THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 3Q7 



lax ling when annoyed, the head being brought into contact 

 with the ventral claspers ; the head is glabrous, of about the 

 same width as the 2nd segment, and prone, the cheeks 

 rounded, and there is scarcely any notch on the crown ; the 

 body is uniformly cylindrical, smooth and velvety : the 

 colour of the head is pale Jferruginous, reticulated with 

 darker brown, and having black ocelli and several other 

 black dots ; the colour of the body is dull ferruginous, reti- 

 culated and dotted with darker brown : all the markings are 

 very minute ; there is a very narrow medio-dorsal thread-like 

 stripe extending from behind the head to the anal extremity ; 

 a transverse medio-dorsal line on the J2lh and another on 

 the 13lh segment; the anterior portion of these is dark 

 brown, the posterior portion nearly while ; on each side of 

 the medio-dorsal stripe is a series of whitish spots ; the 

 spiracles are nearly white, with a small black blotch behind 

 each ; the ventral surface, extending to the spiracles, is paler 

 than the dorsal surface, and there is an appearance of a still 

 ])aler lateral stripe, which partially includes the spiracles, 

 but is chiefly below them ; the legs and claspers are very 

 pale. It feeds on sallow, and my specimens, kindly presented 

 by Mr. Barrett, were full-fed on the 6ih of May, and retired 

 beneath the surface of the earth. — Edicard Newman. 



Enlomological Notes and Captures. 



Sesia pliilanthi/ormis in Ireland. — Mr. Gregson records, 

 in the ' Entomologist's Monthly Magazine' for August, the 

 occurrence of Sesia philanthiformis in Ireland ; he took it 

 freely on the coast at Howth, from the Baths to the round 

 tower in Dublin Bay, where the sea-pink (Statice armaria) 

 grows upon the rocks. 



Peinpelia subornateUa in Ireland. — The same Entomolo- 

 gist also records that he has obtained Pempelia subornateUa 

 in the same locality, in rocky places where Sedum grows. 

 Both insects were taken freely. 



Parasite on Odonestis potatoria. — A week ago I found a 

 cocoon of the common "drinker" moth, and on opening it 

 1 found the pupa had been taken possession of by another 

 insect, the chrysalis-case being filled by other clnysalids. 



