NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 27 



compressed, pits below the antennae shallow, apex of labrum 

 hairy, mandibles black. Thorax black, shining, with a fuscous 

 pile ; sutures of mesonotum deep ; breast smooth and shining, 

 wdth the pubescence less dense, more scattered ; cenchri pale, con- 

 spicuous; tegulae piceous. Abdomen a little shorter than the 

 head and thorax, apex angustate, densely pilose; saw projecting, 

 sheaths hairy ; cerci short. Wings with the basal half smoky ; 

 apex hyaline ; costa and stigma dark fuscous. Feet : coxae, 

 trochanters, and femora, black ; knees, tibiae, and tarsi, white ; 

 posterior tarsi a little darker ; apex of tibiae brownish ; posterior 

 tarsi shorter than the tibiae ; calcaria short. Length 2 lines. 



The male has the antennae short, slightly pilose. 



The black coxae, trochanters, and femora, less pilose antennae, 

 shorter cerci and calcaria, will readily separate Brullaei from the 

 preceding species. From eradiatus, it is distinguished by having 

 the basal half of the wings smoky, and the antennae separate it 

 from difformis. 



Larva : head deep shining black ; feet and claspers white. 

 Upper half of the body deep-brownish, rather glistening black ; 

 the lower half glistening white. The base of the second and the 

 anal segment white ; head and body covered with tubercles, from 

 which proceed long hairs. Length 9 to 10 lines. 



It feeds on Ruhkis idaeus and frudicosus; and in its habits and 

 mode of pupation does not differ from its congeners. 



This seems to be the rarest of the British species. I have only 

 found it in Cadder Wilderness, near Glasgow. On the Continent 

 it has been recorded from Sweden and Prussia. 



November 30th, 1875. 



Mr Thomas Chapman, Vice-President, in the chair. 



Mr Robert Wylie Hill, Berbice, British Guiana, was elected a 

 corresponding member, and Messrs Henry Grieve and Sigismund 

 Schuman ordinary members of the Society. 



SPECIMENS EXHIBITED. 



Mr Francis G. Binnie exhibited the species of Phryganea found 

 in this district, viz.: — P. striata, Lin., from Possil Marsh, and the 

 Lily Loch in the Kilpatrick Hills; P. varia (Fab.), from Possil 



