30 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



the abdomen alwaj'S testaceous. I believe it is only a variet}' of 

 the same. 



Sp. 4. C. conformis, Fall. — Long. 3 lin. Only the female of 

 this fly is known. The forehead is decidedly prominent; the 

 frontal space, the cheeks, the two basal joints of the antennae and 

 base of the palpi all bright yellow ; tips of palpi black ; thorax 

 and abdomen both ash-grey and immaculate ; legs (with the 

 exception of the black tarsi) wholly of a bright reddish yellow 

 colour. — R. H. Meade.] 



LIFE-HISTORIES OF SAWFLIES, 



Translated from the Dutoh of the late Dr. S. C. Snellen van Volllnhoven, 



By J. W. May. 

 (Coutiuued froiir vol. xii., p. 204.) 



Tentheedo Colon, Kl. 



Imago: F. Klug, "Die Blattwespen, nach u. s. w.," in ' Der 

 Gesellsch. Naturforsch. Freunde zu Berlin Magazin,* 

 vol. viii., p. 182, No. 12 L Hartig, 'Blatt- und Holzwespen,' 

 p. 312, No. 56. 



Larva : Kaltenbach, 'Die Pflanzenfeinde, aus d. Kl. d. Ins.,' p. 251, 



No. 5. 

 Tenthredo nigra, ore maculaque duplici ad basin coxarum posti- 



carum albis, abdomine praeter basin et pedum maxima parte 



rufis, alarum squamis ochraceis, stigmate fusco, antennis albo 



annulatis. 

 On the evening of the lOtli of September, 1872, in my garden 

 at Leyden, I observed a caterpillar which was entirely unknown 

 to me, feeding on a fuchsia plant. Considering the very few 

 insects to be found on introduced, half-naturalised plants, I was 

 specially interested in the discovery, and not less so when, 

 on closer observation, I found the supposed caterpillar was a 

 sawfly larva. The following morning I searched over several 

 fuchsia plants, but failed to find any more larv£e of the same 

 species ; but on the evening of the same day, in the twilight, 

 I found one more, from which it appeared to me that, as is 

 the case with other sawfly larvje and some species of Noctute, 

 they conceal themselves during the daytime, and perhaps even go 



