’. J’. c'.) is seen to

contain the whole of the pigment of the black patch, while the

lower lamellated layer (d’. 1’. c/.) is coloured by staining reagents.

This high magnification shows that the larval surface is rough,

upon lepidopterous larve, ce. 321

although it appears perfectly smooth to the naked eye. Of course

there are no hypodermis cells beneath the larval cuticle, for these

structures have sunk to a lower level after forming the cuticle of

the pupal wing, which now intervenes between them and the

larval cuticle. These cells (h. c.) are extremely long and narrow

when their whole length is shown in the section: their bases

become attenuated and pass into fine fibre-like processes: their

upper parts become continuous with an apparently homogeneous

layer (d. l. c.), which represents the partially formed lower lamel-

lated layer of the cuticle. Above this is the previously formed

superficial layer (s. l. c.), which is ochreous in colour, but which

quickly deepens into black on exposure to air when the larval skin

is thrown off. This latter layer is seen to be much thicker and

rougher than that of the larva.

Fig. 14. Natural size. The larva of Paniscus cephalotes,

externally parasitic upon the larva of Dicranura vinula. The

larva is seen from beneath, and it is of very exceptional size. The

D. vinula larva was attacked by several of these parasites, of

which all but one were destroyed, and the latter therefore appears

to have attained the maximum size, for the host was not quite

demolished.

Fic. 15. Natural size. The same larva, seen from the left side.

Fic. 16, x 24:5 diameters. The base of the left antenna of the

imago of Gonoptera libatrix, as seen from the left side in the

attitude of rest. In this attitude the main part of the antenna

passes backwards beneath the wings, while a tuft of hairs rising

from the base is brought over the eye of the moth, When the

moth is disturbed the antennex are brought forward, and the same

action raises the tuft and uncovers the eyes. When at rest the

brilliancy of the eyes is thus prevented from interfering with the

very perfect protective resemblance to a dead leaf, and the eyes

are also defended from dust, &c., especially during the prolonged

rest of hybernation, which in this species takes place in the

imaginal stage.

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XV. On Byrsops, and some allied genera. By Francts P.

Pascog, F.L.S., &c.

[Read June Ist, 1887. |

PLATE XI.

OnLy one species of Byrsops* has, I believe, been de-

scribed since 1842, when Schénherr enumerated twenty-

five. I have now in the following pages described four-

teen, which I have not been able to identify with any of

his descriptions. ‘To these I have added a few others,

chiefly new generic forms, belonging to the same sub-

family.

With Lacordaire’s ‘“‘ Byrsopsides vrais’? I place Syn-

thocus, it having the same prothoracic canal as Byrsops.

These and the other genera of this section of Byrsopine

may be better understood by the following table :—

Intermediate cox contiguous.

Prothorax gspined at the sides ate .. HopLitoTRACcHELus, Schon.

Prothorax not spined.

Tarsi elongate ore Be fa .. Byrsops, Schon.

Tarsi not elongate.

Funicle six-jointed es 36 .. DyYEROCERA.

Funicle seven-jointed.

Club adnate .. bs Ss .. Davnaxius.

Club not adnate.

First abdominal segment distinct Ixopicus, Pasce.

First abdominal segment combined

with the second .. are .. Liasorvs.

* The genus was first distinguished by Schénherr in 1826 under

the name of Cryptops (Cure. Disp. Meth., p. 65) ; previous writers

—Thunberg, Wiedemann, &e.—had confounded it with Brachy-

cerus. Schonherr subsequently changed the name to Byrsops.

He spoke of its species being from the Cape and Bengal, but as it

is exclusively South African, it would be interesting to know what

were the insects he mistook for Byrsops. They were in Wester-

mann’s collection at Copenhagen.

TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1887.—PART II. (SEPT.)

324 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on Byrsops,

Intermediate coxe not contiguous.

Metasternum pointed anteriorly.

Scrobes curving beneath the eye ; .. SynTHocus, Schon.

Scrobes straight in front of the eye.

Pectoral canal narrow, deep aD .. OPHRYODOTUS.

Pectoral canal broad, shallow ae .. PEZERPES.

Metasternum broad and truncate anteriorly .. Huryxena.

The following is a list of the species described in this

paper :—

Byrsops socia. Byrsops vicaria.

Ap plumbea. 5 tersula.

a scapularis: 55 eximia.

a. mendica. 3 farinosa.

x alveata. Daulaxius stolatus.

35 intermedia. Dyerocera gravida.

5 glaucescens. Liasotus ovis.

yt) terrena. Ophryodotus singularis.

re encausta. Pezerpes rugosus.

5 vittigera. Buryxena bruchotides.

Spartecerus infaustus (accidentally figured).

1. Edge of declivity* rounded.

Byrsops socia.

B. subovata, squamositate subsilacea nitida tecta; rostro sat

elongato, basi angustiore, leviter reticulatim foveato; prothorace

angustato, ante medium incurvato, antice late sulcato; elytris

oblongo-quadratis, triseriatim tuberculatis, dorso fere in medio et

juxta basin macula communi umbrina notatis. Long. 4 lin.

Hab. §. Africa.

Subovate, covered with a somewhat glossy greyish yellow squa-

mosity;}+ head rather narrow, superciliary ridges strongly raised ;

rostrum rather long, narrowed at the base, slightly reticulately

pitted in front; prothorax rather longer than broad, incurved at

the sides to the middle and thence rounded to the base, coarsely

pitted, the apex with a larger pit or groove; elytra oblong-quad-

rate, much broader than the prothorax at the base, each with three

rows of mammilliform tubercles, the inner one commencing behind

* In the Byrsopine the elytra are generally suddenly bent down

or truncate behind, the vertical portion constituting the ‘“ de-

clivity.”’ Our genus Gronops is an exception.

+ What is by some entomologists called a ‘‘squamosity”’ is

intended to represent the modern Latin ‘‘ indumentum,” for which

our language has no equivalent. In reality squamosity is nothing

more than very minute scales, never overlapping, and not always

contiguous.

and some allied genera. 325

the middle, of seven tubercles, each gradually smaller to the apex,

the second of seven, including one at the base nearer the suture,

the outer row of eight, the last three much the smallest, the

interstices rather closely and coarsely punctured, at the base a

common bilobed and just before the middle a quadrate spot com-

posed of short erect umber hairs ; legs dotted with long white sete.

Alhed to B. buccellaria (the type of the genus), but,

inter alia, with a narrower head and prothorax, the

latter longer than broad, and the elytra quadrate, with

the tubercles mammilliform.

Byrsops plumbea. (Pl. XI., fig. 7).

B. ovata, nigra, squamis minutis albidis confertim vestita, ad

latera elytrorum maculis plurimis niveis ornata; rostro breve,

angusto, subgibboso, impunctato; elytris latis, modice convexis,

minus tuberculatis. Long. 3} lin.

Hab. Cape.

Ovate, black, clothed above with minute, whitish, non-con-

tiguous scales; head broad, convex in front, and with low super-

ciliary ridges; rostrum short, narrow, gibbous in the middle, and

without grooves or punctures; club of the antenne stout, and as

long as the funicle ; prothorax transverse, very slightly rounded at

the apex, the disc irregular, dotted with a few glossy black

granules ; scutellum transverse, covered with ferruginous hairs;

elytra in the middle nearly twice as broad as the prothorax, with

numerous shallow punctures placed in irregular lines, each elytron

with two rows of tubercles, the inner with three, the middle with

five, and the outer with seven, the latter with the tubercles com-

pressed and continuous, between the outer and close to the middle

row a black stripe, the deflexed sides with well-limited spots com-

posed of snowy scales; body beneath blackish, suture between

the two basal segments of the abdomen nearly obsolete; legs

covered with whitish scales, and dotted with longish sete.

The black derm just visible between the white scales,

which are also present in the punctures, especially on

the elytra, gives a leaden hue to this species. ‘The spots

on the sides are probably lable to unite.

Byrsops scapularis.

B. late subovata, indumento, vel squamis minutis, subnitide

griseis dense tecta; rostro crasso, leviter foveato; prothorace rude

326 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on Byrsops,

foveato, in medio subsuleato ; elytris subquadratis, prothorace fere

duplo latioribus, tuberculis conicis numerosis triseriatim dispositis,

unum humerale majus. Long. 4 ln.

Hab. Cape.

Broadly subovate, covered with a slightly glossy greyish squa-

mosity, or with minute scales; head broad, over each eye an

angular superciliary ridge; rostrum short, four rows of shallow

pits posteriorly ; funicle rather short, slender; prothorax broad

and rounded at the sides, convex, and roughly pitted above, the

middle with a shallow groove, and a few glossy black granules,

more or less united on the deflected sides; elytra subquadrate,

much broader at the base than the prothorax, the sides subparallel,

each elytron with three rows of mostly mammilliform contiguous

tubercles, the inner row towards the base of a few oblong slightly

raised tubercles or merely a raised line, the intermediate and outer

rows commencing near the base, the largest tubercle at the

shoulder, the intervals irregularly and closely pitted, the deflected

sides with mostly very large and approximate pits, the declivity

with a row of smaller tubercles, a continuation of the inner row;

body beneath with a dull greyish squamosity, second abdominal

segment marked off from the first by a very distinct suture; legs

with whitish scales and dotted with black sete.

Compared with B. buccellaria this species has con-

tiguous and larger tubercles, coarser fovezw, and on the

shoulders a rounded and prominent callus-like tubercle.

Byrsops mendica.

B. ovata; squamositate obscure grisea sat laxe tecta; rostro

subangusto, ruguloso; prothorace antice constricto, postice con-

vexo, apicem versus profunde trifoveato; elytris breviter ovatis,

triseriatim tuberculatis, tuberculis magnis; tarsis crassiusculis.

Long. 23 lin.

Hab. Cape.

Ovate; rather thinly covered with a dull greyish squamosity ;

head broad, superciliary ridges raised; rostrum somewhat narrow,

scarcely longer than the head, roughish, dotted with a few short

sete ; prothorax not longer than broad, indistinctly tuberculate,

constricted anteriorly, and markably convex behind, near the apex

three deep fovee, and at the base two short raised tuberculiform

lines; elytra shortly ovate, each with three lines of mostly stout

approximate tubercles, the outer row with a larger tubercle at the

shoulder followed by six gradually smaller ones, except the last,

and some allied genera. 327

intermediate row of five gradually larger tubercles towards the

declivity, inner row of two large tubercles continuous with three

small ones on the declivity, itself forming with its fellow a shallow

groove, the interstices finely punctured; beneath and legs roughly

squamose, setigerous; tarsi stout.

This species may be placed after B. Hopei, but it is

much smaller, with narrower rostrum, the inner row of

tubercles confined to the edge of the declivity, &e.

Byrsops alveata.

B. subovata, squamositate grisea dense tecta; rostro antice bi-

sulcato; prothorace in medio carinis angustis altis duabus munito ;

elytris breviter ovatis, tuberculis majusculis triseriatim dispositis.

Long. 4 lin.

Hab. Cape.

Subovate, densely covered with a greyish squamosity; super-

ciliary ridges semicircular; rostrum longer than the head, with

three stout ridges forming two deep grooves between them, the

outer ridge joined to the superciliary ridge; prothorax sub-

cylindrical, four-ridged, the two middle ridges linear and raised,

forming a narrow groove between them, the lateral ridges inter-

rupted, the interspaces more or less excavated; elytra shortly

ovate, each with three rows of tubercles, the outer row of six large

oval ones, the intermediate row of four, two only before the

declivity, the inner of four, all the tubercles more or less contiguous

at the base, and coarsely pitted between the rows, at the base near

the suture an oval patch of brown closely-set hairs; legs dotted

with slender black setie ; tarsi rather long.

The sculpture of the rostrum and prothorax and the

larger tubercles on the elytra at once distinguishes this

species. It may be placed after B. lutosa.

Byrsops intermedia.

B. ovata, squamositate saturate grisea sat tenuiter tecta; rostro

longiore, pauci-foveato ; prothorace subcylindrico, in medio leviter

suleato, antice utrinque late excavato; elytris ovatis, triseriatim

tuberculatis, tuberculis majusculis, approximatis vel subapyproxi-

matis, basi singulorum macula silacea notatis. Long. 4 lin.

Hab. Cape.

Ovate, dark grey, with a pale slightly interrupted squamosity ;

superciliary ridges raised, a smaller ridge bounding the base of the

328 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on Byrsops,

rostrum, this longer than the head, flattish in front, with about

eight foveex; prothorax subcylindrical, broadly grooved in the

middle, with a large fovea on each side anteriorly, rest of the pro-

thorax and sides sparsely and finely punctured ; elytra ovate, each

with three rows of tubercles, these rather large, mostly conical,

more or less approximate, and confined to the edge of the declivity,

the inner row of six, the first tubercle connected with an elevated

ridge extended from the base, the second row of six large tubercles,

the first oblong and out of the line of the remainder, third row of

eight tubercles, interspaces moderately punctured; abdomen with

a few coarse punctures; legs with many short sete; tarsi rather

stout.

This species may be placed near B. buccellaria, but it

has no central spot on the elytra, and it has much

broader tarsi.

Byrsops terrena.

B. ovata, squamositate sordide grisea tecta; rostro brevi,

erassiusculo, pauci-foveato ; prothorace sat valde transverso, disco

granulis parvis nitide nigris adspersis; elytris sat breviter ovatis,

singulis carinis tuberculatis tribus munitis. Long. 4 lin.

Hab. South Africa.

Ovate, uniformly covered with an opaque earthy greyish squa-

mosity ; head broad, superciliary ridges scarcely raised ; rostrum

thickish, shorter than the head, convex, and with few foves in

front; prothorax much broader than long, with remote lines, each

consisting of a few small glossy black granules; elytra rather

shortly ovate, each with three slightly raised lines dotted with

small mammilliform non-approximate tubercles, nearly obsolete on

the declivity, the interstices finely punctured; body beneath with

a roughish squamosity, that on the legs of a silvery hue; tibia and

tarsi dotted with many black sete.

Allied to B. rana, but larger, broader, the elytra more

tuberculate, only slightly punctured, and the prothorax

without the white spot at the side.

Byrsops glaucescens.

B. ovata, squamositate griseo-alba tecta; fronte carinula obliqua

instructa; rostro antice pauci-foveato, basi tuberculo ovali in-

structo; prothorace cylindrico, basin versus tuberculis quatuor

setigeris utrinque dispositis; elytris breviter ovatis, dorso etuber-

culatis; tarsis latis. Long. 23 lin,

Hab. S. Africa.

and some allied genera. 329

Ovate, covered with a greyish-white squamosity (to the naked

eye having a glaucous tint), and with a few minute black setx

above; superciliary ridges raised, front with two lesser oblique

ridges bounding the base of the rostrum, this of moderate length,

marked with four fovee in front, the base with an oval tubercle ;

prothorax cylindrical, rather longer than broad, anteriorly with

three large concavities, posteriorly two lines, each of four seti-

gerous tubercles, having a short groove between them; elytra

shortly ovate, each with three rows of tubercles, the inner row of

one tubercle only posteriorly and three on the declivity, the second

row with four, including one at the declivity and two at the apex,

the outer or lateral row with five, at the base two raised lines, rest

of the elytra obsoletely punctured except the line near the suture,

at the commencement of the declivity a black curved transverse

line; body beneath and legs with a dense squamosity; tarsi

dilated.

The broad tarsi—an exception to the characters of

the genus—and the disk of the elytra non-tuberculate,

with the well-defined black apical line, will at once

distinguish this pretty little species.

2. Edge of the declivity angulate.

Byrsops encausta. (Pl. X1., fig. 6).

B. oblonga, squamis minutis argenteo-griseis tecta; capite

antice convexo; rostro integro, leviter foveato; prothorax tri-

sulcato; elytris plaga communi basali, apice posticeque bifida,

fusco-hirsuta notatis, postice tuberculatis ; tarsis elongatis. Long.

4} lin.

Hab. South Africa.

Oblong, the elytra especially covered with minute silvery grey

scales, those on the head and prothorax more decidedly grey; head

convex in front, a curved shallow depression marking it off from

the rostrum, this stoutish, entire, and indistinctly pitted; pro-

thorax nearly parallel at the sides, irregularly pitted, the three

largest pits anteriorly, the middle one forming part of a longi-

tudinal groove; elytra much broader than the prothorax, but not

at the base, each with a row of four or five small tubercles at the

side of the dise and another row of large tubercles on the inflexed

side, between these a brown stripe varying in certain lights,

posteriorly near the suture two small tubercles, the declivity also

with tubercles, the largest near the angle, a large oblong dark

brown patch, composed of erect hairs, but not extending to the

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330 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on Byrsops,

declivity, and its two extremities bifid; legs dotted with slender

black sete; tarsi slender; suture between the two basal segments

of the abdomen marked by a row of larger punctures.

The stripes or patches on the elytra of this and

neighbouring species are made up of short erect closely-

set hairs—a modification of scales.

Byrsops vittigera. (Pl. XI., fig. 4).

B. oblongo-ovata, squamis minutis griseo-albis tecta; rostro

angusto, integro, antice sex-foveato; elytris lineis vittis duabus

abbreviatis umbrino-notatis, postice tuberculatis; tarsis elongatis.

Long. 4 lin.

Hab. - Cape.

Head in front broadly convex, superciliary ridges nearly obso-

lete; rostrum with a double row of six fovee on the basal half;

prothorax rather longer than broad, slightly rounded at the sides,

irregularly and unequally pitted, anteriorly three deeper and

larger pits, and at the base an oblong depression; elytra broader

than the prothorax, each with three raised lines on the disc, and a

fourth on the deflected side, the inner and third short, the inter-

mediate towards the declivity developing into three narrow and

gradually larger tubercles, on the declivity a smaller and more

conical tubercle, between the lines and at the deflected sides rows

of punctures extending to the apex, on each side of the suture an

umber-coloured stripe, not extending to the declivity, composed of

erect hairs, and followed by two tubercles; legs dotted with black

sete ; tarsi long and linear.

Possibly an ally of B. retusus, described by Boheman

from a specimen without head and legs. The tarsi are

unusually long and slender.

Byrsops vicaria.

B. oblonga, subtilissime granulata, squamis minutis griseis

tecta; rostro crassiusculo, integro, antice obsolete foveato; elytris

vitta communi basali fusca notatis, postice tuberculatis; tarsis

elongatis. Long. 3 lin.

Hab. Cape.

Allied to the last but narrower, with only one stripe on the disc

of the elytra, and the upper surface dotted with very small glossy

black granules; head and rostrum as in the last, but the latter

shorter and stouter; prothorax broader and very slightly pitted,

except the three anterior pits, which are just as strongly marked ;

and some allied genera. 331

elytra with the outer line on the disc well developed, the tubercles

more mammilliform, the deflected sides only striate-punctate, the

interstices raised; legs dotted with black sete; tarsi not so

slender; faint trace of a suture between the first and second

abdominal segments.

Byrsops tersula. (Pl. XL, fig. 8).

B. oblonga, griseo-squamosa fusco varia; rostro basi sex-punc-

tato ; prothorace antice transversim constricto; elytris tuberculis

maguis triseriatim instructis, interstitiis fuscis seriatim punctatis.

Long. 3 lin.

Hab. South Africa.

Oblong, covered with minute greyish and brownish scales ; head

broad, a small round superciliary ridge, front irregularly punc-

tured; rostrum narrow, with a double row of six punctures at the

base ; prothorax convex, rounded at the sides, and about as long

as broad, the apex slightly produced with a transverse impression

behind it, the dise roughly punctured in the middle, punctures at

its sides smaller and less approximate, the sides and middle striped

with brown; elytra not twice the length of the prothorax, disc

seriate-punctate, each with three rows of tubercles, all conical and

gradually larger to the proclivity, the interval between the first

and second rows with a double row of punctures, the inner and

outer rows with three tubercles each, the intermediate with five,

the last of this row much the largest, on the declivity one

mammilliform and two or three smaller tubercles, the deflexed

sides with numerous scattered punctures; first abdominal suture

nearly obsolete; legs dotted with long sete or hairs.

The intervals between the rows of tubercles have a

brownish hue, but the outer stripe is dark brown. A

pretty little species slightly resembling B. vittigera.

Byrsops eximia. (Pl. XI., fig. 5).

B. oblonga, subparallela, squamis minutis roseo-griseis vestita,

linea lanceolata suturali, postice abbreviata, fusca ornata, discoque

ad latera fusca ; rostro carinis tribus abbreviatis instructo. Long.

53 lin.

Hab. Cape.

Narrowly oblong, the side nearly parallel, clothed with very

minute rose-grey scales; head broad, superciliary ridges well

developed: rostrum constricted at the base, in front three carine,

332 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on Byrsops,

but not extending to the apex; antenne black; scape thick ;

funicle linear, slender, the two basal joints elongate; club large,

ovate; prothorax oblong, grooved in the middle, irregularly pune-

tured, and three oblong depressions anteriorly ; elytra slightly

broader in the middle than at the base, unequally and nearly

obsoletely seriate-punctate, dise on each side with a row of small

tubercles terminating at the declivity in a large tubercle, and a

smaller one nearer the suture, sides of the dise obliquely inflexed

and dark brown, on the suture, but extending to the declivity,

a dark chocolate-brown lanceolate stripe composed of densely

packed erect short hairs, the declivity itself clouded with brown,

with one larger and four smaller tubercles on each side of the

suture; body beneath and legs pale ferruginous, the latter elongate

and dotted with numerous long black sete.

I have a specimen—agreeing with another in the

British Museum—labelled B. amplexicollis, Wiedm., to

which this species is closely allied, but it does not agree

with Boheman’s description (Schounherr, vi., 2, p. 390) ;

indeed, if the character of the tarsi is correct (‘‘ tarsis

subtus dense nigro-pilosis’’) it can hardly belong to the

genus.

Byrsops farinosa.

B. oblonga, silacea, squamis minutis albidis tecta; rostro

longiusculo, gibboso, obsolete punctato ; prothorace convexo, vix

punctato; elytris supra planatis, ad latera modice rotundatis,

lineatim leviter punctatis, postice tuberculis parvis marginatis.

Long. 53 lin.

Hab. South Africa.

Oblong, pale brownish yellow clothed with minute whitish

scales; head broadly concave between the two elevated super-

ciliary ridges; rostrum rather longer, narrowed at the base,

cibbous, obsoletely punctured ; antennz small, the funicle gradually

stouter to the club; prothorax convex, rather longer than broad,

constricted anteriorly, scarcely punctured; elytra moderately

rounded at the sides, abruptly declivous behind, the dise flat, with

very small punctures in lines, the deflexed sides with broad rather

shallow grooves, and covered with brownish yellow scales, the dise

at the declivity margined with above a dozen small round tubercles,

and about the same number, but much smaller, at the side; body

beneath rusty-brown, legs mottled with the same colour, and

dotted with small black sete; tarsi with the claw-joint cylindrical

and longer than the others together.

and some allied genera, S00

To the naked eye a pale fawn-coloured species with

scarcely any punctuation, and witn only very small

marginal tubercles.

DavLAXxIvs.

Caput depressum; rostrum subangustum; scrobes_ breves,

oblique. Antenne breviuscule; funiculus septem articulatus,

articulo ultimo ad clavam arcte applicato. Elytra convexa,

amphata. Rima pectoralis profunda. Pedes validi; tarsi breves

incrassati.

The last joint of the funicle intimately with, and

indeed forming part of, the club, and the thick tarsi,

are the principal technical characters of this new genus,

differentiating it from Byrsops. The facies is that of

a Brachycerus. It may be noticed that the light-coloured

scales are linear or lanceolate, with a deep median

groove, those on the tibiz standing well out from the

surface; the darker scales are smaller, many of them

having a small central puncture.

Daulaxius stolatus. (Pl. XI., fig. 11).

D. validus, squamis fulvo-griseis dense tectus, disco prothoracis

elytrisque basi et fere in medio fascia lata abbreviata nigro-fusca

notatis. Long. 5 lin.

Hab. Delagoa Bay.

Broadly ovate, closely covered with fulvous-grey scales, the dise

of the prothorax anda large |-shaped patch on the base of the

elytra dark brown; head irregularly excavated between the two

well-developed superciliary ridges; basal half of the rostrum

roughly punctured; basal joint of the funicle pyriform; club

oblong, pointed; prothorax scarcely broader than long, narrower

at the apex, the sides rounded, dise with rough irregular tubercles,

but having a marked interrupted groove in the middle; elytra

at the sides more than twice as broad as the prothorax at the base,

not suddenly declivous posteriorly, each elytron with three rows of

tubercles, the two inner rot continued beyond the declivity, the

outer row bounding the dise of about ten contiguous tubercles, at

the shoulder a short row of three, all closely covered with scales ;

three intermediate segments of the abdomen of equal length ; legs

closely covered with greyish scales, and dotted with black sete,

three basal joints of the tarsi very short and broad.

334 Mr. I. P. Pascoe on Byrsops,

DYEROCERA.

Rostrum crassum, difforme; scrobes transverse, ab oculos

distantes. Antenne valide; scapus brevis; funiculus sex-articu-

latus, articulis totis transversis ad clavam gradatim latioribus.

Prothorax elevatus, apice truncatus, lobis ocularibus ciliatis.

Elytra convexa, ampliata. Tibie apice extus producte; tarsi

angustati. Rima pectoralis obsoleta.

This genus would perhaps be better piagad in the

Brachycerine, as the antenne are only partially genicu-

late, and the mandibles, so far as I can make out, are

covered by the mentum; but the six-jointed funicle, the

large ocular lobes, and the depression, hardly amounting

to a canal, in front of the anterior coxe, have decided

me, at any rate provisionally, to refer it to the Byrso-

pine. In the exponent of this genus the sculpture of

the head and rostrum is very complex; on the elytra

there are a number of large and small tubercles, appa-

rently arranged in a row, but under a Codington they

are seen to be very much mixed.

Dyerocera gravida. (Pl. XL, fig. 9).

D. breviter ovata, squamis minutis cinereis vestita ; prothorace

confuse granulata; elytris globosis, quasi seriatim tuberculatis.

Long. 4 lin.

Hab. Transvaal.

Shortly ovate, black, shining, not closely covered with minute

ashy scales; head moderately broad; eyes large, a ridge over

each, between them a Y-shaped glossy black raised mark; rostrum

short, arched, the basal half with a glossy black median ridge with

two or three tubercles at the sides, anteriorly a well-marked

eroove, the apex on each side with a porrect cylindrical process ;

antenne blackish, the first joint of the funicle scarcely as long as

broad; the club shortly ovate, pointed, and clearly marked off

from, although closely contiguous to, the last joint of the funicle ;

prothorax very transverse, the sides expanded and tuberculate,

the dise clouded with about nine irregular glossy tubercles, a row

of smaller ones at the base; elytra globose, the base lower than

the prothorax at its junction, covered above with irregular rows of

tubercles, several of the smaller more or less granuliform, the

larger more or less semicircular at the top, the cavity behind filled

with minute hairs, the spaces between the tubercles unequally and

more or less deeply pitted, sutural row raised at the base ; abdomen

and some allied genera. 3385

closely embraced by the elytra, the three intermediate segments of

equal length; legs dotted with long white sete; last tarsal joint

nearly as long as the three preceding together.

Liasorus.

Caput latum; rostrum breve; scrobes arcuate. Antenne

breves ; funiculus articulo basali longiusculo, czeteris valde trans-

versis; clava distincta. Prothorax ad latera rotundatus. Elytra

ovata. Tibiz apice intus spinose; tarsi breves, validi. Abdomen

segmentis duobus basalibus conjunctis.

The only exponent of this genus has the facies of

certain Spartecert, but the contiguity of the intermediate

coxe requires it, according to Lacordaire’s arrangement,

to be placed among his ‘‘ Byrsopsides vrais.” The union

of the two basal segments of the abdomen is probably

not a reliable generic character, as it occurs in some

species of Byrsops. There appears to be a small

triangular scutellum hardly to be distinguished from the

elytra.

Inasotus ovis. (Pl. XI., fig. 10).

L. oblongo-ovatus, squamositate grisea omnino dense tectus,

supra foveis determinatis impressus; elytris postice tuberculatis.

Long. 5 lin.

Hab. Natal.

Oblong ovate, everywhere closely covered with a pure grey

squamosity, except a dark spot on each elytron at the base; head

very broad, and having two slight depressions between the eyes;

rostrum as broad as long, a single tubercle at the base, and sparsely

punctured ; antenn with a short robust scape; first joint of the

funicle rather longer than broad, the rest very transverse and of

equal breadth throughout; club ovate, pointed, black; prothorax

slightly transverse, narrowly bilobed at the apex, deeply pitted on

the disc, less so at the sides; elytra shortly ovate, the sides broad

and inflexed, irregularly and closely pitted, the intervals, except at

the base, more or less tuberculate, tubercles in three lines on each

elytron, the outer lines of seven tubercles extending from the

shoulder to the apex, the intermediate line of four and the interior

of three, the larger tubercles conical, each having a minute black

seta arising just below its apex behind; abdomen slightly punc-

tured,

336 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on Byrsops,

OPHRYODOTUS.

Rostrum modice elongatum, basi angustius; scrobes supra

oculos currentes. Antenne graciles; articulus basalis funiculo

quam ceteris simul sumpti paulo longior. Prothorax angustus.

Elytra triangularia postice modice declivia. Pectus excavatum.

Coxe intermedie separate. Abdomen segmento basali ampliato.

Pedes mediocres; tibie recte, intermedie et posteriores apice

extus tri- quadri-spinose.

The scrobe passing above the eye is, so far as | know,

a character unique. ‘The great length comparatively of

the basal joint of the funicle is quite exceptional in this

group, and throughout the family it is rarely met with.

The corbels of the posterior tibie are only slightly

cavernous, while the apex externally is furnished with

four short stiff spines, the intermediate tibie having

only three.

Ophryodotus singularis. (Pl. XL., fig. 2).

O. oblongus, omnino griseo-squamosus; caput supra oculum

utrinque tuberculum magnum obsitum; rostrum in medio sul-

catum; prothorax ad latera tuberculatus, disco lineis duabus alte

elevatis tuberculatis instructo; elytra seriatim tuberculata, tuber-

culi valde inequali; tarsi breviusculi. Long. 3 lin.

Hab. South Africa.

A small spinose species with an unusually narrow prothorax.

Head convex above, a large triangular tubercle above each eye,

the deep hollow between them continuous with the groove on the

rostrum; antenne pale ferruginous, tomentose, the club distinct,

large, ovate; prothorax narrow throughout, prolonged over the

head, lobes moderate ocular, on each side a row of three spines,

and with two strongly raised lines on the dise crowned with

irregular spiniform tubercles, the space between the lines forming

a deep groove having a slightly raised line, punctured on each

side, in the middle ; scutellum punctiform, covered with a white

tomentum; elytra at the base slightly sloping away to the

shoulders, where it is about three times broader than the pro-

thorax, thence gradually narrowing to the apex and terminating in

two conical slightly diverging tubercles, seriate-punctate, the inter-

stices raised, the third and sixth forming two strongly elevated

lines, each crowned with a row of mostly large more or less

conical tubercles, the inner row only continued to the apex; body

beneath with scattered punctures partly concealed by scales;

and some allied genera. 337

femora slightly thickened in the middle; tarsi with a few long

black sete.

PEZERPES.

Rostrum difforme; scrobes laterales, ad partem anteriorem

oculi attingentes; scapus antennarum valde clavatus; funiculus

articulo basali elongato ; clava magna; prothorax oblongus; elytra

prothorace latiora; pectus antice excavatum; abdomen segmentis

duobus basalibus ampliatis, sutura invisa; coxe antic separate ;

femora tibieque incrassate ; tarsi exigui; sutura prima abdominis

invisa.

In technical characters this genus comes very near

Synthocus, although very different in facies, but the

scrobe not passing beneath the eye at once distinguishes

it. The smallness of the tarsi and the stout femora

and tibize are very noticeable. The first and second

abdominal segments show no trace of a suture between

them.

Pezerpes rugosus. (Pl. XI., fig. 3).

P. angustus, oblongus, supra nodosus et tuberculatus, tomento

griseo tectus; caput supra oculos tuberculis duobus validis in-

structum ; prothorax profunde sulcatus; elytra subseriatim tuber-

culata, apice late rotundata. Long. 2 lin.

Hab. South Africa.

A small narrowly oblong species covered with a pale brownish

tomentum, knotted and tuberculate above. Head with two large

elevated tubercles above the eyes; rostrum gibbous, deeply

grooved in the middle; antennz testaceous, basal joint of the

funicle not so long as the rest together; club stout, ovate; pro-

thorax longer than broad, two elevated lines crowned with tubercles

in the middle, with a deep groove between them, a large and a

smaller tubercle on each side; elytra nearly twice as broad as the

prothorax, broadly rounded at the apex, each with four unequal

rows of tubercles, the tubercles mostly cylindrical, the largest

posterior, between them closely punctured; femora and _ tibixe

closely covered with a greyish tomentum ; tarsi ferruginous, naked.

HURYXENA.

Rostrum mediocre. Antenne breves, articulo basali funiculi

erassiore. Prothorax transversus. Elytra brevia, planata, postice

abrupta declivia. Pectus profunde excavatum. Mesosternum

latum, antice truncatum, Pedes mediocres; femora paulo in-

crassata ; tibie intus apice calcarate ; tarsi graciles.

338 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on Byrsops,

This genus is at once differentiated from Synthocus by

its intermediate coxe separated by a broad and truncate

mesosternum, and tibie sharply spurred at the apex.

The genus represented by a remarkable form with very

broad elytra, abruptly declivous posteriorly.

Huryxena bruchoides. (Pl. XI., fig. 1).

E. latissime ovata, grisescens; prothorax cum capite squamo-

sitate griso-fulvya sat dense tectus, hic tuberculato-marginatus ;

elytra latissima, supra planata, singulo linea flexuosa elevata

munito; corpus infra pedesque squamositate grisea tecti. Long.

23 lin.

Hab. Cape.

Head and prothorax covered with a greyish-fulvous squamosity,

but darker and thinner on the elytra; front of the head flattish,

between the eyes two small approximate tubercles; rostrum

longer than the head, transversely gibbous behind the middle;

prothorax short, gradually rounded from the apex to the base, the

dise very irregular and tuberculate, tubercles round the margin

contiguous, each tipped with a black seta, tubercles in the middle

and base fewer; no scutellum; elytra broader than long, flat

above, each with a raised flexuons line, the suture with a finer

raised line not continued to the declivity, the sides and shoulders

tuberculate, at the base and away from the suture a mammilliform

lobe projecting slightly over the prothorax, the declivity with two

rows of small tubercles; basal segment of the abdomen as long as

the three next together.

Spartecerus infaustus. (Pl. XI., fig. 12).

S. oblongo-ovatus, niger, fere esquamosus, supra confertim

rugoso-tuberculatus ; rostro antice elevato, grosse tuberculato, a

capite profundissime separato; elytris ovatis, modice convexis.

Long. 5 lin.

Hab. Transvaal.

Oblong ovate, black, nearly scaleless, above closely covered with

coarse but delicately granulate tubercles; head rounded, but with

a slight depression in front and a short ridge over each eye;

rostrum much broader at the apex, considerably raised above the

head at the base, from which it is marked off by a very deep

fissure ; basal joint of the funicle scarcely stouter than the second;

prothorax moderately transverse, rounded at the sides, tubercles

flattish, more or less coalescing, anteriorly a transverse groove

and some allied genera. 339

between them; scutellum very small; elytra moderately convex,

rounded at the apex, tubercles varying im size, arranged in

irregular rows with unequal depressions between them, the third

row raised on the declivity; body beneath, tibize and tarsi closely

clothed with a rusty seurf; second abdominal segment as long as

the next two together, and separated from the first by a curved

suture.

Compared to the type, S. angulatus, this is an aberrant

form, and will by-and-bye, no doubt, be raised to generic

rank ; another member probably of the ‘‘ Pseudo” or

‘*Para’’ nomenclature.

EXPLANATION OF PuatE XI.

Fic. 1. Huryxena bruchoides; sterna and coxe.

Ophryodotus singularis; side view of the head.

Pezerpes rugosus; side view of the head.

Byrsops vittigera; antenna.

% eximia.

a encausta; fore tarsus and part of tibia.

Fs plumbea.

* terswla.

Dyerocera gravida ; side view of the head.

. Liasotus ovis; front view of the head and rostrum.

. Daulaxius stolatus; side view of the head.

12. Spartecerus infaustus ; side view of the head.

NOR wp

Ke Oo

(eo slaee)

XVI. Contributions to a knowledge of Oriental Rhynchota.

Part. I. Fam. Pentatomide. By W. L. Distanr.

[Read September 7th, 1887. ]

PuatTE XII.

Mr. E. T. Arxrtnson, now of Calcutta, has recently

published a list of all the described species of Indian

Homoptera, and is preparing to extend his labours to

the Heteroptera. He submitted a number of species to

me for determination, several of which I found to be

nondescript, and therefore necessary to be described.

I also recognised in my own collection many undescribed

species from the Oriental Region, which had accumulated

during the last few years, whilst my attention had been

engrossed by another order of insects. It thus becomes

necessary to make these species known, in order that

Mr. Atkinson’s list shall be as complete as possible, the

object of that list being to assist, or rather to promote,

the study of the Rhynchota in India. I am myself a

great believer in the efficacy of such catalogues, and

particularly when they are worked out with the appre-

ciative care of Mr. Atkinson.

All descriptive papers—so naturally condemned by

purely theoretical entomologists, and certainly the dry-

as-dust appearance of such papers is sufficient to disgust

the uninitiated—are, or should be, capable of not only

increasing our knowledge of the multiplicity and

diversity of genera and species, but should also contain

the material which assists the study of geographical

distribution. It may therefore be permissible to analyse

the contents of this paper.

The Plataspine are an obscure and still imperfectly

worked-out group. One species of Coptosoma is here

described from Sikkim, and Mr. Atkinson has submitted

to me another new species which he has either lately or

will almost immediately describe himself. This genus

is not only a somewhat difficult one to study, but the

TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1887.—PaRT III. (SEPT.)

342 Mr. W. L. Distant’s contributions to a

smallness and obscurity of its species have not promoted

its favour with Hemipterists; consequently we may

safely affirm that our knowledge of the Oriental

Coptosome is extremely limited. In the Asopine Sikkim

has also given us a new genus allied to Cazira. In the

Pentatomine there are several interesting points. Doly-

coris verbasct is a well-known and not uncommon Pale-

arctic Pentatomid. Stal separated an allied Indian

species under the name of D. indicus, whilst in this

paper Formosa is shown to have another allied but

distinct specific form. In Scylax we have a new genus,

which, though strictly belonging to the Pentatomine,

has all the superficial characteristics of Phyllocephaline.

Two species of Carbula are added to the Indian fauna,

but we may safely affirm that our enumeration of this

genus is still imperfect. The genus Ageus was hitherto

only represented by two species,—one from Burma, the

other found in Western Tropical Africa; a third from

Assam is now added. The genus Hurydema usually

produces novelties in most Old World collections, though

I was not prepared for another new species in the

Indian fauna. Compastes possessed only one known

Indian species; Sikkim has now contributed two more to

the list. The only other remark necessary is as regards

Basicryptus, a genus of Phyllocephaline. This genus

has its head-quarters in Tropical and Southern Africa ;

one species has been described from Australia, another

from Manilla, and I have here been enabled to make

known a species found in Northern India.

I have unfortunately been compelled to use—in more

than one instance— such misleading habitats as ‘‘ North

India,”’ and such inexact ones as ‘‘N.E. India.” In

these cases the fault is not to be visited on the writer,

who possessed no other information. I hope the Society,

on a future occasion, will allow me to proceed with

some further descriptions of nondescripts in other

families of the Oriental Heteroptera.

PLATASPINA.

Coptosoma fimbriatum, n. 8.

Body above shining black; margin of head (broadly), eyes,

ocelli, antenne, lateral margins of pronotum, abdominal margin

as seen at base of scutellum, head beneath, rostrum, legs, margins

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of sternum and abdomen, and anal segment, reddish ochraceous ;

abdomen beneath shining black, sternum dull opaque black.

Long. 5 mm.; max. lat. 5 mm.

Hab. Sikkim (Cale. Mus. and coll. Dist.).

The head is prominent, rounded in front, and not perceptibly

sinuated in front of eyes; the ocelli are situate wide apart, rather

nearer to the eyes than to each other, and the tibiz are sulcated

above.

ASOPIN AL.

SESHA, N. g.

Head somewhat long and prominent, concavely sinuate at

lateral margins, lobes about equal in length, lateral lobes with

their edges distinctly raised and carinate; ocelli wide apart,

nearer to eyes than to each other. Pronotum with the disk

cibbous, the margins carinate, the anterior angles obtusely spinous,

the lateral angles produced into long slender spines, the anterior

margin concave, the lateral margins between the anterior and

lateral angles broadly sinuate, between the lateral angles and base

also deeply sinuate, the base nearly straight. Scutellum short and

broad, reaching a little beyond the base of membrane, the lateral

angles somewhat acutely sinuate at middle, the apex broadly

rounded. Corium slightly ampliated towards the middle of lateral

margin. Membrane extending considerably beyond apex of abdo-

men. Rostrum reaching the intermediate coxe. A raised and

somewhat triangular plate between the posterior cox. Anterior

femora with a strong spine beneath near apex; anterior tibie

laminately ampliated on each side along apical half, much more

strongly so outwardly.

