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cocoons were removed, from only just below the surface, for inspection 

 after the insects were bred, I found each was of broad oval shape about 

 9 lines by 7 or 8, exteriorly composed of grains of earth very firmly 

 united to a few fibres of grass-roots, of which plenty were in the turfy 

 soil, and served to bind all together ; on removing the earthy particles 

 I reached the inner cocoon of opaque greenish-white soft silk, yet 

 strong and elastic, in these qualities reminding me of that of Oi 

 jjotatoria, and in the softness of its closely-woven interior of that of 

 B. mori ; it was 7 lines long and 3 lines wide, rounded off anteriorly, 

 widest in the middle, and tapered to a blunt point at the posterior end. 



In each instance (except one) the pupa had evidently emerged 

 from the cocoon and travelled away from it a little distance, as I found 

 the pupa-skins thus lying on the bare earth, and only the old larval- 

 skin lay shrivelled up at the bottom of the deserted cocoons ; but the 

 one from whence the Anomalon had come still contained the pupa-skin 

 only minus a portion of the head and thorax, which lay in fragments, 

 so that the cavity of the pupal body had been the puparium of the 

 parasite. 



The pupa of glohuJari<s is about 13mm. in length and of moderate 

 substance throughout, with prominent thorax, the wing-covers short, 

 but toward their ends projecting a little free from the body, the long 

 antenna- and leg-cases are all free from the body, and seem to be sug- 

 gestive of locomotion even before disclosure of the moth, the deeply 

 divided abdominal rings have each on the back near their beginning 

 a transverse ridge thickly set with hooks pointing backward, the tip of 

 abdomen rounded off in a blunt point ; the colour of the head, thorax, 

 and wing-covers is dark olive-green and very glossy, the leg-cases and 

 abdomen are of lighter shining green and the hooks black. 



Emsworth : September 12th, 1883. 



Myrmeleon Erleri, JBrauer, = 31. inconspieuns, Sambtir. — In the collection of 

 Baron de Selys-Longchamps are a series of a Myrmeleon from Corfu ijErher) mueli 

 like M.formiearius, L. {formicalynx, Burm.), but notably smaller ; the species was 

 described by Dr. Brauer (Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1867, p. 190) as M. Erberi. 

 On comparing them with the types of 31. inconspicmis, Eambur (Nevropteres, p. 

 406), I find they are specifically identical therewith ; hence Eambur's name should 

 take priority. I possess a $ indicated " South of France," the same district whence 

 Eambur believed his types were derived. These types consist of two perfect ? and 

 one (J withoiit head and abdomen ; in the latter sex there is a conspicuous " pelote " 

 at the base of the posterior wings. In describing the abdomen both Eambur and 

 Brauer appear to have taken their description from the $ , in which there are only 



