214 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May, '08 



"Larva. The larva is 8.5 mm. in length by 1.25 mm. in breadth, 

 cylindrical, skin minutely roughened. The second and third thoracic 

 segments and the first abdominal are much thickened vertically, giving 

 a convex dorsal outline to this region. From the second thoracic seg- 

 ment the outline slopes rapidly downward to the front, the head 

 being wedge shaped, viewed laterally, and only about half the depth 

 of the second segment. The head is flat beneath, slightly rounded above, 

 about two-thirds as wide as the thorax; antennae and mouth parts 

 very short ; eyes wanting. The color is brown both above and beneath. 

 First thoracic segment trapezoidal, viewed laterally; a large brown 

 chitinous prosternal area extending forward to the mouth parts and 

 laterally to the legs ; a brown patch upon the dorsum of this segment. 

 Small brown chitinous sternal areas to the two succeeding thoracic 

 segments, and a still smaller one on the first abdominal. 



"Legs very short, not longer than their respective segments ; prolegs 

 fourteen in number (counting the two anals), having the form of low, 

 flattened tubercles, each with a brown chitinous patch upon the outer 

 part. The pair of anal prolegs are nearly encircled by two dark brown 

 chitinous arcs. 



"Segments of the body deeply separated; sides with two lateral rows 

 of obscure tubercles ; spiracles brown, minute, except the first on the 

 middle of the first thoracic segment, which is larger and is surrounded 

 by a small brown chitinous patch." 



"Described from a single specimen taken from the blackberry 

 leaf." 



My own material in this stage is all alcoholic, and hardly 

 suitable for a close comparison with the above, or for descrip- 

 tive purposes. Some of the larvae are considerably larger than 

 Forbes' specimen, however, several of them measuring 10 mm. 

 in length and 2 mm. in breadth. 



The following description of the adult has kindly been fur- 

 nished by Dr. MacGillivray : 



Scolioncura capitalis Nort. $ . Blackish rufous with the follow- 

 ing parts rufous, the anterior and lateral lobes of the mesonotum, 

 the scutellum and the post-scutellum ; with the following parts white, 

 the two basal segments of the antennae, sometimes, the apices of the 

 coxae, the trochanters, the anterior and middle tibiae and tarsi, and 

 the posterior tarsi ; the posterior tibiae varying from a clear white 

 to strongly infuscated ; antennae enlarged at middle with the second 

 segment annular, wider than long, the third segment one-third longer 

 than the fourth, shorter than the third and fourth together ; the cly- 

 peus truncate; the clypeal furrow shallow, interrupted at middle by 