This genus is allied to Cazira.

Sesha manifesta, n.s. (Pl. XII., fig. 2).

Body above pale stramineous, with the following dark blue

shining spots: two at base of head attached to eyes; five on pro-

notum, two transverse near anterior margin, and three more oblong

across disk; four on scutellum, two basal and two subapical, the

basal much the largest; and two on corium, one at about centre of

lateral margin, and one at apex, which is smallest. Membrane

pale fuscous-hyaline, with some dark bluish spots near base, and

the apex fuscous. Body beneath dark bluish; antenne, rostrum,

legs, prosternum, lateral margin of abdomen (narrowly), and

some irregular lateral spots, a centrai longitudinal macular

344 Mr. W. L. Distant’s contributions to a

abdominal fascia, and terminal segment stramineous. Long.

11 mm. }; exp. pronot. angl. 8 mm.

Hab. Sikkim (Cale. Mus. and coll. Dist.).

Antenne with the second joint a little shorter than the third,

fourth and fifth joints longest and subequal, or fifth a little longer

than the fourth. Pronotum and scutellum coarsely punctate ;

corium somewhat finely punctate.

PENTATOMIN.

Halyomorpha murrea, n.s. (Pl. XII, fig. 5).

Body above very pale greenish ochraceous, the corium (excluding

outer marginal area), and basal area of pronotum with a slight

purplish tinge. Head with the lateral margins, margins of central

lobe, a small linear spot at base, and a similar spot on each side

before the eyes, black. Eyes somewhat purplish; ocelli pale

castaneous ; antennz with the basal joint pale greenish ochraceous

minutely speckled with black, second and third joints purplish,

apical half of third joint black (remaining joints mutilated). Pro-

notum with the lateral margins and a double series of spots on

anterior half ochraceous; between and around these ochraceous

spots are a number of small and somewhat tessellate black spots ;

basal half minutely and sparingly darkly punctate. Scutellum

with four black spots at base, two central and one near each basal

angle; four more obscure and broken black spots across disk,

followed by two similar spots on basal half, some tessellate and

minute black spots at apex, and a series of minute dark punctures

on each lateral margin, from basal third to apex. Corium minutely

and sparingly darkly punctate, costal area greenish, thickly and

irregularly spotted with black, lateral margins near base ochra-

ceous. Connexivum ochraceous, with a black linear spot at base

and apex of each marginal segment. Membrane pale obscure

creamy, minutely and sparingly speckled with black, basal two-

thirds pale purplish from reflection of abdomen beneath. Body

beneath and legs pale greenish, a linear spot in front and behind

eyes, a spot near anterior and intermediate coxe, a spot towards

lateral margins of meso- and metasternum, a spot at base of

anterior tibie, a spot near apex of intermediate and posterior

femora, a marginal spot at base and apex of apical segments, and

the apex of the rostrum, black. Long. 15 mm.;* exp. pronot.

angl. 8 mm.

Hab. Sikkim (Cale. Mus.).

* This measurement extends to apex of projecting membrane.

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The second joint of the antenn is a little shorter than the

third (remainder mutilated) ; the rostrum just passes the posterior

cox, and the membrane extends considerably beyond the apex of

the abdomen.

I have only seen one specimen of this distinct and

beautifully-marked species.

Dolycoris formosana, nN. 8.

Allied to D. indicus, Stal, from which it differs by its larger

size; the connexivum unicolorous, not spotted with black; the

corium purplish brown; apices of the femora spotted with black,

and apices of the posterior tibie of the same colour; the puncta-

tion is also somewhat coarser and deeper. Long. 13 mm.

Hab. Formosa (coll. Dist.).

Scybax, n. g.

Head very large, flat, and long, the lateral lobes very much

longer than the central, slightly concave, obtusely pointed at apex,

and cleft at apex in female, but apparently coalesced in male. Pro-

notum with the lateral angles very strongly produced forwardly into

robust obtuse spines (in the typical species these spines have their

apices parallel to the eyes); anterior margin concave for the

reception of the head, the anterior angles minute and truncate;

posterior margin straight, oblique from basal angles of scutellum

to lateral angles. Scutellum short and broad, not extending much

beyond base of membrane; the lateral margins obliquely directed

inwardly to about middle, and then straight to near apex, which is

broadly rounded. Corium short, not reaching apex of scutellum.

Membrane with prominent reticulated veins. Rostrum long, about

reaching the posterior cox. Antenne inserted beneath the head

in front of eyes, second joint barely reaching apex of head.

I place this genus near Dichelocephala, to which it

has affinities though not resemblance. It has somewhat

the facies of Macrina, in so far as the pronotal angles

are examined, but that it does not belong to the subfam.

Phyllocephaline is proved by the length of the rostrum.

Seylax porrectus, n.s. (Pl. XII., fig. 7).

Body above ochraceous. Head, pronotum, and-scutellum some-

what thickly punctate; pronotum with two short transverse and

one central short longitudinal levigate linear spots; scutellum with

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346 Mr. W. L. Distant’s contributions to a

a central longitudinal levigate fascia, which possesses a central

row of minute punctures, and a few scattered punctures on each

side. Corium with the costal area very sparingly and finely

punctate, the inner area coarsely and somewhat thickly punctate.

Membrane pale brownish ochraceous. Body beneath and legs

ochraceous; the body somewhat finely and darkly punctate, and

with a central and two sublateral fascia formed of blackish

punctures; legs speckled with brownish. Long. 15 mm.

Hab. India (sic) (coll. Dist.).

The lateral lobes of the head are divided to near the apex of the

central lobe, and the membrane extends to about half of the anal

appendage. Antenne with the second joint much shorter than

the third, remainder mutilated. Rostrum reaching the posterior

coxee, its apex pitchy.

I have long possessed this specimen with only the

above imperfect and misleading locality attached, and

therefore hesitated to describe it; the following species,

however, now received from Sikkim, prove its general

habitat, and it was probably derived from some district

of North-Eastern India.

Scylax macrinus, n.s. (Pl. XII, fig. 9).

Closely allied to S. porrectus, but differing by the somewhat

smaller size, the lateral lobes of the head only cleft for a short

distance before the head (coalesced in male), and the membrane

not reaching the apex of the last abdominal segment. Long.

14 to 15 mm.

Hab. Sikkim (Cale. Mus. and coll. Dist.).

Carbula fusca, n. 8.

Above shining fuscous-brown. Head somewhat thickly covered

with bronzy-green punctures; eyes luteous; antenne brown, the

last joimt with the apical two-thirds blackish. Pronotum with the

anterior area and lateral margins punctured with bronzy-green,

remaining area coarsely punctate, lateral angles prominently and

obtusely produced, their apices reddish brown. Scutellum coarsely

punctate, sometimes slightly shaded with bronzy-green. Corium

coarsely punctate. Membrane pale hyaline. Body beneath,

rostrum, and legs brown, the abdomen paler, with a broad central

blackish fascia, on each side of which is a narrower and more

irregular fascia of the same colour, and between these fascie are

scattered dark punctures. Femora punctured or speckled with

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blackish ; head beneath and sternum coarsely and darkly punctate ;

mesosternum with a large irregular luteous spot on each side.

Long. 7 to 8 mm.; exp. pronot. angl. 5 to 6 mm.

Hab. Darjiling, Sikkim, Nepal (coll. Dist. and Cale.

Mus.).

This species is easily recognised by its prominent and obtusely

rounded pronotal angles. The rostrum reaches the third abdominal

segment. Antenne with the second and third joints subequal in

length, and much shorter than the fourth; fourth and fifth sub-

equal in length ; fifth moderately thickened.

Carbula scutellata, n. 8.

Head luteous, covered with coarse black punctures, eyes fuscous,

the ocelli red. Antenne luteous, somewhat infuscated at apex.

Pronotum luteous, coarsely and darkly punctate, the lateral

margins levigate, the lateral angles produced into long acute black

spines. Scutellum luteous, sparingly and coarsely darkly punctate,

a large levigate spot at each basal angle, the apex also broadly

impunctate ; the punctures are usually thickest at lateral margins,

and sometimes at base. Corium luteous with a purplish tinge,

thickly and darkly punctate. Membrane pale hyaline. Con-

nexivum luteous, with black segmental marginal spots. Body

beneath and legs luteous, with a few scattered black punctures on

disk and on femora, and the margins and apices of the pronotal

angles black. Long. 8 mm.; exp. pronot. angl. 5} mm.

Hab. Bombay (Leith); N. Khasia (Chennell) ; ——

(coll. Dist.):

The fourth and fifth joints of the antenne are subequal in

length, and the rostrum just passes the posterior coxe.

Ageus mimus, n.s. (Pl. XIL., fig. 1).

Head fuscous, the central lobe, excluding’ apex and lateral

margins, ochraceous; eyes greyish; antenne black, apices of the

joints minutely greyish. Pronotum reddish ochraceous, with

thirteen fuscous spots arranged six at base, of which two almost

occupy the lateral angles and the intervening four are more or less

triangular; five discal, of which the central one is longest and

intervenes between the two central basal spots, and also between

two large spots placed near anterior margin. Scutellum fuscous,

with a central longitudinal ochraceous line, and a similar line

extending from each basal angle and meeting central line on disk.

Corium reddish ochraceous, with fuscous punctures and some

348 Mr. W. L. Distant’s contributions to a

irregularly-shaped spots of the same colour. of which the most

prominent are a claval streak, three discal (the lowermost largest),

one large and long costal spot at about centre, and three subapical

spots (the central largest). Membrane bronzy-brown. Abdomen

above reddish. Head beneath ochraceous, margins of rostral canal,

margins of antennal bases, and a fascia from the same to base of

head, fuscous. Prosternum fuscous, anterior and posterior margins

and a transverse discal line ochraceous; lateral margins and a

spot near coxe reddish. Meso- and metasternums fuscous, their

margins and the odoriferous apertures ochraceous, and with red-

dish spots near bases of coxe. Abdomen beneath reddish ochra-

ceous, ornamented with a number of large dark fuscous spots.

Legs fuscous, the femora streaked with ochraceous. Rostrum

black. Long. 23 mm.; exp. pronot. angl. 10 mm.

Hab. Assam (Calc. Mus.).

The second joint of the antenne is shorter than the third, the

third and fourth subequal in length (fifth joint mutilated). The

head is rather thickly and finely punctate, excepting the lateral

margins, which are levigate. Pronotum more coarsely and

sparingly punctate, the lateral margins levigate and finely crenu-

late anteriorly, the lateral angles obtusely pointed and slightly

produced. Scutellum coarsely and rather closely punctate. Corium

finely and sparingly punctate. Rostrum dislocated in specimen

described, but apparently reaching the third abdominal segment.

Abdomen with a central longitudinal sulcation.

This species is allied to A. tessellatus, Dall., and now

makes a second described Indian species. It can be at

once separated from Dallas’s species by the different

markings, different colour of the legs, rostrum, &c.

Eurydema multipunctata, n.s. (Pl. XIL., fig. 6).

Body above pale ochraceous, sometimes suffused with purplish

above. Head with the margins of the central lobe (angulated

externally about centre) and the base black. Antenne ochraceous,

the apex of the third, and the fourth and fifth joints palely infus-

cated. Pronotum with twelve black spots, arranged four on the

anterior margin, remainder on disk, three in each angular area,

and two at centre. Scutellum with ten black spots, situate four at

base, four near centre, and two before apex. Corium with three

black spots arranged somewhat longitudinally. Membrane

blackish, pale hyaline at apex and margins. Body beneath pale

ochraceous; head with two black spots at base, sternum with a

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double submarginal series of black spots, a transverse black spot

on each side of metasternum, anda double series of black marginal

spots to abdomen. Rostrum ochraceous, with the apex pitchy.

Long. 8 to 9 mm.

Hab. ? (Cale. Mus. and coll. Dist.).

The fourth joint of the antenne is longest, and the rostrum

reaches the posterior cox.

The variation in colour and size of this species is

very marked. Some specimens are almost purplish

above, and others nearly pale uniform stramineous.

The numerous black spots, however, appear to be quite

constant both in position and number. Unfortunately

no exact locality is affixed to the specimens.

Alcimus flavicornis, n. 8.

Head black, with the following yellow markings: three central

lines on anterior half, a linear spot near base, and a similar spot in

front of each eye. Antenne fuscous-brown. Pronotum very dark

obscure ochraceous, thickly covered with coarse dark punctures;

anterior fourth black with five yellow spots, situate one on each

lateral margin, and three central angulated spots, two near anterior

margin and one between and behind them, apical angles widely

produced laterally and upwardly, their apical thirds yellow,

extreme apices black. Scutellum and corium dark obscure

ochraceous, darkly and coarsely punctate, irrorated with levigate

yellow markings, and the seutellum with two large yellow levigate

spots near basal angles. Membrane fuscous, its apex paler. Head

and prosternum beneath as above, with two fused yellow spots on

each side of eyes, the apices of the pronotal angles yellow as

above. Meso- and metasternums and abdomen beneath ochra-

ceous; the sutures, a series of sublateral streaks, and a central

longitudinal fascia to abdomen, blackish. Rostrum and legs dark

castaneous, femora more or less streaked with yellowish. Long.

8 to9 mm.; exp. pronot. angl. 10 to 12 mm.

Hab. Sikkim (Cale. Mus. and coll. Dist.).

Antenne with the second and third joints longest and subequal

in length, fourth shorter than third and longer than fifth. Rostrum

just passing the posterior coxe.

Hoplistodera incisa, n.s. (PI. XII., fig. 3).

Ochraceous with brownish tints. Head finely and sparingly

punctate. Antenne ochraceous, becoming darker towards apex.

Pronotum sparingly but coarsely punctate, the lateral angles

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produced into robust subacute spines, the apices very slightly

reflexed backwardly, and with a notched tubercle beneath at about

half their length. Scutellum with the basal half very sparingly

but coarsely punctate, the apical half thickly punctate. Corium

coarsely and irregularly punctate. Membrane pale hyaline. Body

beneath ochraceous, with a sublateral series of castaneous spots on

each side; legs pale luteous, the femora annulated with brown

near apex. Rostrum ochraceous, the apex pitchy and extending a

little beyond posterior coxe. Antenne with the second and third

joints subequal in length, apical joint longest. Long. 8 mm. 3

exp. pronot. angl. 9 mm.

Hab. Mungphu, Sikkim, Assam (Cale. Mus. and

coll. Dist.).

This species is allied to the Javan TF. testacea, Hope.

Antestia modificata, n.s. (Pl. XIL., fig. 4).

Ochraceous, spotted with bluish black. Head luteous, the mar-

eins of the central lobe, margins of the lateral lobes in front of

eyes, and two spots at base, bluish black. Eyes brownish.

Antenne bluish black. Pronotum with eight bluish black spots,

six largest arranged in double series on disk, and a small rounded

spot in each lateral angle. Scutellum with six bluish black spots,

four largest arranged in double series on disk, and a smaller

elongate spot in each basal angle. Corium with four bluish black

spots, situate one at base, one at apex, and two central. Membrane

pale hyaline, with a large bluish black subquadrate spot at base.

Body beneath pale luteous, sternum spotted with bluish black, and

abdomen with sutural fasciz and lateral spots of the same colour.

Legs luteous, femora with a blackish spot near their apices. Long.

7mm.

Hab. Sikkim (Cale. Mus. and coll. Dist.).

Antenne with the second joint shorter than the third, fourth

and fifth joints longest. The body above is very sparingly

punctate.

Abeona? serrata, n. 8.

Above ochraceous, thickly, darkly, and coarsely punctate; con-

nexivum reddish ochraceous, with black linear spots near bases

and apices of segmental sutures. Antenne four-jointed, first and

second joints dark ochraceous; third and fourth joints luteous,

with their apical halves blackish ; second joint very long, as long

as third and fourth put together, third and fourth subequal in

leneth. Head with the lateral lobes much longer than central

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lobe, but notched in front. Pronotum with the lateral margins

serrated, the lateral angles moderately and broadly produced and

obtusely bispined. Scutellum with a small blackish foveate spot

in each basal angle. Membrane brownish ochraceous. Body

beneath with the head, legs, rostrum, and sternum ochraceous, the

abdomen brownish ochraceous. Head with a black linear spot on

each side of base of antenne. Prosternum with some scattered

black punctures. The rostrum just passes the intermediate coxe,

and the tibie are suleated above. The abdomen is obtusely

suleated to about the fourth abdominal segment. Long. 14 mm.;

exp. pronot. angl. 9 mm.

Hab. Bombay (coll. Dist.).

I have placed this species in the genus Abeona, with

whose structural characters it seems to agree. In the

typical species Stal describes ‘‘antenne maxima parte

et rostrum mutila,” so that, if I am right, the other

distinguishing characters of Abeona are four-jointed

antenne and rostrum reaching the intermediate coxex.

Compastes truncatus, n.s. (Pl. XII., fig. 10).

Brownish ochraceous, covered with coarse and darker punctures ;

connexivum luteous, with blackish spots at bases and apices of

sutures. Membrane brownish, the venation darker. Antenne

with the first, second, and third joints brownish, minutely darker

at apices (remainder mutilated); second joint longer than third.

Pronotum with the lateral margins obtusely crenulate, the lateral

angles produced into broad and apically truncated spines. Body

beneath and legs ochraceous, punctured with brownish. Rostrum

ochraceous, its apex pitchy and reaching the second abdominal

segment. Ventral spine reaching the intermediate cox. Long.

16 mm.; exp. pronot. angl. 10 mm.

Hab. Sikkim (Cale. Mus. and coll. Dist.).

The truncated apices of the pronotal angles will alone

render this species easily distinguishable.

Compastes spinosus, n.s. (Pl. XII., fig. 11).

Above brownish, coarsely and darkly punctate. Pronotum

rugulose, with a central longitudinal luteous line, the lateral

margins with three prominent spines, the lateral angles broadly

produced and somewhat obtusely spined posteriorly. Membrane

pale fuscous. Body beneath brownish and darkly punctate; legs

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ochraceous, mottled and spotted with brownish; sublateral mar-

gins of the sternum bronzy. Rostrum ochraceous, with its apex

pitchy and passing the posterior coxe. Antenne mutilated. Long.

17 mm.; exp. pronot. angl. 8 mm.

Hab. Sikkim (coll. Dist.).

Placosternum cervus, n. 8.

Allied to P. taurus by the lateral angles of the pronotum being

profoundly bisinuated at their apices, but smaller than that

species, and having the lateral angles very much more developed,

they being broadly and strongly produced upwardly and forwardly,

and deeply notched at each edge of the apex. The lateral angles

of the pronotum are not simply crenulate, but shortly spinous.

Long. 19 mm. ; exp. pronot. angl. 17 mm.

Hab. Assam; Sadia, 350 ft. (Chennell)—coll. Dist.

ACANTHOSOMIN AL.

Sastragala rufispina, n. 8.

Body above dark ochraceous, pronotal angles purplish red. Head

finely and transversely wrinkled, apical portion of the central lobe

excavated and foveate (antennze mutilated). Pronotum, scutellum,

and corium somewhat sparingly and coarsely punctate. Pronotum

with the lateral angles produced into obtusely pointed spines.

Membrane pale hyaline, blackish at base. Body beneath very

pale ochraceous, legs a little darker in hue; rostrum with the apex

pitchy and reaching the second abdominal segment, last abdominal

segment with two small black spots at apex. Pronotal spines red

beneath as above. Long. 17 mm.; exp. pronot. angl. 11 mm.

Hab. North India (sic). Col. Buckley (coll. Dist.).

; Sastragala mustelina, n. s.

Body above ochraceous, membrane pale brownish, connexivum

with the segmental spines black. Antenne ochraceous, apical half

of the third joint infuscated; third joint much longer than second

(remainder mutilated) ; head somewhat obscurely transversely

wrinkled, eyes pitchy. Pronotum, scutellum, and corium coarsely

punctate. Pronotum with the lateral angles produced into long,

straight, somewhat conical, and subacutely pointed spines. Body

beneath, rostrum, and legs coloured as above. Rostrum with the

extreme apex pitchy. Long. 15 mm.; exp. pronot. angl. 11 mm.

Hab. Naga Hills (Capt. Butler)—coll. Dist.

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Sastragala binotata, n.s. (Pl. XIL., fig. 12).

Apex above brownish ochraceous, corium with the lateral mar-

gins—widened into a spot at centre—dull ochraceous, inwardly

shaded with blackish. Membrane bronzy. Head transversely

wrinkled; antennz ochraceous, third joint much longer than the

second (remainder mutilated). Pronotum and scutellum sparingly

and coarsely punctate, the corium more thickly punctate. Pro-

notum with the lateral angles produced into long, somewhat

conical spines, their apices subacute and very slightly reflexed

backwardly. Body beneath and legs ochraceous, rostrum with the

apex pitchy. Long. 13 mm.; exp. pronot. angl. 10 mm.

Hab. Sikkim (coll. Dist.).

Sastragala parmata, 0.8.

Body above brownish ochraceous; pronotal spines reddish

brown ; scutellum with a large cordate ochraceous spot surrounded

with blackish. Antenne ochraceous, third and fourth joints some-

what darker, second and third joints subequal in length, a little

shorter than fourth (remainder mutilated); eyes purplish brown.

Pronotum sparingly and coarsely punctate, the lateral angles

produced into long thick rounded spines, very slightly reflexed at

apices. Scutellum with the central spot levigate, remainder

coarsely punctate, the apex ochraceous. Corium coarsely punctate,

with the lateral margin luteous and levigate. Body beneath and

legs ochraceous; rostrum with the apex pitchy. Long. 12 mm. ;

exp. pronot. angl. 9 mm.

Hab. North India (sic), (coll. Dist.).

Sastragala javanensis, n. 8.

Body above pale brownish ; head, lateral and anterior margins

and a transverse fascia across anterior disk of pronotum, and the

lateral margins of the corium, luteous; eyes and pronotal spines

black ; scutellum black, with a large rounded discal ochraceous

spot. Antenne ochraceous, second joint shortest, third and fourth

joints longest and subequal in length. Pronotum with the posterior

disk coarsely punctate, the anterior portion impunctate, excepting

a row of punctures on anterior margin, the lateral angles produced

into long acutely pointed spines, very slightly reflexed at apices.

Scutellum coarsely punctate, excepting the central Iuteous spot,

which is levigate. Corium thickly and coarsely punctate, excluding

lateral margins, which are levigate. Membrane pale ochraceous

354 Mr. W. L. Distant’s contributions to a

and subhyaline; abdominal appendages black. Body beneath and

legs luteous, abdominal spines luteous beneath, apical angles of

last abdominal segment black. Long. 12mm.; exp. pronot. angl.

10 mm.

Hab. Java; Kederi (Baron von Huegel)—coll. Dist.

Anaxandra fulvicornis, n. 8.

Body ochraceous, with an olivaceous tinge; anterior lateral

margins of head, a central narrow longitudinal fascia commencing

before apex of head and terminating on disk of pronotum, and the

lateral margins of the scutellum—joined together before apex—

black. Antenne with the basal joint ochraceous (remainder muti-

lated). Pronotum with the posterior disk coarsely punctate, the

lateral angles produced into long, slightly ascending, and forwardly

directed dull luteous spines, their apices very slightly reflexed and

subacute. Scutellum with the basal two-thirds luteous, posteriorly

rounded and margined with black. Corium coarsely punctate and

rugulose. Membrane bronzy. Body beneath and legs ochraceous ;

mesonotum with an oblique black line on each side. Long.

15 mm.; exp. pronot. angl. 14 mm.

Hab. Sikkim (coll. Dist.).

This species by its colour markings is very closely

allied to A. nigro-lineata, Stal, but differs by the much

less expanse of the pronotal angles, which in §Stal’s

species are described as measuring 183 mm.

Anaxandra tauriformis, 0. 8.

Body above bright castaneous; lateral margins of the head,

anterior and lateral margins and posterior disk of the pronotum,

lateral margins of the scutellum, lateral margins of the corium,

and the membrane, ochraceous. Antennz with the first and second

joints ochraceous (remainder mutilated). The head is transversely

wrinkled and possesses a few dark punctures; the eyes are greyish

brown, inwardly margined with ochraceous. The pronotum is

sparingly and coarsely punctate on disk, and thickly punctate on

anterior margin. The pronotal angles are produced into long

upwardly and forwardly directed spines, the apices of which are dis-

tinctly truncately reflexed backwardly ; these spines are sparingly

punctate for about half their length. Scutellum sparingly and

coarsely punctate. Corium thickly punctate. Abdominal spines

castaneous. Body beneath and legs ochraceous; abdominal

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spines castancous as above, but inwardly margined with blackish.

Long. 15 mm.; exp. pronot. angl. 14; mm.

Hab. Khasia Hills (coll. Dist.).

Anaxandra compacta, 0.8.

Body above ochraceous, with an olivaceous tinge; head with the

basal margin, a spot behind each eye, and the margins of the

central lobe—not reaching apex,—two circular enclosing lines near

anterior margin of pronotum, and a large central rounded spot

near base of scutellum, black; pronotal angles castaneous. The

pronotum and scutellum are very obsoletely and obscurely punc-

tate, the corium finely but distinctly punctate. The pronotal

angles are produced into short but robust spines, their apices

rounded above and subtruncate. Body beneath ochraceous, much

tessellated with black, pronotal spines castaneous as above. Long.

10 mm. ; exp. pronot. angl. 10 mm.

Hab. Assam; Sadia, 350 ft. (Chennell )—coll. Dist.

Clinocoris scutellata, n. 8.

Body above ochraceous, thickly and coarsely punctate; pronotal

spines rosy red; scutellum with a blackish central longitudinal

fascia extending from about base to centre. Antenne ochraceous.

Pronotum with the lateral angles straightly produced into sub-

acute spines, the apices of which are slightly reflexed backwardly,

and the posterior margins somewhat sinuated. Membrane pale

hyaline, with reflections of the red upper surface of the abdomen.

Body beneath and legs ochraceous; sternum coarsely punctate.

Long. 8 mm.; exp. pronot. angl. 6 mm.

Hab. Assam; Naga Hills, 2000 to 6000 ft. (Chennell)

—coll. Dist.

Clinocoris maculata, n. s.

Body above dark ochraceous; pronotum and scutellum coarsely

but sparingly punctate, corium thickly punctate, pronotal spines

black, corium with a levigate ochraceous spot on disk of apical

area. The punctures are all dark brownish, and the corium is

thus much darker than the pronotum or scutellum. The pronotal

lateral angles are produced into stout spines, the apices of which

are subacute and prominently reflexed, and their posterior margins

sinuated. Membrane very pale ochraceous, pitchy towards apex.

Body beneath apparently ochraceous, but imperfectly seen owing

to specimen being carded. long. 8 mm.; exp. pronot, angl.

6 mm.

Hab. North-east India (coll. Dist.),

856 Mr. W. L. Distant’s contributions to a

UROLABIDIN#.

Urochela pulchra, n.s. (Pl. XIL., fig. 8).

Body above ochraceous, shaded and punctured with brownish.

Head and pronotum brownish, margins of pronotum olivaceous ;

antenne brownish, second joint longer than the first (remainder

mutilated); scutellum olivaceous, with scattered coarse brown

punctures, with some mottled markings and a spot in each basal

angle of the same colour. Corium olivaceous, with large irregular

coarse brown punctures on inner area, the clavus brownish.

Membrane brownish, the apex paler. Body beneath brownish,

laterally spotted with ochraceous ; connexivum ochraceous spotted

with black; legs ochraceous, femora speckled with brownish ;

rostrum with the apex pitchy. Long. 15 mm. .

Hab. Sikkim (coll. Dist.).

Urochela ferruginea, n. 8.

Body above brownish ochraceous, very thickly and darkly pune-

tate. Head with the eyes fuscous, and two central lines of the

same colour; antenne fuscous, first and second joints subequal in

length, third very short (remainder mutilated). Pronotum with

a central longitudinal line and the margins narrowly luteous.

Seutellum with a central longitudinal line, a linear spot at basal

angles, the apex, and the margins narrowly luteous. Corium with

the margins narrowly, and some longitudinal discal lines luteous.

Membrane fuscous. Connexivum fuscous, with lineate ochraceous

spots. Body beneath brownish ochraceous, tinged with fuscous,

and with fuscous lateral spots, connexivum as above; legs

brownish ochraceous, apices of the tibie and tarsi fuscous. Long.

12 mm.

Hab. Assam (coll. Dist.).

Urolabida Chennelli, n.s.

Body above reddish ochraceous, marked with black and luteous.

Head with the central and anterior portions luteous, the eyes

fuscous; antenne with the first joint reddish ochraceous (remainder

mutilated). Pronotum with a blackish discal semicircular line,

between which and base the colour is paler and thickly punctured

with fuscous ; on the anterior disk are two levigate luteous spots.

Seutellum Iuteous with three black basal spots, one central and

one at each angle, a large rounded reddish ochraceous spot divided

by a central longitudinal luteous line, and the apical area thickly

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punctured with fuscous. Corium with the inner claval and the

apical margins black, these black lines outwardly and broadly

margined with luteous, the costal margin of the same colour.

Membrane pale hyaline. Body beneath and legs luteous, apices

of the femora beneath, and apices of the tarsi and rostrum,

blackish. Long. 15 mm.

Hab. Assam; Naga Hills, 2000 to 6000 ft. (Chennell)

—coll. Dist.

Urolabida khasiana, n. 8.

Above luteous with reddish ochraceous markings, a small black

spot at each lateral pronotal angle, and two black spots on apical

margin of corium. Head with some reddish ochraceous markings

behind the eyes, which are blackish; antennz with the first and

second joints ochraceous (remainder mutilated). Pronotum with

the anterior and lateral margins and two transverse fascis on

disk reddish ochraceous. Scutellum with the lateral margins

reddish ochraceous. Corium reddish ochraceous, the lateral,

claval, and apical margins luteous, the last with two prominent

black spots. Membrane pale hyaline. Body beneath and legs

luteous; apex of rostrum, a spot on apices of femora beneath, and

the apices of the tarsi black. Long. 14 mm.

Hab. Assam; North Khasia, 1500 to 8000 ft. (Chen-

nell)—coll. Dist.

TESSARATOMIN Z.

Eusthenes antennatus, n. 8.

Head, pronotum, and corium purplish brown ; legs ochraceous ;

scutellum very dark olivaceous, with the apex castaneous; mem-

brane shining brassy brown. Antenne with the basal and apical

joints ochraceous, the last with the apex blackish, second and third

joints blackish, the base of the second joint very narrowly

ochraceous. Body beneath brownish ochraceous, or in some

specimens castaneous; legs castaneous, the tarsi very slightly

paler. Antenne with the apical joint somewhat longest, the

second joint very slightly longer than the third; the pronotum is

finely transversely striate, the scutellum more coarsely so, the

corium thickly and finely punctate ; posterior femora armed with

a long spine, and with a double row of short spines on apical half

of under surface, of which the two last are the longest. Long.

35 to 86 mm.; exp. pronot. angl. 12 mm.

Hab. Khasia Hills, Nepal, Assam (coll. Dist.).

The elongate form of the body and colour of the

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antenne are sufficient to readily distinguish this from

the other species of the genus. It is of a variable

nature, as the connexivum is generally purplish brown,

with an ochraceous spot at base of segments, but these

spots are sometimes scarcely visible. In one specimen

now before me the right-hand third joint of the antenne

is normal, whilst the left-hand corresponding joint has

the apex broadly ochraceous.

Eusthenes eurytus, n. 8.

Allied to H. hercules, Stal, but smaller, the pronotum much less

rounded at anterior-lateral margins, and the lateral angles even

less produced than in that species. Antenne wholly black, the

apical joint very narrowly ochraceous at its apex. Tarsi bright

ochraceous. Long. 86 mm.; exp. pronot. angl. 16mm.

Hab. India (sic).

I have no better locality for this species than the

vague one of ‘‘ India.” It has been in my collection

for some years, and, not having received another, | take

this opportunity of describing it.

PHYLLOCEPHALIN A.

Basicryptus illwminatus, n. s.

Body above dull dark reddish; pronotum with a broad discal

transverse luteous fascia margined with black, attenuated at each

each end, and slightly notched beneath at centre. Head with the

eyes dull ochraceous; antenne with the first, second, and third

joints reddish (remainder mutilated). Pronotum with the lateral

margins somewhat finely crenulated, the lateral angles broadly

and subacutely produced. Scutellum with a small luteous spot in

each basal angle, and a few very small luteous spots at apex, and

with some central and lateral black punctures. Corium with the

base of lateral margin narrowly luteous, and with some very small

and irregular scattered black spots. Membrane pale hyaline,

somewhat thickly ornamented with small fuscous spots. Body

beneath and legs dull reddish, with blackish punctures; disk of

sternum and some sublateral streaks to abdomen obscure luteous ;

tarsi somewhat ochraceous beneath. Long. 14 mm.; exp. pronot.

angel. 10 mm.

Hab. North India (sic), (coll. Dist.).

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Gonopsis rubescens, N. 8.

Body above sanguineous. Head somewhat obscurely punctate,

antenne reddish, third joint shorter than second or fourth, fifth

joint longest and pilose. Pronotum with the lateral margins finely

crenulated, the lateral angles produced into short subacute spines ;

between these spines is a transverse ridge, before which the surface

is obliquely deflected towards the head; the pronotum is also

transversely rugulose, excepting two levigate spots on anterior

area. Scutellum longitudinally rugose, with a row of black

punctures on basal half of lateral margins. Corium obscurely

punctate and finely rugulose, with a few black punctures near

inner apical angle. Membrane pale hyaline. Body beneath and

legs pale reddish; the body is very finely and darkly punctate,

and the tibiz have a fuscous spot on under side of apices. Long.

14 mm.; exp. pronot. angl. 7 mim.

Hab. Sikkim (coll. Dist.).

EXPLANATION OF Puate XII.

Fig. 1. Ageus mimus. Fic. 7. Scylax porrectus.

2. Sesha manifesta. 8. Urochela pulchra.

3. Hoplistodera incisa. 9. Scylax macrinus.

4. Antestia modificata. 10. Compastes truncatus.

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XVII. Further additions to the Rey. T. A. Marshall’s

Catalogue of British Ichneumonide. By Joun B.

Bripeman, F.L.S.

| Read September 7th, 1887.!

Tue additions to the Rey. T. A. Marshall’s list of British

Ichneumonide appear interminable; new species and

species new to Britain are constantly occurring. Since

my last paper Mr. G. C. Champion very kindly sent me

a box of well-set ichneumons, most of which came from

Aviemore, and contained several species new to our

list. Professor C. G. Thomson has kindly examined my

species of Hxochus, and the species of Ichneumon lucta-

torius group, among which were several of his new

species. I am also indebted to many other entomolo-

gists for insects sent to me.

Ichneumon rufidorsatus, n. 8.

Mesothorace supra, scutello, abdominis basi, pedibusque rufis,

coxis nigris; annulo antennarum rufo.

Head rather remotely punctate; punctures not deeply im-

pressed; antenne rather stout, slightly thickened between the

middle and the apex, the latter attenuate, scarcely more than half

the length of the body; 1st joint of flagellum almost twice as long

as wide, 4th quadrate; head behind the eyes not narrow. Thorax

scarcely narrower than the head; mesonotum somewhat shining,

punctate, punctures not very close; scutellum shining, with

scattered punctures; metathorax subopaque, very finely rugose,

with three superior are; supero-medial area quadrate; cost

fine; spiracles almost linear. Abdomen scarcely wider than the

head and thorax, elongate-ovate; Ynd, 8rd, and 4th segments

almost the same width, transverse; the Ist segment almost

smooth and shining, obsoletely reticulate, with a few scattered

punctures at the apex; remaining segments closely and finely

punctate; the gastroceli transverse, not deeply impressed, the

space between them a little narrower than the middle area of the

post-petiole ; aculeus distinctly projecting beyond the 7th segment.

TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1887.—PaRT IV. (DEC.) 20¢

362 Mr. Bridgman’s additions to T. A. Marshall's

Areolet of wings open above, recurrent nervure received just

beyond the middle; legs moderate.

Head black, mouth piceous, scape of antenne black; 1st to 8th

joints of flagellum fuscous; 9th to 11th reddish ; the remainder

black. Thorax black; collar above, mesonotum and scutellum

red; tubercles and squamule reddish or piceous; Ist to 3rd

segments of the abdomen red; 4th and Sth black; 6th and 7th

reddish or fulvous. Legsred; cox black, front ones red beneath ;

trochanters black at the base; apical joint of tarsi fuscous. Stigma

pale testaceous. Female. Length, 7 mm.

One female taken by Mr. G. C. Champion at Avie-

more.

This appears to be undescribed ; it comes very near

to I. picticollis, Holm., but has differently-coloured legs.

Herpestomus distinctus, 0. s.

Segmentis 2—3 pedibusque rufis, femoribus et tibiis posticis

apice fuscis.

Head subopaque, not punctate, transverse, scarcely narrowed

behind the eyes; clypeus distinctly separated from the face, apex

widely rotundate ; face transverse, rather prominent in the middle;

antenne scarcely half the length of the body, stout, somewhat

clavate; 1st and 2nd joints of flagellum scarcely longer than wide,

3rd quadrate, remainder transverse. Mesonotum distinetly tri-

lobed, with somewhat scattered punctures; scutellum flat, with

scattered punctures; metathorax about as long as wide, obsoletely

rugose; supero-medial area elongate, about one-third longer than

wide, sides parallel, rounded in front, lateral arew subdivided;

postero-medial area very slightly depressed in the middle. Abdo-

men subopaque, obsoletely reticulate, covered with rather scattered

short pubescence; aculeus just exserted; 1st segment somewhat

irregularly and rather coarsely aciculate, apex shining; base of

2nd segment with a very shallow transverse impression, interrupted

in the middle. Legs rather stout. Wings with the outer nervure

of the areolet subobsolete; radial cell short, almost as broad

as lone.

Black, scape and two first joints of flagellum reddish; 8th and

9th joints show indications of pale marks; extreme apex of Ist

and 4th segments of the abdomen reddish; 2nd and 3rd entirely

red. Legs red; apical half of hind femora, apex and extreme

base of hind tibiz, and apical joint of hind tarsi, fuscous. Tegule

piceous, stigma and nervures pale fuscous. Female, Length

5 mm,

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One female was taken by Mr. G. C. Champion at

Caterham.

This very distinct species is easily known from the

two other species having the 1st segment aciculate ;

flaviger has the orbits, thorax, and scutellum yellow-

marked; striatus has the antenne longer, two-thirds the

length of the body.

Pheogenes versutus, Wesm.

Wesm., Tent., 1844, 186, °.

Mr. G. C. Champion has taken a female Pheogenes at

Mickleham, which I believe to be this species.

Hemiteles albomarginatus, n. s.

Niger; pedibus rufis basi nigris; segmentis 5—7 abdominis

albomarginatis; aculeo dimidio abdominis longiore.

Shining; head wider than the thorax, transverse, very narrow

behind the eyes towards the neck, almost free from punctures,

slightly pubescent; antenne about as long as the body, thin,

almost filiform, rather thinner at the base than in the middle,

apex slightly attenuated; 2nd and 3rd joints of the flagellum of

equal length, nearly four times as long as wide. Thorax a little

longer than high; mesonotum distinctly trilobed with somewhat

scattered punctures, more sparingly punctured on the lateral lobes;

scutellum gibbose, with scattered punctures ; metathorax with five

distinct arew ; cost very prominent, rather coarsely rugose ;

supero-medial area about as long as wide, pentagonal. Abdomen

elongate-ovate; apex of 2nd segment the widest (this is almost

wider than the thorax); apex of Ist segment broad, about one-

fourth longer than the width of the apex; spiracles not projecting,

rugosely punctate, apex smooth; remaining segments transverse ;

2nd and 38rd with asomewhat distinct transverse central depression,

2nd between the base and the depression rugosely punctate, 3rd

shows indistinctly the same sculpture in the centre ; aculeus about

two-thirds the length of the abdomen. Wings with an imperfect

pentagonal areolet, nervelet distinct, radial cell rather short; 38rd

division of the costa one-third longer than the inner division of

the radial nervure; transverse anal nervure slightly ante-furcal,

divided one-third from bottom. Legs slender.

Black; incision of the 2nd segment of the abdomen faintly

reddish; 5th to 7th with a distinct white apical margin. Legs

red; cox, base of trochanters, and base of femora behind, more

364 My. Bridgman’s additions to T’. A. Marshall's

or less black, hinder ones the most so; apical joints of the tarsi

fuscous. Tegule and base of wings white; stigma fuscous, base

pale; wings slightly fuscous. Female. Length nearly 5 mm.

One female taken by Mr. G. C. Champion at Box

Hill.

Aptesis hemiptera, Gr., 3.

Mr. J. J. Walker has fortunately bred both sexes of

A. hemiptera from Catoptria microgramma, and I am

indebted to Mr. G. C. Bignell for a pair of them.

