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liumher oi Biptera set to sliow tlie wing- markings and pointe I out that tlie 

 pattern frequently showed no connection with the lines of the venation, lie 

 also showed Cassida luMlia from Oxshott. IJr. Chapman, living bred speci- 

 mens of (1) the Solomon's Seal Sawfly {Pltymatocera aterrima), and (2j the 

 Apple-loving Sawfly {llojyluccwipa tcstudinea) : the former gnaws its cocoon to 

 escape, the latter cuts off a lid. Mr. Dods, a "false scorpion" Chelifer 

 cnncToides, found among books in a warehouse. Mr. Smith, various species 

 of Coleoptera, Neuroptera, Odonata, Hymenuptera, and Diptera taken by him 

 in the New Forest during 1914-18 in June. Mr. S. Edwards, numerous large 

 species of Exotic Coleoptera, Orthoptera, Bees, and Pseudo-scorpions. Mr. L. 

 A. Box, several species oi Ilipnenojitera, including a specimen of Ilhyssa per- 

 suasoria, the largest British Ichneumon, from Surrey. Mr. H. Moore, several 

 species of Exotic Centipedes from Burmah, and Pulydesmus cingulata taken 

 in Sicily by the late Mr. Piatt Barrett. Mr. B. Adkin, oak bianches showing 

 the ravages of the beetle Scolijtus intricatus. Mr. Leeds, Aexchna cyanea taken 

 at Letchworth on April 27th, 19li). Mr. West, four drawers of Ilemiptera, and 

 also the Jlyinenoptera, Osviia xantlmmelana from Dareiith, Andrtna fiilva from 

 Box Hill, Eucfra lunyiconiis fronj Bytleet, and several Chrysididae. Mr. Turner, 

 some Exotic Phasmids and Mantids. Mr. Bunnett, a Queen Bee, with workers 

 for comparison, Mr. Tonge, the predaceous Dipteron Ai<ilu3 crabronifornns 

 from Cornwall, and the bee Aiithopliora acerouraiii from Deal. — Hy. J, 

 Turn kii, Hon. Editor of Proceedings. 



CONTRIBUTIONS TO A LIFE-HISTORY OF TARUCUS 

 MEDITERRANEAE Bethune-Bakee. 



BY T. A. CHAPMAK^, M.D., F.E.S., A>'D CAPT. P. A. BUXTOiN', T.E.S., M.B.O.U. 



(Plates VI-XI.) 



Captain Buxton has sent me (T. A. C.) from Amara, Mesopotamia, 

 some notes on the Life-History of Taritciis mediferraneae B. -Baker 

 with A^arious material from which to add such f\irther particulars as I 

 can obtain from them. The chief of these are cast larval skins and 

 larvae pi'eserved in glycerine. From the latter I have obtained slides of 

 the larval skins, but as I have practice in mounting such skins only from 

 ti-esh larvae, they are not so successful as I could v/ish, largely due 

 ])robably to my ineptness, but also perhaps to such material being 

 difficult to deal wnth. 



T. mediterraneae is one of the new species recognised by Mr. 

 Bethune-Baker in his revision of the genus in " Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 

 1917, p. 2S1." The habitats he records are Egypt (Alexandria), Algeria, 

 and Palestine. I have verified Capt. Buxton's insects as mediterraneue 

 by examination of the male appendages, which agree precisely with Mr 

 Bethune-Bakei-'s figure of the genitalia of that species. Mesopotamia is 



