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short, and hardly pointed ; tliere are also one or two smaller ones slightly indicated 

 on the right side of the front of the pronotum. The two middle spines are very 

 broad, rather sliort, the first of these is oblique and very slightly pointed, the second 

 is rounded at the extremity. The first and fourtii spines are smaller, and on a lower 

 level, and the fourth is conical, being rather longer and narrower than the first. 

 Prosternum black, with short red-tipped spines between the front coxae, and above 

 the front coxte is a strong black spine. The hinder ridge of the pronotum is armed 

 with four or five spines on each side, diminishing in size towards the centre ; the 

 ridge itself and all the red spines are of a much darker red than in our specimens of 

 E. Guyoni. jibdomen black, smooth and shining, the basal sutures and the anal 

 appendages inclining to reddish, but without a trace of red or tawny dots or spots. 

 Front and middle tibisB armed with four, and liind tibia; with five, spines on each 

 carina. Long. Corp., 39 mm. (G2, sec. Lucas). 



Hah.: Tunis (?). 



T have little doubt that this insect is quite distinct from E. 

 Guyoni. It is probably the same as that mentioned by Lucas as 

 occurring in the south-east of Algeria, at Kefoum-Teboul on the 

 Tanisian frontier, but his specimens appear to have been even larger 

 than E. spinulosus. 



British Museum (Natural History) : 

 September, 1891. 



LIFE-IIISTOEY OF IIYPSIPETES liUBEEATA. 

 BY NELSON M. KICIIARDSON, B.A., F.E.S. 



On June 9th, 1888, I took a ? //. ■)-iileraia,vih\Q\\ I put in an 

 inverted bell-glass containing a sprig of sallow in M'ater, and covered 

 with leno. In the course of two or three days it had laid on the 

 upper-side of the leno, by protruding its ovipositor through the holes, 

 about 90 eggs. In the case of a $ taken last May the eggs were 

 chiefly laid on the central stalk of a female sallow catkin, which would 

 seem to be the natural laying place of this species, as it was also 

 utilized by a $ which my friend, Mr. II. W. Vivian, bred from some 

 pupae I gave him in 1889. 



The egg is oval in shape, generally a little broader at one end than the other. 

 The top and bottom are rather flattened, so that the height of the egg is nearly the 

 same all over, except close to the sides, which are consequently rather straight. The 

 whole surface is covered with small irregular depressions, generally hexagonal, pent- 

 agonal or oval, of which there would be about 30 along the edge of a median 

 transverse section. The egg is whitish when first laid, and after a day or two 

 becomes pinkish in tinge, the ridges between the depressions being here and there 

 marked with blotches of darker pink, which increases the general pink tinge when 

 the egg is seen with the naked eye. 