C. G. Thomson, in Opuscula Ent., 998, 70, described an

insect as the male of A. hemiptera, but it is evidently

not the true male. He says the stigma at the base is

not broadly white; in Mr. Walker’s male the base is

white, as inthe female, and legs are differently coloured.

It is like no male that I have seen any description of.

Head and thorax smooth and shining, with a few punctures

very minute, and almost obsolete; head transverse, sides behind

the eyes slightly sloping; antenne filiform, about three-fourths

the length of the body. Thorax short, about as long as high, as

wide as the head, distinctly trilobed in front ; metathorax short ;

supero-medial area subquadrate, smooth and shining; lateral are

divided (these and posterior face, which is rather concave and

subdivided by two perpendicular lines, rather finely rugose) ;

posterior transverse costa terminating laterally in a short spine.

Abdomen subovate, almost as wide as the thorax, rather longer

than the head and thorax, apex of 3rd and base of 4th segments

the widest part; post-petiole quadrate, twice as wide and one-third

shorter than the petiole; spiracles not prominent; Ist and 2nd

segments distinctly aciculate, 8rd obsoletely so in the middle ;

abdomen covered with rather scattered pubescence; 2nd and

remaining segments transverse. Legs rather slender; calcarix of

hind tibizw almost half as long as 1st tarsal joint. Wings with an

imperfect pentagonal areolet; radial cell short and wide; posterior

inferior angle of discoidal cell acute; transverse discoidal nervure

divided below the middle, transverse anal subopposite, divided

below the middle.

Black ; 2nd and greater part of 3rd segments castaneous ; front

and middle legs pale chestnut; cox, base of trochanters, tarsi,

and extreme apex of middle tibiw, black; hind legs black ; apex

of trochanters, base of femora, and middle of tibiw, red. Tegule

piceous ; stigma black, base white; wings smoky, with a sub-

obsolete white blotch against the stigma, as in the female, but less

distinct. Length, 5 mm,

Catalogue of British Ichneumonide. 36

Pezomachus sylvicola, Ist.

Fst., Mon. Gatt. Pez., 102, 27, 2.

Mr. G. C. Champion has taken a female Pezomachus,

which I believe to be this species. It differs only in one

respect from Férster’s description: he says, ‘* aculeus

scarcely as long as the 1st segment.” Mr. Champion’s

insect has the aculeus about one-third the length of the

Ist segment. I believe the aculeus varies in length in

some species; in P. Neesii it varies very much. This

insect looks a great deal like a very smooth and shining

specimen of P. zonatus.

A single female was taken at Caterham.

Pezomachus Neesit, Fst., ? var.

I have seen amongst Pezomachi collected by Mr.

Billups and Mr. Champion what I considered a small

variety of P. Neesti, Fst., but on closer examination I

find the differences constant; the aculeus projects

rather more than is usual in Neesii, the 1st segment

only of the abdomen is red, the remainder purplish

brown with the incisions faintly reddish, the base of the

antenne generally darker, and flagellum with eighteen

joints; whilst the genuine P. Neesii, with the partially

red 2nd segment of the abdomen, always, as far as my

observation goes, has twenty joints in the flagellum. 1

am inclined to think it is a good species and not a

variety.

Pezomachus Debeyit, Fst.

Fst., Mon. Gatt. Pez., 110, 37, 2.

Mr. Champion has taken a Pezomachus at Sheppy,

which agrees with this species, except that it has the

spiracles on the 1st segment slightly projecting.

Pezomachus emulus, Fst.

Fst:, Mon. Gatt. Pez., 146, 86, ?.

In Mr. Champion's collection are two specimens of a

Pezomachus which I believe to be this species; it differs

from Férster’s description in having the aculeus longer,

which he says is scarcely longer than half of the 1st

segment; these two have it almost as long as the

366 Mr. Bridgman’s additions to T. A. Marshall's

segment. Forster knew but one specimen. The apex of

the abdomen in one of the two is brownish.

Sagaritis fasciata, n.s.

Segmentis mediis rufo-fasciatis, segmento tertio transverso,

aculeo segmento primo longiore.

?. Sides of head behind the eyes very slightly oblique;

antenne of female not more than half the length of the body;

supero-medial area of metathorax about as long as wide, closed

behind; lateral arew subdivided. Post-petiole rather wider than

long, about twice the width of the petiole, sides scarcely swollen,

2nd segment rather longer than wide, 3rd transverse, aculeus

almost as long as one-third of the abdomen. Areolet of wings

petiolated; recurrent nervure received just before the middle;

transverse anal nervure not divided.

Black; palpi and mandibles fulvous-yellow; Ist segment of

abdomen with a very narrow red margin, 2nd and 8rd with a

broad apical red band, 4th obscurely red at the sides of the apical

margin. Legs red, coxe black; middle and hind trochanters

black-marked at the base, yellowish at the apex; extreme base of

femora yellowish; hind tibie white, apex and before the base

dark; middle tibi slightly fuscous at the apex; base of 1st joint

of hind tarsi pale, remainder fuscous, articulations slightly paler ;

middle tarsi the same, but the brown much paler ; stigma piceous-

yellow, tegul yellow.

3. Differs only from the female in having the antenne longer,

supero-medial area of metathorax a little narrower and imperfectly

closed behind, the 2nd and 8rd segments of the abdomen longer,

the latter rather longer than wide, and the transverse anal nervure

of hind wings obsoletely divided below the middle; the abdomen

is more highly coloured, the apex of the 3rd segment has a dark

mark in the middle, and the sides of the remainder are broadly

red; the black at the apex of the hind tibie is more inclined to

red. Male and female. Length, 6°5—7 mm.

I took two females and one male together at Horning

Ferry, in June, 1882. They appear to me to be a

distinct species; in some respects they agree with

S. maculipes, Tschek., but differ in the length of the

3rd segment and the aculeus, which is longer than

usual in this genus, and the colour of the abdomen; in

length of aculeus it comes nearer to S. Holmgreni,

Tschek., but the legs are differently coloured and the

head wider.

Catalogue of British Ichneumonide. 367

Sagaritis maculipes, Tschek.

Tschek., Ichn. Frag., 49, 6, 3 2.

I have taken in this neighbourhood what I believe to

be this species ; it has also been bred by Mr. W. H. iB:

Fletcher from an unknown host. The cocoon is pearly

white, with two indistinct zones of scattered black dots.

Cymodusa antennator, Holm.

Holm., Mon. Tryp. Suec., 41, 4, 3 2.

Dr. Capron has taken the female of this species at

Shiere: he also takes a male Cymodusa, which I identi-

fied as C. flavipes, Brischke. This Dr. Capron thinks 1s

the male of C. antennator, Holm. It may be so, but it

differs in many respects from the female ; the head is not

so wide, the face is wider, hind femora dark, and there

is no trace of red on the abdomen of any I have seen

(I have four males). Holmgren gives a variety of the

male, ‘abdomen black, except the subtestaceous or red

incision of 2nd segment, and hind femora entirely

black”; this agrees exactly with Dr. Capron’s males,

and also a male which I took at Wimbledon. In a foot-

note Holmgren says that this variety is perhaps a

distinct species. Dr. Capron remarks that he has taken

no male of C. antennator, or female of C. flavipes; it is

possible that these may be the sexes of the same insect.

Limneria mandibularis, Holm.

Holm., Mon. Ophion. Suec., 97, 76, ¢ ¢.

Dr. Capron has taken this very distinct species in the

neighbourhood of Shiere. The head and thorax are

very coarsely punctate, wings are without areolet, hind

legs greater part black, aculeus and antenne short, and

transverse anal nervure divided, readily distinguishes it

from the other species of this group of Limneria.

Limneria distincta, n. 8.

Niger, metathorace excavato, pedibus posticis nigris tibiis basi

et medio rufis.

Head transverse, scarcely contracted behind the eyes, rather

wider than the thorax; antennre not quite so long as the body ;

868 Mr. Bridgman’s additions to 1’. A. Marshall's

face subquadrate, about the same width as the forehead. Thorax

longer than high; mesonotum reticulate, with large close and

rather shallow punctures; metanotum with a deep longitudinal

furrow ; lateral are subdivided; supero-medial area longer than

broad, not closed behind, central groove is continuous from base

to apex. Abdomen long and slender, more than one-third longer

than the head and thorax, not so wide as the thorax; 1st segment

longer than the hind cox and trochanters, petiole slender, about

as long as the post-petiole, the latter rather more than twice as

wide as the petiole, longer than broad, sides almost parallel; 2nd

segment one-third longer than wide, 3rd quadrate, 4th, 5th, and

6th of equal length, one-third wider than long; abdomen pube-

scent at the sides and apex. Wings with a petiolated areolet;

recurrent neryure received about in the middle of the aveolet ;

external radial nervure almost straight; transverse anal nervure

not divided.

Black; legs red, cox and trochanters black, middle femora

with a black streak in the middle behind, hind legs black, tibie

dull red, apex and before the base black, base of tarsal joints

whitish, tarsi of middle legs the same colour, apex of middle tibize

fuscous, calcarie white. Stigma fuscous, base of wings and

tegule yellow; mandibles and palpi yellow. Male. Length,

6 mm.

This appears to me to be a very distinct and un-

described species ; the colour of the hind legs is different

from any other of this group.

A single male was bred by Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher

from Gelechia lentiginosella in July, 1886, taken in

Abbott’s Wood.

Dicolus subtiliventris, Fst. ?

Fst., Ueb. d. Gatt. u. Art. d. Fam. d. Plectis., 96.

It is impossible to be sure that this is really Foérster’s

species, because his description is so short: ‘‘ Hind

tibiz distinctly notched before the apex, face dark brown,

antenne 31 joints, ?’’; all these points agree exactly

with an insect taken by Mr. Bignell in the neighbourhood

of Plymouth. Below I give a more detailed description

of the insect :—

Head oblique behind the eyes; antenne with long dense pube-

scence, a little longer than the body; head shining, very delicately

punctured; clypeus small, semicircular, distinctly separated from

Catalogue of British Ichneumonide. 369

the face, the latter elevated in the middle. Thorax not so wide as

the head, punctured as on the head, nearly three times as long as

wide, not trilobed in front; metathorax with a transverse suture a

little before the middle, without arex, superior surface separated

from the posterior surface by a prominent costa. Abdomen about

as wide as the thorax and longer than the head and thorax, and

widest towards the apex; Ist segment long and slender, about

four times as long as wide, spiracles placed before the middle,

post-petiole very little wider than the petiole; 2nd and 38rd

segments of equal length, longer than wide; 4th cylindrical, one-

fourth longer than wide; remainder transverse; the 2nd has an

oblong perpendicular depression (? is this normal), with a slightly-

raised ridge in the middle; aculeus straight, slender, and scarcely

projecting. Legs slender, hind coxe long, hind tibize with a wide

notch before the apex. Wings without an areolet (very similar to

Hemiteles); stigma moderate; external radial nervure curved,

forming a slight S$; transverse anal nervure of hind wings obso-

letely divided just below the middle.

@. Black; face partly piceous, antenne reddish, paler beneath,

palpi whitish, mouth and clypeus fulvous, thorax above partly

piceous, prothorax at the sides and beneath, mesopleura and breast,

fulvous-red; abdomen fusco-piceous; extreme apex of 2nd, all the

3rd, and middle of the base of the 4th segments stramineous, the

8rd fuscous at the sides ; legs pale fulvous; front and middle coxe

and trochanters pale straw ; hind coxie with a slight fuscous mark

on the outside towards the apex; apex of hind femora and tibie

with a slight fuscous stain; base of wings and squamule stra-

mineous. Stigma palish fuscous. Length about 5 mm.

Catoglyptus crassipes, Holm.

Holm., Mon. Tryph. Suec., 107, 3 ?.

Mr. Champion has taken a male of this species in the

London district.

Catoglyptus pulchricornis, Holm.

Holm., Mon. Tryph. Suec., 109, 7, 2.

Dr. Capron has taken two males of this species in the

neighbourhood of Shiere: he says they differ from the

female in having the antenne entirely black, the legs

rather darker, and the posterior coxe entirely black. In

one specimen the clypeus and face are yellowish white ;

in the other, a much smalier specimen, the inner orbits

370 =Mr. Bridgman’s additions to T. A. Marshall's

only have a broad yellowish streak: the abdomen has

the peculiar rugosity of the female.

Catoglyptus fuscicornis, Gmel.

Dr. Capron says that Huryproctus (Mesoleptus, Curt.)

Waltoni, which he takes in the neighbourhood of Shiere,

is the male of C. fuscicornis.

Perilissus minutus, n. 8.

Niger, pedibus pallidis, coxis posticis nigris, scapo flavo, facie

flavo-maculata 9; facie genis et temporibus, thorace flavo-macu-

lato 3.

Head subopaque, sides slightly oblique behind the eyes, rather

more so in the male than in the female; antenne as long as the

body. Thorax subopaque, very finely and closely punctate ;

mesonotum trilobed; supero-medial area of metathorax somewhat

triangular, longer than wide, closed behind; lateral arexw obso-

letely subdivided. Abdomen subopaque; 1st segment of female

slightly rounded at the sides, tapering from base to apex, one-third

longer than the width of the apex, spiracles almost in the middle

and not distinct; lst segment of the male much narrower, only

about twice as wide at the apex as at the base, spiracles very

prominent; both with a shallow furrow on the post-petiole;

remaining segments transverse, the 4th the widest; aculeus

slightly projecting and quite straight; legs rather slender. Wings

with a large areolet, as in Mesochorus; recurrent nervure received

before the middle ; external radial nervure slightly curved ; trans-

verse anal nervure of hinder wings divided hardly below the middle,

subopposite.

Black; palpi and greater part of mandibles yellow, frontal orbits

yellow, and a fulvous blotch behind the eyes in the female; male

mouth, face, frontal orbits, and cheeks yellow; scape yellow, black

above in the female, base of flagellum beneath, remainder fuscous.

Thorax of female black; in the male a yellow spot on the lower

part of the prothorax, and another on the front part of the meso-

pleura; a line below the wings and front sutures reddish. Abdo-

men of the female, incisions of three first segments fulvous at the

sides, wider and continued across the back in the male. Legs

pale yellowish red; coxe black; front coxe yellow, base black ;

apex of middle pair yellowish (female); male almost entirely

yellow, as well as extreme apex of hinder pair; trochanters

yellow, hind pair of female reddish; hind tibie reddish white,

Catalogue of British Ichneumonide. 371

apex fuscous; apical joint of front and middle tarsi fuscous ; hind

tarsi fuscous, base of joints palish. Stigma pale fuscous ; tubercles

and tegule whitish. Male and female. Length, 5 mm.

Taken by Dr. Capron in the neighbourhood of Shiere.

This species appears to come very near P. nigricollis,

Thom., but the description is far too short to be certain :

he makes no mention of the pale scape, partly black

coxe, or the reddish mark behind the eyes of the female.

Mesoleius attenuatus, n. s.

Niger, abdominis medio rufo, pedibus maxima ex parte rufis.

Head transverse, behind the eyes slightly oblique; antenne

filiform, longer than the body; apex of clypeus subtruncate.

Thorax about one-third longer than high; mesonotum distinetly

trilobed; metathorax without arew; mesopleura scabriculous and

dull, dise smooth and shining. Abdomen elongate, slender, longer

than the head and thorax ; apex of 4th segment the widest, nearly

as wide as the thorax; Ist segment rather longer than the hind

cox, petiole slender, sides parallel, about twice as long as wide ;

post-petiole rather longer than the petiole, apex very little wider

than the petiole, finely scabriculous, apex shining, without canali-

cula, spiracles placed before the middle; 2nd segment very finely

scabriculous, about one-third longer than wide ; 38rd, sculpture the

same, longer than wide, about the same length as the 2nd;

remainder transverse. Legs slender; last two joints of hind tarsi

of almost equal length. Wings with an areolet; transverse anal

nervure divided in the middle.

Black; face, mandibles, clypeus, and scape beneath yellow ;

segments 2—4 of abdomen red; tubercles and tegule yellow ;

stigma pale testaceous. Legs red; cox black, extreme apex of

front and middle ones yellow; trochanters yellow, base of hind

pair black; extreme apex of hind femora dark; hind tarsi and

apical one-third of hind tibie nigro-fuscous. Ventral fold pale.

Male. Length, 8 mm.

One male taken by Mr. E. Brunetti, who very kindly

gave me the insect; it belongs to Sect. A of Mesoleptus

of Holmgren’s Mon. Tryph. Suec., which division he

afterwards placed in the genus Mesoleius (Disp. Syn.

Mesol. Scand.), and is very distinct from any of the

group.

372 Mr. Bridgman’s additions to T’. A. Marshall’s

Mesoleius (Saotus) ? brevispina, Thom.

Thom., Ent. Opus., 934.

Mr. J. KE. Fletcher has bred several male Tryphons

which agree better with this species than any other

Tean find; itis very similar to Perilissus bicolor, Brischke,

but the teeth of the mandibles being of equal length

will not allow it to go into that genus. The only

difference that I can see from Thomson’s description is

that the calcariz of the tibie are a trifle longer than

one-third of the Ist joint of the tarsi. His descriptions

are so very meagre that one can never be quite certain :

in this he does not say if he knows the male. This

eroup of Mesoleius have the abdomen more compressed

and glazed than usual; some of the females are as

much compressed as Bassus cognatus. I give a descrip-

tion of this insect :—

Head transverse, narrow behind the eyes; antenne about as

long as the body; apex of clypeus truncate, depressed, transversely

raised before the apex. Thorax shining, parapsides obsolete ;

mesopleura obsoletely reticulate; supero- and postero-medial are

subdistinct. Side of post-petiole of abdomen almost parallel

longer than wide, depressed in the middle, basal depression obso-

letely continued on to the post-petiole; 2nd and drd segments

longer than wide, from the second segment abdomen subcom-

pressed. Legs moderate. Wings without an areolet; transverse

anal nervure slightly ante-furcal, divided far below the middle ;

transverse ordinary not interstitial.

Black; face, frontal orbits, the lower part of prothorax, meso-

pleura and breast, large hook-shaped marks on shoulders, a double

mark in centre of mesonotum, tubercles, tegule, a mark below the

wings, scutellum, or middle of scutellum, extreme apex of 1st

segment, apex broadly of 2nd, a dorsal mark on 3rd margin of the

remainder thinly, belly, front leg, hind cox, and trochanters

yellow; hind femora red; base of hind tibie dirty white, apical

half and hind tarsi fuscous; stigma fuscous. Antenne fuscous

above, reddish beneath. ‘The pale marks on the abdomen vary a

little in quantity. Male. Length, 5 mm.

Bred by Mr. J. EK. Fletcher from Nematus purpure,

Cam., a new leaf-rolling sawfly, discovered by him at

Worcester on Salix purpurea, June, 1886.

Cataloque of British Ichneumonide. 373

Mesoleius flavopictus, Gr.

Mesoleptus flavopictus, Grav., I. E., 11., 338, 3 ; Mesoleius,

Bris., D. Jeb. d. Prov: W.u. O-Preuss, ¢ 2.

Mr. Champion has taken, at Caterham, a female which

agrees exactly with Gravenhorst’s male, except that the

hind coxe are entirely red. It differs slightly from

Brischke’s description: he says all the coxe are red,

the supero-medial area of the metathorax indistinct,

and transverse anal nervure divided in the middle.

Mr. Champion’s insect has the supero-medial area

rather distinct, elongate, with almost parallel sides, and

transverse anal nervure divided a little below the middle ;

but this is of very little consequence, as all these points

are subject to variation. Mr. Marshall has placed

flavopictus in the genus Perilissus.

Grypocentrus cinctellus, Ruthe.

Ruthe, Stett. ent. Zeit., xvi., 54, 1; Holm., Mon.

inyph. Suec., 1938. 9:

Dr. Capron has taken this species in the neighbour-

hood of Shiere.

Thymarus compressus, Thom.

Thom., Opus. Eint., 909, 3 ¢.

Dr. Capron informs me he has taken this species in

the neighbourhood of Shiere.

Lathrolestus macropygus, Holm.

Perilissus macropygus, Holm., Mon. Tryph. Suec., 126,

12, g; Lathrolestus macropygus, Thom., Opus.

Bite Oleus 2

This handsome httle insect has been taken by Mr.

Champion at Aviemore; the female, which Thomson

says is Perilissus soleatus, Holm., has not yet been taken

in Britain that I know of. JL. macropygus has since

been taken by Dr. Capron in the neighbourhood of

Shiere,

374 Mr. Bridgman’s additions to T'. A. Marshall's

Polyblastus sanguinatorius, Ratz.

Ratz., Die Ichn. d. Forst., 1i., 129, 51 ; Holm., Mon.

Tryph. Suec., 213, 2; Brischke, D. Ich. d. Prov. W. u.

O-Preuss, 65, 3 ¢.

Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher has bred a specimen of this

lovely little T’ryphon from an unknown host. Ratzeburg

says that Brischke bred a male from Cladius eucera ;

Brischke says that it was bred from Cladius viminalis

and Nematus larve. The Tryphonideé frequently infest

sawfly larve, and in all probability Mr. Fletcher intro-

duced the larva of a Cladius or Nematus with the food-

plant into his case.

Cteniscus gnathoxanthus, Gr.

Tryphon gnathoxanthus, Gr., Ich. Eur., i1., 147, 94, 2;

Cteniscus gnathoxanthus, Holm., Mon. Tryph.

DUC pao helen Sane e

Mr. Bignell has taken a female of this very distinct

species in Devonshire.

Triclistus (Hxochus) Holmgreni, Bohm.

Holm., Disp. Met. Exoch. Scand., 57, 1, 2.

Dr. Capron has sent me this insect, which he has

taken at Shiere. Holmgren says it is very rare.

Triclistus lativentris, Thom.

Thom., Deuts. Entom. Zeits., xxxi. (1887), 203,

Oni ee.

A single specimen of this was bred in May, 1884,

from Emmelesia alchemillata by Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher.

Triclistus nitifrons, Thom.

Phos, :¢.¢:, 20476 ceo..

This I took on Mousehold, near Norwich, in August,

1877, and had considered it 7’. congener.

Triclistus pubwentris, Thom.

Thom.; .l.c., 205, Sisco 2.

Taken at Harlham, near Norwich, in June, 1878,

This I considered 7’. podagricus.

Catalogue of British Ichneumonide. 3

Exochus niger, mihi.

Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1883, 169.

Thomson says this is a T'riclistus, although the wings

have no areolet.

Exochus Woldstedtii, Holm.

I have taken the male of this insect at Earlham, in

the neighbourhood of Norwich, in June, 1886.

Exochus nigripalpis, Thom.

This species is common in this country. I had con-

sidered it H. gravipes, but Thomson says it is his nigrt-

palpis.

Exochus procerus, Holm.

Holm., Meth. Exoch. Scand., 68, 11, ¢ ?.

I have a specimen of this insect: unfortunately it has

no locality or number to it, so | am unable to say from

whom I received it ; all I can say is that it is British.

Bassus deplanatus, Gr.

Mr. G. C. Champion has taken a male Bassus at

Aviemore which agrees very closely with B. deplanatus,

Gr., but Gravenhorst says that the scape of the antenne

is red or ferruginous, towards the apex brownish or

blackish, and the front coxe black, more or less red

beneath. In Mr. Champion’s specimen the former are

entirely black, and the latter entirely red. Holmgren

gives the same description, and says the transverse anal

nervure is divided a little above the middle; in the

Scotch specimen it is divided in the middle. It is larger,

measuring 8 mm.; Holmgren and Gravenhorst give the

length 23—8 or almost 3 lines. It is probably only a

large var. of the B. deplanatus, Gr.

Bassus punctatus, n.s.

Niger, pedibus rufis basi nigris, posticis tarsis et tibiis apice

nigris, scutello flavo limbato; areola nulla.

Subopaque; head transverse, rather narrowed behind the eyes,

finely punctate, interstices reticulate; antenne about two-thirds

the length of the body. Thorax punctate, interstices reticulate

376 Mr. Bridgman’s additions to T. A. Marshall's

metathorax without aree. First three segments of abdomen

punctate, interstices reticulate; apex of 3rd free from punctures ;

base of 4th punctate, the remainder reticulate ; 1st segment a little

longer than wide, sides almost parallel; 2nd transverse. Legs

moderate. Wings without an areolet; transverse anal nervure

divided a little below the middle.

Black; a yellow mark in middle of the face, an oblong mark in

front of wings, a streak below, sides and extreme apex of scutellum

yellow. Legs red; cox, base of trochanters, apex of hind tibize

and hind tarsi black; apical joint of front and middle tarsi

fuscous. Tegule and base of wings yellow; stigma fuscous,

extreme base slightly paler, Female. Length, 7°5 mm.

One female taken by Mr. G. C. Champion at Avie-

more. This Bassus appears to be undescribed; the

colour of the scutellum and coxe, as well as the sculp-

ture of the base of the abdomen, is distinct from any I

can find described.

Ephialtes ruficollis, Desvig.

Desvig., Mus. Cat. Brit. Ichn., 88, 11.

The Rev. T. A. Marshall has placed this insect in his

catalogue as a synonym of Thalessa clavata, F., but this

is a mistake; it isa true Hphialtes. I have a male and

female bred by Mr. C. G. Barrett many years ago. The

transverse ordinary nervure is interstitial, and the trans-

verse anal almost opposite and divided in the middle ;

the male has a narrow testaceous band at the base of

the 2nd and 8rd segments.

If Thalessa clavata is included in the catalogue on the

streneth of Desvignes’ insect, then it must be removed

from the British list.

Pimpla nigricans, Thom.

Thom., Opusc. Ent., 754, 28, 3 2.

Mr. Champion has taken, at Box Hill, a Pimpla which

I believe to be this species. Thomson says it differs

from P. detrita, Holm., in having the tubercles black,

and the 5th joint of the tarsi not longer than the 3rd ;

besides these points the lst segment of the abdomen is

a little shorter and the aculeus a little longer.

Catalogue of British Ichneumonide. 377

Polysphincta gracilis, Holm.

Holm., Mon. Pimp. Suec., 32, 8, 3 ?.

Mr. Champion has taken a female of this very distinct

species at Aviemore.

Polysphincta subrufa, n.s.

Niger, thorace subtus pedibusque rufis, tibiis posticis fuscis

variis; aculeo segmento primo longitudine.

Shining; antennz rather more than three-fourths the length of

the body; head moderately narrowed behind; mesonotum obso-

letely trilobed in front; metathorax with three distinct superior

ares; 1st segment of abdomen about as long as the width of the

apex, keels distinct, extending to beyond the middle of the

segment, this and the 2nd obsoletely scabriculous; 2nd and 3rd

segments with a transverse impression ; the remaining segments

smooth and shining; aculeus as long as the 1st segment (about

one-fifth the length of the abdomen), and stout. Radial cell of

wings lanceolate, one-third longer than the internal division of the

radial nervure; transverse anal nervure divided a little below the

middle, the emitting nervure not very distinct.

Black; clypeus and mandibles dirty white, apex of latter

brownish; the lower half of the mesopleura, metathorax beneath,

breast, and legs red; base of hind tibiz paler, apex and before the

base fuscous; apex of middle tibie and apex of joints of middle

and hind tarsi fuscous, their last joints entirely so. Stigma palish

brown, base pale; tegule yellowish white. Length about 6 mm.

One female taken by Mr. G. C. Champion at Avie-

more, and another by Mr. EH. A. Atmore at Lynn in

June, 1887.

This beautiful insect belongs to Holmegren’s division

A. b. +, but differs in colour and structure from any

Polysphincta I can find described. It seems to me to

come nearest to P. percontatoria, Mull.

Glypta elongata, Holm.

Holm., Mon. Pimp. Suec., 38, 6, 2.

I took a female of this species at Brundall in July,

1881. Last year Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher bred it from

the larvee of Bactra lanceolana from Worthing, in July ;

it is very like G. fronticornis, but the head behind the

TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1887.—PaRT IV. (DEC.) 2D

3878 Mr. Bridgman’s additions to T. A. Marshall’s

eyes does not slope towards the neck. It appears to

vary in colour; the single male Mr. Fletcher bred has

the margins only of the abdominal segments obscurely

red, the coxe reddish brown, apex of hind femora, base

and apex of hind tibiw, and apex of tarsal joints,

brownish. The abdomen of the female also varies in

colour to almost entirely black: one has the coxe red-

dish brown. G. fronticornis I have not yet seen: either

agree very well with Gravenhorst’s description of G.

fronticornis.

Glypta rufata, n.s.

Abdomine rufo apice infuscato, pedibus rufis, aculeo abdominis

longitudine.

Shining, punctate; head transverse, narrow behind the eyes;

antenne three-fourths the length of the body ; mesonotum slightly

trilobed in front; metanotum shining, transversely rugose, with

five more or less distinct aree; mesopleura shining, punctate,

punctures very much scattered behind; 1st segment of abdomen

rather longer than wide, keels distinct for two-thirds the length of

the segment, obsolete towards the apex; 2nd and 3rd segments

about one-fourth broader than long; aculeus scarcely shorter than

the abdomen. Wings without an areolet; transverse anal nervure

divided below the middle, one-third from the bottom. Claws of

tarsi pectinated.

Black; apex of clypeus and palpi piceous; flagellum beneath

red. Abdomen red; apical segments more or less fuscous; the

others usually with transverse fuscous stains, generally faint.

Legs red; hind tibie at the apex and before the base slightly

fuscous ; apex of joints of hind tarsi fuscous, more or less intense.

Stigma of female pale, male pale fuscous, squamule red; base of

wings yellow. Male and female. Length, 5—6 mm.

Bred by Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher from Hupeacilia notu-

lana from Wicken Fen, in June, 1886.

This very distinct species, in coloration, is somewhat

like G. monoceros, but the forehead is not cornuted, the

legs are differently coloured, and the claws pectinated.

Lissonota formosa, n. s.

Niger; thorace rufo-flavoque maculato, aculeo corpore paulo

breviore, pedibus rufis.

Head transverse, behind the eyes oblique, but less so than in

L. variabilis; antenne not so long as the body. Thorax punctate ;

Catalogue of British Ichneumonide. 379

mesonotum more finely punctate than the metanotum, and a little

more coarsely so than in variabilis; punctures less distinct than

on the latter, with a rather distinct central depression; Ist seg-

ment of abdomen about one-third longer than wide; 2nd and 8rd

longer than wide; these three segments rather strongly punctate,

the apical margins shining; 4th more finely punctate; aculeus

about as long as thorax and abdomen. Wings as in L. variabilis.

Black; mouth, clypeus, and inner orbits yellow; mesothorax

entirely; scutellum, back part of prothorax and sides of meta-

thorax, red; a line on the upper part of the prothorax, a line at

the sides above the front cox, a triangular mark on the shoulders

and tubercles, yellow. Apical margins of Ist—3rd and sides of

drd—7th segments of the abdomen castaneous. Legs red; front

and middle coxe and trochanters yellow ; hind trochanters fuscous

above; middle and hind tarsi slightly fuscous. Base of wings and

tegule pale yellow; stigma pale testaceous. Length, 5 mm.

One female was bred in 1886 by Mr. G. T. Porritt

from either Rhodophea consociella or Nephopterya gent-

stella.

This insect is very like variabilis and lateralis, but

differs from both beside in the rich coloration, from the

former in the punctate abdomen, and from the latter in

the longer 2nd and 3rd segments of the abdomen.

Echthrus lancifer, Gr.

Gr, Ui, 1l.,.901, 22, o: Lasch.. 1D. Schiut. Pimp,

308, 2, 2; Brischke, D. Ich. d. Prov. W. u. O-Preuss,

1880, 21, 4 2.

Mr. Billups took a fine female at Walmer, August 5th,

1886, which he very kindly presented to me.

Echthrus nubeculatus, Gr.

Grete, 11-866; 205649.

Mr. G. C. Champion has taken a female of this

species at Aviemore. The head, thorax, and abdomen

are closely and coarsely punctate.

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XVIII.—On a new genus of South African Pselaphide.

By Tuos. L. Casey. (Communicated by Dr. D. SHarp.)

[Read September 7th, 1887.]

Tue genus here brought to notice belongs to the group

Faronides, distinguished by the claws, which are two in

number, and equal or very nearly so. The general

characters being those of the Huplectini, the following

diagnosis will be sufficient for purposes of identifi-

cation :—

Farnonipius, n. g. (Huplectini).

Head transverse; eyes very large, prominent, situated at the

base; gen almost entirely obsolete; front with a single deep

fovea; antennz long, slender, not capitate, approximate at base,

inserted at the sides of a frontal tubercle, which is divided by a

distinct groove, first joint as long as the next two together;

maxillary palpi small, fourth joint as long as the preceding joints

combined, ovate, slightly truncate at tip. Under surface of the

head with two impressed fovezw near the base, connected by a

deeply impressed transverse groove, and also having a dense

fringe of long erect sets at each side of the basal margin. Pro-

thorax with a large transverse basal impression and lateral foveze

not connected. Elytra more than twice as long as the prothorax,

each elytron having at base three parallel rows of small deep

fover, the sutural striz being continous from the fourth fovea of

the inner series. Abdomen distinctly shorter than the elytra;

border wide, inclined; first visible dorsal segment shorter than

the second, having near the base a transverse line of spongiose

structure, which is slightly interrupted in the middle. Prosternum

with a deep transverse groove nearly throughout its width. Elytra

without lateral fovee or carine. Legs and tarsi slender.

The systematic position of this genus appears to be

in the vicinity of Sagola, Sharp, which it resembles in

the structure and position of the antenne, but from

which it differs greatly in the structure of the under

TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1887. PART Iv. (DEC.)

382 Mr. T. L. Casey on a new genus of

surface of the head, and in the number and relative

position of the frontal and prenotal impressions.

Faronidius africanus, n. 8.

Form slender, linear, depressed; integuments feebly shining,

pale rufo-ferruginous throughout; pubescence long, fine, very

dense, subrecumbent. Head slightly narrower than the prothorax,

wider than long; base transversely truncate; eyes very large and

prominent from above; front with a deep rounded fovea in the

middle of the length and in a line through the anterior portion of

the eyes; it is continued anteriorly by a narrow deep canaliculation

which bisects the frontal tubercle; the latter transverse, abrupt

behind; antennz slighly more than one-half as long as the body ;

third joint small, remainder longer than wide, obconical; eleventh

slightly more robust, slightly shorter than the two preceding

together, with an oblique process at apex. Prothorax widest at

one-third its length from the apex, much wider than long; sides

strongly rounded anteriorly, feebly convergent and very slightly

sinuate towards base; the latter transverse, abruptly and slightly

South African Pselaphide. 383

arcuate in the middle, one-half wider than the apex; disk evenly

convex anteriorly; basal impression large and deep. Elytra at

base slightly wider than the prothorax; sides more strongly

arcuate near the apex; disk depressed, distinctly longer than the

head and prothorax together. Abdomen slightly shorter than the

elytra, equal to the latter in width. Length, 1°5 mm.

Wellington, South Africa.

The structure of the vertex is somewhat peculiar, the

median tubercle being connected with the anterior

margin of the clypeus by a corneous band, which

appears at first sight to be a strongly elevated carina,

but which is in reality entirely detached from the vertex,

except at its point of origin on the tubercle and clypeus.

The type is a female, the apex of the abdomen beneath

being unmodified ; it is the only representative which I

have seen.

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XIX. On the butterflies of the French Pyrenees.

By H. J. Euwess, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c.

[Read October 5th, 1887.]

Ir is a curious fact how little attention has been paid

by English lepidopterists to the butterflies of Europe

generally. It is not so in all branches of Natural

History, and, as regards birds, I may say that there is

hardly a country in Europe on which able ornithological

memoirs are not to be found in the pages of ‘ The Ibis’;

whilst on European butterflies there is hardly a paper

of real importance in any English entomological journal.

The only two general works on European butterflies by

Englishmen, namely, Kirby’s ‘Huropean Lepidoptera’

and Lang’s ‘ Butterflies of Europe,’ are mere compila-

tions, without much original observation or special

knowledge of the subject, and only of use to beginners.

Though I cannot pretend that the present paper

is anything more than a preliminary list, yet, as

there is, so far as I know, no complete catalogue of

Pyrenean butterflies in existence, I hope it may have

some interest to the members of the Society. And, in

order to make my notes more useful, I have included the

names of species found by M. de Graslin, Struve, and

MM. René and Charles Oberthur, who have all written

on the Pyrenean Lepidoptera. To M. Charles Oberthiir

I am not only indebted for much kind guidance and

assistance during the time I was at Vernet, but also

for looking over and correcting the list I drew up, which

his ten or twelve years’ experience in the Pyrenees

enabled him to do with some confidence in its accuracy.

The works I have consulted in writing this paper are

as follows :—

A. de Graslin, ‘ Notice sur deux Explorations Entomo-

logiques faites dans les Pyrenees Orientales en 1847

et en 1857.’

‘Annales Soc. Ent. France,’ 1862, pp. 297—8792.

TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND, 1887.—PART IV. (DEC.)

386 Mr. H. J. Elwes on the

This contains a long list of 87 butterflies and about 440

species of moths (excluding Micros), taken at Collioure,

on the coast of the Mediterranean, at Vernet, and at Mont

Louis, with numerous critical remarks on the localities,

and on the larve, to which M. de Graslin appears to

have paid particular attention. Some new species are

ficured.

Oscar Struve, ‘ Drei sommer in Pyrenaén.’

Stettiner ‘Ent. Zeit.’ 1882, pp. 898—405, 410, 429.

This paper gives an account of the localities visited by

the author in 1879 in the Western and Central Pyrenees,

where, however, he does not seem to have got any great

results, owing to frequent change of locality and bad

weather, and a list of the Lepidoptera, 92 species of

butterflies and 176 of moths (excluding Micros), found

by him during 1880 and 1881 at Vernet and Mont

Louis, in the Kastern Pyrenees.

Charles Oberthur, ‘ Lepidoptéres des Pyrenées.’

‘Ktudes d’Entomologie, Huitiéme Livraison,’ Juin

1884, Rennes. A whole part of M. Oberthur’s beautifully-

printed and illustrated ‘ Etudes’ are devoted to Pyrenean

Lepidoptera, mostly from Cauterets, in the central part

of the range, and from the Picos d’Kuropa, an extension

of the Pyrenees in Northern Spain, which MM. Oberthir

were the first entomologists to visit. This paper con-

tains no general catalogue, but notes on a number of

species, and good figures of several, and has been of

creat use to me in making up my list.

Leaving London, with my wife, on the 28th June, I

travelled, vid Paris and Toulouse, direct to Vernet les

Bains, a watering-place in the Department of the

Pyrenées Orientales, which has been better worked than

any other place in the Pyrenees, and is, on account of

its situation near the shores of the Mediterranean, its

warm climate, and its position close under Mont Canigou,

the highest point in the eastern part of the range,

perhaps the richest field for an entomologist in the South

of France. Here we found comfortable quarters and

excellent cooking at a very much lower rate than in the

Central and Western Pyrenees, which are more frequented

by tourists and bathers. ‘Though not so easy of access

as Luchon or Cauterets, Vernet is only seven miles from

the railway at Prades, and a very good centre for

excursions. The rainfall is much less, the weather

butterflies of the French Pyrenees. 387

more settled, and the climate, though hotter, not more

oppressive than that of the low valleys in the Western

and Central Pyrenees. Though the elevation of the

village is only 2000 feet, and the character of the

immediate neighbourhood somewhat dry and arid, yet,

by riding or walking up the valley, at the foot of which

Vernet hes, you soon get into woods and pastures of an

alpine character, and have less distance to go to the

good collecting spots than at any of the other places

which I visited, except Gavarnie.

The species found at Vernet are a curious mixture of

Mediterranean forms, such as Rhodocera Cleopatra,

Anthocharis euphenoidesand Thais medesicaste, with purely

alpine and arctic ones, such as Colias phicomone, Lycena

orbitulus, Erebra Lappona, and Argynnis pales. It

would be possible to take all these in a single day by

ascending about 4000 feet.

Though some of the more southern forms were over

or past their best when I arrived, yet I think the month

of July, or from June 15th to July 15th, is the best

month all round for collecting, and, though a few species,

such as Hrebia neoridas and EH. pitho, do not appear till

later ; yet I got almost all the Rhopalocera that Ober-

thur, Struve, and De Graslin collected in the course of

several years. The Heterocera, of course, I could not

hope to do much with in so short a time, though I took

many interesting species, and have no doubt that much

remains to be learnt of those which frequent the higher |

elevations, which, owing to the difficulty of getting

tolerable quarters, have been comparatively neglected by

all collectors. If Messrs. Oberthur carry out their

intention of building a chalet at about 6000 feet, they

will be well repaid both by night and by day; but,

strange to say, not a single high mountain inn of the

class so common in the Alps is yet to be found in the

Pyrenees, and one must take one’s choice of a long ride

up the mountain and down again at night, or of lying

out in some of the few and dirty chalets which exist at

or above 5000 feet.

