16 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



anterior wing; post-scutellum and a short, paler line in the crenate suture at 

 each side of the same ; angles of the metathorax, and two minute dots on 

 pectus. The abdomen shows an additional segment, although it — the 

 seventh — is very small, and in one specimen scarcely visible. Viewed 

 from above, the abdomen appears almost quadrate, and shows little more 

 than the broadly flattened segments two and three, which are sub-equal in 

 size, the terminal segments being deflexed and somewhat recurved under 

 the venter. Segments two to five have broad yellow sub-basal bands, 

 the edges of which are uneven ; that on the first segment is almost 

 bracket-shaped ; the sixth segment also shows more or less yellow at base. 

 The venter has double yellow spots on segments one to four, those on the 

 first two being large and irregular in shape. The second ventral segment 

 has a prominent median truncated projection, and the third segment has 

 a similar projection, but it is almost hidden beneath segment two ; seg- 

 ments four and five are visible only as narrow margins ; the margin of 

 the sixth segment is deflexed so as to fbrm two sub-triangular keels in front 

 of the projections from second ; the seventh is cleft longitudinally. From 

 the manner in which the terminal segments are deflexed and bent 

 inwardly, these features are not readily seen in all specimens. Described 

 from three specimens from Gabriola Island, B. C. 



The three females accompanying these males are all somewhat 

 larger than the type, two being much more robust ; the markings are, 

 however, identical, except that one of the larger specimens shows faintly 

 the yellow dots (mentioned for the ^ ) on front of mesonotum and on 

 scutellum, and between it and the wings. The other shows only indica- 

 tions, still fainter, of the spots between the scutellum and wings. 



The wasps sent by Mr. Taylor are female, worker and male of Vespa 

 occidentalism Cresson, and in examining them I notice that the eyes of the 

 male are more remote from the mandibles than are those of the female. 

 Mr. Taylor suggests that the wasp from whose nest the Victoria $ was 

 taken was V. Fernaldi, Lewis, but I have not seen any examples of that 

 species from Victoria. 



MICROCCELIA DIPTHEROIDES, Grote. 



Larva. — Cylindrical, green, smooth, the setjie very fine and incon- 

 spicuous, single, normal for the Noctuidae. White dorsal and subdorsal 

 lines, narrow, crinkly edged ; white dots at tubercles i. and ii.: a pink-red 

 stigmatal line, edged with white below, distinct only at the ends of the 

 l^ody. (One blown specimen, Solidago, 5/9 '84, No. 3415. Coll. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus.) This larva has no aftinity with Acronycta. 



Harrison G. Dvar. 



