1805.] 235 



D. HiPPOPHAES, Esp., 2"-2" 4'". Fore-wing pale grey ; base dusky; 

 a black mark, like a note of interrogation, near the centre of the costa ; 

 outer portion of tbe wing with the usual dark green stripe, bounded by 

 the grey hind margin, but the inner side of this is clearly defined by a 

 nearly straight line. Hind- wing as in niccea, but the band is of a 

 darker red. VI. -IX. 



Larva varies according to age, from pale yellow to sea-green, with 

 a number of little white or yellow dots arranged in transverse rows ; 

 two straight white or yellowish dorsal bands, and a white line between 

 the flesh-coloured legs and the fulvous stigmata. Horn rough, orange- 

 coloured. Head greenish-grey (DupJ. On Hippophde rhamnoides. 

 VI.-YII. IX.-X. 



It is uncertain whether or not the larva hides itself by day, 

 Duponchel thinks the species will eventually prove to be co-extensive 

 in distribution with its food-plant. 



Corsica, Sardinia, Prance, Switzerland. Frequent in collections. 



(To le concluded in our next.) 



Correction to the notice "The development of cm imago of C. Caja, and parasites 

 from the same larva." — In a note published in the first part of the French "Annales" 

 for 1864, p. 158, (Ent. Mo. Mag. p. 7S,) it is said that the parasites which permit- 

 ted the development of an adult Chelonia Caja were Hymenopterous. Subsequent 

 information furnished by M. Kiinckel proves, on the contrary, that the case of the 

 larva contained cocoons of the pupas of Dipfera. The important point of the note is not 

 modified, that is to say, the exceptional occurrence of the development of a perfect 

 insect, notwithstanding the presence of parasites in the larva. — M. Maurice 

 GiRARD : in Ann. Sac. Ent. France, 1864, Bulletin p. 35. 



On some new and rare species of British Coleoptera. — Mr. Sidebotham, of Manches- 

 ter (who so lately added to our Fauna Peritelus griseus, Sihynes canus, and Lixus 

 filiformis), a short time since hberally presented me with some recently captm-ed 

 insects which require notice. One of them I have determined as new to our 

 Fauna, and the others will restore to our list species which have been expunged by 

 the Rev. J. F. Dawson and Mr. Crotch, 



The first is a very fine insect, Agriotes pilosus, Fab. 



It is very like Synaptus fiUformis in habit, but fiilly twice as large, and has the 

 colour and pubescence of Ag. sputator. 



I merely wish to place this insect on record, since there is some suspicion 

 with reference to its authenticity as a British species. 



Mr. Sidebotham is in the habit of giving bottles to working men, that they 

 may put into them anything which they may find ; and from such a bottle this 

 insect was obtained, having been taken near Manchester; but, from certain 