After spending twelve days at Vernet, we went on to

Bagneres de Luchon, where the weather was very

unsettled during the seven days we remained, and,

though I lost no chance of working the higher ground, I

had several days spoilt by heavy thunderstorms and

388 Mr. H. J. Elwes on the

deluges of rain. The vegetation is here much more

luxuriant, the forests larger and finer, and the climate

of the higher valleys damper and less sunny than at

Vernet. Directly one crosses the watershed between the

Mediterranean and the Bay of Biscay, as you do in

travelling by rail from Toulouse to Luchon, the change

from the arid vineyards, wheat-fields, and olive-gardens

of Roussillon to the green pastures, beech-woods, and

maize-fields of Bearn is very marked. I have there-

fore marked all the species I noted which occur in

the Eastern and Central Pyrenees, or both of them,

with an EH. or C., to show the distribution as far as

I know it.

From Luchon we went on to St. Sauveur and Gavarnie,

which latter I found a very charming place, both for

scenery and collecting, and concluded our trip by

ascending the Pic du Midi de Bigorre, where I was

astonished by taking Lycena betica, Hrebia Lappona,

Lycena orbitulus, and Rhodocera rhamni, all within a

few yards of each other, at about 8000 feet elevation.

The return journey was made vid Bayonne and

Biarritz, where I stayed part of two days, and found

common, in the marshes near the town, several species,

such as Satyrus phedra, Cenonympha edipus, Lycena

alcon, and Cyclopides morpheus, which I had never

previously taken either in Germany, Switzerland, or the

Pyrenees.

In the enclosed list I have given my authority for all

species not taken by myself, and have marked with a ?

a few which seem to have been included by others on

doubtful authority. An exploration of the Spanish side

of the mountains will doubtless add several species to

this list. The elevations at which the various species

occur are, of course, only approximate, but are in

some cases interesting, as showing how high up some

of the southern species occur; Anthocharis euphenoides,

for instance, which is a vernal species on the Mediter-

ranean coast, goes up to 6000 or 7000 feet in July,

whilst R. rhamni, a vernal and autumnal species with

us, was fresh out in July at 7000—8000 feet in the

Central Pyrenees.

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Papilio podalirius. E. C. To about 8000 ft.—I did

not take the type, which, according to Oberthiir,

is found in the central and probably in the western

parts of the chain. The variety Feisthamelt, Dup.,

is common at Vernet in July and August, but of

the first generation, which occurs in May there,

some specimens given me by M. Oberthur are as

yellow as the ordinary podalirius from Germany

and Brittany, and others are as white as [eist-

hameli from Collioure and Andalusia. If these

specimens are bred from the same batch of eggs

it would seem that the variety is not constant.

De Graslin says that the larva of Feisthameli is

not different from that of podalirius.

. Papilio machaon. KE. C. To 5000 ft.

. Thais rumina, var. medesicaste. E. To 2000 ft.

May—July.

. Parnassius apollo. E. C. 8—5000 ft. June, July.

. P. mnemosyne. E. C. 4—5000 ft. June, July.—

I found this common in July in the shady wooded

glens on the north side of the slope at the Col du

Cheval Mort, and endeavoured again without

success to discover the food-plant of its larva.

No species of Corydalis was, however, to be found

in the places where it was most abundant.

. Aporia Crategi. E. C. Common at 3—4000 ft.,

and up to 6000 ft.

. Pieris brassice. E. C. To 4000 ft.

. P. rape. H.C. To 7000 ft.

. Pinay. EH. C. To 6000 ft.

bP callidices. Ve. . 6—9000' it. “June; —July.—

I found it wherever I went above 6000 ft., and see no

difference between Pyrenean and Alpine specimens.

P. daplidice. KE. C. To 2000 ft. Not abundant.

Anthocharis euphenoides. EH. C.? Common to 5000 ft.

at Vernet. May—July.—I am almost positive that

I saw this species at 7000 ft., near the Port d’Es-

pagne, above Gavarnie, but was unable to take it.

A. Belia, var. ausonia, occurs at Collioure on the

coast, but not as in the Alps and Himalaya in the

mountains.

A. tages, var. bellezina.—M. Oberthiir notes this on

my list as occurring in the Kastern Pyrenees, but

does not say whether on the coast or in the

mountains.

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A. cardamines. C. To 5000 ft. July.—Not observed

in the Eastern Pyrenees, but found at Luchon

and Cauterets.

Leucophasia sinapis, and var. diniensis. HE. C. To

6000 ft. May—July.

Colias edusa. E. C. To 5000 ft. June, July.

C. phicomone. H.C. 6—8000 ft. July.—Very

abundant above Vernet.

C. hyale. EH. C. July—August.—I did not observe

this, but M. Oberthur says it is common at Vernet

in August.

C. chrysotheme is noted by Struve as occurring at

Vernet, but I think he must mean what I took,

and De Graslin notes as “ C. edusa variety ap-

proaching chrysotheme.”” These were small pale

forms of edusa, which occurred at the same time

and place as the large brilliant ones which are

typical of hot sunny climates. Iam not aware that

C. chrysotheme occurs anywhere west of the Tyrol,

where, | think, it was once reported by G. Mann.

Rhodocera rhamni. EK. C. 2—8000 ft. March—

June, fide de Graslin; July, Elwes.

R. Cleopatra. E. 1—2000 ft. June, July.—Com-

mon at Vernet.

Thecla betule. E.—I procured a specimen of this

taken at Vernet by Michel Nou. Neither de Gras-

lin or Struve note it.

T. spint. E.—Noted by de Graslin at Villefranche,

just below Vernet. I took a female of the form

Lynceus at Vernet.

T. ilicis, and vars. esculi and cerri. HK. C. 1—8000ft.

June, July.— Common at Vernet. Neither the

var. cerri, which, according to Oberthur, exists in

both sexes in France, or the var. e@scult, which,

according to Staudinger, is a southern variety,

seem to me quite worthy of separation.

T. acacie. E. To 3000 ft. June, July.—Not so

common as the last, but occurs early in July at

Vernet.

T. roboris. E. 1—8000 ft. June, July. — This

fine species is common at Vernet in several places ;

it settles on ash and chestnut trees, and is not

difficult to catch in good condition at the begin-

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head of the valley of St. Vincent it was so

numerous that I caught twenty in an hour or so,

and, when disturbed, it usually returns to the

same perch.

T. rubi. H.—I did not observe this myself, but

procured specimens from Michel Nou, taken at

Vernet. De Graslin says it is very common at

Collioure, and the specimens I have from there

have a median line of white spots on hind wings

below, which is more marked than in those from

any other locality.

’ T. quercus. Hi.—Noted by Struve at Vernet, but

never seen by Oberthur, who has collected several

years there.

Polyommatus virgauree. Hi. C. 38—6000 ft. June,

Jee

July.—The var. Meigu, which differs from the

type in having more or less of the black spots of

the lower surface showing through the copper of

the wing above, occurs in the Pyrenees, but only,

I think, as an aberration, and, though it seems

more abundant and well-marked in Central Spain,

it can hardly be looked on even there as a constant

variety.

P. hippothoe. HK. C. 8—6000 ft. July.—Not un-

common in moist pastures.

alciphron, var. gordis. EK. C. 2—8000 ft.

June, July.—Common at Vernet; also found at

Cauterets.

doriis. H.C. Var. subalpina. EH. To 6000 ft.

June, July.—Not common. Those which I took,

as also noted by Oberthur, are like the common

form; but Struve notes also the var. subalpina as

occurring at Vernet. Ido not think this variety

can be separated in the Pyrenees.

phieas. HK. C. To 5000 ft.

Lycena betica. HK. C. To 8000 ft. May—July.—

Not noted by De Grashn, but taken by Struve

and myself at Vernet, and by me at Gavarnie and

on the Pic du Midi at 8000 ft. This latter speci-

men had one fore wing so much crippled that it

seemed hardly capable of having flown up so

high from below; and, as the species occurs at

considerable elevations on the Himalaya, it may

~ be an inhabitant of the higher Pyrenees.

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L. argiades. W.—Not noted by any one from the

mountains, but, as I took it at Biarritz, it most

likely occurs in the lower parts of the Western

Pyrenees.

82. L. egon. E.C. To 6000 ft. June, July.—Com-

— mon almost everywhere.

33. L. argus. C. Fide Oberthur.—Not seen by either

De Graslin or Struve, but noted at Cautarets

with @gon by Oberthur ; and I took one or two at

Gavarnie, which I believe to be argus.

34. L. orion. EH. 1500 ft-—Not seen by me, but noted

by de Graslin at Villefranche.

85. L. baton. EH. 1500 ft. — Not seen by me, but

specimens taken at Vernet by M. Nou were inter-

mediate between the type and the var. panoptes,

which I have from Collioure, on the coast. Struve

notes both the type and panoptes at Vernet.

36. L. orbitulus. EK. C. 6—8000 ft. July.

37. L. pyrenaica, Bdv. C. 6—8000 ft. July. Cf. Ob., Ht.

Ent. Liv., viii. p. 16.—-With regard to this species,

Oberthur has cleared up some of the doubt which

existed as to pyrenaica, and, whether it is treated

as a distinct species or only as a variety, it seems

to be quite easy to distinguish not only from

orbitulus of the Alps, but also from the form

found with it in the Central Pyrenees. In the

eastern part of the range alone I found it at

Gavarnie and on the Pic du Midi, whilst orbitulus

was common above the forest, by the track from

Vernet to the Pla Guilhelm. My collection con-

tains a good series of the forms of this species,

and, though I cannot agree with Oberthur in all

points, yet I think the arrangement given in Stau-

dinger’s Catalogue may be amended as follows :—

L. orbitulus, Prun., Sum. Alp. Pyr. Altai, Alatau,

Tarbagatai.

? Var. rustica, Edw. Colorado.

? Var. podarce, Feld., tehama, Reak., nestos, Bdl.

Wash. terr., California, U.S.A.

Var. vel. sp. aquilo, Bdl. Lapland. Minor ¢

cerulescens.

?Var. Wosnesenskyti, Men. Kamschatcha, non

vidi.

Vay. vel. sp. ? Franklini, Curt. Labrador, Arct.

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Var. vel. sp. pyrenaica, Bdy. Cent. Pyr., N.

Spain (Picos d’Huropa). (Orbitulus and pyre-

naica, ‘“‘species valde distincta,’”’ fide Ober-

thur). 2= Dardanus, Frra,°As, min. alp.

Armenia; (Sierra Nevada, Andalusia, (fide

Stegr.).

Var. vel. sp. Leela, de Nicé., J. A. S. B., 1883,

p- 66, t. 1; fig. 8, 3a. Ladak.

LL. Hiltisi, Marsh., from the N.W. Himalaya, is

an allied species nearest to Leela. Pheretiades,

Ky., from the Alatau and mountains of Kuldja

seems distinct. Pheres, Stgr., Pheretulus, Ster.,

and Pherulus, Stgr., from the mountains of

Khokand, seem, as far as I can judge from the

few specimens I have, to be all the same species ;

but, in any case, the name of Pheres has been

used by Boisduval for a Californian Lycena. The

Colorado form, rustica, Edw., is so near our

alpine one that I can hardly separate it, but that

found in California and Washington territory,

tehama, Reakirt, is much more distinct, pale below,

and much spotted with black. Edwards considers

it distinct from orbitulus. The type of Franklini

came from Arctic America, and is said by Oberthur

to be almost identical with aquilo. Whether the

Labrador form is identical with Franklini or not I

cannot say, but it is very distinct on the under

side from the form found on the fells of Lapland,

which I take to be aquilo, Bdv. Wosnesenskyti

I know only from the figure. Agagrus, Christoph,

from the Alps of North Persia, is nearly allied to

orbitulus, and may perhaps be considered only as

a well-marked local form ; but I have seen it only

from one locality, and do not know whether it

varies. ‘The distribution of the forms of this

species at many isolated points in the high alpine

and arctic regions of the Palearctic and Nearctic

region is very curious, and worthy of a more

detailed study.

38. L. eros. HK. C. 4—65000 ft.—Rare in the Pyrenees,

where I have not taken it myself.

Var. 2, cerulescens, Ob. C.

39. L. icarus. E. C. To 5000 ft.

40. L. ewmedon. EH. C, 4—6000 ft. July.

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LL. escheri. EE. C.? 1—8000 ft. July.

LL. astrarche (medon). EK. C. 2—8000 ft. July.—

I only took it at St. Sauveur, but Struve notes it

at Vernet.

. bellarqgus. EK. C. 38—5000 ft. July.

- amanda. EK. C. 2—8000 ft. June, July.—

Not common and local. I took it only at the

ruined monastery of St. Martin du Canigou, near

Vernet, and at St. Sauveur.

L. corydon. EK. C. 8—4000 ft. July.

L. hylas. H.C. 2—8000 ft. July.

L. argiolus. HE. C.—Common at Biarritz; taken

at Vernet.

L. minima. EK. C. 1—8000 ft.—Seems rare in the

Pyrenees at low elevations only. In the Alps up

to 7—8000 ft.

L. semiargus. H.-C. 2—6000 ft. June, July.

L. melanops.. HK. 1000 ft. April.—Only mentioned

by de Graslin, who took it at Villefranche. I

have taken it at Sion, in the Valais, in May,

though it is not included in Frey’s ‘ Lepidoptera

der Schweiz.’

- L. arion. E. C. To 5000 ft. June, July.

. Nemeobius lucina. EH. C.? 8000 ft. June.—I only

procured this from Michel Nou at Vernet, and

never Saw it myself, probably because I was too

late.

. Libythea celtis. EK. 2000 ft.—Struve found this in

the valley of St. Vincent, near Vernet.

4000 ft. July.—Not

uncommon in various places on bramble flowers.

. Apatura iris. C. 2000 ft. July.—Only seen by

me at Luchon, where alone Oberthur also took it.

. A. tha, var. elytie. C. 2000 ft. June, July.—

Common at St. Sauveur, but seen nowhere else.

. Vanessa c-album. Hi. C. 1—8000 ft—Common at

Vernet and Luchon in July.

. V. polychloros.. HE. C.? 2000 ft. July.—Only taken

at Vernet, where it was rare.

V.urtice. H..C. To 8000 ft. July.

Vite. Vie Ci Vo S000:

V. antiopa., EK. C. 2—8000 ft.

V.atalanta. EK. C. To 5000 ft.

V. cardu. HK. C. To 8000 ft.

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Melitea aurinia, var. merope. EH. 6—7000 ft. July.

—Only taken above Vernet at Pla Guilhelm ; it

agrees with the alpine form.

M. phebe. HE. C. To 5000 ft.— Commoner at

Vernet than in the Hautes Pyrenées, whence

Oberthur does not record it. I found one or two

at St. Sauveur.

M. didyma. H.C. To 5000 ft. June, July.—

Very variable here, as elsewhere. I do not think

the very numerous varieties named in Staudinger’s

Catalogue can be strictly defined. Typical speci-

mens are generally quite distinguishable, but in

a very large series they run into each other.

M. dejone. E. To 8000 ft. June, July.—Com-

monest at St. Martin, near Vernet; not recorded

in the Hautes Pyrenées.

M. athalia. HE. C. To-5000 ft. June, July.—

Very numerous and variable almost everywhere.

M. parthenie. KE. C. 5000ft. July.—I only found

this near the Col du Cheval Mort, above Vernet.

The form seems to come nearest varia, Meyer

Dur, of the Alps. Oberthur notes it in the Hautes

Pyrenées.

M. dictynna. HE. C. 2—8000 ft. June, July.—

Rare at Vernet ; commoner near St. Sauveur.

Argynnis euphrosyne. E. C. 8—6000 ft. June,

July.—Those found in the rhododendron region

at 6000 ft. in July seem to be a transition to the

Lapland form jfingal, as are also some from the

higher valleys of the Alps.

A. selene, HE. C. 2—4000 ft.—I found it uncom-

mon, but it was probably over in July.

A. pales. E. C. 5—8000 ft. July. — Common

wherever I went above 5000 or 6000 ft., but I saw

none of the dark females (napea, Hub.), which

are so plentiful in some parts of the Alps.

. A.dia. HK. C. 2—8000 ft. June, July.

. A. daphne. E. C.— Only taken at Vernet by

M. Réné Oberthiir, and seems rare farther west,

where I did not take it myself.

A. ino. C. 4—5000 ft. July.—Not common in

the Central Pyrenees. I took it in the Val du

Lys only.

A. lathonia. HE. C. To 5000 ft.

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78. A.aglaia. HK. C. 2—6000 ft. June, July.

19. A. adippe. EH. C. To 5000. July.

080. A. paphia. Hi. C. 2—4000 ft. July.

81. Melanargia galathea. C. To 8000 ft. July.

82. M. lachesis. Hi. 1—4000 ft. July.—Very abun-

dant at Vernet, but I never saw M. galathea here

or lachesis to the westward.

88. Hrebia epiphron. H. C. 4—7000 ft. July. — The

form which has been named pyrenaica by Herrich-

Schaffer, and which is characterised by Staudinger

as var. major ocellis magnis, seems to me too

inconstant to be worthy of distinction, and,

though the majority of the specimens I took at

Vernet and in the Hautes Pyrenées,-are certainly

somewhat different, yet there occurred with them

specimens hardly distinguishable from those of

the Alps, which are usually cassiope. Staudinger

notes H. melampus as found in the Pyrenees, but

I know of no good authority for this.

84. H. manto?, var. cecilia, Hb. C. 4500—6000 ft.

July, August.—I found, in the Luchon district, a

black spotless H’rebia, associated with @me, which

Tat the time took to be a form of that species, but I

find that it is referred by Staudinger and Oberthtr

to manto, which is also given by Staudinger, in his

Catalogue, as an inhabitant of the Pyrenees. I

never saw a specimen of manto, however, from these

mountains, and, being also ignorant of the female

of cecilia, do not know if it differs as much on the

under side from the male as the female of manto

does from the male. Cecilia is said to be found

as an aberration in the Eastern Alps, and I have

specimens from the Valais and Gadmenthal which

are intermediate between cecilia and eme.

85. H. eme. C. 4—6000 ft. July.— Not uncommon

near Luchon in July. Struve mentions having

found the var. spodia also in this district, but I

think it is donbtfully distinguishable.

86. EH. stygne. EH. C. 8—6000 ft. June, July.—The

commonest species of Hrebia everywhere up to

about 5000 ft., where it becomes mixed with Hvias

at Vernet, and some of the specimens taken here

are so like Hvias that I can hardly say to which

they belong.

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87. H. Hvias. EK. C. 5—7000 ft. June, July.—I found

this only near Vernet at highish elevations, but

de Graslin says it occurs also low down, as it

does in the Valais, where I have taken it at

3000 ft. in May. My specimens are perhaps

smaller, but I do not think can be separated from

the Swiss Hvias, though Staudinger, in his

collection, has separated a form as var. pyrenaica.

88. H. melas forma pyrenea, Ob. KH. T—9000 ft. July.

Cf. Oberthiir, Et. Ent., viil., pp. 20-——24.—E.

melas forma Lefebvrei, Boisd. C. T—9000 ft.

July. — Oberthur has written so much on the

varieties of this species that I need say no more,

but, if the true Lefebvrer of the Hautes Pyrenées

was not connected by intermediate forms with

that of Mt. Canigou, as Oberthiir states it is, it

would be better worthy of specific rank on account

of the differences in both sexes than many species

of Hrebia which are looked on as distinct. It is

curious that this species, which is found nowhere

in the Alps west of Carniola, should reappear in

* ereat abundance in the Pyrenees, and that the

form of the Eastern Pyrenees, as well as that

found in the Picos d’Kuropa in Northern Spain,

should both be much nearer to that of South-

eastern Europe than the Central Pyrenean form.

I found it abundant in certain places where the

mountain slopes are covered with great stones and

boulders. It is difficult to catch, unless a grassy

spot can be found among or near these great

stone-heaps, where running is impossible; but I

took thirty males and two females in about two

hours in one place above Vernet, and could have

caught nearly as many on the Pic du Midi, if I

had had time.

89. EH. lappona. EH. C. 6—9000 ft. July. — Common

on the road to Pla Guilhelm, above Vernet, where

the specimens do not differ from those found in

the Alps; but the form taken in the Hautes

Pyrenées, which has been named sthennyo by

de Graslin, differs in the absence of the brown

band on the fore wings, in which the black spots

are enclosed; and those which I took on the

Pic du Midi and near Gavarnie also differ in the

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almost total absence of the broad fascia on the

hind wings below.

Tyndarus, var. dromus. H.C. 5—8000 ft.

July.—Common in most parts of the mountains,

and separable from the Swiss form, as far as I

can judge, those found near Vernet having a

more distinct fulvous band than those from the

Hautes Pyrenées. Cf. Ob., Et. Ent., viil.,.p. 25.

Gorge and var. Gorgone, Boisd. EK. C. 6—9000ft.

July, August.— I am unable at present to say

whether the form which is known as Gorgone,

and which Staudinger characterises as follows:

“var. major, 3 subtus unicolor, 2 venis albi-

cantibus,”’ is constantly distinct from Gorge or

not. Struve says, Stett. Ent. Zeit., p. 403, that

he found the two together at the Port de Venasque,

above Luchon. He also includes both in his list

of the Lepidoptera of the Eastern Pyrenees,

whilst Oberthur says that in the Hautes Pyrenées

Gorgone replaces Gorge. I found two varieties,

one larger near the Port d’Espagne, and one

smaller on the Pic du Midi, both in the Hautes

Pyrenées, and came to the conclusion that they

were both Gorge, like the form from Mt. Canigou;

whilst others, of which the female is paler below

than any alpine Gorge, and agree with Staudinger’s

definition of Gorgone, are not quite the same as

those from Cauterets, given me as Gorgone by

Oberthur. This author also describes and figures

Gorgone, var. gigantea, from Northern Spain; so

I think it seems clear that the various forms are

not constant, though I have certainly seen none

from the Alps which resemble the typical Gorgone.

neoridas. EK. 3000 ft. July, August. — This

species had not appeared when I left Vernet, but

Oberthur says it is common at the Monastery of

St. Martin du Canigou, near Vernet, in August.

pitho, var. pyrenaica. C. August.—I did not

take this species, which seems not uncommon at

the end of the season in the Hautes Pyrenées ;

but my only specimen from the Pyrenees does not

confirm Staudinger’s distinction, which is as

follows: ‘‘ Minor magis ocellata subtus magis

variegata.”’

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E. Euryale. E. C. 5—6000 ft. July.—lI did not

find it common, and Oberthiir says itis variable,

as it is elsewhere.

It will be seen from the above remarks that there

is still something to be done before the twelve

species of Hrebia found in the Pyrenees are

thoroughly understood. Unfortunately there are

no resident collectors who can accumulate long

series, and see whether the supposed variations

are constant; but MM. Oberthtr have done

much to clear up their obscurity, and we may

hope for another part of the ‘Etudes Entomo-

logiques’ to be devoted before long to the Pyre-

nees.

Satyrus alcyone. EH. C. To 5000 ft. July.—The

commonest of the genus at Vernet ; rarer in the

Hautes Pyrenées, where I found it as high as

5000 ft. at Gavarnie.

S. circe. E. 2000 ft. July.— Not common at

Vernet, where it settles on tree-trunks and not

on the ground, as most of the Huropean Satyrus

which I have seen habitually do. This species

belongs to the group which is so well represented

in the Himalaya, and which has been separated

by Butler as Aulocera, though I do not as yet

know whether there is any good generic dis-

tinction.

S. Briseis. E. To 4000 ft. (fide Struve).—I did

not take this myself, but procured it at Vernet,

and Struve notes it as found at Mont Louis.

S. semele. HE. C.? To 3000 ft. July.—I did not

take this except near Vernet, but it doubtless

occurs to the westward.

S. arethusa, var. erythia, and transitus ad Boabdil.

E.—I insert this on the authority of M. Charles

Oberthir. I doubt whether the forms distin-

cuished as erythia, Hub., dentata, Stgr., and

Boabdil, Ramb., are constantly distinguishable.

S. statilinus. E. July.—Not taken by myself, but

occurs not uncommonly below Vernet.

S.fidia. BE. July.—On the dry hot hills between

Vernet and Prades.

S. actea. E.—Taken by M. Oberthur near Vernet.

Parage mera. H.C. Up to 6000 or 7000 ft.

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tes

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Mr. H. J. Elwes on the

June, July.—A very common and variable species

almost everywhere.

P. egeria, var. egerides. C. 2000 ft.—Taken at

Luchon and Biarritz.

Not common at the season when

I was in the Pyrenees, but occurred at Vernet.

. Epinephele lycaon. EH. 2—8000 ft. July.

. H. ganira, and var. hispulla. E. C. 2—5000 ft.

July.—It seems difficult to separate the southern

form hispulla in this part of France, where the

females especially vary very much.

- f.ida. EH. 1—2000 ft.—Occurs on the hot dry

hills below Vernet.

. LE. pasiphae. Ti. 1—2000 ft. July.—In the same

places as the last, but frequenting brambles and

thick bushy places near water.

. E. tithonus. HK. C. 2—8000 ft. July, August.—

I did not take this at Vernet, though it occurs

there. It was found at St. Sauveur, and very

numerous at Biarritz.

EH. hyperanthus. C. 2—8000 ft. — Common at

Luchon, but not seen at Vernet.

Cenonympha edipus.—I do not know whether I

ought to include this in the Pyrenean list, as

I only found it near Biarritz, where it was found

in marshy places, and probably extends into the

western valleys of the hills.

. C.arcania. H.C. To 5000 ft. June, July.—

Common and variable. The specimens found at

higher elevations were smaller than below, but

I saw nothing lke the alpine var. or species

satyrion.

. C. dorus. HE. 1—2000 ft. July.—Common on

the dry stony hills below Vernet.

. C. pamphilus. E. C. To 5000 ft. June, July.

. C.iphis. H.—I did not see this myself, but both

Struve and de Graslin inelude it in their Vernet

lists.

. Spilothyrus althee. E. 8000 ft. July. — Rare at

Vernet.

. S. lavathere. C. 4500 ft.—Of this species I only

saw one specimen in the box of a French gentle-

man who took it at Gavarnie.

. Syricthus carthami. H.C. To 5000 ft. July.

butterflies of the French Pyrenees. 401

119. S. alveus. E.—De Graslin mentions also the

varieties fritillum and cirsit as taken with the

type in the Val d’Kyna, but I do not pretend to

be able to distinguish them.

120. S. serratule. Ei.—Also mentioned by de Graslin

as taken with the last.

iiS.sao. H.C. Lo 5000. “July:

122. Nisoniades tages. W.—Only taken by me at Biar-

ritz, but doubtless occurs in the Western and

Central Pyrenees. Sue

; ‘ No doubt these occur in

a Hesperia thamnas. EK. Hel Chairalt anduanoctenn

125. H. linea. KE. ra a =

ake them.

126. H. comma. H.— Only mentioned by de Graslin.

I did not see it.

127. H. sylvanus. E. C. To 5000 ft. July.

Cyclopides morpheus. W. July. — Perhaps not

rightly included, as I only took it near Biarritz.

The flight of this species is unlike that of any

other lepidopterous insect I ever saw. I found

the males hovering with a short jerking flight

over dried-up marsh and the females settled on

hedges on the adjacent hill-side. It is curious

that this peculiar insect, which has no congener

in the Palearctic region (unless C. ornatus,

Brem., which seems to me to be generically

distinct, is included), and which is local and only

found here and there in Europe, should extend

right through Armenia and Siberia to Amurland

and Corea, without, as far as I know, the slightest

variation.

If to the species in this list were added those which

occur in the unexplored valleys on the Spanish side of

the Pyrenees, and those which a better knowledge of the

western and lower part of the range would no doubt

include, we should probably have at least 150 species,

or within twenty of the number found, according to

Frey’s latest work, in the whole of Switzerland, which is

perhaps the richest part of Europe in Lepidoptera, con-

sidering its size.

Of species found in the Swiss Alps, but absent in the

Pyrenees, the most worthy of notice are as follows :—

Parnassius delius.

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402 Mr. H, J. Elwes on the

Colias paleno.

Lycena optilete, pheretes, donzelii, sebrus.

Limenitis populi, sibilla.

Neptus lucilla.

Melitea maturna, aurelia, asteria.

Argynnis amathusia, thore.

Hrebia melampus, mnestra, pharte, ceto, medusa, glact-

alis, medea, ligea.

Chionobus aello.

Pararge hiera.

Canonympha satyrion, davus.

Syricthus andromeda.

Many of these are high northern and alpine species,

or frequenters of peat-bogs, which are rare in the

Pyrenees.

Of the species found in the Pyrenees, but not in the

Alps, some are inhabitants of the more arid region of

Southern France, such as Melanargia lachesis, Hrebia

neoridas, Canonympha dorus, Satyrus jfidia, and only

found in the drier parts of the Eastern Pyrenees; whilst

others, such as Thecla roboris, Melitea dejone, are rather

Spanish than French species. Lycena pyrenaica, if

really distinct from orbitulus, is the only one absolutely

peculiar to the range, and Hrebia melas is an inhabitant

of South-eastern Hurope ; its variety Lefebvrei, however,

seems to me to have quite as good a claim to be con-

sidered distinct as L. pyrenaica, and, were it not for the

great variation which is found in the forms of melas, |

should say that it was so.

In going through Staudinger’s Catalogue, I find,

among the Bombyces, the following species, which are

supposed to be confined to the Pyrenees :

Zygaena anthyllidis.

Lmydia cribrum, var. Rippertii, which Struve thinks

is a distinct species.

Hepialus pyrenaicus and IT. alticola.

Psyche Leschenaultii.

Orygia aurolimbata, of which, however, a variety

occurs in Spain.

Among the Noctue I do not find a single species

recorded. Among the Geometre, the following : Cleogene

peleticraria, which differs only in the male sex from

C. niveata of the Alps; Ortholitha calinaria. Hupithecia

cyneusata, of which a single female only has been taken.

butterflies of the French Pyrenees. 403

On the whole it is rather surprising that a range of

mountains so extensive, so high, and so isolated as the

Pyrenees should have developed so few distinct forms

among the Lepidoptera, and should have so large a

proportion of those inhabiting the Alps, which seem so

completely separated from the Pyrenees by the great

plains and low dry hills of Southern France. This is

not the case among plants, of which there are, I think,

& very much larger proportion of peculiar species in the

Pyrenees; whilst a much greater number of common

Swiss alpine plants are absent. I shall be glad to hear

from entomologists whether this absence of peculiar

species in the Pyrenees is also the case in other orders

of insects, and how it is to be accounted for.

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PROCHEDINGS

OF THE

ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY

LONDON

For THE YRrarR 1887.

pene

February 2, 1887.

Dr. Davin Suarp, M.B., F.Z.8., President, in the chair.

Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks voted

to the respective donors.

Nomination of Vice- Presidents.

The President nominated Mr. Robert M‘Lachlan, F.R.S.,

Mr. Osbert Salvin, M.A., F.R.S., and Mr. H. T. Stainton,

F.R.S., Vice-Presidents during the Session 1887-1888.

Election of Fellows.

The Rey. W. J. Holland, M.A., of Pittsburgh, United

States; Dr. F. A. Dixey, M.A., Fellow of Wadham College,

Oxford; Mr. C. J. Gahan, M.A., of Brompton, S.W.; and

Mr. Sydney Klein, F.R.A.S., of Willesden, N.W.; were

elected Fellows.

Hehibitions, de.

Mr. P. Crowley exhibited a new species of Synchlée—

S. Johnstonitrom Kilimanjaro; also, for comparison,

specimens of Synchlée mesentina and S. hellica, which the

new species closely resembled.

PROC. ENT. SOC. LOND., I., 1887. B

Mr. W. White exhibited a number of preserved larve of

Kuropean Lepidoptera in various stages of growth, illustrating

the gradual development of the markings and colours of the

species. Amongst them were arranged nine examples each

of Saturnia carpint and Deilephila euphorbia, the ontogeny of

both which species, he remarked, had been most completely

described by Prof. Weismann in his ‘ Studies in the Theory

of Descent,’ a work which had been rendered familiar to us

in England by Prof. Meldola’s admirably annotated trans-

lation. Mr. White called attention to a specimen of the local

variety named Ligurica, of the former species, in which all

trace of the black markings is lost; and also to a young

individual of the latter species which possessed an anomalous

annular excrescence between two of its segments. The

younger stages of Bombyx rubi and Bb. quercus were amongst

the other species exemplified by the specimens exhibited.

Mr. Gervase I’. Mathew exhibited (1), a remarkable variety

of the female of Lycena telicanus, taken near Gallipoli,

Turkey. The variation consisted in the usual white streaks

on the under side of the hind wings of the species being

replaced by white bands and blotches, and the fore wings

having a large round white spot at the end of the cell; (2),

some specimens of a species of Lycena from Vigo, which he

thought were varieties of L. baton, but which differed from

that species in being much larger and darker. ‘The wings of

the males are more or less suffused with dusky towards the

outer margins, instead of being a pale lilac-blue, and the

fringes are not as evenly spotted as in baton; (8), examples

of a Leucophasia from Vigo, which appeared to be identical

with L. estiva of Staudinger.

My. G. T. Porritt exhibited, on behalf of Mr. N. F. Dobrée,

a series of a remarkable red form of Veniocampa gracilis, bred

last season from larvee collected in Hampshire.

Mr. Eland Shaw exhibited specimens of Pachytylus ciner-

ascens (Fab.), Mecostethus grossus (Linne), and Gryllus flavipes

(Gmel.).

Papers read,

Mr. Eland Shaw read the following ‘‘ Notes on the Identity

of Gryllus (Locusta) flavipes, Gmel.” :—

‘Gmelin, in his edition (xiii.) of Syst. Nat. Linné, Tom i.,

part iv., p. 2088, No. 280, gives the name of flavipes to an

insect in Leske’s Museum, copying Zschach’s description in

Karsten’s ‘Museum Leskianum,’ p. 49, No. 50. Donovan,

in Nat. Hist. Brit. Insects (1806), xi., fig. 891, gives a good

figure, calling it Gryllus flavipes, Gmel., but makes the

mistake of attributing its appearance in the Syst. Nat. to

Linné instead of Gmelin. This figure and the specimens

which are labelled flavipes, Gmel., in the Brit. Mus. Brit.

Coll. and the Dublin Nat. Mus., are to be referred to Gryllus

(Locusta) grossus, Linné, Syst. Nat., ed. xii., p. 702, now

placed in Fieber’s genus Mecostethus of the Acridiodea. Dono-

van does not mention grossus, Linné, though both Zschach

and Gmelin include it. Stephens, in Illustr. Brit. Ent.

Mandib., vi. (1885), p. 21, gives a good description, and says

that flavipes is not uncommon in marshes in this country,

and supposes, from the silence of continental authors, that it

is peculiar to Britain. Strange to say, he quotes Berkenhout,

in Synopsis Nat. Hist. Gt. Brit. and Ireland, i. (1789), p. 112,

No. 7, for grossus, Linné; but says ‘ Berkenhout gives this as

British, but I presume improperly, as I have never seen an

indigenous example.’ It seems evident, however, that

Berkenhout’s description refers to one or more of our common

species, probably of the genus Stenobothrus. The Brit. Mus.

and Dublin specimens are, I believe, British, and Mr.

M‘Lachlan has one taken a few years ago in the fen district.

“Then comes the modern muddle in the synomymy.

Leopold Fischer, in Orth. Europ. (1853), p. 395, gives flavipes,

Gmel., of Donovan (teste Steph.), and /lavipes, Steph., as

synonymous with Pachytylus cinerascens, Fabr., but does not

seem to have had Donovan’s figure to refer to. Adam White,

in compiling his list, Brit. Mus. Lists, xvii., 1855, copies

Fischer’s mistake, although, I believe, he must have had

Donovan’s figure and also specimens of cinerascens, Fabr., at

his disposal ; and he also gives grossus, Linné, as a doubtful

British species. Brunner v. Wattenwyl, in his Prodr. der

Europ. Orth. (1882), p. 178, also seems to have simply

copied Fischer.

* So the synonymy ought to read ;—

(Paine)

““Gryllus (Locusta) grossus, Linné (1766), Syst. Nat., i.,

702 (nec. Berk. nec. Steph.) ; Fabr., Ent. Syst., ii., 61.

‘“« derydium grossum, Latr., Hist. Nat. Crust. et Ins., xii., 155.

‘“« Hidipoda grossa, Serv., Orth., 741.

“ Gomphocerus grossus, Burm., Handb. der Ent., ii., 651.

‘* Mecostethus grossus, Fieber, Synopsis Lotos, ii., 99;

Brunner v. Watt., Prod. der Eur. Orth., 94, fig. 24.

‘“* Stetheophyma grossum, Fischer, L., Orth. Eur., 357,

pl. xvi., figs. 8-8a; White, A., Brit. Mus. List, xvii., 16.

“Gryllus (Locusta) flavipes, Gmelin,. Syst. Nat. Linné,

ed. xiii., Tom i., part iv., p. 2088, No. 2830; Donovan, Nat.

Hist. Brit. Ins., xii., 87, tab. 391.

“ Locusta flavipes, Stephens, Dlustr. Brit. Ent. Mandib.,

Vilesvonl «

“ Gryllus germanicus, Stoll, Repres., tab. xxiii. }, fig. 89.

“ Acridium rubripes, DeGeer, Mem., iil., 477, tab. xxi.,

fig eA?

Mr. H. Goss read a communication from Prof. Riley, of

Washington, on the subject of the ‘ Australian Bug”

(Icerya purchasi). It was stated that the insect had of late

years become very destructive to various trees and shrubs in

California, into which country, as well as into New Zealand

and Cape Colony, it had been introduced from Australia,

where it was believed to be indigenous; but on this point

further evidence was asked for.

The Rey. T. A. Marshall communicated ‘‘ A Monograph of

the British Braconidae.” Part 2, being a continuation from

Part 1 of the ‘ Transactions’ for 1885.

Mr. Francis P. Pascoe read a paper entitled ‘‘ Descriptions

of some new species of Brachycerus.”’

Mr. Francis Galton, F.R.S., read a paper on ‘“ Pedigree

Moth-breeding as a means of verifying Certain Important

Constants in the General Theory of Heredity.” In this

paper Mr. Galton suggested the institution of a system of

experimental breedings, to be continued for several years,

with the object of procuring evidence as to the precise

measure of the diminution of the rate at which a divergence

from the average of the race proceeds in successive genera-

tions of continually selected animals.

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Mr. Frederic Merrifield read a paper (by way of an

appendix to Mr. Galton’s paper) entitled ‘‘ A proposed method

of breeding Selenia illustraria, with the object of obtaining

data for Mr. Galton.”

Mons. Wailly suggested that Bombyx cynthia and certain

species of Attacus would be suitable for nares from for the

purpose proposed.

Mr. M‘Lachlan said he considered the fact fiat S, illustraria

was dimorphic an objection to its selection for the experiments

proposed, and he suggested that the Common Silkworm

Moth, or some of the larger Bombyces referred to by Mons.

Wailly, would be more suitable for Mr. Galton’s purposes.

He also said that the genus Hphyra, which had been named

as suitable for breeding from for the purposes in question,

was also open to objection on the ground of seasonal di-

morphism; and he added that it was most important that the

larvee, if those of indigenous species be selected, should be

kept in the open air, as the artificial conditions of life indoors

would no doubt affect the result of the experiments.

Prof. Meldola stated that Mr. Galton had consulted him

some weeks ago with respect to the proposed breeding experi-

ments, and, although he had no practical experience in

breeding Selenia tllustraria, as was familiar with the life-

histories of S. tllwnaria and S. lunaria. He wished, however,

to call attention in the first place to some remarks on

S. illustraria by Dr. Knaggs in the Ent. Mo, Mag. (vol. i.,

pp. 2388 and 256), which had some bearing on the pro-

jected experiments. Although 8. illustraria was for some

reasons a species well adapted for testing Mr. Galton's con-

clusions, he was inclined to believe that the fact of this moth

being seasonally dimorphic was likely to introduce disturbing

elements into the experiments which might or might not

influence the results, but which would, at any rate, render

any conclusions drawn from these experiments less satis-

factory than if the species had not been seasonally dimorphic.

The object of Mr. Galton’s experiments, according to the

paper which he had circulated, is to measure the diminution

in the rate of divergence from the average racial character

produced by continued selection in successive generations,

C wi)

According to the kaown method of investigation the effects

due to individual differences (sex, differences due to nourish-

‘ment, &c.) could be eliminated, but it appeared to him

(Prof. Meldola) somewhat doubtful whether the ‘probable

error’ could be properly estimated and allowed for in a

species in which the alternate generations differed so con-

siderably in size. In every individual of one generation

there are present in a latent form the hereditary tendencies

of the other generation, and the experiments of Weismann

and Kdwards have shown how slight are the influences which

determine the production of one or the other form in a

seasonally dimorphic species. In other words, the measure-

ment of the rate of divergence would in such cases be com-

plicated by the continued tendency of some of the individuals

of one generation to approach those of the other in character ;

so that, although the extreme forms might be selected for

pairing in one generation, it was at present doubtful whether

the particular character selected (say size) would necessarily

correspond in the two broods. There might be such a

correspondence, but no experiments had hitherto been made

in this direction, and the point therefore remained doubtful.

