is most remarkable, and renders them very difficult to pre- 

 serve. Their larvag live under ground, principally in pasture 

 and meadow lands, where they undergo their metamorphoses ; 

 and at particular seasons the empty pupae may be found in 

 thousands, hall" obtruding perpendicularly from the ground. 



I shall describe 2 new species, give the names of some that 

 have never been recorded as British, and as many references 

 and habitats as space will allow. 



A. Wings with the 4th cell peduncled. 



1. giganteajp. — rivosaZ)ow. 2.48.2 c?. — Harns,Expo.pl.l4>.J'.l. 



2. vittata Meig. — Sam. pi. 9.f. 2. 

 3*. marginata Meig.? v. 1. p. 173. 5. 



6*. irrorata Macq. — September, Parley Heath, Hants. 



9*. montana Curt. 



16 to 18 lines broad, dark ochreous, palpi andantennse piceous, ex- 

 cepting the 2 basal joints of the latter, and each joint kidney-shaped : 

 head and thorax grey, the latter with 3 brown lines down the back, 

 and an oval ring on each side : abdomen with a white line down the 

 sides and an undulating brown line above it, apex ferruginous in the 

 female, the lobes broad obtuse and serrated beneath : wings fuscous, 

 spotted with white, the nervures stigma and a spot near the disc dark 

 fuscous; tips of thighs tibise and tarsi fuscous. 

 July, Skiddaw, and mountains in Scotland. 



13*. scripta Meig.? v. 6. 286. 45. 



19. ochracea Fab. — Alhi7i, pi. 61 ? 



M. May, Isle of Portland ; e. July, hedges. Isle of Wight. 

 23. oleracea Linn. — terrestris Harr.pl. 14./. 2. 



May and Aug., meadows ; female, m. Oct., Heron Court. 

 25=*. plumbea Fab. Ent. Sj/st. 238. 19? 

 25^. longicornis Curt. Brit. Ent.pl. 493 c?. 



For my specimens I am indebted to F. Walker, Esq., who 

 took four males at Southgate on a laurel-hedge in May. 



B. Fourth cell not pedicled, fig. B. g. 



26. nigra Linn. 



July 18th, in abundance at Whittlesea Mere, J. C; b. June, 

 Coomb, and Castle Eden Dean ; end of May, Battersea. 



26*. fuscipennis Curt. c?. 11. ? . 



13 lines broad ; dull and dark ochre, antennfe tarsi and tips of tibiae 

 and thighs blackish, head and thorax grey before, the latter with a 

 blackish double stripe down the middle, a shorter one on each side, 

 and 2 on the mesothorax, apex of the postscutellum black ; abdomen 

 long and slender in the male, a brown stripe down the back of the 

 female : wings rusty brown, stigma and nervures deeper, costa yel- 

 lowish. 



Beginning of June, New Forest. 



27. crocata Linn. — Don. 2. 48. 1 ? . — flavofasciata De G. 

 29. imperialis Meig. v. I. pi. 6.f. 9 ?. 



32. Histrio i^aZ>.— flavomaculata De G. 6. pi. 19./. 2 & 3. 

 The remaining species will be found in the Guide. 

 The Plant is Sanguisorba officinalis (Great Burnet). 



