510 Extracts from the Minute-Book of the Linnean Society. 
The examination of numerous specimens of the Asc. ' 
Macleayanus has induced him to amend the specific 
character and description as follows :—** A. alis vitreis 
immaculatis ; oculis splendidissimè cupreo-nigris, lobis 
subæqualibus : thorace fuscescente, flavido maculato : 
dorso picto : lateribus cinereis. 
Descriptio.—0Os pedesque hirsuti, rufescentes: antenne 
nigricantes, capitulo subtùs pallido: thorax et facies 
cinereo-pilosissimi. Pterigostia nigra: stigmata atra : 
dorsum ferrugineo-flavum, maculis brunneis ornatum : 
latera nigro varia. Animal insectivorum ? sæpè die qui- 
escit in arbustis vetustis emortuis, cum antennis alisque 
ramo applicatis, abdomineque in angulum (more ramuli) . 
: extenso, sic hostes decipiens. Ova numero 64—75 lan- 
: . ceolato-elliptica, cinerascentia, apicibus puncto can- 
dido, in extremitate ramulorum ponit imago ; serie du- - 
plici alternatim agglutinans, et circulis multis repagu- 
lorum ab hostibus defendens. Repagula elongata, pe- 
dunculata, subdiaphana, rufescentia. Larva: caput sub- 
cordatum, fuscum, genis barbatis, superné scabrum. Os 
nullum. Mandibule castanez, validæ, elongate, interne 
trispinosæ. Oculi suprà sex, infra unicus, in pedunculo 
communi, crasso, posticè bisetoso, anticè appendiculato. 
Antennulæ ? quatuor setiformes: palpi duo filiformes. 
Thorax parvulus, subovatus, suprà utrinque spinulá 
brevi mobili, maculisque duabus nigris. Abdomen ovale, 
complanatum, scabrum, flavescens, livido irroratum, 
maculis quatuor anterioribus, duabus analibus, lineáque 
dorsali nigris: subtüs ferè concolor. Pectines utrinque 
. decem, atro ciliati, anticis duobus (alarum rudimentis ?) 
curvis. Pedes nigri spinulosi, duo anteriores thoracici. 
Ungues parvi, omnes simplices. Trachee parve, nigrae. 
Larva 