Supposing, by way of example, that half a dozen of the

largest pairs of the spring brood were selected and mated,

and a similar number of the smallest pairs. The effects

upon the size of their descendants could only be measured

in the next spring brood; but in the meantime an autumn

brood would have been interpolated, and the question as to

whether this intermediate smaller brood influences the trans-

mission of the selected character (large or small size), and if

so, to what extent, and further, whether the superior or

inferior size of the spring parents is associated with a corre-

sponding superiority or inferiority in the size of their

autumnal progeny, must be, as it appeared to him (Professor

Meldola), in the first place settled by experiment before the

‘rate of divergence” required by Mr. Galton could be

estimated in a manner that would place the results beyond

the region of doubt. That periodic heredity does tend to

produce instability of character is shown by the frequency

with which intermediate forms have been bred in all

(sar 4)

_ experiments upon seasonally dimorphic species, and every

entomologist who has bred the spring and summer genera-

tions of S, illunaria knows that the two forms approach each

other so closely in some individuals that unless actually

labelled at the time it would be difficult to say to which

generation they belonged. From these considerations it

appeared to him that S. ilustraria, although a species well

worthy of being bred and studied, was perhaps not so well

adapted for the proposed inquiry as some other species in

which the phenomena of heredity were not so complicated.

In attacking scientific problems where large numbers of facts

had to be registered it was always desirable to eliminate, as

far as possible, all disturbing influences, and to begin with

the simplest attainable cases. Whether such a simplification

of the results was possible in the case of a seasonally

dimorphic species, it was for Mr. Galton to determine; but,

since the only object in selecting S. illustraria was that,

being double-brooded, it would be possible to get through

two generations annually, he would suggest that some

digoneutic non-seasonally dimorphic species should in the

first place be experimented upon, and he would mention the

very common Rumia crategata as a very good moth for the

purpose. In coneluding Prof. Meldola said that he did not

in any way wish to discourage the proposed experiments with

P. illustraria. He thought that many points of the highest

possible importance to the theory of heredity, some of which

he had alluded to in his previous remarks, could be cleared

up by the projected investigation; and he trusted that

Mr. Merrifield would carry on the work, bearing those points

in view. All he contended for was that for Mr. Galton’s

particular purpose this or any other seasonally dimorphic

species was not likely to yield such satisfactory results as the

species suggested by him.

Mr. W. F. Kirby pointed out a difficulty which might arise

in making these experiments on account of the general

diminution of size in specimens bred in confinement; and he

cited Liparis dispar as an instance of the gradual diminution

in size of a species when bred in confinement for several

generations. He remarked that prior to the extinction of the

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species in this country the British specimens were con-

siderably larger than the continental type, whereas at the

present day the specimens bred in confinement are much

below the average size of the continental specimens.

Mr. Baly suggested that the development of the eggs

might be retarded so as to counteract this tendency to

diminution in size.

Mr. W. White asked whether Abraxas grossnlariata had

been thought of as suitable for the proposed experiments

instead of Selenia illustraria.

Mr. Porritt observed that he thought some species of

Ephyra—tor instance, orbicularia or omicronaria—would be

the best to breed from for Mr. Galton’s purposes.

Mr. Sydney Klein suggested a possible difficulty in the

measurement of the moths; and he dwelt on the great

importance of keeping the larve out of doors.

Mr. Waterhouse thought the measurement of the wings

would be difficult unless some definite plan of measurements

to be followed with every specimen, were agreed upon.

Mr. Dunning expressed an opinion that the proposed

experiments ought not to be left to any one individual, or be

confined to any one species.

Mr. Bates said he had no practical ‘experience in breeding

British moths, but he suggested that an amended memo-

randum, explaining exactly the data required by Mr. Galton,

should be printed and circulated amongst all the entomo-

logists in the United Kingdom, whether members of the

Society or not.

Dr. Sharp remarked that he thought valuable results

would be obtained from a series of systematic observations

such as those proposed by Mr. Galton and Mr. Merrifield ;

but that if more than one observer were required it would

be necessary for the authors to publish a statement con-

taining full details as to the selection of moths, the preserva-

tion of specimens, and the mode of measurement to be

adopted.

March 2, 1887.

Dr. Davin Suarp, M.B., F.Z.S., President, in the chair.

Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks voted

to the respective donors.

Election of Fellows.

The Rey. Thomas Wm. Daltry, M.A., F.L.5., of Madeley

Vicarage, Staffordshire; Dr. Neville Manders, L.R.C.P., of

the Army Medical Staff, Mooltan, Punjaub, India; Mr.

Alfred Sich, of Chiswick; and Mr. James P. McDougall, of

Blackheath, were elected Fellows.

Exhibitions, dc.

Mr. Slater exhibited, on behalf of Mr. J. P. Mutch,—in

illustration of the effect of food in producing variation in

Lepidoptera,—two specimens of Arctia caja, one of which

had been bred from a larva fed on lime-leaves, and the other

from a larva fed on the low plants constituting the ordinary

pabulum of the species.

Mr. H. J. Elwes exhibited a large number of Lepidoptera-

Heterocera selected from those caught by him, with the

assistance of Mr. O. Moller, in the verandah of the Club at

Darjeeling, in Sikkim, at an elevation of 7000 feet, on the

night of Aug. 4th, 1886, between 9 p.m. andla.m. They

represented above 120 species, which is believed to be a larger

number than had been ever previously caught in one night.

Mr. Elwes stated that Mr. Wallace’s observations on the

conditions most favourable for collecting moths in the tropics

were abundantly confirmed by his own experience during

four months’ collecting in Sikkim and the Khasias. These

conditions are—a dark wet night in the rainy season; a

situation commanding a large extent of virgin forest and

uncultivated ground; and a white-washed verandah not too

high, with powerful lamps in it. At the Darjeeling Club he

lost many of the larger species which flew up to the top of

the verandah, where they were often caught by bats when

out of his reach. He said that on many nights during June

and July he took from sixty to eighty species, and during his

PROC. ENT. SOC. LOND., I., 1887. C

(ee)

stay there obtained from six to seven hundred species in this

manner, though this is probably not a third of the species

which were obtained by the late Mr. Atkinson, who resided a

great part of several seasons at Darjeeling. Among the

species exhibited were the following :—

Bompyces.—Zeuzera multipunctata, Moore; Stauropus sik-

kimensis, Moore; Dasychira albescens, Moore; Lophopteryx

saturata, Walk. ; Chrysorabdia viridata, Moore; Oreta obtusa,

Walk. ; O. vinaria, Moore; Gazalina antica, Walk.; Agnidra

specularia, Walk. ; Agrisius guttivitta, Walk. ; Bizone divakara,

Moore; Huproctes melanophila, Walk.; Barsine flammealis,

Moore; Sendyra catocalina, Walk.; S. bala, Moore; Prabasa

sp., near venosa, Moore; Tyana callichlora, Walk. ; and others

unnamed.

Nocrum. — Diphthera prasinaria; D. atrovirens; Canna

pulchripicta ; Gaurena florens, Walk. ; Graphiphora rubricilla ;

Gonitis involuta; Plusia verticillata, Guen.; <Arvena selenam-

phora’?; and five other species.

GromEetRm. — Aspilates Falconaria; Nelcynda_ rectificata ;

Boarmia albidaria; Boarmia sp.; Odontoptera chalybeata ;

Urapteryx ebuleata, Guen.; Crocallis, sp. nova ?; Sironopteryx

rufivinctata ; Cidaria aurigona, Butl.; Cidaria, sp. nova?;

Acidalia vagata; A. plurilinearia; Myrtela planaria; Macro-

silix mysticata, Walk.; Pseudocoremia quadrifida; Anisodes

myriaria; Thalera glaucaria; Thalassodes distinctaria; Diopteris?,

sp. nova; MNupithecia, sp. nova ?; Mupithecia sp. ; Hupithecta

sp.; and six other Geometers.

CrampBitEs AND Micros. — Pygospila tyres, Cr.; Muglyphis

fulvidorsalis ; Heterodes cinerealis, Moore; Margaronia conchy-

lalis; Phakellura indica ; Glyphodes sp. ; Glyphodes sp. ; Botys

sp., near lupulinalis; Hypaena lacessalis; Hypena sp., near

crassalis; and twenty other species, many of which are

probably undescribed.

Mr. Elwes remarked that the difficulty of naming Indian

Heterocera, excepting the larger species of Sphinges and

Bombyces which have been mostly collected hitherto, is very

great; and the extremely large number of genera described

by Walker and Moore, which haye never been properly defined

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by their authors, or critically examined by other entomolo-

gists, makes the study of Indian moths, especially in the

absence of any general catalogue of Heterocera, a most

difficult and troublesome task. It is much to be hoped that

a general revision of the Indian Heterocera will soon be

undertaken by a competent naturalist. He also made some

remarks on the Khasia Hills, which he believed to be the true

habitat of the greater part of those insects described many

years ago by Prof. Westwood and others as from Sylhet. A

great part of this district is a flat cultivated plain, under water

during the rainy season; and, though some of the species

supposed to come from Sylhet occur no doubt on the elevated

hillocks or ‘‘teelahs,’” which are the favourite sites for

tea-gardens, yet the majority of them are taken by natives at

low elevations, in such places as Terria Ghat and Lacait, on

the southern slopes of the Khasia, and brought for sale to

the town of Sylhet, which is not far off. Owing to the

unhealthy and extremely hot and wet climate of these lower

hills no Europeans have done much collecting there. Mr.

Elwes further pointed out that almost all the hill-tracts of

Assam are an extraordinarily rich and practically virgin field

for the entomologist. He believed that any man of energy,

good constitution, and temperate habits might spend several

seasons most profitably and agreeably in collecting insects in

Assam, where the means of communication and facilities for

travel are now much greater than formerly, and where good

travellers’ bungalows are found in many places most con-

venient and suitable for collecting.

A discussion ensued, in which Mr. M‘Lachlan, Dr. Sharp,

Mr. Champion, Mr. Poulton, Mr. Kirby, and others took part.

The Rev. W. W. Fowler exhibited a specimen of Cathor-

miocerus socius, taken a few years ago at Sandown, Isle of

Wight. It was captured near the shore, having evidently

been washed down by heavy rains from some plants on the

cliff.

Mr. §S. Stevens exhibited a specimen of Cathormiocerus

maritimus, and a specimen of Platytarsus hirtus, taken many

years ago in moss.

Mr. F. Grut said he was requested by Mons, Péringuey, of

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Cape Town, to announce that the latter was engaged on a

monograph of the genus Hipporrhinus, and wanted British

entomologists to send him specimens, and give him other

assistance.

Papers read.

Mr. Gervase F. Mathew, R.N., communicated a paper

entitled ‘* Descriptions of new species of Rhopalocera from the

Solomon Islands.”

Mr. G. T. Baker communicated a paper entitled ‘ De-

scription of a new species of the lepidopterous genus Carama,

together with a few notes on the genus’; and a second paper

entitled ‘‘ Description of a new species of Rhopalocera allied

to Theela.”

April 6, 1887.

Dr. Davin Suarp, M.B., F.Z.S., President, in the chair.

Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks voted

to the respective donors.

Election of Fellows.

Mr. Francis Galton, M.A., F.R.S., of 42, Rutland Gate,

S.W.; Mr. John Henry Leech, B.A., F.L.8., F.Z.8., of

10, Hyde Park Terrace, W.; and Mr. George §. Parkinson,

of Percy Cross, Fulham, W., were elected Fellows.

Exhibitions, de.

Mr. Samuel Stevens exhibited specimens of Arctia mendica

collected in the County of Cork, Ireland, by Mr. McDowall,

of Manchester. ‘The majority of the males were as white as

the females of the English form, but some of them were of a

smoky-white colour, intermediate between the white Irish

specimens and the English form. The females were almost

identical with the English type, but differed therefrom in

having fewer spots on the wings. Mr. Stevens stated that

Mr. McDowall had never met with the black or ordinary

Tinglish form of the male in Cork.

Mi. M‘Lachlan exhibited a zine box, used by anglers for

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the purpose of keeping living flies in, which he thought

might be adapted to practical entomological use in the field.

Mr. George T. Porritt exhibited along series of Hybernia

progemmaria, bred from moths collected at Huddersfield last

spring. He said that out of two hundred specimens all the

females and a large proportion of the males belonged to the

dark variety called fuscata, which, though almost unknown

twenty years ago in the West Riding, now seemed likely to

replace the paler and original type of the species.

Mr. Jenner Weir observed that the melanic varieties of

Alybernia progemmaria were very interesting, as it appeared

from Mr. Porritt’s statement that twenty years ago this dark

form was unknown. He suggested that the development of

this form might be due to the greater number of manufactories

in the district, and the consequent increase of smoke and the

blackening of the tree-trunks on which the species is usually

found, which would give the dark form an advantage over the

paler form in the struggle for existence. This seemed the

more probable because all the females, which were apterous,

were darker than the males, and would be well concealed by

their colour, which much resembled a piece of bark. Mr.

Weir added that the same remarks would apply to the

melanie variety of Biston betularia, which had also appeared

of late years, and was also becoming more common.

Lord Walsingham also commented on the apparent increase

in the number of melanie forms in the north, and suggested

explanations of the probable causes of such increase.

Mr. Gervase Mathew, R.N., exhibited several new species

of Rhopalocera taken by him in the Solomon Islands during

the visits to those islands of H.M.S. ‘ Espiégle’ in 1882 and

1883. Amongst the specimens exhibited were species of

Euplea, Mycalesis, Messarus, Rhinopolpa, Cyrestis, Diadema,

Parthenos, Lampides, Sithon, Pieris, Papilio, &e.

Mr. E. B. Poulton exhibited a large hairy Bombyciform

larva brought from Celebes by Dr. Hickson. The natives

describe the larva as causing a complaint of the nature of

erysipelas in those who touch it. On handling the larva,

which had been kept in spirit, the points of the short crowded

bristles deeply penetrate the skin, while the bristles themselves

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break off at their contracted bases. The sharp points being

barbed. adhere with great force, and further penetration would

doubtless ensue if they were neglected. The bristles are

hollow, and may convey an irritant poison, but no aperture

has yet been found in the apex. There are longer hairs on

the larva which appear to produce no effect.

Lord Walsingham called attention to the way in which ale

hairs were barbed in Pityocampa processionea and some other

species.

Mr. M‘Lachlan remarked that it was well known that

urtication, in the case of some species, was caused by the

mere mechanical action of the hairs in the skin, but that

other species possessed glands at the base of the hairs which

contained an irritant poison.

Mr. Poulton said that formic acid had been detected in

the hairs, as well as in the blood, of P. processionea, but that

in many species—including Liparis awriflua—irritation was

simply due to the presence of hairs which had penetrated the

skin, and that he had experienced great irritation after teariug

to pieces an old cocoon of that species.

Lord Walsingham, Mr. Jenner Weir, and Mr. Slater said

that they had experienced greater irritation from handling

the larve of Liparis chrysorrhwa than from the larve of

Liparis auriflua.

Mr. Philip Crowley exhibited a collection of Lepidoptera

recently received by him from the West Coast of Africa.

Amongst the specimens exhibited were several new or un-

described species of Mylothris, Diadema, Harma, Rhoma-

lewosoma, &C.

Mr. H. Goss called attention to the capture, at Oporto last

September, by Mr. G. D. Tait, of a specimen of Anosia

plevippus. He remarked that, although some twenty speci-

mens had during the last few years been captured in the

South of England, only two other specimens had been

recorded from the continent of Europe.

Lord Walsingham exhibited about twenty new species

belonging to Acrolophus, Anuphora, and other allied genera,

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Papers read.

Lord Walsingham read a paper entitled ‘A Revision of

the Genera Acrolophus (Poey) and Anaphora (Clem.).”

Mr. Stainton made some remarks on species of these

genera, and said he was very glad to find Lord Walsingham

was working at Anaphora and allied genera.

Mr. M‘Lachlan said that the neuration of the wings and

the genitalia and anal appendages were amongst the most

constant and best characteristics of genera and species. He

wished that lepidopterists generally would give more attention

to structural characters, and not be guided so much by colour

and wing-pattern; Lord Walsingham had worked at these

genera ina very thorough manner, and the attention which

he had bestowed on details was apparent from the de-

scriptions of the species and the plates which accompanied

the paper.

Dr. Sharp and Mr. Champion also made some remarks on

the paper.

Mr. E. B. Poulton read ‘‘ Notes in 1886 on Lepidopterous

arve, &e.’’ :—

“1. Markings and red spots of Smerinthus larva.—The mark-

ings of a young S. populi (in the second stage) were described

and compared with those of the mature larva, the comparison

indicating the greatest uniformity and supporting Weismann’s

conclusions. A mature S. ocellatus was described, possessing

a very complete system of red spots, and in similar varieties

of S. populi it was shown that the spots may be found in the

second stage, and that they may diminish or may even dis-

appear in the succeeding stage; although it is well known

that in other individuals they may undergo gradual develop-

ment. The order of the appearance of the spots upon the

segments, viz., first upon the 8rd abdominal and then upon

the 2nd thoracic segment, was seen in S. populi, thus con-

firming Mr. White’s observations. In S, tilie it was shown

that the spots may arise from the shortening and broadening

of linear borders to the stripes, so that in this species the

spots are probably the remnants of coloured borders, as Mr.

Poulton suggested last year.

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“9. An ancestral Sphina larva from Celebes.—This probably

mature larva, brought by -Dr. Hickson, was exhibited, and

shown to possess a pair of terrifying eye-like marks and the

correlated body-form of Cherocampa; the whitish oblique

stripes with borders of darkened ground-colour, traces of

subdorsal, and of shagreening, of Smerinthus and the younger

stages of Sphinv; the curved caudal horn of the latter genus,

which, however, was far more shagreened than the rest of the

body, as in Acherontia. The ground-colour had been green.

“3, The attitude of Geometer larva.—lt was shown that the

spiral attitude upon leaves is assumed by the young larve of

R. cratagata and S. linaria; that the supporting thread is

dispensed with in 4d. betularia, the larva merely holding a

twig or leaf in the clasp of its thoracic legs; and that the line

of contact between certain Geometer larve and the twig to

which they are holding by the claspers is softened by the

presence of a fringe of light-coloured lobes, thus preventing

the deep shadow which would otherwise be conspicuous

(strongly confirming this interpretation of the use of similar

structures in other larve originally suggested by Prof. Mel-

dola). The exact resemblance of the larva of R. crategata

to the special peculiarities of its chief food-plant—hawthorn—

was pointed out, and it was suggested that such a close

identity in appearance must have been the result of a great

length of time—that the hawthorn is the ancestral food-plant.

“4. Defensive structures of the larva of D. vinula.—It was

shown that the prothoracic gland secreting formic acid can be

everted by pressure, and that it consists of four (not six, as

Mr. Poulton stated last year) tubes and a central sac. ‘The

larva in ejecting the secretion seems to be entirely guided as

to direction by the tactile sense. The flagella of the same

species were described and figured, showing their retractor

muscles together with a large ganglion which occupies the

axis of the organ.

“5, Additional eversible glands. — Prothoraciec glands were

described in many larve, and they were shown to be bifid in

Pieris rapa, thus leading towards the more complicated organs

of Dicranura. <A dorsal gland upon each of the 6th and 7th

abdominal segments was described as a character of the larvee

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of Liparide, except Demas, in which both are absent, and

Dasychira, which only possesses the posterior gland. The

ventral glands of Crwsus were figured, showing the retractor

muscle.

“6, Markings on larva before pupation. — Markings were

described upon the 2nd and 8rd thoracic segments, imme-

diately over the pupal wings, which are being formed beneath.

In G. libatriv the markings were shown by figures to be

black and very distinct. Sections proved that the black

pigment was in the superficial layer of the cuticle, which

therefore is not beyond the reach of such physiological pro-

cesses as are implied by its deposition at so late a period

of larval life.

“7, Notes on Paniscus cephalotes. — It was shown that the

pupal stage lasts for about a month; that the imagos may

emerge at the time when the young D. vinula larye (which

they often attack) are hatched. One imago was seen to

attack a larva (of 7. gothica) with its mandibles as though it

were in want of animal food. The position of the eggs of this

species on three larve of D. vinula was described, together with

the experiments in which all the eggs but one were removed

in the case of each larva; the remaining egg

larva which attained an enormous size. An error in the

description of the egg made by Mr. Poulton (last year) was

corrected.

‘8. A covering for the eyes of the imago of G. libatriv.—

A tuft of hair was described upon the basal part of the

antenne, which covers the eyes in the protective attitude of

resemblance to a dead withered leaf. Thus the brillianey of

these organs does not render the insect conspicuous. It was

also considered probable that the tuft of hairs may act as a

defence.

“9, The late emergence of female moths from the pupa. — It

was suggested that this very generally observed fact was of

value to the species in securing competition among the

males for the females as they emerge, instead of a success

merely determined by emergence at an appropriate time.

“10. Hereditary transmission of pink tubercles in the larva of

S. carpini. — Dr. Dixey obtained eighty larve in 1885, of

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producing a

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which three possessed the pink tubercles, instead of the

normal golden colour; in 1886 larve were obtained from a

pair of moths (male and female) which were developed from

two of the larvee with pink tubercles. Out of the eighty-eight

larvee thus obtained no less than sixty-four possessed pink

tubercles.

“11. Phytophagous larva and many species of food-plant.—

Many partially-grown larvee were described as refusing well-

known species of food-plant, which would have been readily

eaten had the larve been hatched upon the plant; thus a

special relation, which did not exist in the newly-hatched

larva, may grow up between the latter and its food-plant

within the limits of a single larval life. These facts were

shown to partially remove the apparent difficulties in the way

of an alteration in the food-plants of a species in its spread

into new countries, &e.

“12. Origin of carnivorous habits in phytophagous larve.—

It was shown that purely plant-eating larve (such as D.

vinula, S. ocellatus, and A. betularia) become carnivorous when

from any accident they are deprived of vegetable food, the

well-known propensities (nibbling each other's horns) of

the two species first-mentioned being largely dependent, in

frequency and in degree, upon the quality and amount of the

normal food. It was argued that confirmed carnivorous

habits arose from the repetition of such a cause.

“13. Young larveé seeking light. — It was shown that the

young and dark larve of S. carpini and V. urtice persistently

seek the light, thus perhaps supporting the conclusions of

Lord Walsingham as to the advantages gained by insects in

the absorption of radiant energy.

“14, The force of gravitation probably appreciated by larve.—

It was argued that larve which have from any cause fallen

from their food-plant are probably guided in the upward

direction by an appreciation of this force. It was found that

V. urtice larvee, placed in a closely shut box immediately after

removal trom their food-plant, always climbed to the topmost

part of the box, and correspondingly shifted their position

when the box was turned upside down.”’

In the discussion which ensued, Lord Walsingham referred

at some length to instances of protective resemblance in

larvee ; he disclaimed the discovery of prothoracic glands in

certain larve, which Mr. Poulton had in his paper attributed

to him, and said that attention had been called to the subject

in a paper published in the ‘Annales de la Société Entomolo-

gique de France.’ He remarked that these glands occurred

in larve of some species of the genus Melitea, and that he

had also noticed their existence in the larve of some of the

sawflies. In conclusion, Lord Walsingham said he could not

agree with Mr. Poulton’s remarks that larve which had

fallen from their food-plants were probably guided in an

upward direction by an appreciation of the force of gravita-

tion; he believed that larve in climbing up were merely

instinctively endeavouring to regain their food-plants.

Mr. Jenner Weir cited further instances of protective

resemblance, both amongst larve and perfect insects.

Dr. F. A. Dixey asked whether in the extended condition

of the flagellum in D. vinula the blood was contamed in any

special receptacle, or simply found its way among the tissues

generally. He remarked on the extraordinary powers of

contraction which appeared to be possessed by the retractor

muscle of this organ, and enquired whether any corresponding

peculiarities of minute structure had been observed in it.

The muscular tissue of insects generally was noticeable as

exhibiting histological details in a well-marked manner, and

it would be interesting to ascertain whether any special

structural feature accompanied so remarkable a physiological

development as this appeared to be. With regard to the

larvee of Saturnia carpini, there was no doubt that when kept

in captivity they displayed in their early stages a strong

tendency to flock together; though this might be due rather

to their common desire to occupy a particular situation in

their abode than to any real gregarious habit. When kept

under glass cylinders they invariably sought the lightest side,

and if the glass was moved they shifted their own position

accordingly. Lord Walsingham’s explanation of the ten-

dency of certain larvee to travel upwards, as being merely due

to an instinctive desire to regain their food after being dis-

lodged, gave no doubt the true meaning of the habit; but he

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thought at the same time that Mr. Poulton had rightly

attributed to them a sense of the force of gravity, as it would

be difficult to see what other sense could guide them to

whichever part happened to be uppermost of a closed box

kept in the pocket. With regard to the dark spots observed

by Mr. Poulton in the larve of G. libatriax immediately before

pupation, he had seen a similar appearance in tho case of a

large parasitic hymenopterous larva.

Mr. Poulton, in reply to the first question, said that no

special receptacle existed in the flagellum, but that the blood

found its way in the lacune between the structures in the

organ. In reply to the second, he said that observations on

the minute structure of the muscle would no doubt be very

interesting, but had not yet been made; and that the very

same reasoning used by Dr. Dixey had occurred to him on

first observing the extraordinary contraction of the retractor

muscle. Mr. Poulton hoped to undertake the histological

investigation, which certainly promised good results if unusual

functional activity were attended by a correspondingly unusual

minute structure.

He explained that the statement in the paper was that

Lord Walsingham had first called his attention to the pro-

thoracic glands of larve.

He wished to add to Dr. Dixey’s arguments in favour of

the appreciation of gravity by fallen larve as a guide in

regaining their food-plant—-the conclusion that larve cannot

see in the true sense of the word. He thought that many

experiments and observations seemed to render it probable

that the ocelli are of no value as a guide to the movements of

larve. He had covered the ocelli of numbers of larve with

an opaque black varnish, which had been renewed at every

change of skin, but no difference could be observed between

the movements of these and the normal larve. He therefore

argued that it was extremely improbable that the larve could

regain the distant leaves of a tree from which they had fallen

by the guidance of the sense of sight; and as a matter of fact

such larve are often seen to ascend walls, palings, or other

objects, which do not lead to any food, as if acting under a

blind impulse to move upwards. Mr. Poulton argued that if

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such an upward movement always occurs and is independent

of sight, and in fact of the presence of light or of the food-

plant itself (as was proved in the case of J’. urticw), it was

difficult to imagine anything which could serve as a guide,

except the appreciation of the force of gravitation.

In conclusion, Mr. Poulton expressed great interest in Dr.

Dixey’s description of the claret-coloured spots on a hyme-

nopterous larva; and he thought it extremely probable that

the character might possibly be found to be of great mor-

phological interest as bearing upon the origin of wings in

Insecta.

The discussion was further continued by Mr. Gervase

Mathew, Mr. W. White, Mr. G. T. Porritt, Dr. Sharp, and

others.

May 4, 1887.

Dr. Davin Smarr, M.B., F.Z.S., President, in the chair.

Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks voted

to the respective donors.

Election of Fellows.

The Rey. C. Ellis-Stevens, B.D., of 286, Green Avenue,

Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.; Mr. Henry Rowland Brown,

B.A., of Oxhey Grove, Stanmore, Middlesex ; Mr. Frederic

Merrifield, of 24, Vernon Terrace, Brighton; and Mr. Coryn-

don Matthews, of Erme Wood, Ivybridge, Devon, were elected

Fellows.

Exhibitions, éc.

Mr. Wm. Warren exhibited Huzophera oblitella, Z., caught

in the Isle of Wight; and, for purposes of comparison, a pair

of Stiymonota pallifrontana, Z. (a species taken several years

ago by Mr. W. Thompson, of Stoney Stratford), and a pair

of S. internana, Gn., with which the former had been till

lately confounded. He also exhibited specimens of Asthenia

pygmeana, Hb., another species new to Britain, and 4.

abieyana (Dup.) (subsequana, Haw.).

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Mr. Stainton remarked that the two last-named species

(Asthenia pygmeana and A. abieyana) both had white under-

wings, and were in other respects very similar. It was

formerly thought that Haworth’s subsequana was identical

with the species previously figured by Hiibner as pygmeana ;

but now that the two allied species were critically examined

it appeared that the species described by Haworth as sub-

sequana was not Hubner’s pygmeana, but another species

known as the abicgana of Duponchel, dating only from 1842,

so that Haworth’s name subsequana had priority by thirty

years.

Mr. I. Pascoe exhibited a living specimen of Diaxines

Taylori (Wath.), taken out of the stem of an orchid

labium caleste

Sacco-

erowing in an orchid-house at Croydon, and

received from Moulmein, in Burmah.

Mr. Pascoe stated, with reference to his paper on brachy-

cerus in the April number of the Transactions, that M. Auri-

villius had informed him, but with a mark of doubt, that B.

suturalis is B, Kekloni, Gyll., and B. precursor is B. oblongus,

Fahr.; and that B. albicollis is probably a variety of B.

lividicollis, Fahy. As the two names last mentioned depend

on colour, Mr. Pascoe said it would perhaps be convenient

to preserve the former one. Bb. obtusus 1s, according to M.

Aurivillius, allied to, if not identical with, 1. globiferus,

Thunb., but, judging from a full description of b. bullatus,

given by Gyllenhall, which was subsequently referred to

Thunberg’s species, the two are quite different. Mr. Pascoe

further said that he should be much obliged to any persons

who recognise any of his figures as belonging to described

species, if they would kindly let him know.

Mr. M‘Lachlan exhibited nearly 200 specimens of Neu-

roptera, in beautiful condition, collected by Mr. EK. Meyrick

in various parts of Australia and ‘Tasmania, comprising about

seventy species. There were between forty and fifty species

of Trichoptera, including moth-like forms from Western

Australia, allied to Plectrotarsus, Kol.; and other species

belonging to a group represented by Hydropsyche Mdwardsti

(M‘Lach.). Among the Planipennia the most remarkable

insect was a new species of the singular genus Psychopsis

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(Newm.), from Mount Kosciusko, where it was common. Of

Pseudo-Neuroptera there was a species of Hmbiide from

Weatern Australia, and certain curious Psocide and Perlide.

The Trichoptera appeared to be exclusively confined to Seri-

customatida, Leptocerida, and Ilydropsychide. Myr. Meyrick

made some remarks on the localities in which he had collected

the species.

Mr. M. Jacoby exhibited three specimens of a new species

of Xenarthra, collected by Mr. G. Lewis in Ceylon; also a

species ot Lovoprosopus from Brazil.

Mr. C. O. Waterhouse exhibited a drawing of a flea which

he believed to be a new species. Numbers of specimens were

found on a small animal (Myrmecobius) from West Australia.

He proposed naming it Sarcopsylla myrmecobii.

Mr. Waterhouse also exhibited a living example of an

Ichneumon—Ophion macrurum—bred from a larva of Callo-

samia promethea, « North-American species of Saturnida. He

further exhibited a number of wings of Lepidoptera denuded

of the scales, in order to show the neuration for study, and

explained the method he had adopted for removing the scales.

The wings were first dipped in spirit and then placed in eau

de javelle (potassium hyperchlorite). Mr. Waterhouse said

he had sometimes substituted peroxide of hydrogen for eaw de

javelle, but the action was much less rapid, although the

results were satisfactory.

Mr. Poulton observed that, although the pigment had ~

disappeared, he thought the scales were not removed, but

were merely rendered transparent; and he remarked that

the discovery of some chemical for softening chitine had

long been wanted to prepare specimens for the microscope.

The discussion was continued by Mr. M‘lachlan and Dr.

Sharp.

Mr. Slater read a note, extracted from the ‘ Medical Press,’

on the subject of the poison used by certain tribes of African

Bushmen in the preparation of their arrows. It was stated

that a poison was prepared by them from the entrails of a

caterpillar which they called ‘‘ N’gwa.”’

The Rev. W. W. Fowler read the following extract from a

a letter received from Mr. J. Gardner, of West Hartlepool :—

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‘Ts it generally known by Coleopterists that Dytiscus mar-

yinalis possesses the power of making a loud buzzing noise,

like a humble bee, when pressed against anything? I got a

fine male a few days ago, which the tide had just washed

ashore on the sand, and brought it home. As it was in a pill-

box, much too small for its comfort, I turned it out into a

elazed flower-pot until boiling water was-got ready in which

to kill it. It had not been there long, when, to my surprise,

I heard a loud buzzing noise, and upon looking into the jar

found Dytiscus standing close to the edge of the jar, apparently

still, but making the loud buzzing noise just mentioned. I

called my wife to observe the strange phenomenon of a

water-beetle humming like a bee, when it suddenly took

flight and flew out upon the table-cloth. I put it back, and

it immediately commenced making the same noise, and then

attempted another flight.”

Dr. Sharp said he was familiar with the humming of

Dytiscus marginalis previous to flight, and thought it might

perhaps be connected with an inflation of the body for the

purpose of diminishing the specific gravity of the insect; he

had noticed also that it was occasionally accompanied by the

discharge of fluid from the body.

Papers read,

Mr. William White read a paper ‘‘On the Occurrence of

Anomalous Spots on Lepidopterous Larve.” The paper

dealt chiefly with the curious red spots which sometimes

occur upon the larve of the genera Smerinthus and Papilio,

and in it the author traced the order of development of the

spots upon the several segments of the caterpillars, and con-

sidered their cause and purpose. The main peculiarity of

their occurrence is that they do not resemble any other larval

markings, and are dissimilar in regard to their incidence and

other characters. They are found, upon minute examination,

to vary considerably both in size and intensity, and they

appear very irregularly amongst the individuals of a brood.

In some cases only a single spot upon each side of one

segment occurs—in one example there is a spot upon one

side only; in others there is a series of spots forming a

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complete row upon all or nearly all the segments; frequently a

double row occurs upon each side of the caterpillar. Generally

the proportion of individuals in a brood bearing the character

is small; Prof. Weissmann observed a brood of ninety through-

out its ontogeny, in which there was but one spotted. Not-

withstanding these points of irregularity, there is apparently

a regular course of development in relation to the segments

that is distinctly traceable. This is shown in a series of

analytical tables, in which the value of the spots is reduced

to numerical equivalents. Upon twenty-two specimens of

such larve (preserved) being submitted to close analysis, the

order of development upon the segments is ascertained to be

as follows :—

Dorsal row 29.82) poy wee Lk 5.

4 5 A

i eS:

Spiracular row . Bro wuia GE at Alp

Hdely Als,

The dorsal row is the more important series, and in the

above summary it is thus shown that the development

originates upon the 8rd abdominal segment. This point is

well borne out by instances in which it is the only segment

that bears the spots, and the experience of Dr. Weissmann is

in exact agreement with this evidence. The next segment

upon which it appears is the 7th abdominal, the 4th being in

almost equal relation to that segment; then follows the 2nd

thoracic segment (the three thoracic segments are distin-

guished by roman numerals); then the 5th abdominal, &c.,

as tabulated.

Another peculiarity shown in the tables is that there is a

tendency towards a higher development on the left side than

on the right. There are individuals which reverse this cha-

racter slightly, but the tendency in the aggregate is in favour

of the left side. It is not easy to imagine any cause for this

inequality.

Mr. White said he took exception to Weissmann’s theory that

the spots form the nucleus of the coloured border to the white

stripes of the allied Sphina ligustri, which he considers is not

supported even by his own evidence ; for, as he himself states,

the spots upon Smerinthus, when they occur, never develop

beyond the spot state, while the stripes of Sphina appear

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suddenly on the 8rd or 4th stage, without passing through a

spot stage. Mr. Poulton’s view is that they imdicate the

decline of an old character, but this Mr. White also thought

unsatisfactory, for the reason that if they were vestigial they

would certainly recur in the younger phyletic stages, rather

than after the later ecdyses. The testimony of Dr. Weissmann

is that in his observations he invariably found them appear

first in the later stages, and then increase in intensity. This

would appear to be attested by the series of examples exhibited

here.

The red spots which occur sometimes, but with greater

rarity, upon larvee of Papilio podalirius are similar in general

character to those of Smerinthus populi and ocellatus, but they

are unlike them in their distribution ; in one of the specimens

exhibited they are in pairs upon nearly all the abdominal

segments, forming two longitudinal dorsal rows; but im

another example they exist upon the anterior segments only,

where in each case they are clustered more numerously in

less regular arrangement. In this species they are also more

sharply defined and circular, although there is an irregular

red blotch upon the dorsal area of the 8rd thoracic and 1st

abdominal segments, in addition to the spots.

After entering into the open question of the connection

between the Smerinthus spots and leaf-galls, and the objective

use of such relations, Mr. White said he considered that, in

spite of the plausibility of the resemblance they bear to the

nidus of some species of gall-insects which affect the proper

leaves to these red spots, and although some other facts seem

to favour that theory, there is no evidence whatever forth-

coming to show how the process of simulation could be

effected. Moreover, when the species of gall are considered

in detail, in relation to time, it appears still more improbable

that there is any connection existing between the spots and

insect-galls.

In conclusion, Mr. White said he agreed with Prof. Weiss-

mann in his view that the red spots upon these caterpillars

form a new character in process of development,—within

these restricted limits,—but whether such conspicuous spots

upon species so admirably protected will prove beneficial or

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injurious remains to be evidenced by prolonged series of

field observations extended over a lengthy period, and only

time will solve the problem.

Mr. Poulton stated that he had last year noticed the

marking appear in one specimen of a brood of Smerinthus

he had, first as a linear mark, then become a spot, and

afterwards disappear; and he laid stress upon this as

evidence of his theory, which Mr. White had not set forth

clearly.

Mr. White, in replying, said he thought this case was so

very extraordinary, and differed so entirely from all previous

experience, that it required continued experiments to be

carried on to complete the observation.

Mr. Waterhouse read ‘‘ Descriptions of New Genera and

Species of Buprestidae.”

June 1, 1887.

Dr. Davin Suarp, M.B., F.Z.8., President, in the chair.

Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks voted

to the respective donors.

Exhibitions, dc.

Mr. Philip Crowley exhibited the following specimens of

Diurni, from the Kareen Hills, Burmah :—Papilio Zaleucus,

Hew., Papilio Adamsoni, Smith, Papilio ? sp. (male and female),

and Nymphalis Nicholii, Smith.

Mr. T. R. Billups exhibited specimens of an exotic ant,

Tapinoma melanocephalus, For., taken by himself in September

last at the Palm House, Kew, on a species of palm (Howea

Griesbachia) from Tropical Australia: he remarked that the

species was first described by Forel from Cayenne, then from

the Tonga Islands, and lately from Bahia and St. Thomas;

Forel also found it on board one of the West Indian Mail

steamers; and it has also been met with in India and South

America, but has not hitherto been found in Europe. This

brings the number of exotic ants found in Kew Gardens by

Messrs. Smith, Saunders, and billups, up to seven.

(C xxvii)

Mr. Billups also exhibited living specimens of Carabus

auratus, which had been found in vegetables in the Borough

Market ; and also of a species of Blaps, which had occurred

in vegetables from Northern Africa.

Mr. Waterhouse exhibited a specimen of a Brazilian Locust,

Conocephalus ? sp., which he had for some time preserved

alive, and which had only died that same morning. He called

attention to the change of colour which he had observed in

the eyes of this insect; in a bright light they were dirty

white or horn-coloured, with a black dot in the middle; but

at night, or if the insects were confined in a dark box, they

became altogether black; shortly after death, also, the eyes

became black. Mr. M‘Lachlan observed that he had noticed

a darker spot in the centre of the eye in certain Ephemeride,

and in other Neuroptera. The discussion was continued by

Dr. Sharp and others, but no one seemed to be able to account

for the alteration in question.

Lord Walsingham exhibited specimens of Cateremna tere-

brella, Zk., a species lately taken in Britain, which he had

caught in Norfolk, and also bred from fir-cones gathered in

the same locality.

Papers read.

Mr. Meyrick read two papers, (1) ‘‘On Pyralidina from

Australia and the South Pacific,” and (2) ‘‘ Descriptions of

some exotic Micro-Lepidoptera.”” In these papers about sixty

new species were described. A discussion ensued, in which Dr.

Sharp, Mr. Stainton, Mr. M‘hLachlan, and others took part.

Mr. Meyrick stated that, as far as the Pyralidina were con-

cerned, Australia could not be regarded as a separate region,

for a large number were not endemic, but appeared to have been

introduced from the Malay Archipelago. The method of this

immigration seemed doubtful. Mr. Meyrick was of opinion

that the insects flew very long distances, and effected a

settlement through their food-plants being widely distributed

and common. He instanced the undoubted immigration of

certain Australian species into New Zealand, a distance of

1200 miles. Mr. Stainton adduced the instance of Margarodes

unionalis, Which is a South-Kuropean insect, feeding on the

olive, yet is occasionally found in Britain. In connection

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with these papers Mr. Meyrick exhibited specimens of O.wy-

chirota paradova, Meyr. (unique specimens representing the

family Oxychirotide), Epharpastis dedala, Meyr., and Mixo-

phyla erminea, Moore, and noticed two points bearing on

geoeraphical distribution as follows :—

“In connection with this and my previous papers on

Australian Pyralidina, two points bearing on the question

of geographical distribution suggest themselves.

