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but at the beginning of every segment the two outer or curving lines!) 

 are absent as far as the first pair of warts, and the pink ground al 

 faintly shown as scarcely to be noted there, but the remaining parti |j 

 of the design are quite perfect, and so stand out like a dark arrow- j 

 mark, or in other words a very elongated triangle at the end of eactjj 

 segment, through which passes the continuous dorsal line. 



There were also two or three larvse with the full pattern, but oil 

 much duller colouring, being pale brownish with a pink tinge, and thei 

 lines of the pattern also duller. 



The larva goes into a light soil for its final change, and forms a 

 compact little cocoon not quite three-eighths of an inch long andi 

 about half as wide ; the pupa measures five-sixteenths of an inch injj 

 length, it is without any peculiarity of form, and of a bright yellowish- 

 green colour for some time, having a broadish stripe of crimson down} 

 the middle of the back of the abdomen, suggestive of the larval} 

 design, and with rather a glossy surface. 



Emsworth : December ^th, 1881. 



A NEW SPECIES OF HEMITELES. 

 BY E. PARFITT. 



Hemiteles persector, n. sp. 



Nigra, abdominis segmentis 2-4, antennarum basi, pedibusque rujis. 



Shining, with no preceptible sculpture, metathorax sub-opaque. 



Head transverse, face rather prominent below the antennae, clypeus distinctly 

 separated from the face, cheeks not buccated, space between the eyes and mandibles 

 wide, face between the eyes wider below than above, covered with short pale fulvous 

 pubescence, antennae long and slender, flagellum 17-jointed, 1st joint larger than the 

 2nd, about five times as long as wide, joints not quadrate. Jaws and palpi bright 

 yellow. Thorax slightly pubescent, about one-half longer than high, parapsides 

 faintly impressed ; the upper part of the metathorax short, back rather sloping, 

 supero-medial area transverse, rounded at the sides, slightly incurved in front, and 

 faintly closed behind, posterior face with two distinct central lines, posterio-medial 

 area elongate, sides almost parallel. Metathoracic spiracles circular. Abdomen : 

 1st segment elongate, narrow, about twice as wide at the apex as at the base. 

 Spiracles placed just behind the middle, post-petiole with two keels, and a slight 

 depression between them, nearly half as long again as the hind coxae and tro- 

 chanters ; remainder of abdomen ovate, segments transverse, the 4th and following 

 very short, aculeus nearly two-thirds the length of the abdomen. Legs rather 

 slender. Wings : areolet pentagonal open at the apex, inferior exterior angle of the 

 discoidal cell projecting beyond the corresponding angle of the areolet, stigma 

 moderate, transverse anal nervure sub-opposite, divided below the middle. Scape, 

 1st and 2nd joints of flagellum, 2 — 4 segments of abdomen, and legs red, the latter 

 paler at the base, the posterior darker than the two front pairs. 



Female, length 4 — 5 mm., or 2{ lines. 





