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cocoons were removed, from only just below the surface, for inspection 

 after the insects were bred, I found each was of broad oval sliapc about 

 9 lines by 7 or 8, exteriorly composed of grains of earth very firmly 

 united to a few fibres of grass-roots, of which plenty were in tlie turfy 

 soil, and served to bind all together ; on removing the earthy particles 

 I reached the inner cocoon of opaque greenish-white soft silk, yet 

 strong and elastic, in these qualities reminding me of that of O. 

 potatorid, and in the softness of its closely-woven interior of that of 

 B. mori ; it was 7 lines long and 3 lines wide, rounded off anteriorly, 

 widest in the middle, and tapered to a blunt point at the posterior end. 



In each instance (except one) the pupa had evidently emerged 

 from the cocoon and travelled away from it a little distance, as I found 

 the pupa-skins thus lying on the bare earth, and only the old larval- 

 skin lay shrivelled up at the bottom of the deserted cocoons ; but the 

 one from whence the AtiomaJon had come still contained the pupa-skin 

 only minus a portion of the head and thorax, which lay in fragments, 

 so that the cavity of the pupal body had been the puparium of the 

 parasite. 



The pupa of glohularicB is about 13mm. in length and of moderate 

 substance throughout, with prominent thorax, the wing-covers short, 

 but toward their ends projecting a little free from the body, the long 

 antenna- and leg-cases are all free from the body, and seem .to be sug- 

 gestive of locomotion even before disclosure of the moth, the deeply 

 divided abdominal rings have each on the back near their beginning 

 a transverse ridge thickly set with hooks pointing backward, the tip of 

 abdomen rounded off in a blunt point ; the colour of the head, thorax, 

 and wing-covers is dark olive-green and very glossy, the leg-cases and 

 abdomen are of lighter shining green and the hooks black. 



Emsworth : September 12fh, 1883. 



Myrmeleon JErberi, Bratier, = M. inconspieuus, Sambur. — In the collection of 

 Baron de Seljs-Longchamps are a series of a Myrmeleon from Corfu {Urber) much 

 like M.formicarius, L. {formicalynx, Burm.), but notably smaller ; the species was 

 described by Dr. Brauer (Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1867, p. 190) as M. Erberi. 

 On comparing them with the types of M. inconspieuus, Kambur (Nevropteres, p. 

 406), I find they are specifically identical therewith; hence Eambur's name should 

 take priority. I possess a $ indicated " South of France," the same district whence 

 Kambur believed his types were derived. These types consist of two perfect ? and 

 one (J without head and abdomen ; in the latter sex there is a conspicuous " pelote " 

 at the base of the posterior wings. In describing the abdomen both Eambur and 

 Brauer appear to have taken their description from the ? , in which thei-c are only 