““(1), Many Pyrales—principally Botydide—have a phe-

nomenally wide geographical range. It is a common thing

for the same species to occur unchanged in South Africa,

Mauritius, Ceylon, South Asia, the Malay Archipelago,

Australia, and through the South Pacific Islands to Tahiti;

sometimes even extending into Central America. These

insects are usually of inconsiderable size and weak flight ;

they do not appear in great numbers, or show any special

migratory instincts. Yet immigration into Australia has

taken place on so large a scale that, out of 129 species of

Botydide established as occurring in Australia, 73 are found

to be more or less widely distributed outside the Australian

region. Most of these species are so far dependent on climate

that they do not range far outside the tropical line; but,

apart from this, they seem to have little regard for barriers,

and little preference for one country as against another. It

must be a necessary condition of such wide distribution that

the larve should either feed on plants of extraordinarily wide

range or be able to accommodate themselves to a variety of

food. Evidence as to this is as yet scanty, but certainly a

few do feed on common introduced weeds. I do not say that

these facts prove anything, but they seem to suggest that,

given a certain suitable climatic adaptability and a proper

provision in the way of food, sea-barriers, unless very wide or

very stormy, present no effectual obstacie to an insect endowed

even with the feeblest powers of flight.

(2). The distribution of this and other groups of Lepi-

doptera within Australia does not seem in any way to support

the theory advanced by Dr. Wallace as to the origination of

the peculiar Australian fauna within West Australia when

separated as a distinct continent from East Australia. The

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theory is based on the supposition that Australia presents at

this time the phenomenon of an eastern and western fauna,

each wholly distinct from the other. This by no means

expresses the facts as I find them. The region is rich in

Lepidoptera, but they oceur principally in certain limited

patches or tracts, either towards the sea-coast, or, if inland,

on hill-ranges, because there alone the average rainfall is

sufficient to maintain constantly the vegetation on which they

exist. All such tracts are therefore in a sense more or less

isolated, and may often contain numerous peculiar species.

It would therefore be more just to regard the region as

inhabited by a large number of separate faune, each differing

more or less widely from its neighbours. Thus, in travelling

from Sydney to Perth by the south coast, one would pass

through about ten different faune ; but the difference between

the first and sixth would not be greater than that between

the fifth and tenth. In other words, the rate of change is

uniform on the whole, though irregular in detail. One of

these faune occupies the south-west corner of Australia,

within a line from Albany to Perth, roughly speaking; it has

a good rainfall and very rich flora; and it is this corner which

is usually intended when Western Australia is spoken of as

the only part visited. One has, however, but to cross the low

range whose foot lies ten miles inland from Perth, and the

change of fauna begins at once, there being a distinctly per-

ceptible increase in eastern forms. I may add incidentally

that the indigenous Lepidopterous fauna of Western Australia,

as a whole, consists maimly of Tineina, the other groups

being poorly represented in endemic species as compared with

Kastern Australia; the Geometrina stand next, but at a great

distance.”

Mr. Pascoe read a paper “On the genus Byrsops,” a genus

of Curculionidee.

The President announced that Lord Walsingham’s collection

of Lepidoptera and their larvee, recently presented to the

Nation, would be exhibited in the Hall at the Natural History

Museum, South Kensington, until the end of June.

(Pexxx s)

July 6, 1887.

Dr. Davin Suarp, M.B., F.Z.S., President, in the chair.

Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks voted

to the respective donors.

[lection of a Fellow.

The Rev. W. T. H. Newman, M.A., 11, Park Terrace, The

Crescent, Oxford, was elected a Fellow of the Society.

Kehibtions, &c.

Mr. M‘Lachlan remarked that at the meeting of the Society

in October, 1886, he exhibited a quantity of the so-called

‘jumping seeds”? from Mexico, containing larve of Carpo-

capsa saltitans, Westw. The seeds had long ceased to “jump,”

which proved that the larve were either dead, had become

quiescent, or had pupated; about a fortnight ago he opened

one of the seeds, and found therein a livmg pupa. On the

4th inst. a moth (exhibited) was produced.

The President, on behalf of the Rey. H. 8. Gorham, ex-

hibited the following Coleoptera, lately taken in the New

Forest :—Anoplodera sexguttata, Fab., wholly black variety ;

Grammoptera analis, Fab.; Colydium elongatum, Fab.; and a

specimen of Tachinus elongatus, Gyll., with brownish-red

elytra.

Mr. 8. Stevens exhibited a specimen of Orsodacna humeralis,

Latr. (lineola, Panz., var.), taken by himself at Norwood: he

also exhibited a specimen of the same beetle taken by himself

fifty years ago in Coombe Wood; during the interval he had

neyer seen it alive.

Mr. G. T. Porritt exhibited, on behalf of Mr. N. F. Dobrée,

of Beverley, a series of about thirty specimens of a Tenio-

campa he had received from Hampshire, which had previously

been referred to as a red form of 7’. gracilis. Mr. Dobrée was

inclined to think they were not that species, but 7’. stabilis.

Mr. A. C. Horner exhibited the following species of

Coleoptera from the neighbourhood of Tonbridge :—Compso-

chilus palpalis, Msp. (5); Acrognathus mandibularis, Gyll. (4) ;

Homalota atrata, Mann., H. vilis, Kv., and H. difficilis, Bris. ;

Calodera rubens, Ev.; and Oxytelus fulvipes, Ky. He also ex-

hibited a Rhizophagus from Sherwood Forest, which appeared

to belong to a new species; and several specimens of Holo-

pedina polypori, Forst., also from Sherwood Forest, where he

had found it in company with, and probably parasitic on, Cis

vestitus. Concerning the latter insect he read the following

notes from the Rev. 'T. A. Marshall :—

‘‘Nunton Vicarage, Salisbury, Jan. 28,1887. Dear Sir,—

Your insects are undoubtedly Holopedina polypori, Forst.,

fully described in Verh. Pr. Rheinl. 1850, p. 502. The

description is very complete, and the insects were found by

Forster in a similar situation to yours; and he also con-

jectured them to be parasites of Cis. I thank you very much

for giving me specimens, as I had not seen the species before.

‘‘T used to suppose that H. polypori, Forst., was a synonym

of Cephalonomea formiciformis, West., having been informed

upon some good authority (I forget whose) that this was so.

It is quite clear to me now that the two species are distinct.

‘‘ Holopedina is very near Bethylus. I compared Panzer’s

figure of Tiphia (Bethylus) cenoptera, and at once concluded

that your insect could not be that, from the antennz and

wings. The wings of B. cenopterus are infuscated, and have

basal nervures, &c.—T. A. Marshall.”

Mr. Elisha exhibited two larvee of Zelleria hepariella, Stn.

Mr. Stainton remarked that as the greater part of the

larve of Zelleria were attached to the Oleacee, it seemed

strange that certain species had recently been found on

Saxifrage.

Paper read.

Mr. Slater read the following paper,* ‘‘On the presence

of Tannin in certain Insects, and its influence on their

colours’’:—Whilst meditating on the colours of insects,

I was struck with the fact that if we set aside the so-

called metallic or iridescent colours, which are not due to

any pigment, a vast majority of the remainder consist of

what we may call ‘leather-colours,” ranging from clay-

colours, dull and impure yellows, to yellowish browns of very

different degrees of intensity. On referring to descriptions

* Certain researches which I have just heard of compel me to lay my

observations before the Society sooner than I expected.

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and collections I found that these leather-colours are most

decided in leaf-, wood-, and bark-eaters, such as Melolonthide,

Dynastide, even Elateride, Buprestide, and Cetoniade, in

the absence of metallic coloration. It therefore at once

struck me that these colours may be due to the action of

tannin and its derivatives upon nitrogenous animal matter.

To test this supposition I took an elytron from each of

several beetles, especially Melolonthide, steeped them for a

short time in a mixture of alcohol and ether to remove

anything greasy, and then placed them in a strong solution of

ferric nitrate. The first specimen in the box is a Melolontha

macalis which has thus been treated; the left elytron, which

is a decided black, was fixed in its place again, to show the

contrast with the original colour. This production of a black

colour with solution of iron is a very good test for the presence

of tannin. ‘To confirm this result I treated other elytra with

a solution of potassium dichromate and with copper acetate,

and in each case I got the coloration which tannin is well

known to produce. I then applied the solution of iron to the

elytra of some carnivorous species, such as Carabus monilis

and Coccinella dispar. The action, as it may be seen in the

second and third specimens in the box, was practically nil.

Hence it would seem that carnivorous groups of insects do

not contain tannin in their tissues. I must now give a sum-

mary of the researches to which I alluded above, and which,

though undertaken with a quite different purpose, certainly

confirm my observations. M. Villon, writing to the Société

des Sciences Industrielles de Lyon, states that he has for a

long time sought for tannin formed in the tissues or in the

secretions of an animal. He has found it in the well-known

corn weevil, Calandra granaria. He mentions that so far back

as 1810, Penant, of Bourges, found gallic acid, a body closely

connected with tannin, in the same insect. M. Villon grinds

up the weevils to a paste, extracts them with strong boiling

alcohol, evaporates the liquid to dryness, and finally, after

purifying the product, he obtains from 500 grammes of

weevils 15 grammes of a tannin which he calls fracticorni-

tannic acid. This substance possesses all the general properties

of tannin, and has been experimentally used in tanning,

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dyeing, &c. Indeed M. Villon’s object seems to be to turn

this animal tannin to practical account. The great part of

the discovery is that 1t shows tannin to be common both to

the animal and vegetable kingdoms, and thus breaks down

one of the few remaining boundary-lines between these two

main divisions of the organic world. The question still

remains whether the tannin found in insects is elaborated by

them de novo from their food, or is merely absorbed and

assimilated without decomposition, just as we see it is the

case with chlorophyll, and, I believe, with alizarine in the

genus Timarcha. M. Villon seems to speak in favour of the

former opinion, whilst my observations, so far as they have

gone, would suggest the latter. Still it is perfectly possible

that tannin might be generated in the organs of a Lamellicorn

beetle, but not in those of a Carab. It has occurred to me

that black patterns on buff or brown grounds may possibly be

produced by iron held in solution in the blood of the insect

being deposited in some parts of the chitinous tissue rather

than in others. On prolonged steeping certain elytra in

solutions of iron I have found black lines and spots making

their appearance. The power of chitine to take up colouring-

matters is considerable; the specimens given are dyed

respectively with magenta, orchil extract, basic aniline blue,

and soluble indigo. Chitine when pure does not, however,

turn brown or black when steeped in the solutions of iron,

thus showing that the presence of tannin is needed for the

production of those colours.”

A discussion ensued, in which Prof. Meldola, Mr. Poulton,

Dr. Sharp, and others took part.

August 3, 1887.

Dr. Davin Suarp, M.B., F.Z.8., President, in the chair.

Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks voted

to the respective donors.

Election of Fellows.

Mr. John Witherington Peers, M.A., of Wendover, near

Tring; and Mr. R. G. Lynam, of the North Staffordshire

( Fexxv.)

Infirmary, Stoke-on-Trent, were elected Fellows of the

Society.

Kuahibitions, de.

Jonkheer May, the Dutch Consul-General, exhibited a pupa

and two imagos of Cecidomyia destructor (Hessian Fly), which

had been submitted to him for exhibition by the Agricultural

Department.

Mr. W. White exhibited, and made remarks on, a specimen

of Philampelus satellitia, Linn., from Florida, with supposed

fungoid excrescences on the eyes. Mr. Stainton said he was

of opinion that the supposed fungoid growth might be the

pollinia of an Orchis. Mr. Poulton expressed a similar

opinion, and the discussion was continued by Mr. Pascoe,

Dr. Sharp, and others.

Mr. White also exhibited a specimen of Catephia alchymista,

bred from a pupa collected by Mr. Ralfe last autumn on the

South Coast.

Mr. M‘Lachlan sent for exhibition a number of oak-leaves

infested by Phylloxera punctata, Lichtenstein, which he had

received from Dr. Maxwell Masters, F.R.S.

Mr. Champion exhibited two rare species of Curculionide

from Sandown, Isle of Wight—viz., one specimen of Baridius

analis, and a series of Cathormiocerus socius. He remarked

that C. maritimus, Rye, had been placed in recent Huropean

Catalogues as a synonym of the last-named species, but that

this was an error. He also exhibited a series of Cicindela

germanica, from Blackgang, Isle of Wight.

Mons. Alfred Wailly exhibited, and made remarks on, a

number of living larvee of Antherea pernyi, A. mylitta, Telea

polyphemus, Platysamia cecropia, Actias luna, Attacus cynthia,

Callosamia promethea, and other silk-producing species. He

also exhibited imagos of the above species, imagos of Antherea

Yama-mat, and a number of species of Diurni from Sarawak.

Mons. Wailly said he recommended the rearing of these

silk-producing species in England on account of the beauty of

the larve, and as an interesting entomological study; but not

with a view to forming establishments of sericiculture, which,

on account of the climate, would not be practicable. He

further stated that some species, e.g., A. mylitta, would not

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pair in a closed room, but only in the open air; whilst others,

such as Actias luna, would pair in a closed room, and not in

front of an open window.

Mr. Poulton exhibited crystals of formate of lead obtaimed

by collecting the secretion of the larva of Dicranura vinula on

283 occasions. The secretion had been mixed with distilled

water, in which oxide of lead was suspended. The latter

dissolved, and the acid of the secretion being in excess, the

normal formate was produced. Prof. Meldola promised to

subject the crystals to combustion, so that their constitution

would be proved by the final test.

Mr. Oliver Janson called attention to Mr. Pryer’s new

work, ‘Rhopalocera Nihonica,’ and to the fact that the

illustrations had been executed by Japanese artists.

September 7, 1887.

Dr. Davin Suarp, M.B., F.Z.S., President, in the chair.

Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks voted

to the respective donors.

Mr. Goss said he was requested to inform the Meeting that

in July last an Address to Her Majesty the Queen, on the

occasion of the Jubilee of her Reign, had been authorised

by the Council; that the preparation of the Address had

been entrusted to a committee, consisting of Dr. Sharp and

the Rev. W. W. Fowler; and that the following is a copy of

such Address :—

«To the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty.

‘‘We, the Honorary President, President, and Council of

the Entomological Society of London, desire to approach your

Majesty with sentiments of the most loyal devotion, and to

tender our dutiful congratulations on the Jubilee of your

Majesty’s accession to the Throne; we rejoice in the great

National progress that has been made under your benignant

sway, and as a Society devoted to the advancement of Science

we recognise with peculiar satisfaction the great development

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that has taken place in all branches of scientific knowledge

and their application to the improvement of the condition of

your subjects.

‘“We fervently pray that the years to come of your

Majesty’s sway may be no less blessed, and that the in-

telligence and morality of your subjects may be continually

strengthened.”

Mr. Goss further stated that the Address, the copy of

which he had just read from the Minute-book of the Council

Meetings, was in due course forwarded by Mr. Fowler to the

Home Seeretary, who acknowledged its receipt in a letter, of

which the following is a copy :—

‘¢ Whitehall, 28th July, 1887.

‘«« Sir,—I have had the honor to lay before The Queen

the loyal and dutiful Address of the Entomological Society

on the occasion of Her Majesty attaiming the Fiftieth Year of

Her Reign; And I have to inform you that Her Majesty was

pleased to receive the same very graciously.

‘“T have the honor to be, Sir,

‘¢ Your obedient Servant,

‘* Henry Marruews.

“The Rev. W. W. Fow ter,

“The School-House, Lincoln.”

Election of a Fellow.

Mr. Arthur Sidgwick, M.A., Fellow of Corpus Christi

College, Oxford, of Woodstock Road, Oxford, was elected a

Fellow of the Society.

KHahibitions, dc.

Mr. Jenner Weir exhibited a living larva of Myrmeleon

europaeus, Which he had taken at Fontainebleau on the 6th of

August last.

Mr. Elisha exhibited a series of bred specimens of both

sexes of Zelleria hepariella, Stn., and also, on behalf of Mr.

C. S. Gregson, a series of eighty varieties of Abraxas grossu-

lariata selected from the specimens bred during the year

1886 from 4000 larve obtained from eggs laid by selected

varieties, the results of crossing and interbreeding for more

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than twenty years. Mr. Hlisha stated that Mr. Gregson

found the majority of the specimens he bred every season

“threw back’ to the original type, or differed therefrom

so slightly as to be scarcely noticeable varieties; so that,

although he was almost sure to get a few remarkable

forms every season, he never yet had a batch of eggs that

produced varieties alone, no matter how strongly marked or

different from the type the parents were. Mr. Elisha said

that about six or seven years ago he took at Dover some

very dark-banded forms of Cidaria suffumata. One of the

darkest specimens laid a batch of eggs, from which he

expected to breed varieties, but not a single specimen of the

dark form was produced, all the specimens reverting to the

common or type form.

My. Stainton remarked that the female of Zelleria hepariella

had until lately been considered a distinct species, and was

known as Zelleria insignipennella, but directly Myr. Elisha

began breeding the insect its identity with 7. hepariella was

established.

Mr. Tutt exhibited specimens of Crambus alpinellus, C. con-

taminellus, Lita semidecandrella, L. marmorea (dark forms),

and L. blandulella (a new species), Doryphora palustrella, and

Depressaria Yeatiana, all collected at Deal during last July

and August.

Mr. Stainton observed that Crambus alpinellus was so named

from the earliest captures of the species having been made on

the lower parts of the Alps, but that it had since been found

on the low sandy ground of North Germany, and its capture

at Deal quite agreed with what was now known of the distri-

bution of the species in Germany. It was first recorded as a

British species by Dr. Knages in 1871, from two specimens

taken at Southsea by Mr. Moncreaff. Mr. Stainton further

observed that he had named Mr. Tutt’s new species “ blandu-

lella”’ from its similarity to a small maculea, of which one of

the best known synonyms was blandella. He also remarked

that Deal was a new locality for Doryphora palustrella, which

had hitherto only been recorded from Wicken Fen and the

Norfolk Fens in Kngland, and from the neighbourhood of

Stettim on the Continent.

Mr. Waterhouse exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Coote, a variety

of Lycena phleas; also a number of Stenobothrus rufipes, and

three specimens of Coccinella labilis, recently taken by himself

at Herne Bay.

Mr. Martin Jacoby exhibited specimens of Spilopyra sump-

tuosa, Baly, and Sybriacus magnificus, Baly. He also exhibited

several species of Galerucide, belonging to a genus which he

proposed to call Neobrotica, closely resembling in shape and

coloration certain species of Diabrotica, but differing there-

from as regards structural characters in the deep transverse

groove of the thorax, and in the appendiculate and not

bifid claws. Mr. Jacoby remarked that the similarity of

the two genera in the elytral patterns, and even in the colour

of the antenne and legs, was very striking; and, as he had

males and females of both genera before him, there could be no

question on account of sexual differences. He added that the

late Baron von Harold had described a Galeruca from Africa,

which, except in generic characters, exactly resembled a

South American genus (Dircema), and to which he drew

attention at the time.

Papers read.

Dr. Sharp communicated a paper, by Mr. Thomas L. Casey,

‘On a new genus of African Pseluphide.”’

Mr. Bridgman communicated a paper entitled ‘“ Further

Additions to the Rey. T. A. Marshall’s Catalogue of British

Ichneumonidae.”

Mr. Distant read a paper entitled ‘Contributions to a

Knowledge of Oriental Rhynchota.”

Mr. Knock read the following notes ‘‘ On the Parasites of

the Hessian Fly”’ :—

‘No doubt it will be within the recollection of many

of the Fellows present here this evening that on the 4th

August last there appeared in the ‘Daily Telegraph’ a

long article upon the Hessian Fly, Cecidomyia. destructor

(Say), which—vreferring to the parasites of the species—con-

cluded as follows, viz.:—‘It is hoped that the Hessian Flies

have not left these desirable travelling-companions behind

them; but if they have, the corn-crops of this country

must, it is said, be protected by the colonisation of these

useful little parasites.

“This may have satisfied ‘ arm-chair naturalists,’ who are

content to rely upon information gathered from other sources

than those of practical experience in the field, and who, like

‘feather-bed warriors,’ copy the mistakes of others, which

are again copied and handed down to posterity.

‘After reading the article referred to, I determined to

have a field day among the barley, for the express purpose of

searching for the parasites of the Hessian Fly, which had not

at that time been recorded as occurring in Great Britain.

Mr. G. EK. Palmer, of Revell’s Hall Farm, Hertford, very

kindly gave me permission to ‘ go anywhere I liked’; and the

description and figure given by Miss EK. A. Ormerod in her

interesting pamphlet on ‘The Hessian Fly’ rendered it an

easy matter to recognise the infected plants, which were very

plentiful, among the poorly-grown barley.

“T had not been at work more than half an hour before I

discovered unmistakable signs that the parasites were there, for

in several infected stems I noticed that some had a small round

hole about 4, in. in diameter, and 3 in. above the 2nd joint.

I at once came to the conclusion that these holes had been

made by some parasitic fly, and two days after (August 7th)

I bred a male, on the 10th a female of the same species, and

the following day another male of a different genus. Since

that date I have bred a number, two of which I sent to Mr.

K. A. Fitch, who replied,—‘ the “ spotted leg”’ is an Hupelmus,

and may be identical with Lindemann’s Hupelmus Karschit ;

and the other, a Pteromalus, may be Semiotellus nigripes of

Lindemann, but at present it is not safe to go beyond family

and genus.’

‘‘T have not yet had an opportunity of submitting to Mr.

Fitch specimens of the other parasites bred, which I think Iam

right in saying comprise four or five species of Semiotellus, one

Eupelmus, and a very small semiapterous species. Some of

these parasites I kept alive for nearly three weeks in pill-

boxes—in which I placed a piece of damp blotting-paper, and

a few infected stems and loose puparia,—where they soon

made themselves quite at home, running about briskly in

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the sunshine, and in dull weather hiding away down the

hollow stems. I have been enabled to note down a number

of observations upon them, but have not had leisure to put

them into form.

‘“‘T paid another visit to Revell’s Hall on August 8th, com-

mencing my search in another very large barley-field, and,

in order to form some sort of an estimate as to the extent of

the injured barley, I proceeded to mark out a distance of

20 yards; I then walked up the rows, carefully examining

the one between my feet and the three at each side, cutting

and counting the infected straws, and placing them in a bag.

Having arrived at my distance-post, I noted down the result

of each 20 yards worked; this I continued to do for just

four hours. I then measured the width of ground worked,

and found it to be just 80 yards; in this small space, 80 x 20

yards, I had cut over 800 infected straws, each containing

from one to four puparia. I believe that twice that number

were infested, for I noticed many plants looking very ‘seedy,’

though the ears were anything but seedy; these were not

bent down, but on cutting them I found puparia in the

usual place—just above the 2nd joint. You will observe that

these ears only contain from six to eight poor grains, instead

of nearly thirty, the average number, in a healthy plant.

A little time was lost during the four hours above-mentioned

in frequently taking off my coat, to free it of the quantity

of the irritable barley-ears, which, as everyone knows, have

such a knack of working their way up one’s sleeves, &e.

«We have all read from time to time that ‘ the Commission

appointed’ duly report to Parliament in how many counties

the crops have been attacked; but, so far, we have not heard

whether any practical steps have been taken to check the

progress of the Hessian Fly, or prevent its reappearance next

year. I venture to think something might have been done by

collecting the infected straw, instead of burning it, so that

the parasites might be bred and ‘turned down’ in infected

localities; we know they would not require any ‘red tape’ to

induce them to do their appointed duty. I do not appre-

hend that this would be too great an undertaking for the

Government, for it is obvious that if one person can in four

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hours collect over 2000 puparia, fifty people could collect

a proportionately larger number, and there would be so many

less left to work future damage.

‘* Another thing which I believe is much wanted,—in

which opinion I am supported by Mr. G. E. Palmer,—is,

that every farmer should be supplied with a good figure of an

infected plant, for several farmers with whom I have conversed

upon the subject are totally ignorant as to the appearance of

a plant when attacked; and one said to me ‘ We hear a

deal about this Hessian Fly, but we don’t know what it’s like

or what to look for.’ Such being the case, an official report

is of little value to the farmers.

‘* Among the many letters which have appeared in the press

I think the following from the ‘Mark Lane Express,’ headed

‘Where the Hessian Fly came from,’ and signed ‘ English

Farmer,’ deserves attention :—‘ If any of your readers want

to know from whence this pest is coming, they have only to

examine the straw that is now being imported into this

country to satisfy themselves. Only a fortnight ago I

examined some rough straw lying in No. 1 Princess Dock-

shed, Hull, and found it badly infested,’ &e. If the above

statement is correct, all remedial measures will be useless

so long as infected straw is allowed to be imported.

‘T must apologise for these somewhat disjointed notes, and

at some future time I will endeavour to give more detailed

accounts of my observations both on the Hessian Fly and its

parasites.”

Mr. Enock exhibited specimens of injured barley; and a

diseussion ensued, in which Dr. Sharp, Mr. Jacoby, Mr.

Billups, Mr. Waterhouse, and others took part.

October 5, 1887.

Dr. Davin Suarp, M.B., F.Z.S., President, in the chair.

Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks voted

to the respective donors.

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Exhibitions, &c.

Mr. Jacoby exhibited a species of Aphthonoides, a genus of

Halticina, having a long spine on the posterior femora. He

also exhibited a specimen of Rhagiosoma madagascariensis, and

remarked that it had the appearance of a Longicorn.

Mr. Stevens exhibited a very dark specimen of Crambus

perlellus, from the Hebrides, which its captor supposed to be

a new species.

Mr. Porritt remarked that this brown form of Crambus

perlellus occurred at Hartlepool with the ordinary typical

form of the species, and was there regarded as only a variety

of it.

Mr. Slater exhibited a specimen of Gonepteryax Cleopatra,

which was stated to have been taken in the North of Scotland.

Mr. Jenner Weir remarked that he had found larve of

Gonepteryx Rhamni upon Rhamnus alaternus (not a British

species), and reared them from it. As this shrub was com-

monly imported from the Continent for horticultural purposes,

it seemed to him probable that the eggs or young larve of

Gonepterya Cleopatra might be easily introduced. He further

observed that the deposition of its ova by Gonepteryx Rhamnt

on Rhamnus alaternus was a remarkable instance of instinct ;

for although the shrub in question was undoubtedly a suitable

food-plant for the species of Gonepterya, it was very unlike

the two common species of the genus Rhamnus—frangula and

catharticus—both in appearance and character, being an ever-

green with bright glossy leaves, and the two latter species

being deciduous.

Mr. South exhibited an interesting series of about 150

specimens of Boarmia repandata, L., bred in 1876 and during

the present year from larve found feeding on bilberry

and heather in a small wooded glen on the coast, not far

distant from Lynmouth, North Devon. Mr. South remarked

that the present sylvan character of the locality might to a very

large extent be considered artificial, inasmuch as the oak trees

which now contribute so greatly to its beauty were without

doubt planted. Prior to the introduction of the oaks probably

the only arboreous plants which existed there were birches

and sallows, similar to those now observed in some other

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portions of Exmoor; the connection between which and the

locality referred to was only interrupted here and there by an

occasional strip of cultivated land. Between these patches of

arable land are broad areas of common covered with heather,

gorse, and bilberry. Large detached masses of rock lie

scattered here and there along the sides and at the bottom

of the glen, which are now almost entirely covered by

vegetation. At the shore end, however, the rocks, which

belong to the Middle Devonian system, and consist of red and

grey grit, shales, and sandstones, stand out clear and bold.

The series of specimens exhibited included strongly-marked

examples of the type-form ; an extreme form of var. conversaria,

Hiib., a form intermediate between the type and the last-

named var. ; examples of var. destrigaria, Steph.; and another

form, believed by Mr. South to be the issue of a cross between

the var. conversaria and the var. destrigaria. In support of

this suggestion Mr. South said that in 1888 he bred about

equal numbers of the type and conversaria forms from ova

deposited by a banded female, which he had every reason to

suppose had paired with a typical male. It was apparent, on

looking at the entire series, that the extreme forms were in

each case connected with the type by intermediate forms and

their aberrations.

Mr. E. B. Poulton exhibited young larve of Apatura iris,

which had been beaten off sallow in the New Forest. He

also exhibited eight larve of Sphina convolvuli, of which seven

were in the fourth stage and one in the third. A female moth,

captured in 8. Devon by Mr. Pode, laid eighteen eggs on

August 29th; all except one of these produced larve by

September 9th, and up to the date of the meeting only a

single larva had been lost. My. Poulton said the life-history

had been of extreme interest, throwing much hght upon

that of Sphinw ligustri, as well as upon difficult points in the

ontogeny of the allied genera, Acherontia and Smertithus.

Mr. Stainton commented on the interesting nature of the

exhibition, and said he was not aware that the larve of

Sphina convolvuli had ever before been seen in this country in

their early stages.

Mr. M‘Lachlan remarked that females of this species

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captured on former occasions, when the insect had been

unusually abundant, had been found upon dissection to have

the ovaries aborted.

Mr. R. W. Lloyd exhibited two specimens of Hlater pomone

and one of Mesosa nubila, recently taken in the New Forest.

My. Porritt exhibited a series of melanic varieties of Diurnea

fagella from Huddersfield, and he stated that the typical pale

form of the species had almost disappeared from that neigh-

bourhood.

Mr. Dannatt exhibited a specimen of the so-called ‘ Vege-

table Caterpillar,” from New Zealand.

Mr. Goss exhibited, on behalf of Mr. John Brown, of Cam-

bridge, a number of puparia of Cecidomyia destructor (the

Hessian Fly), received by the latter from Whittlesford and

Wilbraham, Cambridgeshire; from Long Stratton, Norfolk ;

from Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk; and from Wiltshire. He

also exhibited a living larva of Cephus pygmaeus, Lat. (the

Corn Sawfly), which had been submitted to Mr. Brown by

Mr. Charles C. Ambrose, of Swaffham Prior, Cambridgeshire,

who reported that the species had been doing considerable

damage this year to wheat-crops in Burwell Fen.

Mr. Verrall, in reply to a question by Mr. Enock, said he

believed that the Hessian Fly was not a recent introduction

into Great Britain, but had been here probably for hundreds

of years; and that twelve years ago he had included the spe-

cies in a list of British Diptera which he had compiled. He

believed the reason of its not having been recorded years ago

was that the damage done by it was insignificant, and that

until the recent period of agricultural depression the British

farmer did not trouble himself about small grievances.

Prof. Riley, in answer to the question as to the probable date

of the introduction of the species in this country, said there

were probably as many conflicting views on the subject as had

been expressed about its first appearance in America. These

were based on the facts that American grain-growers had been

practically unfamihar with it prior to 1777; that its injuries on

Long Island followed the landing of Hessian troops in the sum-

mer of that year; that its subsequent progress westward at the

rate of fifteen or more miles a year was distinctly traced and

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recorded; and that Col. G. Morgan (who wrote mostintelligently

about it at the time) claimed, in his letter of August 26th, 1788,

to Sir John Temple, to have given it the name of ‘ Hessian Fly.’

The consensus of opinion on the other side of the Atlantic

had been with Fitch, who followed contemporary conviction

at the time of the insect’s first injury, and held that it had

been imported into America by the Hessian troops; Balthazar

Wagner, however, in an admirable paper (1861) argued that

it could not have been imported by the Hessians, his reasons

being that, as had been long previously shown, it was not

known to occur in Hesse, and that the historic evidence as to

the times of departure and arrival of the troops taken together

with the life-history of the insect rendered such importation

highly improbable, or, as he puts it, out of the question. Hagen

(1880 and 1885), following Wagner, used the same facts and

arguments, and added some further historic data; but, with

more bibliographic zeal than biologic acumen, he went farther,

and claimed that it was never imported, but was indigenous to

America.

Prof. Riley said it would extend his observations beyond

reasonable limits to enter into the details on which he based

his own conviction, which had been substantially expressed in

the full paper by Packard in the‘ Third Report of the United

States Entomological Commission (1883).’ His opinion was

that while we might drop the Hessian theory,—since Mr. Henry

Phillips, jun., as quoted by Hagen (1885), finds mention of

the ‘“‘Hessian Fly’? in the unpublished minutes of the

American Philosophical Society for 1768 (a rather astonishing

fact, as it antedates the landing of the Hessians !),—and con-

cede that the insect was introduced some time prior to the

revolution, yet that its introduction about that time must be

accepted, because Hagen’s arguments to the contrary were not

supported by evidence.

Prof. Riley further remarked that he had referred to these

conflicting views of leading writers as to the original source

and time of introduction of the insect into America, not so

much to foreshadow the future conflict of opinion on similar

points in England as to bring out this important fact as a

warning to hasty generalisers, viz., that the arguments of

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Wagner, Hagen, &c., against its introduction into America,

were inherently weak from the biologic side. They are based

on the average or normal period of summer development of

about seven weeks from egg to adult, and ignore the important

bearing of exceptional retardation in development whereby the

puparia of one summer remain latent and only give forth the flies

in the spring or early summer of the ensuing year. This fact,

recognised by Harris (1852), Prof. Riley said he had evidence

of in America in garnered straw, and it was proved by Wagner

himself to have occurred in Germany in field-stubble. It was

more apt to occur, however, in straw kept dry and packed

than in stubble or exposed straw, and is in keeping with

many other similar cases of retarded development in insects,

some remarkable instances of which he called attention to

before the American Association for the Advancement of

Science in 1881. It destroyed Hagen’s main argument,

rendered the introduction of the species possible at almost any

season, and made its introduction to America by the Hessians

who left Portsmouth April 7th and landed June 3rd, 1777, on

Staten Island, quite probable and plausible from biologic

grounds. All the facts as to the history of the insect in Great

Britain indicated its recent introduction. The lengthy inquiry

carried on at the request of the Privy Council by Sir Joseph

Banks a century ago, a full record of which will be found in

Young's ‘ Annals of Agriculture,’ &e. (vol. xi., 1789, pp. 406-

613), proved quite conclusively that the insect was not here

then ; and there was no reason to suppose that since then it

would long have eluded detection whether by intelligent farmers,

or by entomologists like Kirby, Curtis, and Westwood. The

first authentic record of its appearance in this country was

that by Miss E. A. Ormerod last year (1886), and, as so often

happens after the first announcement of a discovery, when

public attention has been strongly called to a subject, hosts of

observers have been on the gwi vive for the insect who would

otherwise never have looked for it. As a consequence it had

been detected during the past summer along the eastern coast

up into Northern Scotland; and this wide distribution would

indicate that it had been at work unnoticed for some years

previous to 1886, though it may also be accounted for by the

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simultaneous import of infested straw from some given locality

into various ports along the coast. Prof. Riley said this

last view was rather confirmed by the balance of the evidence

and the statistics of straw importation, which, so far as he had

been able to get at them, showed that straw is brought into

Great Britain chiefly from France and Holland, and is carried

almost entirely into eastern ports, the port of Glasgow (which

reaches so near the eastern coast) being the only notable

exception. Much of the straw is also used for manure and

distributed by rail. The fact that the insect is yet con-

fined to the eastern counties is also confirmatory of its recent

advent; for, had it been long in the country, we should

expect it to be uniformly distributed over the grain-growing

parts of the island. The testimony of farmers who think

they saw the insect in years gone by (there have already been

such, and there will be others!) is rarely, if ever, to be

depended on; while entomologists who argue its indigenous

character from the general ignorance of, or indifference to,

the Cecidomyide on the part of British Dipterists, or from the

difficulty of separating the species of the genus Cecidomyia in

the adult state, forget how unique in appearance and easily

discerned the puparium is, and put mere opinion against

established fact. In conclusion, Prof. Riley said he believed

that the Hessian Fly had, beyond question, been introduced

into England since Curtis’s time, and probably within the

past three or four years.

Mr. Verrall, in reply to a further question, said he admitted

that he had no direct evidence in support of the opinion

he had expressed that the Hessian Fly had been in this

country for a great number of years. He called attention

to a recent paper on the Hessian Fly in Essex by Mr. J.

M. Campbell, in which it was stated that Miss Ormerod

had found the puparia of the species in some straw im-

ported from Belgium. As a matter of fact, however, the

insect was not known to occur in Belgium. Mr. Verrall

further said that he thought it improbable that Mr. Enock

would be able to recognise the perfect insect ‘ off-hand,” as

there were perhaps nearly 250 British species of Cecidomyida,

all minute, and many so closely allied as to be almost inde-

terminable unless bred, or examined when alive.

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Mr. M‘Lachlan, Mr. Elwes, Mr. Jacoby, and Dr. Sharp

continued the discussion.

Papers read.

Mr. James Edwards communicated the second and con-

cluding part of his ‘* Synopsis of British Homoptera-Cicadina.”

Professor Westwood contributed ‘‘ Notes on the life-history

of various species of the Neuropterous genus Ascalaphus.”’

Mr. Elwes read a paper ‘On the Butterflies of the

Pyrenees,” and exhibited a large number of species which he

had recently collected there.

Mr. M‘Lachlan said he spent some weeks in the Pyrenees

in 1886, and was able to confirm Mr. Elwes’ statements as to

the abundance of butterflies in that part of the world. He

remarked on the occurrence of Spanish forms in the district,

and on the absence, as a rule, of the peat-bogs so common

in the Swiss Alps. The discussion was continued by Mr.

Distant, Mr. White, Dr. Sharp, and others.

November 2, 1887.

Dr. Davip Suarp, M.B., F.Z.S., President, in the chair.

Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks voted

to the respective donors.

Exhibitions, de.

Mr. Stevens exhibited a specimen of Acidalia immorata, L.,

of which an example was purchased by him some years ago

at the sale of-the collection of the late Mr. Desvignes.

Mr. Stevens remarked that specimens of this insect, lately

captured near Lewes, had been described last month in the

‘Hntomologist’s Monthly Magazine’ and ‘ Entomologist’ by

Mr. J. H. A. Jenner as a species new to Britain.

Mr. Jenner Weir remarked that, as Mr. Desvignes was an

old friend and correspondent of the late Mr. Hopley, who

formerly lived at Lewes, it was probable that his specimen of

Acidalia immorata came from the same locality as Mr. Jenner’s

specimen.

Mr. Adkin exhibited, and made remarks on, a series of

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male and female specimens of Arctia mendica from County

Cork; he also exhibited, for comparison, two specimens of

A. mendica from Antrim, and a series of bred specimens from

the London District. Some of the males from Cork were as

white as the typical English females, but the majority of

them were of a smoky-white colour, intermediate between the

form last mentioned and the typical English form.

Mr. Enock exhibited an example of a species of Hemiptera

—Calocoris bipunctatus—containing an internal parasitic larva.

Dr. Sharp exhibited three species of Coleoptera new to the

British list, viz.:—1. Octhebius auriculatus, Rey, found by

Messrs. Champion and Walker some years ago in the Isle of

Sheppey, but described only quite recently by M. Rey from

specimens found at Calais and Dieppe. 2. Limnius rivularis,

Rosenh., found by the late Dr. J. A. Power at Woking;

the species, though not uncommon in Southern Europe, had

not, he believed, been previously found farther north than

Central France. 3. Tropiphorus obtusus, Bonsd., taken by

himself on the banks of Water of Cairn between Irongray and

Dunscore, Dumfriesshire; he had considered previously that

this might be the male of 7. mercurialis, but M. Fauvel, who

was studying the European species of the genus, informed

him this was not the case, and he had no doubt was correct

in his view. He also exhibited a Goliathus, recently described

by Dr. O. Nickerl as a new species, under the name of

G. atlas, and remarked that the species existed in several

collections, and had been supposed to be possibly a hybrid

between G. regius and G. cacicus, as its characters appeared

to be exactly intermediate between those of the two species

named. Dr. Sharp also exhibited a living example of the

mole-cricket, Gryllotalpa vulgaris, from Southampton; between

the spines of its hind legs were a number of living Acaride,

placed in a symmetrical manner, so as to appear as if they

formed a part of the structure of the limb.

Mr. Eland Shaw exhibited two species of Orthoptera which

had been unusually common this year, viz., Nemobius sylvestris

from the New Forest, and Vettix subulatus from Charmouth,

Dorset.

Mr. E. B. Poulton exhibited the cocoons of three species

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of Lepidoptera in which the colour of the silk had been

controlled by the use of appropriate colours in the larval

environment at the time of ‘‘spinning up.” Mr. Poulton

said this colour-susceptibility had been previously proved by

him in 1886 in the case of Saturnia carpini, and the experi-

ments on the subject had been described in the Proc. Royal

Society, 1887. It appeared from these experiments that the

cocoons were dark brown when the larve had been placed in

a black bag; white when they had been freely exposed to

light with white surfaces in the immediate neighbourhood.

Mr. Poulton stated that the other two species subjected to

experiment during the past season afforded confirmatory

results. Thus the mature larva of Hritogaster lanestris had

been exposed to white surroundings by the Rev. W. J. H.

Newman, and cream-coloured cocoons were produced in all

cases; whilst two or three hundred larve from the same

company spun the ordinary dark brown cocoons among the

leaves of the food-plant. Im the latter case the green

surroundings appeared to act as a stimulus to the production

of a colour which corresponded with that which the leaves

would subsequently and permanently assume. Mr. Poulton

further stated that he had more recently exposed the larve

of Halias prasinana to white surroundings, and had obtained

a white and a very light yellow cocoon, far lighter than the

lightest of those met with upon leaves. The larva which

spun the white cocoon had previously begun to spin a brown

one upon a leaf, but upon being removed to white surroundings

it produced white silk.

