(^ I June. 



bent down, so as almost to touch the leaf, the anterior legs drawn in 

 close to the body ; sometimes all the ventral legs, and sometimes only the 

 third and fourth pair in addition to the anal pair, had a footing on the 

 silk ; when hungry, the larva would quit this, make a rapid meal, and 

 return again to rest. Some leaves were so ravaged that only the 

 midribs were left. Once I was rather surprised to see the second 

 larva eat off a large strip from one side of its silk covered resting leaf, 

 together with the silk on it, but leave the rest imtouched. 



Towards the end of September, a week of suddenly severe cold 

 weather killed my two large larvae just as they seemed about to 

 pupate, and, unluckily, before I could remove them to a hothouse ; 

 and, before the year had ended, the third smaller larva, of which I had 

 great hopes as being in a more natural state of hibernation, died also. 



Emsworth : April 3nl, 1876. 



DESCEIPTIOXS OF HITHERTO UNCHARACTEEIZED PEYTOPHAOA. 



BY JOSEPH S. BALT, M.D., F.L.S. 



{continued from Vol. xii, page 75.) 



Eam. CEIOCEEID^. 



Lema emarginata. 



Ohlonga, convexa,flafa, nitida; ore, anfennis, orticido hasaliexcepto, 

 j)ectore, abdominis hasi et tnacuUs, pedihusque nigris,femorihus tiiiisque 

 (jbasi et apice excej)tis) Jlnvis ; thorace transverso, laferihus onedio valde 

 constrictis, ante apicem lateraliter productis ; scutello npice emnrginato : 

 elytris profunde punctatO'Striatis, punctis ad apicem minus fortiter im- 

 pressis ; femorihus p>osticis modice incrassatis, mnticis. Long. 3f lin- 



Hab. : Cape of Good Hope ; a single specimen. 



Head smootli, impunctate, neck moderately constricted, front impressed on 

 either side with an oblique groove ; clypeus triangular, bordered on the sides by a 

 deep groove ; its lower half, together with the parts of the mouth, black ; its 

 surface sparingly clothed with sub-erect whitish hairs ; antennae robust, rather less 

 than half the body in length, basal joints short, sub-globose, fulvous, its apex 

 piceous, second very short, third and fourth equal, each one-half longer than the 

 second, the remaining joints thickened, cylindrical, closely clothed with adpresscd 

 hairs. Thorax nearly one-fourth broader than long, sides deeply excavated in the 

 middle, produced laterally in front, the produced portion obtuse ; upper surface 

 distinctly flattened on the disc, transversely sulcate in front of the base, the sulcation 

 faint, ill-defined, impressed in the centre with a large fovea, surf^ice smooth and 

 shining, impressed in the middle with a broad longitudinal row of punctures ; on 



