192 .Tanuary, 1870. 



In the structui'e o£ the wiugs and anteunre, iV". Sharpi resembles 

 iV^. appendiculatus, Htg., but it is easily known from it by the shorter 

 body, more abruptly pointed abdomen, half white clypeus, and eyes 

 surrounded with red. In form, it is not unlike N. flavipennis, but the 

 eyes are only slightly surrounded with brown, the wings arc clear 

 hyaline, with the stigma white, and there is no black on the femora. 



Taken by Dr. David Sharp, probably in Scotland, the exact locality 

 I do not know. 



EaiOCAMPA ^THIOPS. 



In the Entomologist's Annual for 1862, and previously in the 

 Gardener's Chronicle for 1848, Prof. AVestwood describes the trans- 

 formations of a saw-fly wliich he calls Selanclria ccthiops, Fab. Until 

 the present year this rose-feeding species was an enigma to me, and 

 no doubt also to others ; but in August, Mr. J. E. Fletcher of Wor- 

 cester very kindly sent me botb the imagos and larvae, and on 

 consulting the above mentioned works I had no difficulty in identifying 

 them with West wood's insect. I am not, howevei', equally sure that it 

 is the true cBtliiops, for, altbough. it agrees with, tbe description so 

 far as it goes, yet so do also other species of Selandria {sensu lat.), 

 as well as another species I have of Eriocampn. In this state of matters, 

 my first intention was to regard it as a new species, but I have thought 

 it perhaps better for th.e present to treat it as tlie cethlops of Fabricius. 

 Fabricius described his species from an English insect in the Banksian 

 cabinet, but unfortunately it is not now there, as Mr. F. Smith informs 

 me, the type having been either lost or destroyed. Mr. Smith also 

 tells me that there is an Eriocnmpa in Stephens' collection bearing the 

 MS. name of consorta, wbicli is very like, if not actually identical with, 

 tbe present insect. The rose insect is a true Eriocampa, and to avoid 

 any more confusion, I now recharacterize it, and I can only express a 



^^ope that there will be no further ambiguity about it : — 

 the a^t 



sutures dis. Eriocampa jethiops, Fabricius. 



maudibles 1 



with -wliite '^^S'^'^t i^itida, genuhiis, tibiis, tarsisque 4:-anticis alhidis ; alls 



cencliri p.T Hs- Long. l|-2 lin. 



anal 8cginciit{j...Tg |;q t}jg section comprising cinxia, Klug, atratuJa (Dbm.), 



c ir y OS accous. gg^dQgjpgg^ Cam. Cinxia has all the tibia? white at tbe 



, . cetJiiops the four anterior tibia? along with the tarsi are 



etigiua white ; ii -^ _ _ 



2nd 8ub-mareir '^ posterior black, except that the knees are a little paler ; 

 The <J hf ■ easily known from it by Its testaceous hinder tibia? and 