Mr. Stainton suggested that larve should be placed in

ereen boxes, with the view of ascertaining whether the

cocoons would be green. He understood that it had been

suggested that the cocoons formed amongst leaves became

brown because the larve knew what colour the leaves would

ultimately become.

Mr. Poulton, in reply, said that, so far from the larvee

having any choice or intelligence in the matter, he felt

convinced that the whole process was entirely involuntary,

and that the susceptibility had arisen through the action of

natural selection upon favourable variations,

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The discussion was continued by Mr. Waterhouse, Dr.

Sharp, Mr. M‘Lachlan, and others.

Mr. Klein exhibited a number of living larve of Ephestia

Kiihniella, which he said had been recently doing great

damage to flour in a warehouse in the east of London.

Papers read.

Mr. Sydney T. Klein read the following ‘‘ Notes on Kphestia

Kihniella ” :—

“In May last I discovered a colony of this scourge of

Mediterranean ports in some large warehouses in the east-

end of London. There were over a thousand tons of flour

stored in close proximity, and, under my direction, great

efforts were made to prevent the larve from spreading. In

spite of fumigating with sulphur and hot-liming the floors,

ceilings, and walls (practised continually for several days),

by which means enormous numbers of the imagines were

killed, they spread with great rapidity, until one entire ware-

house was literally smothered with larve, and_ several

hundred pounds’ worth of damage was done. The flour

was so intermingled with the larve-threads that it was

rendered unfit for even pig or cattle food. The ova, which

seemed to be deposited by the imagines generally upon the

top of the sack, hatched within a few days of being laid, and

the larve, at once burrowing through the sacking, com-

menced spinning long galleries in the flour, seldom, however,

going more than three inches from the exterior. I have

brought specimens of these galleries, the network very much

resembling wool. The larve, which were full-fed in about

three weeks, then made their way to the surface, and could

be seen in myriads crawling along the floor and up the walls

of the warehouse, till they reached the angle where the roof

met the walls. There they spun compact silken cocoons, in

which they turned to the pupa-state. Their migratory

habits, when full-fed, were very extraordinary; nothing

seemed to keep them within bounds. I had a colony of

some thousands at my house, in order to make experiments

how to exterminate them; but I found that my breeding-

cages, with the finest meshed wire, were useless to restrain

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them. I then placed them under a large glass shade on a

polished wooden surface with no perceptible outlet, but it

was no use; the corners and ceiling of my room were within

a week studded with their cocoons, and every day specimens

of the larve were discovered in different parts of the house,

from top to bottom; in fact, they increased and wandered to

such an alarming extent that I had to give up keeping them.

The colony was therefore delivered over to the tender mercies

of about fifty game and Plymouth-rock hens, which are kept

at the bottom of my garden. The evident appreciation with

which these plump larve were greeted at once suggested

a remedy for exterminating those in the warehouse; a great

number of hens was therefore requisitioned from the neigh-

bourhood in the east-end, and it was encouraging to see the

enormous quantities consumed. But the hens began to flag

after ten minutes of gorging, and, although they were kept

in the warehouse for several weeks, the insects still continued

to increase and spread to other granaries. The case was

referred to many able entomologists and scientists, but no

effective remedy was forthcoming, and it seemed as though

many thousands of pounds’ worth of goods would be involved.

Science having failed to find a remedy, it remained for

Nature to step in with those wonderful antidotes which she

always has in store for counteracting any over-production of

the fauna or flora under her charge. I held an inspection in

August, and brought away several of the full-fed larve for

examination, as I noted some regular markings which

had not been noticed before. These larvee seemed to pupate

quite regularly, and I did not suspect the state of the case

till I went down again at the beginning of September. No

sooner had I entered the warehouses than I noticed a most

extraordinary change in the appearance of the large piles of

flour. On closer examination I found this appearance was

caused by enormous numbers of a small black fly, the

ovipositor of the female of which clearly showed that it

belonged to the Ichnewnonide ; and, upon examining several

of the larve, the majority of which had markings on

their backs, the startling fact was established that Nature

had come to the rescue and provided the remedy herself. It

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is very rarely that such a striking example of Nature’s

wonderful counterbalancing powers is discovered.”

Mr. A. G. Butler contributed a paper ‘On the species of

the Lepidopterous genus Huchromia, with descriptions of new

species in the collection of the British Museum.”

Lord Walsingham communicated the following “Note,”

substituting the generic name Homonymus for the generic

name Ankistrophorus used in his ‘ Revision of the genera

Acrolophus and Anaphora.”

‘« HomonyMus.

‘Opavypos = homonymous.

= § Ankistrophorus, Wlsm., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.,

1887, p. 146.

Type. Ankistrophorus corrientis, Wlsm.

The generic name Ankistrophorus, used on pp. 140, 146,

and 172, &c., in my Revision of the genera Acrolophus and

Anaphora, is found to be preoccupied by the more correctly-

spelt name Ancistrophora, Schin. (in the order of Diptera).

Iam therefore desirous to correct this error by substituting

for Ankistrophorus the generic name Homonymus, to be used

throughout the paper, and in all references to this genus.

The name is calculated to recall the circumstances under

which such correction has been made.”

December 7, 1887.

Dr. Davin Suarp, M.B., F.Z.S., President, in the chair.

Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks voted

to the respective donors.

Election of Fellows.

Mr. C. E. Stanley-Phillips, of Shooter’s Hill; Mr. H. W.

Barker, of Peckham; and Herr E. G. Honrath, of Berlin,

were elected Fellows.

Exhibtions, &c.

Mr. Jenner Weir exhibited specimens of Cicadetta hema-

toides from the New Forest, and remarked that he believed

they were found nowhere else in England; that usually

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two or three specimens were taken each year, but that

in the present year they had been commoner, probably

in consequence of the heat and drought of the past summer.

Mr. Weir stated that he had received twelve specimens of

this insect from Charles Gulliver, of Ramnor Cottage,

Brockenhurst. Of this number three were taken in one

morning and nine in another; and, although the particular

locality was subsequently searched for them, no others were

found. He added that Charles Gulliver had informed him

that he was attracted to the insect by hearing the singing

of the male, but out of the twelve taken one only was a male.

It would therefore appear probable that the males are more

active than the females, and quickly retreat when disturbed,

leaving the females behind. The males had not been selected

from the females before Mr. Weir received the specimens, as

Gulliver assured him that the dozen exhibited were all the

family had collected during the past season.

Mr. M‘Lachlan exhibited a specimen of Pterostichus madidus,

F., which he had found in a potato. It seemed questionable

whether the beetle had been bred in the cavity or had entered

it for predaceous purposes. Mr. Theodore Wood, Mr. Kirby,

and Mr. Herbert Cox took part in the discussion which

ensued. Mr. M‘Lachlan also exhibited two specimens of a

species of Trichoptera— Neuwronia clathrata, Kol. —which

occurred rarely in Burnt Wood, Staffordshire, and elsewhere

in the Midlands. On enquiry he was informed that the two

specimens exhibited had been found in the Tottenham Marshes

by Mr. C. J. Boden.

Mr. Porritt exhibited a series of specimens of Cidaria

russata, from Yorkshire, the Isle of Man, the Hebrides, and

the South of England. The specimens from the two first-

named localities were almost black.

Mr. Verrall exhibited a specimen of Mycetaa hirta, Marsh.,

which was found devouring a champagne cork. The Rey.

Canon Fowler remarked that certain Cryptophagi had the

same habit.

Mr. M‘Lachlan asked whether the cork or the alcohol

attracted the insect? Mr. Jenner Weir, Dr. Sharp, and

Mr. Verrall continued the discussion.

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Canon Fowler exhibited specimens of Acronycta alni and

Letocampa dictea, which came to the electric light on Lincoln

Cathedral during the Jubilee illuminations. He also exhibited

a specimen of Harpalus melancholicus, Dej., from Kingsgate.

My. Billups exhibited, for Mr. G. C. Bignell, of Plymouth,

a case of British oak-galls, as also their makers, and in some

cases the parasites. Amongst others there were Spathegaster

baccarum, aprilinus, and vesicatriv, Neuroterus numismatis,

leviusculus, Ostreus fumipennis and lenticularis, Dryophanta

longiventris, agma, and scutellaris, Aphilotrix sieboldi, radicis,

albopunctata, corticis, gemme, &c., Andricus terminatus, Cynips

Kollari, and many others. He also exhibited the cocoon

and pupa-case of a South American moth, from which he

had taken 140 specimens of a parasite of the genus

Smicra, showing the enormous fecundity of this species of

Ichneumonide.

Mr. O. Janson exhibited, for Mr. C. B. Mitford, a collection

of Lepidoptera from Sierra Leone.

Mr. White exhibited a female specimen of Composia olympia,

Butl., from Florida. He also exhibited, for Mr. Ralfe, a

curious structure formed by White Ants at Akyab, Burmah.

Mr. Waterhouse exhibited a series of wings of insects, with

drawings and also diagrams, in which he had coloured the

veins in accordance with what he believed to be the homo-

logies. He said that he found Dr. Adolph’s three memoirs

on insects’ wings, in the ‘Nova Acta d. ksl. Leop.-Carol.-

Deut. Akademie’ for 1879, 1884, and 1885, were not suff-

ciently known in England, and he therefore briefly explained

the theory propounded by that author; and also called

attention to Herr Redtenbacher’s paper (in the ‘ Ann d. k. k.

Naturh. Hofmuseums zu Wien,’ 1886) on the same subject.

A primitive wing would ina manner somewhat resemble a

fan, each fold of the fan being furnished with a longitudinal

vein, with numerous transverse veins uniting the longitudinal

ones. There were, then, two series of veins, an upper series

(termed convex veis), and a lower series (termed concave

veins). Perhaps the nearest approach to such a wing would

be the wing of a locust, or an Ephemera, which Mr. Water-

house considered an excellent type. Of the two series of

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veins the lower veins are the weaker and the more liable to

disappear, and in some eases (e.g., in Hymenoptera) they are

absent. When an upper vein is absent its course can

frequently be traced by the presence of a convex fold or

ridge, and there is often a dark spot on the transverse

hervures through which it has passed. If a lower vein is

absent its course can generally be traced by a pale impressed

line or concave fold, and a pale spot is frequently left in the

transverse veins through which it has passed. Mr. Water-

house believed that this theory would not improbably lead to

the determination of the homologies of the veins, although

there was much yet to learn. He pointed out that both the

convex and concave veins might fork or branch as they

approached the margin of the wing; and when, as the

branches diverge, they would become widely separated, a vein

was usually found between them: a concave vein between

the two branches of a convex vein; a convex vein between

the branches of a concave vein. A convex vein could never

cross a concave vein, or vice versa, and, although im some

cases they appeared to do so, the apparent crossing could

always be accounted for in some other way. It was also

important to bear in mind that the longitudinal veins were

often rendered zigzag by being drawn out of the line by the

transverse nervures; and also that the longitudinal veins,

distinct in their origin, become united by the transverse

nervures; thus a vein B running

between two others A and C, united ee

to A and C by the nervures # and z, = :

might become united to and appear

as a branch of A or C, according to which of the nervures

x or z became obsolete.

Mr. Champion inquired if Mr. Waterhouse had examined

the wings of any of the Coleoptera.

Mr. Verrall asked if a convex vein was not sometimes

placed over a concave one.

Mr. Waterhouse, in reply to Mr. Champion, said he had

not examined any wings of Coleoptera; and, in reply to

Mr. Verrall, he said these veins often closely approximated,

but he did not think they ever ran one over the other.

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Mr. M‘Lachlan remarked on the differences in the terms

hitherto used for different families with regard to the neuration

of the wings, and he observed that in some points the neura-

tion of the wings of the Trichoptera and Lepidoptera agreed ;

and he called special attention to one or two species of

Lepidoptera (of which Mr. Waterhouse exhibited drawings)

as being most remarkable.

Mr. Poulton, Dr. Sharp, Mr. Verrall, and Mr. Waterhouse

continued the discussion.

Papers read.

Mr. G. T. Baker contributed ‘‘ Descriptions of new species

of Lepidoptera from Algiers.”

Mr. Gervase I’. Mathew, R.N., communicated a paper

entitled ‘‘ Life-histories of Rhopalocera from the Australian

Region.” The paper was accompanied by elaborate coloured

drawings of the perfect insects, their larve and pupe.

Mr. Frederic Merrifield read a ‘“ Report of Progress in

Pedigree Moth-breeding, with observations on incidental

points.” He also exhibited a large number of specimens of

Selenia illunaria, showing the results of the experiments he

had been making. He said that, having obtained plenty of

living specimens of S. illunaria in the spring, his experiments

with that species were more advanced than with S. iilustraria.

From eggs of illunaria laid by moths taken in the spring he

had reared a second generation fed on sleeved birch trees,

the moths emerging in July. From these he had made a

selection of long-winged (A), medium-winged (M), and short-

winged (Z) pairs, and from each of these pairs he had batches

of pupe numbering from 60 to 100, now hybernating.

Besides the insects thus reared under natural conditions, he

had reared some which were kept during all their stages in

an artificial temperature averaging a little under 80° Fahr.

In this way he had obtained four successive generations, and

from the last of them, being the fifth generation of the year,

counting a generation as beginning with the egg (the moths

caught in the spring reckoning as belonging to the first), he

had three selected broods, comprising between 200 and 3800

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larve, now feeding, some few being nearly full-fed. The

forced second generation was distinctly larger than the same

generation sleeved, and each successive forced generation

showed a measurable increase in size over its predecessor.

From the forced second generation he had selected A, M,

and Z pairs, from each of which he had reared a number of

moths, but the A’s and Z’s in this third generation failed to

produce fertile eggs, though several pairs of each were tried.

The M’s produced abundantly, and from one of these M pairs

he bred 61 moths, from which he had again selected <A’s,

M’s, and Z’s, which laid fertile eggs, and from these pairs

he had the three broods of larvee above referred to as now

feeding, some of which he exhibited. He refrained at present

from any inferences as to the cause of the sterility of the

third generation of forced moths in the A, M, and Z lines,

but thought it would be prudent in continuing these experi-

ments to include some selections from points considerably

short of the extremes in size. All the successive generations

were of the summer type (Juliaria). In all the female was,

on the average, sensibly larger than the male, but in the

natural spring emergence the reverse was the case. S. illunaria

was the only English double-brooded Geometer, except per-

haps 7’. laricaria, which had one of its emergences in a winter

month, and he threw out the suggestion whether the relatively

smaller size of the female in the first emergence might be a

step towards or a remnant of apterousness, usual in the

female of our winter moths. It would be interesting to breed

and compare 7’. laricaria. He could not undertake any other

species than illunaria and illustraria, and circumstances might

interfere even with them; and as the experiments with them

must continue for many generations in order to reach the

results wanted for Mr. Galton’s purposes, and required un-

interrupted watchfulness, it was essential, to prevent an

accidental failure, that there should be a second line of

experiments conducted independently. Both species were

very easy to rear, and offered much scope for experiment in

various directions ; he would gladly supply eggs in the spring

for the purpose. Mr. Merrifield further said he should

be glad to be afforded the opportunity of seeing and, if

judged expedient, breeding from unusual varieties or types

of either species, or examples from Ireland, Wales, Northern

regions such as Scotland and Scandinavia, where both

species appear to be single-brooded, or from Central or

Southern Europe. 8S. lunaria would be an _ interesting

subject; and he should like to know whether in the resting

position it approximated to illunaria, which folds its wings

closely together like a butterfly, or to illustraria, which

holds them at an angle of 50° or 60°. He exhibited two

diagrams, one showing the measurements of the successive

broods, and the other the duration of the larval and other

stages in each; also a number of specimens of each brood of

illunaria, and several of illustraria.

Mr. Francis Galton alluded to the close attention Mr.

Merrifield had given to the subject, and complimented him

on the neatness, ingenuity, and skill with which he had con-

ducted his experiments, which he considered were of a very

high order. He hoped that other members of the Society

would assist Mr. Merrifield by making similar experiments.

Mr. Galton said his own part of the work had not yet com-

menced, but he hoped to begin it next March. He made some

observations on acquired faculties, and on the possibility of

mutilations being inherited. He believed that mutilations

in the legs of larvee affected the legs of the moth.

Prof. Meldola expressed his admiration of the manner in

which Mr. Merrifield had conducted these experiments, and

hoped that they would be successfully continued. He

suggested that the opportunity afforded by such wholesale

experiments should be utilised for the purpose of getting

accurate measurements of the relative variability of certain

selected characters in the moth, in addition to the size,

which character only was required for Mr. Galton’s purpose.

Thus, by carefully measuring the length of the antennae,

the distance between certain definite markings on the wings,

&e., in all the individuals of several distinct broods, data

would be obtained for expressing numerically the relative

amount of variability of the parts stated in terms of the

mean or average measurement. Observations of this kind

had been conducted on birds by Mr. Allen in North America,

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and had served to show the extreme relative variability of all

the parts. Accurate measurements of this variability were

much needed for large numbers of individuals belonging to

widely different species in as many diverse groups of the

Animal Kingdom as possible. By this means naturalists

would in the future be better able to realise the degree of

plasticity of different organisms. Such information, which

might well be supplied by entomologists for insects, would

be of great value as a contribution to the theory of Natural

and Sexual Selection.

Mr. Poulton said he was much interested in the results of

Mr. Merrifield’s experiments. He was extremely astonished

to learn that an insect parasite and a perfect, although much

dwarfed, imago had been bred from a Selenia pupa. At the

same time he remembered that Prof. Westwood had shown

him a dipterous parasite which had escaped from a cocoon of

Trichiosoma lucorum, and from which the hymenopterous

insect had also emerged. Mr. Poulton thought that Mr.

Merrifield’s experiments offered a most favourable opportunity

for practically testing whether acquired characters can or

cannot be transmitted. It was well known that certain larval

organs were the morphological equivalents of the corresponding

pupal and imaginal structures. Thus Mr. Poulton had found

that when the six ocelli of a lepidopterous larva had been

destroyed, the compound eye was not developed in the pupa

or in the imago. If any one of the larval thoracic legs were

cut off, the corresponding leg would almost certainly be

absent in the two later stages. Among all previously recorded

cases there had been no instance in which the effects of

mutilation had been proved to be transmissible to offspring.

Prof. Weismann, of Freiburg, had lately given many reasons

for believing that the transmission of acquired characters

(such as mutilations) cannot take place. But, as Mr. Francis

Galton had said, in all such previous cases the injury had

been inflicted comparatively late in life (viz., in Mammalia,

never before the close of intrauterine development), and in

order to finally show that such effects are not transmitted

they should be produced as early as possible in the life of the

parent. Such facilities are offered by Lepidoptera, for their

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larvee have been correctly described as ‘‘embryos leading an

independent life,’ and the morphological interval which

separates this stage from the two later stages is perfectly

stupendous, completely dwarfing the differences between the

latter into insignificance. Mr. Poulton therefore considered

that if after the systematic mutilation of a large number of

larvee there was no trace of the effects in any individual of

the next generation, the result must be taken as strongly

confirmatory of Prof. Weismann’s view.

ANNUAL MEETING,

January 18th, 1888.

Dr. Davin Suarp, M.B., F.Z.S., President, in the chair.

An abstract of the Treasurer’s accounts for 1887 was read

by Mr. H. T. Stainton, one of the Auditors.

Mr. H. Goss, one of the Secretaries, read the following :—

Report of the Council for 1887.

In accordance with the Bye-Laws the Council beg to present

the following Report :—

During the year 1887 one Fellow (Mr. Logan) has died; four

Fellows have resigned, viz., Mons. Jekel, Major Lendy, Mr.

Parkinson, and Mr. Percy Wormald; and twenty have been

elected. The number of Fellows elected during the year,

although small in comparison with the number elected in 1886,

is above the average. At the same time the Society is in need

of a larger number of members to enable it to publish more

papers, and in other ways to advance its interests and promote

its objects; and the Council earnestly hope that the Fellows

will do their utmost to induce their friends to join the Society.

At the present time the Society consists of an Honorary

Life-President, 10 Honorary Fellows, 43 Life Fellows, and

242 paying the Annual Subscription, making the total number

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of Fellows now on the Society’s list 296, which, after allowing

for the losses by death and resignation, is an increase in

number of 15 since the date of the Annual Meeting last year.

The Transactions for the year 1887 form a volume of

408 pages, containing 19 memoirs contributed by the following

16 authors, viz., Miss Ormerod; Mr. F. Pascoe (2 papers) ;

My. F. Galton, F.R.S.; Mr. F. Merrifield; Mr. P. Crowley ;

Mr. G. F. Mathew, R.N.; the Rev. T. A. Marshall, M.A.;

Mr. G. T. Baker (2 papers); Lord Walsingham, F.R.S. ;

Mr. C. O. Waterhouse; Mr. E. Meyrick, B.A. (2 papers) ;

Mr. E. B. Poulton, M.A.; Mr. W. L. Distant; Mr. J. B.

Bridgman; Mr. T. L. Casey; and Mr. H. J. Elwes. Of these

19 memoirs 11 relate to Lepidoptera (or to enquiries in which

Lepidoptera were the subjects of experiment), 4 to Coleoptera,

2 to Hymenoptera, 1 to Hemiptera, and 1 to Diptera. The

memoirs above referred to are illustrated with 12 plates, of

which 9 are coloured. The Society is indebted to Mr. Pascoe

for plates 1, 2, and 11; to Mr. Crowley for the drawing of

plate 8; and to Lord Walsingham for the drawing and

printing of plates 7 and 8.

The Proceedings,—containing an account of the exhibitions

and discussions at the Meetings, in addition to several papers

not published in the Transactions,—extend to over 60 pages.

The financial position of the Society compares favourably

with that of previous years, the year 1886 being of course

excepted. The differences between the Society’s receipts in

1887 and 1886 can be shortly explained as follows :—In 1886

the Society elected 56 Fellows (85 new, and 21 former Sub-

seribers), whose united entrance-fees amounted to £117 12s.

During the year 1887 the Society has, as before stated, only

elected 20 new Fellows, and consequently has only received

£42 in entrance-fees.

During the past year upwards of 250 Books, Pamphlets,

Journals, and Papers have been added to the Library; the

Meetings have been better attended than in any previons year

of the Society’s existence; there has been a steady increase

in the number of persons elected Fellows; and, although the

Balance in hand is small, two Compositions have been

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invested, and consequently the Society’s Capital has increased

by £31 10s. since the last Annual Meeting. On the whole,

therefore, the Council have reason to be satisfied with the

progress made by the Society during the year 1887.

The following is an Abstract of the Receipts and Payments

during 1887 :—

ReEceEIPtTs. PAYMENTS.

£ s. d. Br ssa:

Balance in hand Ist 1 Rent, Office Ex-

Jan., 1887 «- 3 Aj seketO penses andSalaryto} 128 8 &

Contributions of Fel-) Assistant. Librarian

lows” - : -j 322 7 0 Printing” - : - 156 13 3

Sale of Publications - 62 12 6 | Plates, &c. - - = ¥86'19""S

Interest on Consols - 1012 1 *Balance — - = 140) 457

* Of this Balance £8 14s. 7d.

remains in hand, and £81 10s.

has been invested.

£425 3 5 £425 3 5

11, Chandos Street, Cavendish Square, London, W.,

January 18th, 1888.

The Secretaries not having received any notice proposing

to substitute other names than those in the lists prepared by

the Council, the following Fellows constitute the Council for

1888 :—Henry J. Elwes, F.L.S.; the Rev. Canon Fowler,

M.A., F.L.8.; Herbert Goss, F.L.S.; Ferdinand Grut, F.L.S8.;

Sir John Lubbock, Bart., M.P., F.R.S.; Robert McLachlan,

F.R.S.; P. Brooke Mason, M.R.C.S., F.L.S.; Edward B.

Poulton, M.A., F.L.S.; Osbert Salvin, M.A., F.R.S.; Edward

Saunders, F.L.S.; Dr. David Sharp, F.Z.S.; Henry T.

Stainton, F.R.S.; and Lord Walsingham, M.A., F.R.S.

The following are the officers elected :—President, Dr. David

Sharp; Treasurer, Mr. Edward Saunders; Secretaries, Mr.

Herbert Goss and the Rey. Canon Fowler; Librarian, Mr.

Ferdinand Grut.

The President then delivered an address, at the conclusion

of which Mr. McLachlan proposed a vote of thanks to Dr.

Sharp for his services as President during the year, and

requested that he would allow his address to be printed with

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the Proceedings. The proposal was seconded by Mr. F.

Pascoe, and carried unanimously. The President returned

thanks.

Mr. Kirby proposed a vote of thanks to the Treasurer,

Secretaries, and Librarian, which was seconded by Mr. Water-

house, and carried unanimously. Mr. Saunders, Mr. Goss,

Canon Fowler, and Mr. Grut made some remarks in acknow-

ledgment.

A vote of thanks to the Council was proposed by Mr.

Waterhouse, seconded by Mr. White, and carried. Mr.

Stainton replied.

Abstract of Receipts and Payments for 1887.

Receipts. Payments.

a5 fy Ok Ey 8ads

Balance Ist Jan.,1887 14 110 | Rent, Salary to As-

Subscriptions oe ea ala 0 sistant-Librarian, 128 8 8

Entrance Fees " 37 16 0 Tnbrpey cx pensey

Ayrears 2 27 6 0 Printing =» Ripe “ 156 13: 3

Compositions i 3110 0 Plates, Colouring, &e. - 8619 8

Morakions i 1510 0 Books, Binding, &. - 1217 3

Transactions (Sale of) 62 12 6 Investments se ; 31 10 0

Interest on Consols - 1012 1 Balance in hand 8 14 7

£425 3 5 £425 3 5

ASSETS.

£ 8s. d

Subscriptions, considered good - : : 2 5 = 107100

Consols, £395 9s. 4d. - - - ° = (cost) 3877 4 0

LIABILITIES.

(None.)

H. T. STaInrTon.

J. JENNER WEIR.

R. McLacHtan.

N. P. FENwIckK.

Sypney T, KLEIN.

Examined and found correct,

January 11th, 1888.

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THE PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS.

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GENTLEMEN,

You will no doubt agree with the Council in considering

the Report they have presented to you, as well as that of the

Auditors, to be on the whole satisfactory. That we have a

balance of a few pounds in hand, and that our invested

money has increased from the small sum of £865 to the

rather less small sum of £895 is satisfactory, inasmuch as it

shows that your Treasurer and Council have been prudent,

and have kept you quite free from financial embarrassment.

But I am sorry to say this has only been accomplished by a

sacrifice you will unanimously regret: we have deferred till

1888 expenditure that we wished to make—that we ought to

have made—in 1887. You will, no doubt, have noticed that

Part IV of the volume of our ‘ Transactions’ for the year is

unusually small: this is due not to the lack of scientific

matter but to insufficiency of pence; and we greatly regret

having been obliged to defer till the volume for 1888 the

papers read in 1887 by Prof. Westwood, Messrs. J. Edwards,

A. G. Butler, F. Merrifield, and Gervase Mathew. The

publication of good papers being one of the most important

functions of our Society, it is greatly to be wished that the

number of its Fellows should increase, as only by this means

can it be hoped to do what is required. A lst of 800 names,

especially including as it does a considerable number of

foreign savants, is not a sufficient roll for the Entomological

Society of London, and is far in arrear of that attained by

some of the Entomological Societies of the Continent.

There is another point not mentioned in the Council’s

Report to which I think it well to draw your attention, and

that is the heavy duties that fall on our Honorary Librarian,

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Mr. Grut. You all know the efficient and courteous manner

in which those duties are performed, but there is a saying

that you should not flog a willing horse too hard, and we all

feel that we ought not to work a librarian, who is both

honorary and honoured, too inconsiderately. But our library

is constantly increasing, and so, too, are the duties of the

librarian, and the position is now such that we could not ask

him to undertake any additional work; indeed that we

would like, if possible, to relieve him of some of that he so

faithfully does for us. Unfortunately our Bye-Laws give

no power to appoint an honorary Assistant Librarian, as is

done by the Entomological Society of France, and, if we wish

to do so, it will be necessary to have a Special Meeting called

with a view to altering the Bye-Laws.

That we should have lost only one Fellow by death during

the year is a remarkable fact that we can expect only rarely

to recur. Mr. R. F. Logan, whose loss we mourn, was for

nearly forty years a member of our Society ; he was an artist,

residing near Edinburgh, and I understood, during the time

I was myself at Edinburgh, that he was in delicate health, so

that I did not make his acquaintance; and it was probably

owing to this weakness that he did not take so conspicuous

a place in Entomology as his early achievements in it

promised for him; he, however, retained his interest in it

till the last years of his life.

Death has also taken from us but few entomologists outside

the ranks of our Society. I know of no others than the few

of whom you will find obituary notices in the pages of the

‘Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine’; the most prominent

being the Rey. John Hellins, so well known in connection

with life-histories of British Lepidoptera ; John Sang, who

possessed considerable powers as a draughtsman; and Mr.

Unwin, of Lewes. Outside our own country the names ef

only two that have disappeared call for mention: Pierre

Milliére, a lepidopterist of the South of France, who, like our

own Hellins, was well known on account of his published

observations of metamorphoses; and Max Gemminger, of

Munich, to whom Entomology owes a hearty acknowledgment,

for it is to him, in conjunction with von Harold, whose loss

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we have scarcely ceased to mourn, that we owe that useful

and laborious work, the Munich Catalogue of Coleoptera.

I propose to oocupy your attention during the remainder

of the time at our disposal this evening by some remarks on

entomological collections.

In addressing an audience composed entirely of entomo-

logists it is perhaps superfluous that I should enlarge on the

value to society of these objects of our attention. We are

fortunate in possessing a taste denied at present, it would

appear, to the majority of mankind: we like to see insects,

and admire their beauty, or be astonished at their wonderful

diversity and the variations in the details of their structure,

and this taste amply justifies to ourselves the formation of

collections of the creatures we admire. But the Entomo-

logical Society of London, being the chief organisation of the

kind existing in Her Majesty’s dominions, is, or ought to be,

recognised as an institution of public value; moreover, the

sequel of my Address requires that I should not altogether

ignore this point, and I shall therefore make some brief

observations on it. The subject, however, is of such

importance and extent that I cannot deal adequately with it ;

to do so would require literary and philosophical powers far

beyond those I can bring to it, and far more time than is at

our disposal this evening.

Without collections there could be no extensive discussion

of entomological questions, no combination of investigations ;

they render possible the establishment of a nomenclature

common to the men of science of different nations, and thus

questions are discussed and conclusions established with the

force derived from the fact that they have been subject to

the criticisms of instructed men in all parts of the world.

Collections are standards of reference for nomenclature,

and without a generally accepted set of names the extension

and diffusion of knowledge to any considerable extent would

be impossible. The saying, ‘‘Nomina si nescis perit et

cognitio rerum,” is perfectly true when applied to mankind

generally, though it is not quite true in the case of a single

individual.

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Good collections of insects are a necessity for biological

research. Even for the completion of those departments of

biology that deal only with the structure and nature of the

individual, they are of great importance ; and for the wider

departments of Natural History, such as variation, distribution,

ancestry or origin, they are even more indispensable.

The question of the educational value of collections, both

public and private, is so extensive that I must not attempt

its discussion, particularly as there are special difficulties

with regard to insects as to the mode and extent of their

exhibition. But I may be permitted to remind you that they

are one of those instruments of civilisation by which the

thoughts of men are widened, and what an advantage it

would be to all if this could be done more effectually ; there

is probably nothing that would do more to relieve the

thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to.

In this enormous city—the largest agglomeration of people

in the world—where I am addressing you, it is of vital im-

portance that every means of improving the mental, as well

as the physical, condition of the people shall be thoroughly

developed. Formerly the Spitalfields weavers used to amuse

themselves by collecting insects: the growth of London,

and more especially the extraordinary increase of value of

property in its vicinity, is fast rendering any such occupation

impracticable to this class of men; and boxes of insects, the

private property of working men, are now, I suppose, nearly

things of the past. But certainly something should be done

by the resources of civilisation to replace this lost source of

enjoyment. Ina very beautiful passage in ‘ Frondes agrestes’

Ruskin calls attention to the fact that even the magnificent

surroundings of the mountain people of Switzerland are

insufficient to develop or foster all the virtues of the human

race. What then can we expect to be the character of the

millions of inhabitants of the back streets of London.

There are many who are inclined to neglect Science,

because they say it will not make men good. That may be

so; nevertheless, it is undeniable that if scientific knowledge

could be extended, even in a limited manner, to the mass of

mankind, it would greatly increase their prudence, their

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capacity for anticipating results, their knowlede of causation,

their perception of the intricate and subtle manner in which

what are apparently isolated facts or occurrences are really

linked to others. No one will be found to deny that the

possession and exercise of such faculties by the mass of

mankind would make life more agreeable for themselves and

for others, and there is fair reason for believing that in the

course of generations it may help to make good conduct

instinctive.

There are many—and in this many I fear we must include

some scientific men—who would admit the force of these

general considerations as to the value of science and of

scientific collections to the public, but who would say,

‘But I do not see why we should trouble ourselves about

insects; the other branches of science are sufficient; there

are chemistry and physics and astronomy, and if you must

concern yourself about living things surely the larger animals,

whales, lions, elephants, ostriches, are sufficient for all

practical purposes, and are nobler objects of study.” ‘To

these ample answer might be made; but there is such a

wealth of ignorance revealed in this opimion that it is im-

possible for me to delay to-night to expose it; and we may

refer those possessing similar ideas to Kirby and Spence’s

‘ Introduction to Entomology,’ which is specially adapted for

their perusal.

But it is certain that great as are the educational and

economic value of the other branches of science to the com-

munity, Hntomology is not inferior in these respects to any

one of them, and, though there may be some practical

difficulty in its use, it has some special advantages that must

not be forgotten.

‘‘Natura maxime miranda in minimis,” said Linneus:

and yet the small size of the individuals is really the only

cause for insects being so neglected, as they still are, by the

bulk of mankind. The quantity of organic matter on the

surface of our globe at any one time is but an unimportant

fragment of the total matter, and probably has for long

oscillated within small limits; by far the larger part of it is

locked up in vegetable forms, which are certainly of the

( ieee)

greatest economical importance to man. But of animal

forms the Arthropods are the most important, and it is even

not improbable that, notwithstanding the comparative small

size of the individual, the portion of the animal matter of

the world invested in them is greater than that devoted to

the Vertebrata: I say this with some hesitation, because it

is exceedingly difficult for the imagination to form any

adequate conception of the total amount of life in the waters

of the globe; but, leaving this out of consideration, it is

highly probable that insects would actually outweigh the

terrestrial Vertebrata; their ubiquity, and the enormous

numbers of their individuals and species, quite making up

for the small size of the individual. Whether this may be

the case or not it is at least certain that they are of enormous

material importance to the human race, and this is so well

known that I feel at liberty to do no more than mention the

economic value of Entomology, and of collections in so far

as they illustrate it.

Before quitting the first part of my subject I will ask you

to recall to your minds the fact that the organisation of an

insect is a very complex and perfect affair, and must have

taken vast periods of time for its evolution, if it has been

evoluted. It is equally complex and perfect,—I think even

more perfect, take it as a whole, than that of the Vertebrata,

—and Paleontology shows us that it is of equal or greater

antiquity. These facts, then, viz., the multitude of species,

their advanced structure, their presence in large numbers in

all parts of the world, their great antiquity, give them a

predominant importance as objects on which to base con-

siderations with regard to the distribution, variation, and

origin of species, and from this pomt of view their small

size becomes an advantage; we can get together without

difficulty ten thousand specimens of a beetle or a butterfly

for comparison, but how could ten thousand elephants or

lions or tigers be brought together ? The extreme variety in

the modes of life, of vital activities and capacities, and of

ontogeny in insects, render them of great value for statistical

purposes, because the chances of error due to the existence

of some unknown biological point are thus much diminished,

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I must, gentlemen, again apologise to you not only for

the desultory and imperfect nature of these remarks on the

value of Entomology and entomological collections, but also

for bringing before you considerations that to most of you

are mere truisms, and ask you to excuse me by recollecting

the wonderful ignorance of, the delightful contempt for,

Entomology still exhibited in these so-called enlightened days

by the mass of the community. This renders it necessary

to iterate and reiterate again and again even the most

elementary considerations.

If collections of insects are viewed as scientific instruments

it is at once seen that they are valuable in proportion as they

are complete, well-arranged, and accessible. I can say

nothing to-night as regards the latter two points, but we will,

if you please, consider the question of their state of com-

pleteness at present.

If we compare the extent and condition of entomological

collections with what they were in the time of Linneus and

our own countryman Kirby about one hundred years ago, we

are justified in entertaining a feeling of satisfaction: the

progress that has been made, especially in the department of

exotic Entomology, has been truly enormous.

Linneus, when towards the close of his life he published

in a.p. 1767 the twelfth edition of his memorable ‘Systema

Nature,’ was acquainted with rather less than 8000 species

of insects, of which over 2000 species were European, less

than 800 extra-EHuropean. The number of species at present

extant in collections can scarcely be less than 200,000, and

may possibly be as many as 250,000, of which more than

four-fifths are exotic. Although we may feel proud of such a

result, this gives us no idea at all of the completeness of our

collections ; it justifies us in saying we have worked well, but

how near are we to the end of our task ?

There are, it is quite clear, no data from which a direct esti-

mate can be formed as to the number of species now existing in

the whole world. Such calculations have been made, but are

not very trustworthy, for reasons that we need not at present

stop to consider ; but it may be said that the number of species

of existing insects, though eminently uncertain, is certainly

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enormous. Indeed, comparing the results obtained during

the last century with those of the most recent collectors, it

would seem that entomological collections are still in the

infantile period of their existence. A very few years ago

about 200 species of Coleoptera were known from Japan, and

it was thought that there would be much in common between

the insects of it and Europe. Mr. Lewis has discovered

4000 or 5000 species of beetles in the Archipelago, most of

which were procured in two seasons, and the great majority

of them are not only different from European species, but are

absolutely new. Mr. Pryer has published lists, from which

it would appear that Lepidoptera are also abundant there.

I think we may put the number of species of Japanese

Coleoptera therefore at about 8000, and the total number of

Japanese insects of all orders at from 15,000 to 25,000 species

of which we know at present less than 8000. In Central

America equally astonishing results have been achieved by

another of our Fellows, Mr. Champion; despatched thither by

Messrs. Godman and Salvin for the purposes of their great

work on the Natural History of the region, he succeeded in

obtaining during four seasons fully 15,000 species of insects,

of which more than half, probably nearly three-quarters, are

new, and this although he did not exclusively confine himself

to collecting insects.

Mr. Masters has just published a Catalogue of the described

Coleoptera of Australia; these amount to about 7200 species;

now we know, from the amount of country there that is still

unexplored, and the fact that the obscure Coleoptera of

Australia have been greatly neglected by collectors and

describers, that this is only a small portion of its indigenous

beetles; so that it is quite probable the Coleoptera of Australia

may amount to 30,000 or 40,000 species, and the number of

insects of other orders with which we are not acquainted must

bring up the total to something prodigious.

Until quite recently it has been one of the commonplaces ot

Zoology that New Zealand was extraordinarily poor in insects ;

no prolonged or systematic entomological researches have yet

been made there, but the sporadic efforts of a number of

collectors have shown that this idea is quite erroneous; and

I recently received from Mr. Helms about 25,000 specimens,

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representing about 500 species collected in a single season in

the environs of his residence at Greymouth, so that it would

appear that beetles are as numerous in individuals and in

species in New Zealand as they are in Kurope.

It has also been thought that the scattered islands of the

world have very little entomological fauna; that there is

some truth in this idea is more than probable, but the recent

researches of Wollaston in St. Helena, and of Blackburn in

the Sandwich Islands, have shown that these islands have a

considerable population of native insects, and that their com-

parative poverty is possibly largely due to recent extinction.

If such results have been obtained by a few skilful collectors

in the localities they have explored, we may reasonably assume

the same facts to hold good elsewhere. And there are still

parts of the world where there exists an astonishing profusion

of insect-life, of which we know very little indeed. On con-

sidering such facts there is, gentlemen, only one conclusion

we can come to—our collections are lamentably incomplete.

The species represented in them are certainly not one-fourth,

probably not one-tenth of those existing in the world. It

must, too, not be forgotten that the species we have obtained

consist in a large degree of those that are most easily

acquired: the forms that are first picked up in any locality

naturally consist to a very large extent of the species that are

most abundant; but afterwards discrimination as well as

mere collection is required, and the task of collecting insects

that are new or of real value is constantly becoming more

arduous, and must continue to do so. The order Diptera is

probably excessively numerous, but as the preservation of so

many of the two-winged flies is a matter of much difficulty,

extremely little has been accomplished in the way of obtaining

a knowledge of the forms inhabiting the tropics.

