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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



[Dec., '08 



to the 7th of July. The exception came out in midwinter. The 

 pupae were kept most of the time in a warm dry room. 



Three hymenopterous parasites were found preying upon the 

 larva, and they all emerged the same season. One, presumably 

 a braconid, spun a bright yellow cocoon but the adult escaped 

 unobserved. But one larva parasitized each caterpillar, as was 

 the case with the other two species. A single specimen of an 

 ichneumon was reared from a pupa, but the commonest of 

 the three parasites pupated within its host, when the latter was 

 at the end of the third instar. Before pupating, the parasite 

 in the now dead and elongate larva securely fastens the latter 

 to some object by piercing the exuvium below the head and 

 cementing it through this aperture with some secretion. But 

 the perfect insect makes its escape not through the anterior 

 portion of the skin, but through a hole in the dorsum of the 



Fig. i. 



Fig. 2. 



posterior end. Fig. I represents a larva of L. antiacis two days 

 prior to pupation; Fig. 2 dorsal view of a pupa of the same. 



Lycaena behrii. 



Mature -larva. Head black; body very pale coffee color; still paler 

 below the spiracles ; median line reddish brown, with a purplish tinge. 

 Pattern similar to that of antiacis, the oblique dashes whitish, the 

 sub-horizontal and horizontal bands more obscure, all three being visi- 

 ble from segs. 2-9. Lateral line white, purplish ventrad. Long, pale, 

 roughened hairs on body, longest dorsad and laterad, and of a darker 

 shade on seg. I. Shield grayish green. Length 15 mm., width at seg. 

 7, 5.7 mm. Another mature larva of this species is darker in color 

 than the preceding, and is pale greenish sub-laterally; the median line 

 blackish spotted, with a greenish tinge, broadest and purplish on 

 seg. 2 and invisible on seg. i, where its course is indicated by a few 

 piliferous dots ; bordering band paler than dorsal ground, oblique 

 dashes and two following bands pale drab, the lowest with a greenish- 



