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THE ENTOMOLOGIST S RECORD. 



2. DOLICHOPODA PALPATA, SvilzeV. 



Pale yellowish -brown : iinicolorous : all femora unarmed beneath. 

 Length of body, 22mm. J , 20mm. J ; of pronotum, 4mm. g and 2 ; 

 of anterior femora, 16mm. -17mm. J and 2 ; of middle femora, 15mm.- 

 16mm. t? and 2 ; of hinder femora, 24mm.-25-5mm. ^ and 2 ; of 

 hinder tibife, 30mm. -31mm. S and 2 ; of ovipositor 15mm. 2 • 



This very spider-like creature occurs in a few widely-scattered 

 localities in caves in South Europe. It seems to be commonest in 

 Dalmatia, but has been taken in the old aqueduct near Rome, and also 

 at Espezel, and at Beluis near Quillau, in southern France. 



DOLICHOPODA GENICULATA, Costa. 



Azam distinguished this species from its congeners, as shown in 

 the table of species, but Brunner fuses it with D. linderi, after a 

 comparison of Dufour's type of D. linderi, and typical Italian specimens 

 of Costa's species. There appears to be no difference in dimensions. 



D. (lenicidata is recorded from Valdieri, Caramanico, and Soriano, 

 in southern Italy. 



Notes from the Pyrenees — Odezia atrata and its Variation {u-ith 



tiro /dates.) 



(Concluded from p. 225.) 



By T. A. CHAPMAN, M.D. 



The young larvfe took at once to young leaves (which were just 

 appearing) of Conopodimn denudatuin (we used to call this Btniinm 

 flexiiosHin, earth-nut, so it is not the zoologist only that makes a 

 mess of well-known names). At rest they sit Avith the head curled 

 under against the 4th or 5th abdominal segment. On April 5th the 

 oldest larvfe were in the 3rd instar, some few still in the first. 



First instar : The young larvje are pale whitey-green, with a broad 

 dark green band down each side, subdorsally, the head pale brownish- 

 ochreous. When fullguown, in first instar, the dorsal line is seen 

 to be double, i.e., with a very slender mediodorsal line dividing it 

 into two pale lines. 



Second instar : In the second instar it grows to 7mm. long. As in 

 the first, it is long and slender, with the head and legs accumulated 

 close to one end, the prolegs at the other. Each segment is slightly 

 barrel-shaped. It curls the head beneath when resting after a little 

 disturbance, and has a habit of vibrating to and fro, with curious 

 effect when several are so employed at once. In the second instar 

 there is still the pale (double) dorsal line and the darker subdorsal 

 band, but there is a distinct breaking up into more numerous lines ; 

 this dark band has two pale lines down it. and the paler lateral band 

 has a dark broken line below the spiracle. The tubercles and (very 

 short) hairs are black. They are i and iii on 2nd subsegment, near its 

 front ; ii at back of 3rd subsegment, i.e., if we recognise four about 

 equal subsegments, but the 3rd has some traces of being really two, 

 or perhaps three, but less well-marked than the others. Behind and 

 below the spiracles, to the front of the 3rd subsegment is iv, and v well 

 below the spiracle and a little in front of it. The spiracle itself is pale 

 ochreous. The prothorax (pi. xx., fig. 4) shows a front and back row of 

 four hairs, and a little further out, but above spiracle, a compound(2) 

 tubercle, on an intermediate line. Across the meso- and metathorax is 



