126 I November, 



without sutural lines or punctures. Scutellum shining in the middle^ 

 opaque and punctured at the sides. Wings hyaline ; the basal trans- 

 verse vein, the sub-costal, and the base of the radial cell brown, 

 distinct, but not suffused ; the areolet and the other veins decolorous, 

 obsolete. ? . 



Var. The femora and tibia? more or less fuscous. 



Long. I ; alar. exp. 2 lin. 



N. politus, Hart., in Germ. Zeits., 2, p. 193 ; 3, p. 339. 

 Several times taken on oak trees in Leicestershire. Hartig thinks 

 that this section of Neuroterus is of parasitic habits, like Allotria, 

 which it so much resembles in its minute size and polished mesonotum. 

 One species, N. parasiticus, Hart, inhabits the galls of Cynips glohuli, 

 Hart. ; and if this be the habit of the others of the section, they should 

 constitute a separate genus, and be referred to the group of Inquilini, 

 the '* After- Gallwespen " of Hartig. 



(To he continued.) 



THE LARVA OF DEPRE8SARIA ULTIMELLA, STAINTON, 

 BY P. C. T. SNELLEN. 



{Translated from the Tijdscriftvoor Entomolo(jie,2ncl Series, Vol 2, Part l,pp- 26 — 30). 



It chanced that my finding, early in July, some larvae of Depres- 

 saria nervosa, which had already long been known (also to myself), 

 resulted in my obtaining possession of the larva of ultimella, which, as 

 far as I know, is still undescribed. 



I had found the larvre of nervosa on the flowers of Phellandrium 

 aquaticum, at a rather distant part of the fen, which still remains near 

 Rotterdam, and, as I had to feed these larvae for some time, I sought for 

 some food which occurred nearer to the town. I then found in a dry 

 ditch close by the town some plants, on which I also found specimens 

 of the larvae. Knowing that, as some other Depressarice do, they change 

 to pupae within the stems of the Umbellifercd frequented by them, I 

 resolved to cut off and examine some of the stems of these plants. In 

 the very first I found two spun-up larvae of nervosa, but along with 

 them another larva, unknown to me, which had evidently fed on the 

 interior of the stem, as was manifest from the indications of gnawing 

 on the sides. Incited by this discovery, I examined not only the plants 

 in my neighbourhood, but also those which grew further along the 

 ditch, and repeated my expedition the following day. By diligent 



