1880.] 31 



This season, 1880, 1 bred a male specimen rather crippled on May 

 27th, and this afternoon a fine female, the remainder no doubt retarded 

 by ungenial weather. 



The full grown larva is seven-eighths of an inch in length, of 

 moderate slenderness, cylindrical, though tapering very little from the 

 fourth segment to the head, and again only at the end of the thirteenth, 

 all are plump and well defined, with a transverse wrinkle across the 

 back of each ; the ventral legs shortish, the aual pair extending behind: 

 the colour of the back and sides as far as the spiracular region is very 

 dark grey tinged more or less with purplish-brown, the dorsal line still 

 darker, the glossy head of the same dark colour is marked with black 

 in front of each lobe, a black glossy plate dorsally divided with dark 

 grey is on the second segment, and on either side of the third and 

 fourth are two faintly paler longitudinal lines gradually lost beyond 

 them, the tubercular spots large, black, and glossy, each with a fine 

 hair ; below the small round black spiracles the whole surface is rather 

 light greenish-grey or drab and the spots there are brownish-grey. 



The pupa is half an inch long, rather slender, of pyraloid character, 

 with the back of the thorax and abdominal upper segments very 

 slightly keeled, the head parts moderately produced, the wing covers 

 long and well defined, the tapering hind part of the abdomen having a 

 flattened taper prolongation and blunt extremity, furnished with 

 minute curly-topped bristles ; in colour dark purplish-brown with 

 the lower abdominal divisions golden-brown, the wing covers glisten- 

 ing, all the rest glossy. 



Emsworth : June 5th, 1880. 



DESCKIPTION OF THE SPECIES OE MACROPIS. 



BY W. H. PAT'KXN". 



Maceopis ciliata, n. sp. 



? . Length, T * ¥ to fr in., expanse, •& to \% in. Black ; the head closely punc- 

 tured, and haying a thinly scattered short white pubescence ; mandibles piceous at 

 the tip ; flagellum beneath fulvo-testaceous, a short fringe of hair on the inner side 

 of the scape ; the eyes in freshly-killed specimens of a dull green, with varying longi- 

 tudinal stripes or spots. Thorax closely punctured, the base of the metathornx very 

 minutely punctured and not shining, pubescence on the sides of thorax and beneath, 

 as also a line on each side of the scutellum, white, the pubescence on disc of thorax 

 very short and thin ; wings sub-hyaline, shaded at apex, tegulse and nervures black, 

 stigma piceous. Apical joint of all the tarsi dark piceous, joints two to four of the 

 anterior and three and four of the intermediate tarsi fulvous, joints two to four of 

 the posterior tarsi pale testaceous ; a ferruginous stripe on the intermediate tarsi 

 beneath, and a stripe of white hairs on the intermediate tibiae and base of the first 



