1805.] 255 



Larva very clear green, back paler ; seven oblique streaks darker 

 than the ground colour, and bordered below with white. Horn rough, 

 yellowish, tip bluish ; a white line on tlie back of the two first segments ; 

 stigmata white ; head bordered on eacli side with a rosy line, bordered 

 within by a white one ; legs rosy, prolegs green, yellowish at tip (Dup.) 

 On oak and evergreen oak. VI. -IX. 



Central Europe. Frequent in collections. 



The total number, therefore, of the larger SpJiingidcs occurring in 

 Europe is 31, or, omitting G. Osyris, 30. Of these, 18 occur in 

 Great Britain, thus leaving 13 not yet discovered in this country. It 

 is possible one or two new British species of Deilephila may still reward 

 the collector in the south of England, but it is most probable that our 

 Sphinx fauna is complete, and it is quite hopeless to expect any 

 additions to it in any other genus. 



Staudinger's arrangement of the Sphinges is as follows. — SPHIN- 

 QIDM : 1. AcHEEONTiA, 1 sp. ; 2. SpHiNX, 3 sp. ; 3. Deilephila, 

 18 sp., 2 exotic ; 4. Smebinthus, 1 sp., 2 exotic ; 5. Pterogon, 2 sp. ; 

 6. Maceoglossa„4 sp. SESIIDJE : 7. Teochilium, 3 sp. ; 8. Sciap- 

 TEEON, 5 sp., 4 exotic : 9. Sesia, 50 sp., 6 exotic; 10. Bembecia, 1 sp.; 

 11. Paeantheene, 2 sp., 1 exotic. THYEIDIDiE : 12. Thteis, 

 2sp. HETEEOGTNIDiE : 13. Heteeogtnis,3sp. ZYa^NID^: 

 14. Aglaope, 1 sp. ; 15. Ino, 13 sp., 1 exotic; 16. Ztg^na, 58 sp., 

 16 exotic. STNTOMIDES: 17. Syntomis, 3 sp., 2 exotic; 

 18. Naclia, 4 sp. In all, 179 species, occurring in, or on the borders 

 of Europe. 



DESCRIPTION OF A PTEBOMALUS NEW TO BRITAIN (P. LIPARJE). 

 BY F. WALKEE, E.L.S. 



Mr. Winter is the discoverer of Pteromalus liparce, and has 

 remarked that it makes a small hole on one side of the cane, and thus 

 escapes. As no description of it has yet been published in England, I 

 subjoin the characters of this species. 



Pteromalus liparce. — Mas et faem. Loete cupreus, capite tho- 

 raceque subtilissime punctatis, antennis nigris maris filiformibus, ffem. 

 subclavatis ; abdomine maris sub-fusiformi, fsem. longi-ovato, pedibus 

 luteis, femoribus posticis maris ex parte nigricantibus, alis limpidis. 



Male and female. Bright cupreous, robust. Head and thorax 

 very finely punctured ; head a little broader than the thorax. Antennae 

 of the male black, filiform, more than half the length of the body ; scape 

 luteous, black at the tip ; third and fourth joints short ; the following 



