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tlie foro wings of hipundanus vein 9 arises from tlie common 

 stem of 7 and 8, which are forked, whilst in micllua vein 7 

 originates from the common stem of 8 and 9. As the 

 ueuration of both sexes is identical in each species, I con- 

 sider that andlns is gencricalhj distinct from hipvnd.anus, 

 and propose for the former the generic appellation of 

 Horniyia, in honour of my friend Mr. J. von Hornig of 

 Vienna, a distinguished Entomologist." (^ITonm/ia a-nelbis, 

 S.V., is not known as a British insect, bnt the foregoing 

 remarks are necessary in view of what follows.) " The 

 larva of hipundanus has not been satisfactorily identified, as 

 no doubt it has always been confounded with that of cncHus. 

 We are still in the dark respecting the habits of even the 

 latter species ; Zincken supposed that it lived in nests of 

 humble-bees, but could not verify the fact. Zeller in the 

 ' Stettiner ent. Zeitung' for 18G8, p. 413, wrote that he 

 had discovered, in the month of July, numbei-s of tubular 

 galleries, placed perpendicularly in the soil of a sandy 

 locality, or horizontally ou the surface of the ground, which 

 was sparingly covered with patches of Hicracium piloseUa, 

 Trifolium rcpens, and various grasses. Some of these 

 galleries were tenanted by larv«, others by pupfe, but he 

 could not discover the food-plant of the larva. He tried the 

 latter with dead flies, and thought that the bodies of some 

 had been nibbled ; he also noticed that a larva had devoured 

 one of the pufte, but he did not feel justified in affirming 

 that the larva at large would live on animal food, and re- 

 marked that the silken tubes had no vestiges of insects 

 mixed with them. Zeller bred several of the insects, and 

 although he called them hipundanus, he thought that they 

 might have been considered as anellus, and that perhaps it 

 was a mistake to consider the latter distinct from hipundanus, 



" Biittner confirms Zeller's observations, and states that he 

 bred large specimens of hipundanus from larvae fed on dead 

 insects. 



" J. von Hornig submitted to me " (E. L. R.) " a number of 



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