It is evident, then, that we cannot relax our efforts; indeed

the necessity for energy becomes still more evident when we

consider the present position of affairs on the surface of the

earth. The development of the means of locomotion by steam

is perhaps the most practically important of the changes of

the present century, and is undoubtedly creating a great

alteration in the population of the surface of our globe. The

European race is now establishing itself in many and distant

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parts of the world, and wherever this is the case speedy and

extensive changes are effected in the organie products of the

spot. The forests are destroyed, the climate changed to a

greater or less extent, and the delicately poised balance of

life that may have existed with but slight oscillations for

thousands of years is interfered with, and as the result pro-

found though perhaps unnoticed changes take place in the

Natural History, the effect invariably being that species that

can but little tolerate changes become extinct. There is a

chapter in Zoology that will always afford scope for the

exercise of the imagination—the forms of animal life that

have been extinguished by man without his having gained

even a knowledge of their existence ; they must already be

numerous, probably very numerous; soon their number will

be enormous, for the signs of the times are that the process

of diffusion of the European races will continue, and, if that

is the case, a large portion of the existing fauna and flora of

the earth is doomed to extinction, and in all probability at no

very distant date.

In the last 120 years we have acquired insects for our

collections at the rate of about 2000 new species a year, and

have thus obtained the most easily acquired one-tenth of the

existing total; if, as these data indicate, it is to take us much

more than 1000 years to complete our collections, we may

feel only too sure that the task will never be accomplished, for

a very large part of the more interesting and important forms

will have been swept out of existence. In a letter I received

from Mr. Pascoe a few weeks ago he mentioned that he was

present at the spot now called Adelaide, when it was taken

possession of by the British in the name of King William IV.

Think of Adelaide as it is now, and of the geometrical ratio

in which the population increases in Australia, and then

reflect on what proportion of the present fauna of Australia

will have ceased to exist in another century or two.

In the interest of future generations, as well as for our

own satisfaction, we ought to work energetically at this

enormous task, and it will soon be absolutely necessary to

inquire what is the best way in which this can be done.

So far as I am aware there exists no society or other

organisation for the purpose of discovering and preserving

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such objects of Natural History as are not yet represented in

museums or collections, and at present the general public

takes apparently no interest in the matter of zoological

exploration ; probably, indeed, it is taken for granted that it

is being done by those who understand that sort of thing.

Thus the work is left entirely to private individuals, whose

efforts, being uncombined and intermittent, can only be

expected to produce partially satisfactory results. The diffi-

culties in the case of insects are much increased by the fact

that only those who have had some experience in the

collecting and preserving of these small creatures will meet

with many species, even in a country or district where they

may be really abundant ; everyone, indeed, who has attempted

the formation of a collection of insects in our own country

knows well the perseverance and skill that are required to

obtain satisfactory results, and even yet we probably do not

know all the species that are to be found in our own islands.

Hence Mr. A. R. Wallace has suggested the appoimtment of

resident naturalists in suitable districts abroad. We cannot

at present, I think, afford to dispense with the efforts of what

we may call pioneer naturalists,—travellers who pass more

or less rapidly through a district, gathering and preserving

such specimens as present themselves ; still it is quite clear

that their efforts cannot give results with which Science may

rest contented. A combination of the two methods may not

prove to be impracticable. It is probable that in many parts

of the world there are missionaries, consuls, or men engaged

in commerce who would be willing to collect, if they knew

how to do it. Possibly the problem might be solved by one

or two travellers who would visit selected districts, and not

only themselves collect, but take special pains to imstruct

such residents as might be willing to learn how to collect and

transmit specimens.

Another way in which we may husband our slender

resources is by selection of localities. It is specially desirable

that we should obtain those forms that are likely soon to

become extinct,* and it is certainly on these spots that efforts

* On the subject of extinction vide the addresses delivered by Prof.

Newton to the British Association, Glasgow and Manchester meetings.

( lexyn, )

should be first concentrated. South America, the greater

part of Africa, China, and the larger mountain ranges of the

world will be probably the same in a hundred years time as

they are at present, but it is quite different in respect to

islands and archipelagoes: the introduction of a pair of goats

to an island may cause a revolution in its fauna, with the

extinction of many most valuable forms; and the felling of

forests in islands inflicts a fearful loss on the naturalist.

Thus, if we were to limit our efforts in the first instance to

some selected spots, such as the smaller islands, the Gala-

pagos, Sandwich, Fiji, Philippine, and West Indian archi-

pelagoes, New Zealand, Tasmania, and Madagascar, we

should probably, in the interests of the science of the future,

be doing a wise thing; and it is most desirable that when

the investigation of any of these spots is attempted it should

be done thoroughly and exhaustively. This can only be

accomplished by prolonged attention to special branches:

thus I feel myself quite incredulous as to our being really

acquainted with the beetles of the Galapagos, and I shall

never be able to overcome my incredulity until a good

collector of Coleoptera has spent a year there and the results

are known. I think it is a public duty, due not only to the

world at large, but to posterity, that we should investigate

thoroughly the Natural History of the countries we have

taken possession of; and I have no doubt, if we do so, future

generations will be deeply indebted to us. If we neglect it

they will say: ‘‘Those nineteenth century people destroyed

the forests of many parts of the world in their haste to get

wealth that they did not know how to use when they had

acquired it, and the fauna of the globe became dreadfully

impoverished, while scientific men were gravely discussing

problems, the data for whose solution were not in their

possession.”

My remarks have referred chiefly to the acquisition of

foreign insects and absolutely new species, but I must say a

little about collections of British and European insects, for

these also are very imperfect. There is no collection, so far

as I am aware, of British insects that would enable any one

to get really trustworthy and exhaustive information as to

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the distribution of species throughout our islands, or the

extent of their variation therein; and we cannot yet answer

satisfactorily so elementary a question as to whether there

are any species actually confined to their limits. A vast

amount of enthusiasm and skill have in the last hundred

years been devoted to the formation of collections of the

insects of Britain and Europe, and I think the results are

certainly not adequate to the efforts that have been made.

The reasons for this are not difficult to find. Imperfect

modes of preparation and preservation have much to do with

it; and then each collector forms his collection for himself,

and does it so that as his knowledge of it dies with him, the

collection loses a large part of its value at his decease.

Bad collecting, so that the insects are in a deteriorated

condition before being pinned; then deterioration resulting

from the pins, the ravages arising from mites, mould, dust,

and careless handling, so deteriorate an ordinary collection

that at the close of a life-time the specimens are worth but

little, and if there is no locality or date or other particulars

attached to each specimen, the collection becomes of no

general value whatever.

Isolated and imperfectly directed efforts are the chief

reasons why there are no first-rate collections of British

insects. This is a matter of importance, because after all,

even in our own time and country, the collecting power in

the community is but small, and it must be well directed if

the maximum of result is expected from it.

You will have perceived from my remarks to-night that I

attach much importance and value to collections. There are

some who take a different view, and, perceiving that the

ultimate object of collections is the information that can be

obtained from them, say that attention is so much taken up

by the formation of the collections that it is actually diverted

from the questions the collections are formed to elucidate.

There is, no doubt, truth in this view, but it is equally true

that the larger questions of science can be answered only by

the combined efforts of a number of generations ; and, this

being the case, each generation should accomplish that part

of the work that is most needful at the moment, and at the

present time, in consequence of the extension of the

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European races, and the changes oceurring on the face of

the earth, there is probably no way in which we can so help

the biology of the future as by the formation of collections.

Mr. Bates, in an address he delivered to this Society a few

years ago, urged that the reason why entomologists frequently

accompanied their papers by no interesting generalisations was

that they perceived that the data are as yet too impertect.

And there can be little doubt that the instinctive tendency (if I

may be allowed the use of such a term) of entomologists to

occupy themselves largely with the formation of collections

is on the whole and at present a wise one.

I say this with no view of discouraging other branches of

entomological activity; indeed, if I did this, I should very

much regret having delivered this Address. I have already

alluded to the extreme importance of popularising and

diffusing all the branches of Science; and there can be no

doubt that observations of habits, of affinities, of anatomy,

are, independent of their intrinsic value, important aids in

encouraging collections by enlisting interest in the objects ;

while systematic and descriptive works are absolutely essential

as a key to the intricacies of nomenclature and arrangement

that are rendered inevitable by the vastness of the horde of

the species of insects. We may, too, view with toleration, if

not with approbation, a certain amount of speculative or

imaginative Entomology, though I think we ought none of

us to allow ourselves to indulge in it too freely, and we must

not forget that it can scarcely be considered to be Science.

In point of fact we are not yet in a position to give a positive

decision on any of the great problems of biology; and

perhaps it is well that this is the case. Were it otherwise

we might be inclined to lament the fate of our descendants,

who for the next thousand years would have no scientific

occupation other than that of making collections and observa-

tions with the result of showing that their great-great-grand-

fathers were extremely clever, and knew everything: a dis-

covery that the Chinese have already made, with intellectual

results apparently very far from satisfactory—the highest

mental effort of the educated Celestial being, they say, the

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INDEX.

NorE.—Where the name only of an Insect or Genus is mentioned,

the description will be found on the page referred to.

The Arabic Figures refer to the pages of the ‘ Transactions’; the Roman

Numerals to the pages of the ‘ Proceedings.’

PAGE PAGE

GENERAL SUBJECTS ...... lIxxxi | HYMENOPTERA ......-. oP IXXXLY,

APHANIPTERA 4 000000008 05 Lxxxii? | TuiePIMOPTERA views cricieis oe 1xxxv

COLEOPTERA 5.5, eine sa vores Txxxiil || NEUROPTERA,) si. siee.0:01 e710 xcii

DIPTERAL si, ous's ccc ereteie a eel Ixxxili | ORTHOPTERA ...0+e00. eich wa XCll

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GENERAL SUBJECTS.

Additional eversible glands in lepidopterous larve, 299.

Address of President, lxvi.

Address to Her Majesty the Queen on the occasion of the Jubilee of her

reign, XXXV1.

A further account of the defensive structures of the larva of Dicranura

vinula, 295.

Annual Meeting, 1xii.

A special point in the protective attitude of the imago of Gonoptera

libatriz, 308.

Bombyciform larve, poisonous effects of certain, xiii,

Cocoons, colour of silk of, affected by the use of appropriate colours in

environment at the time of the change from the larval to the

pupal state, 1.

Description of an unnamed Sphina larva from Celebes, 288.

Dytiscus marginalis, power of making a humming noise before flight,

possessed by, xxiv.

Ephestia Kuhniella, notes on, lii.

Further notes upon the larva of Paniscus cephalotes, 303.

Further observations on the protective attitude of Geometer larve, 291.

Hessian fly, discussion concerning, xlv ; parasites of, xxxix.

Hybernia progemmaria, varieties of, xill.

( ‘hexxn /)

Icerya purchasi destructive to trees and shrubs in Australia, iv.

Lepidoptera from Darjeeling, ix.

Lepidoptera, method of denuding wings of scales, xxiii.

Notes on the identity of Gryllus (Locusta) flavipes, ii.

Notes upon the young larve of Smerinthus populi, and upon the red

spots in Smerinthus larvee, 281.

Occurrence of anomalous spots on lepidopterous larve, xxiv.

On markings which appear on larve before pupation, and which

correspond in position to the underlying pupal wings, 301.

On the presence of tannin in certain insects and its influence on their

colours, Xxx1l.

Pedigree Moth-breeding, discussion on, iv; report of progress in, lviii.

Pyralide, geographical distribution of, xxix.

Relation between phytophagous larvee and various species of food-plant,

312.

The comparatively late emergence of female moths from the pupa, 310.

The hereditary transmission of pink tubercles on the larve of Saturnia

carpini, 310.

The movement of larve guided by an appreciation of the force of

gravitation, 316.

The origin of carnivorous habits in phytophagous larve, 314.

The young larve of Vanessa urtice and Saturnia carpini seek light, 315.

APHANIPTERA.

Sarcopsylla myrnecobii, n.s., alluded to, xxiii.

COLEOPTERA.

Acrognathus mandibularis, exhibited, xxxi.

Anoplodera sexguttata, exhibited, xxxi.

Autarcontes, n.g., 180. A. abdominalis, n.s., 182.—pictiventris, n.s.,

181.—planus, n.s., 181.

Brachycerus, new species described as follows :—albicollis, 13.—capito,

10.—cinnamomeus, 8.—disjunctus, 10.—draco, 15.—electilis, 14.—

eximius, 9.—Faustii, 12.—gryphus, 16.—merens, 17.—obtusus, 14.

—omissus, 11.—phlyctenoides, 13.—precursor, 12.—rixator, 11.—

strumosus, 16.—suturalis, 9.—turbatus, 15.

Byrsops, new species described as follows :—alveata, 327.—encausta, 329.

—eximia, 331.—farinosa, 332.—glaucescens, 328.—intermedia, 327.

mendica, 326.—plumbea, 325.—scapularis, 325.—socia, 324.—ter-

rena, 328.—tersula, 331.—vicaria, 3380.—vittigera, 330.

Cathormiocerus maritimus, exhibited, xxxy.—socius, exhibited, xi.

Cicindela germanica, exhibited, xxxv.

Coccinella labilis, exhibited, xxxix.

Colydium elongatum, exhibited, xxxi.

Compsochilus palpalis, exhibited, xxxi.

Cyphothorax, n.g-; 180.

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Daulaxius, n. g., 335. D. stolatus, n.s., 333.

Dyerocera, n. g., 334. D. gravida, n.s., 334.

Elater pomone, exhibited, xlv.

Euryxena, n. g., 337. EH. bruchoides, n.s., 338.

Faronidius, n. g., 381. F. africanus, n.s., 382.

Harpalus melancholicus, exhibited, lvi.

Liasotus, n. g., 335. LL. ovis, n.s., 335.

Limnius rivularis, exhibited, 1.

Mesosa nubila, exhibited, xlv.

Mixochlorus, n.g., 177. M. suturalis, n.s., 178.

Octhebius auriculatus, exhibited, 1.

Omochryseus, n. g., 182. O. humeralis, n.s., 182.—terminalis, n.s., 183.

Ophryodotus, n. g., 336. O. singularis, n.s., 336.

Orsodacna humeralis, exhibited, xxx1.

Paradonorphus, n. g., 183. P. albicollis, n.s., 184.—frontalis, alluded to,

183.

Peronemis, n.g., 178. P. thoracicus, n.s., 178.

Pezerpes, n. g., 337. P. rugosus, n.8., 337.

Spartecerus infaustus, 0. s., 338.

Spilopyra sumptuosa, exhibited, xxxix.

Stenogaster palleolatus, alluded to, 180.

Sybriacus magnificus, exhibited, xxxix.

Tropiphorus obtusus, exhibited, 1.

Trypantius, n.g., 179. T. infrequens, n.s., 179.

DIPTERA.

Cecidomyia destructor, alluded to, 1, xxxix, xlv.

HEMIPTERA.

Abeona (?) serrata, n.s., 350.

Ageus minimus, n.8., 347.

Alcinus flavicornis, n.s., 349.

Anaxandra compacta, n.8., 355.—fulvicornis, n. s., 354.—tauriformis,

n.s., 354.

Antestia modificata, n.s., 350.

Basicryptus illuminatus, n. s., 358.

Carbula fusca, nu. s., 346.—scutellata, n.s., 347.

Clinocoris maculata, n. s., 355.—scutellata, n. s., 355.

Compastes spinosus, n.s., 351.—truncatus, n,s., 351.

Coptosoma fimbriatum, n. s., 342.

Dolycoris formosana, n.s., 345.

Eurydema multipunctata, n. s., 348.

Eusthenes antennatus, n. s.,. 357.—eurytus, n.s., 358.

Gonopsis rubescens, 0. 8., 359.

Halyomorpha murrea, n. s., 344.

Hoplistodera incisa, n.s., 349.

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Placostermum cervus, 0. 8., 352.

Sastralaga binotata, n.s., 353.—javanensis, n.s., 353.—mustelina, 0. 8.,

352.—parmata, n.s., 353.—rujispina, n.s., 352.

Scylax, n.g., 345. 8. macrinus, 346.—porrectus, n.s., 345.

Sesha, n.g., 348. S. manifesta, n.s., 343.

Urochela ferruginea, n. 8., 356.—pulchra, n.s., 356.

Urolabida Chennelli, n.s., 356.—khasiana, n.s., 359.

HYMENOPTERA.

Aptesis hemiptera, 304.

Aridelus, n.g., 66. A. bucephalus, n.s., 66.

Bassus deplanatus, alluded to, 375.—punctatus, n.s., 375.

Bracon chlorophthalmus, alluded to, 95.—cis, synonym of Meteorus profli-

gator, 123.—pallidus, synonym of Meteorus pallidus, 97.

Catoglyptus crassipes, alluded to, 369.—fuscicornis, alluded to, 370.—

pulchricornis, alluded to, 369.

Cephus pygmeus, exhibited, xlv.

Cteniscus gnathoxanthus, alluded to, 374.

Cymodusa antennator, alluded to, 367.

Cynips Kollari and other gall-flies, exhibited, lvi.

Dicolus subtiliventris, 368.

Echthrus lancifer, alluded to, 379.—nubeculatus, alluded to, 379.

Ephialtes rujicollis, 376.

Euphorides, characterised, 51. Huphorus, 538. EH. accinctus, 60,—api-

calis, 62.—coactus, 59.—fulvipes, 64.—intactus, 61.—mitis, 55.—

ornatus, n.s., 638.—pallidipes, 56.—parvulus, 65.—picipes, 58.—

similis, 60.—tuberculifer, n. s., 57.

Eustalocerus, 67. E. clavicornis, 68.

Exochus niger, alluded to, 375.—nigripalpis, alluded to, 375.—procerus,

alluded to, 375.—Wolstedtii, alluded to, 375.

Glypta elongata, alluded to, 377.—rufata, n.s., 378.

Grypocentrus cinctellus, alluded to, 373,

Hemiteles albomarginatus, n.s., 363.

Herpestomus distinctus, 0. 8., 362.

Holopedina polypori, exhibited, xxxil.

Ichneumon rujidorsatus, n.s., 561.

Lathrolestus macropygus, alluded to, 373.

Leiophron basalis, synonym of Perilitus bicolor, 77.—orchesie@, synonym

of Euphorus pallidipes, 56.—pallidistigma, synonym of Euphorus

parvulus, 65.—pallipes, synonym of Euphorus pallidipes, 56.

Limneria distincta, n.s., 367.—mandibularis, alluded to, 367

Lissonota formosa, n. s., 378.

Mesoleius attenuatus, n. s., 371.—brevispina, 372.—jlavopictus, 373.

Meteorides, 87.—Meteorus, 87.—abdominator, 111.—albicornis, 110.—

albiditarsis, 93.—atrator, 109.—caligatus, 98—chlorophthalmus,

synonym of M. chrysophthalmus, 95.— chrysophthalmus, 94.—

cinctellus, 124.—colon, synonym of M. fragilis, 128.—conjinis, 103,

( ‘exxy }

consors, 118.—deceptor, 96.—delator, 122.—facialis, 104.—filator,

121.—fragilis, 128.—ictericus, 99.—jaculator, 108.—leviventris,

126.—luridus, 129.—melanostictus, n.s., 115.—micropterus, 112.—

obfuscatus, 105. — pallidipes, 102. — pallidus, 97.— pendulator,

synonym of M, ictericus, 99.—proflig ator, 123.—pulchricornis, 113.

—punctiventris, 107.—rubens, 127.—scutellator, 116.—tenellus, n.s.,

125.—unicolor, 117.—versicolor, 119.—vexator, 105.

Microctonus, 81. M. emulus, synonym of Perilitus cerealium, 79.—

bicolor, synonym of Perilitus secalis, 78.—brevicornis, synonym of

Euphorus pallidipes, 56.—cultus, n.s., 85.—fascipennis, synonym

of Huphorus apicalis, 62.—oblitus, synonym of Euphorus similis,

60. — politus, synonym of Microctonus vernalis, 82. — retusus,

synonym of Perilitus brevicollis, 76.—splendidus, n.s., 83.—testa-

ceus, n.8., 85.—vernalis, 82.—xanthocephalus, n.s., 84.

Perilitus minutus, n.s., 370.

Perilitus, 71. P. @thiops, 80.—bicolor, 77.—bimaculatus, synonym of

Meteorus versicolor, 119.—brevicollis, 76.—brevipes, synonym of

Meteorus albicornis, 110. — cerealium, 79. — dispar, synonym of

Meteorus albiditarsis, 93.—faleiger, 75.—fasciatus, synonym of

Meteorus fragilis, 128.—formosus, synonym of Meteorus obfuscatus,

106. —idalius, synonym of Microctonus vernalis, 82.— laticeps,

synonym of Meteorus filator, 121.—rutilus, 73.— secalis, 78.—

similator, synonym of Meteorus atrator, 109.—strenwus, n.s., 74.

Pezomachus emulus, alluded to, 365.—Debeyii, alluded to, 365.—Neesii,

alluded to, 365,—sylvicola, alluded to, 365.

Pheogenes versutus, alluded to, 363.

Pimpla nigricans, alluded to, 376.

Polyblastus sanguinatorius, alluded to, 374.

Polysphincta gracilis, alluded to, 377.—subrufa, n.s., 377.

Sagaritis fasciata, n.s., 366.—maculipes, alluded to, 367.

Streblocera, 68. SS. fulviceps, 69.—longiscapha, synonym of S. macro-

scapa, 70.—macroscapa, 70.

Tapinoma melanocephalus, exhibited, xxvii.

Thymarus compressus, alluded to, 373.

Triclistus Holmgreni, alluded to, 374.—lativentris, alluded to, 374.—niti-

Srons, alluded to, 374.—pubiventris, alluded to, 374.

Wesmaelia, 66. W. cremasta, 67.

Zele, alluded to, 88. Z. ephippium, synonym of Meteorus ictericus, 99.

—testaceator, alluded to, 94.—thoracicus, synonym of Meteorus

obfuscatus, 105.

Zemiotes, alluded to, 89.

LEPIDOPTERA.

Acidalia immorata, exhibited, xlix.

Acrolophus, 147, A. argentinus, n.s., 151. — arizonellus, n.s., 153.—

cervinus, n.s., 151.— hamiferellus, 154. —- mortipenellus, 150.—

pallidus, 153.—plumifrontellus, 149,—simulatus, 148,.—texanellus,

152.—vitellus, 148.

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Acronycta alni, exhibited, xlix.

Afdiodes, 223. AL. quaternalis, alluded to, 224.

Agathodes, 218. A. ostensalis, 218.

Aglossa cuprealis, alluded to, 192.—pinguinalis, alluded to, 192.

Agrotera, 224. A. effertalis, 224.

Alavona, alluded to, 137.

Amblypodia sophax, n. s., 47.

Amydria, alluded to, 188,

Anaphora, 155. A. agrotipenella, synonym of A. popeanella, 161.—arca-

nella, synonym of Pseudanaphora arcanella, 170. — bogotensis,

n.s., 160.—bombycina, synonym of Acrolophus plumifrontellus,

149.—ferruginea, n. s., 161.—lewcodocis, 159.—macrogaster, n. s.,

165.—minima, n. s., 159.—-morrisoni, n.s., 157.—ornata, n.s.. 163.

—popeanella, 161, description of larva of, 138.—propinqua, n.s.,

157.—pusilla, 158.—tenuis, n.s., 164.—uncigera, n.s., 163.

Ancylometis, n. g., 276. A. astrapias, n. s., 278.—sceocosma, 0. 8., 277,—

trigonodes, n.s., 277.

Anemosa, 193. A. isadalis, 194.

Anerastia, 261. «A. metallactis, n.s., 262.

Angeronia prunaria, alluded to, 29.

Ankistrophorus, n.g., 146. A. corrientis, n.s., 146.

Anteros, alluded to, 175.

Anthocaris Belia, var. ansonia, alluded to, 389.—cardamines, alluded to,

390.—ecuphenoidss, alluded to, 389.—tages, var. bellezina, alluded

to, 389.

Apatura ilia, var. elytie, alluded to, 394.—iris, alluded to, 394.

Aporia crategi, alluded to, 389.

Archernis (2) octoguttalis, alluded to, 220.

Argynnis, species alluded to, adippe, 396.—aglaia, 396.—daphne, 395.—

dia, 395.—euphrosyne, 395.—ino, 395.—lathonia, 395.—pales, 395.

—paphia, 396.—selene, 395.

Asopia caustica, alluded to, 193.—ducalis, 192.—farinalis, alluded to, 193.

—gerontialis, alluded to, 193.

Asthenia abiegana, exhibited, xxi.; synonym of. A. subsequana, xxil.—

pygmeana, exhibited, xxi.

Balanomis, n. g., 264. B. encyclia, n.s., 265.

Balanotis carinentalis, alluded to, 191.—crypsaula, n.s., 191.—didymalis,

alluded to, 191.—recurvalis, synonym of B. crypsaula, 191.

Botyodes asialis, alluded to, 228.

Botys argyrogaster, synonym of Dracenura pelochra, 215.—epitrota, n.s.,

231.—hipponalis, n.s., 231.—margaronialis, synonym of Marga-

redes diaphanalis, 209.—pheopteralis, alluded to, 230.—pharidalis,

230.

Butalis chlorema, n.s., 279.

Cenogenes, n.g., 154. C. perrensella, 155.

Calamotropha dielota, alluded to, 248.

Canthelea, 253. C. egnalis, 254,

Ciiisexri ~)

Carama Butleri, n.s., 133, 185.—nivea, 135.—ovina, 134.—plumosa, 134.

—pura, 135.—virgo, 134.—Walkeri, 134.

Cataclysta lampetialis, 295.

Cateremna terebrella, exhibited, xxviii.

Ceratoclasis, 221. C.chlorura, n.s., 222.

Ceroprepes, 253- C. sebasmia, n.s., 253.

Cnaphalocrocis medinalis, 216.

Cenonympha, species alluded to, arcania, 400. — doris, 400.—iphis, 400.

eédipus, 400.—pamphilus, 400.

Colias, species alluded to, chrysotheme, 390,—edusa, 390.—hyale, 390.—

phicomone, 390.

Compsophila iocosma, alluded to, 225.

Conobathra automorpha, alluded to, 253.

Conogethes edilis, n.s., 227.—bicolor, n. s., 227.

Cosmoclostis aglaodesma, aliuded to, 266.

Crambus alpinellus, exhibited, xxxviii. — melanospinellus, synonym of

Stericta recurvalis, 189.—signifer, 272.

Criophthalma harmodia, n.s., 245.

Crocydopora cinigerella, alluded to, 263.

Cyclopides morpheus, alluded to, 401.

Cyrestis nitida, n.s., 43.—Solomonis, n.s., 42.

Deuterarcha xanthomela, alluded to, 236.

Diadema Forbesti, alluded to, 44.—fuliginescens, n.s., 44. — velleda,

alluded to, 45.

Diasemia grammalis, alluded to, 219.—ramburialis, alluded to, 219.

Diathrausta, 218. D. profundalis, 219.

Diatrea parramatella, alluded to, 248.

Dipsopleustis haplodes, n.s., 197.—prophetica, n.s., 198.

Dolichosticha perninephes, alluded to, 217.—trapezalis, alluded to, 217.—

venilialis, alluded to, 217.

Dracenura pelochra, alluded to, 215.

Drepana falcula, alluded to, 29.

Dysallacta, 229. D. negatalis, alluded to, 230.

Eclipsiodes crypsixantha, alluded to, 245.—drosera, n.s., 245.

Eddara zylinella, alluded to, 137.

Endotricha aglaopa, n.s., 196.—compsopa, n.s., 195.—heliopa, 195.—

obscura, female of @thopa, 196.—puncticostalis, alluded to, 195.—

pyrosalis, alluded to, 195.

Epharpastis, n. g., 203.—dedala, n.s., 208

Ephestia desuetella, alluded to, 265.—elutella, alluded to, 265.—Kiihniella,

alluded to, lil.

Epicrocis, 257. E. eucometis, alluded to, 258.—euraphella, alluded to,

259. — festivella, alluded to, 259.— gypsopa, alluded to, 258,—

macrota, 0. 8., 258.—mesembrina, n.s., 259.

Epinephele, species alluded to; var. hispulla, 400. — hyperanthus, 400.—

ida, 400.—janira, 400.—lycaon, 400.—pasiphae, 400.—tithonus, 400,

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Epipaschia funerea, alluded to, 187.—saburalis, alluded to, 187.

Erebangela melanauges, alluded to, 222.

Erebia, species alluded to,—eme, 396.—epiphron, 396.—Euryale, 399.—

Erias, 397.—Gorge, 398.— var. Gorgone, 398.—lappona, 397.—

manto?, var. cecilia, 396.—melas forma pygmea, 397.—neoridas,

398.—pitho var. pyrenaica, 398.—Tyndarus var. dromus, 398.

Ernophthora, n. g., 263. E. phenicias, n.s., 263.

Eromene ocellea, 251.

Etiella chrysoprella, alluded to, 257.—Behrii, alluded to, 257.

Eucarphia tritalis, alluded to, 256.

Euclasta maceratalis, alluded to, 213.

Eulepiste, 142. E. cressoni, 142.—maculifer, n.s., 143.

Euplea nechos, n.s., 37.

Eurycreon aphrarcha, 0. s., 239.—atelorantha, n. s., 242.—capnochroa,

alluded to, 241.—hemicirea, n.s., 241.—homogama, n.s., 289.—

lamprodeta, alluded to, 243.—liophea, n.s., 241.—massalis, alluded

to, 243.—ochreipennis, alluded to, 242.—ochrochroa, n.&., 238,.—

strangalota, n.s., 240.—xenogama, alluded to, 239.

Euzophera holophragma, n. s., 255.—oblitella, exhibited, xxi.—subarcuella,

alluded to, 255.

Felderia, n.g., 165. F. cossoides, 167.—doeri, n.s., 166.—filicornis, n. s.,

167.—maculata, n. s.,166.—pygmea, n.s., 168.

Filodes, 214. F. fulvidorsalis, alluded to, 215.

Glyphodes bivitralis, alluded to, 212.—conjunctalis, 210.—cosmarcha, n. s.,

212.—Doleschali, alluded to, 211.—eacelsalis, alluded to, 211.—

ityalis, alluded to, 212.—perspicillalis, alluded to, 211.—tolum-

nialis, alluded to, 211.—tyres, alluded to, 210.

Gonepteryx Cleopatra, exhibited, xliii.

Hednota acontophora, alluded to, 250.—asterias, n. S., 250.—gelastis,n. s.,

250.—panselenella, alluded to, 250.—pedionoma, alluded to, 249.—

pleniferella, alluded to, 249.—toxotis, n. s., 249.

Hellula undalis, alluded to, 229.

Heosphora psamathella, alluded to, 261.

Hesperia, species alluded to,—comma, 401.—linea, 401.—lineola, 401.—

sylvanus, 401.—thamnas, 401.

Heteromicta pachytera, alluded to, 251.

Homeosoma fornacella, alluded to, 265.—vagella, alluded to, 2605.

Homonymus to be substituted as a generic name for Ankistrophorus, liv,

Hydreuretis tullialis, alluded to, 208.

Hypoclopus, n.g., 144. H. griseus, 144.

Hypogymna dispar, alluded to, 29.

Hypophana homosema, n.s., 264.

Hypsolophus ianthes, n.s., 273.

Ischnurges, alluded to, 220.—illustralis, alluded to, 220.

Tsocentrus, n. g., 232. I. equalis, alluded to, 232.—rhodophilalis, 232,

Isopteryx impulsalis, synonym of Diasemia grammalis, 219.

Lampides elianus, alluded to, 46.—c@rulina, n. s., 46.

( jlxsxax )

Lasioctena, n.g., 278. L. sisyr@a, n.s., 279.

Lasiosticha to be substituted as a generic name for Lasiocera, 261.—

L. antelia, alluded to, 261.

Leiocampa dictea, exhibited, lvi.

Lepyrodes astomalis, synonym of Synclera braurealis, 213.

Leucophasia sinapis and var. diniensis, alluded to, 390.

Libythea celtis, alluded to, 394.

Limenitis camilla, alluded to, 394.

Lonchodes argillacea, alluded to, 214.

Lycena, species alluded to,—@gon, 392.—amanda, 394.—argiades, 392.

—argiolus, 394.—argus, 392.—arion, 394.—astrarche, 394.—baton,

392.— bellargus, 394.—betica, 891.—corydon, 394.—Ellisi, 393.—

eros, 393.—escheri, 394.—ewmedon, 393.—hylas, 394.—icarus, 395.

—melanops, 394.— minima, 394.— orbitulus, 392.— orion, 392.—

pyrenaica, 392.—semiargus, 394.—telicanus, var. exhibited, 11.

Macrernis, n.g., 275. M. heliapta, n.s., 275.

Marasmia hemicrossa, n.s., 217.

Margarodes diaphanalis, 209.—limbata, alluded to, 208.—nereis, n. s., 271.

—tritonias, n.s., 209.—unionalis, alluded to, 208.—vertwmnalis,

alluded to, 209.

Margaronia maliferalis, synonym of Pachyarches psittacalis, 210.

Margarosticha, 204. M. sphenotis, n.s., 204.

Mecyna miniosalis, 234.—polygonalis, alluded to, 235.—reversalis, alluded

to, 233.

Melanargia galathea, alluded to, 396.—lachesis, alluded to, 396.

Melissoblaptes egidia, n.s., 252.—sordidella, 252.

Melitea, species alluded to,—athalia, 395.—auwrinia var. merope, 395.—

dejone, 395.—dictynna, 395.— didyma, 395.—parthenie, 395.—

phebe, 395.

Mesopempta polyphoralis, 202.

Messarus melichrysos, n.s., 39.—tredecia, n.s., 40.

Metallarcha eurychrysa, 237.—pseliota, n.s., 237.—tetraplaca, n.s., 236.

Microschenis, n.g., 270. M. immeritalis, 270.

Mimeseoptilus celidotus, alluded to, 268.

Mizxophyla, n. g., 269.—M. erminea, 269.

Mnesictena celatalis, 235.—pactolina, n.s., 254.

Morocosma margaritaria, alluded to, 2138.

Musotima nitidalis, alluded to, 204.

Mycalesis sara, n.s., 38.—splendens, n.s., 38.

Myelois actiosella, 255.

Myriostephes achealis, 236.—phenicealis, 235.

Myriotis ptoalis, alluded to, 234.

Myrmidonistis, n. g., 196. M. hoplora, n.s., 197.

Nemeobius lucina, alluded to, 394.

Neolophus, n.g., 141. N. furcatus, n.s., 141.

Nisioniades tages, alluded to, 401.

Nosophora chironalis, alluded to, 225.

(oxen!)

Notarcha tharsalea, n.s., 225.—trigalis, 226.

Nyctarcha ophideres, alluded to, 245.—paracentra, n.s., 245.

(Gdematophaga egalis, 194.

Enogenes fugalis, 194.

Ontholophus, n. g., 169. O. variabilis, n.s., 169.

Ourocnemis, n.g., 175. O. axiochus, 175.

Pachyarches psittacalis, alluded to, 210.

Pachyzancla bianoralis, 228.

Papilio mackaon, alluded to, 389.—podalirius, alluded to, 389.—poly-

demon, n. 8., 48.—polydorus, alluded to, 48.—polypemon, alluded

to, 49.—Zaleucus, exhibited, xxvii.

Parage egeria var. egerides, alluded to, 400.—megera, alluded to, 400.—

mera, alluded to, 399.

Paraponyx dicentra synonymous with Oligostigma pallida, 208.—erome-

nalis, 206.—polydectalis, alluded to, 207.—responsalis, 207.

Parnassius Apollo, alluded to, 889.—mnemosyne, alluded to, 389.

Parthenos gambrisius, alluded to, 45.—thesaurus, n.s., 45.

Pelecyntis abstitalis, alluded to, 225.

Pempelia (2) hemichlena, n.s., 260.

Persicoptera pulchrinalis, alluded to, 196.

Pessocosma iolealis, alluded to, 220.

Phalangiodes columalis, alluded to, 214.

Pheosaces tetraspitella, 275.

Pieris brassice, alluded to, 389.—callidice, alluded to, 389.—daplidice,

alluded to, 389.—discolor, n. s., 47.—napi, alluded to, 389.—quadri-

color, alluded to, 48.—rape, alluded to, 389.

Pinaris hamiferella, synonym of Acrolophus hamiferellus, 154.

Pleonectusa adhesalis, 215. —modestalis, alluded to, 216. — parallela,

alluded to, 216.

Polyommatus, species alluded to,—alciphron, var. gordius, 391.—dorilis,

var. subalpina, 391. —hippothoe, alluded to, 391.— var. Meigii,

alluded to, 391.—phleas, alluded to, 391.—virgauree, alluded to,

391.

Pseudanaphora, n. g., 170. P.arcanella, 170.

Pterygisus fedalis, 229.

Ptochostola micropheella, alluded to, 248.

Pycnarmon jaguaralis, alluded to, 225.

Pygospila tyresalis, synonym of Glyphodes tyres, 210.

Pyralis deciusalis, synonym of Spanista ornatalis, 214.—polygraphalis,

synonym of Mesopempta polyphoralis, 202.

Rhimphalea lindalis, alluded to, 214.

Rhinopalpa algina, alluded to, 42.—pavonia, n.s., 41.

Rhodocera Cleopatra, alluded to, 390.—rhamni, alluded to, 390.

Satyrus, species alluded to,—acte@a, 399.—alcyone, 399.—arethusa, var.

erythia, 399.—Briseis, 399.—circe, 399.—fidia, 399.—semele, 399.

—statilinus, 399.

Schenobius imparellus, alluded to, 208.

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Scoparia chiasta, alluded to, 246.—chordactis, n.8., 272.—plagiotis, n.s.,

247.—spelea, alluded to, 247.—threnodes, n.s., 246.

Sedenia aspasta, v.s., 244.—cervalis, alluded to, 244.—rupalis, alluded to,

244.

Selenia illustraria, alluded to, 29.

Semioceros mesochlora, alluded to, 220.—parapsephis, n. s., 221.

Siculodes asuridia, alluded to, 200.—aurata, alluded to, 201.—crypsiria,

n.s., alluded to, 201.—magnijica, n.s., 200.—rhythmica, n.s., 201.

—theorina, n.s., 200.

Sithon chromis, n.s., 47.—Phocides, alluded to, 47.

Spanista ornatalis, alluded to, 214.

Sphenarches caffer, alluded to, 268.

Spilothyrus althee, alluded to, 400.—lavathere, alluded to, 400.

Stereocopa scoparialis, alluded to, 228.

Stericta cholica, alluded to, 190.—costigeralis, alluded to, 190.—demotis,

n.s., 187. — habitalis, alluded to, 189. — pyrastis, n.s., 190.—

recurvalis, 189.— thyridalis, 189.— tornotis, n.s., 188.— xantho-

melalis, alluded to, 190.

Stigmonota internana, exhibited, xxi.—-pallifrontana, exhibited, xxi.

Steberhinus, 171. 8S. testaceus, 171.

Strepsimela pseudadelpha, n.s., 221.—signiferalis, 222.

Striglina irias, n.s., 199.—pyrrhata, 199.—semitessellalis, 199.

Synchloé hellica, exhibited, 1.—mesentina, exhibited, i.—Johnstonii, n.s.,

35.

Synclera, 213. 8S. braurealis, alluded to, 215.—onychinalis, alluded to, 214.

Syngamia floridalis, alluded to, 218.

Syrichthus, species alluded to,—alveus, 401.—carthami, 400.—sao, 401.—

serratule, 401.

Tetralopha, 256.—T. piratis, n.s., 257.

Tetraprosopus Meyrickii, alluded to, 247.

Tetraschalis, n.g., 267. T. arachnodes, n.s., 267.

Thais rumina, var. medesicaste, 389.

Thecla, species alluded to,—acacia, 3890.—betule, 390.—ilicis, 390.—

roboris, 390.—rubi, 891.—spini, 390.

Thinasotia claviferella, alluded to, 248.—lativittalis, alluded to, 249.

Thysanocelis, n. g., 145. TT’. hirsutus, n.s., 146.

Tineodida, 203.

Tiquadra, alluded to, 138.

Tirasia granulatella, alluded to, 137.

Trichophysetis cretacea, alluded to, 204.

Trichoptilus adelphodes, n.s., 266.—centetes, alluded to, 266.—werodes,

alluded to, 267.

Tritea ustalis, alluded to, 244.

Tylochares (2) ianthemis, n. s., 260.

Urbara, 145. U. galeata, 145.

Vanessa, species alluded to,—antiopa, 394.—atalanta, 394.—c-album, 394,

—cardui, 394.—to, 894.—polychloros, 394.—urtice, 394.

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Vitessa hemiallactis, n. s., 193.—pyraliata, alluded to, 193.

Xeroscopa nephelitis, n.s., 247.—philonephes, alluded to, 247.

Zebronia braurealis, synonym of Synclera braurealis, 213.

Zelleria hepariella, exhibited, xxxvil.

NEUROPTERA.

Hydropsyche Edwardsii, alluded to, xxii.

Neuronia clathrata, exhibited, lv.

Plectrotarsus, species alluded to,—exhibited, xxii.

ORTHOPTERA,

Cicadetta hematoides, exhibited, liv.

Gryllotalpa vulgaris, exhibited, 1.

Gryllus flavipes, exhibited and alluded to, li.

Mecostethus grossus, exhibited, 11.

Nemobius sylvestris, exhibited, 1.

Pachytylus cinerascens, exhibited, ii.

Tettix subulatus, exhibited. 1.

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