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the fourth narrow and not quite so long as the preceding. 

 Thoracic segments semitransparent, sparingly covered with hairs, 

 anterior angles rounded. Abdominal segments increasing in 

 width until the fifth is reached, when they rapidly decrease ; the 

 eighth longer than the others, having the posterior angles very 

 obtuse ; anal segment narrow, and terminated by two sharp rigid 

 spines, in some specimens slightly curved inwards. Nine pairs of 

 stigmata. Legs well developed, and covered with fine hairs ; 

 claws small, simple, and sharply pointed. Length, 4 mm. \ 

 greatest width, | m. This larva is easily distinguished from that 

 of Lcemopldams Dnfourii, Laboulbene (described by M. Edouard 

 Perris in the Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 8rd series, vol. i., p. 618), 

 by having the posterior margin of the head concave or arcuate, 

 instead of straight. It also diifers in this particular from the 

 larva of L. ater, Oliv. {Cucujus spartii, Curtis), a figure and short 

 description of which appeared in Westwood's ' Introduction to the 

 Modern Classification of Insects,' vol. i., p. 146. The larva of 

 L. ferrugineus is very distinct from either of those of the above- 

 mentioned species, but space does not admit of my entering into 

 minor differences ; they will, however, readily be made out upon 

 reference to the original descriptions. — H. Sidney Olliff ; 36, 

 Mornington Road, Regent's Park, N.W., August 12, 1882. 



[Compare Carpentier's note on the larva of Lcemophloeus 

 ferrugineus in Bull. Soc. Linn, de la Nord du France for April, 

 1877.— E. A. F.] 



LiMNERiA Krieohbaumeri, Briclgmau. — This Ichneumon I 

 have bred from the larva of Tceniocampa stabilis, and it always 

 emerges when its victim is nearly ready to moult for the fourth 

 time. Its cocoon is oval in shape, and of a chocolate colour, with 

 ■ a central whity-brown zone, and is 6 mm. in length and 4 in 

 breadth. The object of my writing this note is to record the very 

 strange propensity the pupa has of jumping. I first noticed this 

 peculiarity about sixteen years ago ; since that I have often 

 exhibited it to my non-entomological friends as a " curious jump- 

 ing seed." I have known it to jump four feet in a horizontal 

 direction, and about two feet when a perpendicular bound has 

 been tried. I have closely watched it many times, but could 

 never see any preparation by contraction or otherwise before the 

 jump; and from experiments I have .made with cocoons I am 

 fully convinced that the jumping is done to secure for themselves 



