'200 THE entomologist's RECORD. 



that I have received specimens under these names. These are i-epre- 

 sented by (>. Corsica, pi. vii., figs. 9-16. The specimen having been 

 received from Standinger, is probably correctly named. With regard 

 to these, it is very difficult to say whether they are all one species or 

 no. Leaving out anceps (the specimen examined being perhaps of 

 doubtful authority), it is certain that each form just named is a dis- 

 tinct subspecies, and also that they seem to arrange themselves as 

 sets. All have about eighteen joints to the antennae. (K Corsica, O. 

 cricae, and O. inter)iiedia have antennae about l-6mm.-l-9mm. long, O. 

 triijotcpJiras only about 1mm., though one (K intermedia has them only 

 l-2mm. In all, more or fewer joints are anchylosed, and it would, 

 perhaps, be more correct to say that the amount and position of this 

 varies more from specimen to specimen than according altogether to 

 race. In one example of < >. trit/otepliras the joints seem hardly anchylosed 

 at all, in another the six or seven basal joints are fixed, whilst in one all 

 the joints seem anchylosed. In all cases the dorsum shows a somewhat 

 normal aspect so that articulation can be counted, the anchylosis being 

 most advanced ventrally. Snellen von Vollenhoven, in his paper on 

 Onij/ia cricae (Sepp's AV(/. his., 2nd ed., ii., p. 206), says : " With 

 regard to the pairing I have observed the following : — The $ bores 

 through one side of the cocoon. The opening is very small, and gives 

 her no means of getting out, since she remains sitting inside. 

 The hairs of the ovipositor stick through the opening, from amongst 

 which the long brownish naked tube is projecting. This is continually 

 pushed out and in, in waiting, apparently, for the arrival of the male. 

 The male flutters round restlessly in the sugar glass in which I had 

 placed them till he becomes aware of the female. Now he settles on 

 the cocoon, bends backwards in the direction of the female genitalia, 

 and the pairing follows. The male fertilises several females. I have 

 seen the same male pair with four females consecutively. Egg-laying 

 begins immediately after pairing. First they are laid in the neigh- 

 bourhood of the opening, some remain sticking to the cocoon, others 

 fall free to the ground. Afterwards the interior surface of the cocoon 

 is closely beset with the eggs. The females died rapidly during the 

 continued existence of the males (in captivity) a mere two or three 

 days after pairing. The eggs hatched in four weeks. 1S70." 



He says nothing as to what becomes of the pupa-case, and makes no 

 reference to Herr Breyer's statement that the $ reverses herself in the 

 pupa-case, and that she keeps on the pupal head-cover, indeed, he 

 describes the head and antenn;p of the female in terms showing that 

 this could not have occurred in his specimens. He says it has unpec- 

 tmated antenna^ and mentions the legs as possessing femur, tibia and 

 tarsi. Dubois figures the females as reversed in the pupa-case, but it 

 is not clear that this is from a specimen and not merely invented from 

 some (Herr Breyer's) description. Rambur writes of (K riipestris [Ann. 

 Soc. Knt. Fr., vol. i., 18B2, p. 276) : " This $ does not emerge from 

 its cocoon, through which it advances its anus in order that the S may 

 pair with it. That done, it fills the cocoon with its eggs, which it 

 mixes with down, of which a thick bed encloses the entire mass. 

 After finishing the laying, one has difficulty in finding scraps of its 

 body. M. le Comte de Saporta has observed the same habits in (>. 

 tri'icteiilnris, in the neighbourhood of Aix." 



A reference to pi. vii shows how much nearer the antenna in 



