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Astemma pallicornis Myrmus micropterus Odontoscelis Scarab«oides 



Miciophysa pselaphiformis 



Family. YpoNOMEUxiDiE, Stephens. 



Genus. Parasemia,* Stephens. 



Palpi 2, dense hirsuti, subelongati, recti, divavicati ; articulo ultimo subnudo. 

 Antennas basi valde incrassatse, pubescentes ; apice gradatim attenuate, fasciolis albis. 

 Alae integrse. 



Par. transversella. Alis anticis puvpurascente-brunneis, fascia transversa strami- 

 nea, posticis fuscis. (Exp. Alar. 7 — 9 lin). 



Anterior wings glossy purplish brown, with a transverse, pale yellow, or straw-co- 

 loured band, before the middle, narrowed and sometimes interrupted towards the costa; 

 posterior wings brown-black : crown and thorax griseous, with their edges, as also the 

 palpi and anal appendages ochreous : antennse brown, irregularly ringed with white, 

 towards and at the tip. 



This very conspicuous insect, of which neither figure nor description is to be found 

 in Hiibner, Duponchel, or Treitschke, approaches nearest in appearance to CEcophora 

 sulphurella, but from this it is generically distinct ; the palpi being, as in Aplota, 

 straight and divaricating, instead of being recurved : the antennas, although much 

 thickened at the base, are unlike those of CEcophora, and the anal appendages of the 

 ^ are very large and dissimilar. There is no other insect than the above to which I 

 can compare it ; the character here given will therefore readily enable any person to 

 ascertain the species. I obtained two examples only, about two miles apart, but de- 

 stroyed in my sweeping-net, or missed, a few more, which in their injured state I mis- 

 took for CE. sulphurella. 



Art. L. — Notes on Captures at Birch Wood. By S. Stevens, Esq. 



38, King Street, Covent Garden, 

 Sir, September 9, 1841. 



If you think the following list of insects, principally Coleoptera, taken 

 by myself in three days collecting at Birch Wood last July, worthy of being inserted 

 in your interesting work, ' The Entomologist,' I beg you will do so. 



Your obedient Servant, 



Samuel Stevens. 



Balaninus Betulse, on birch Ceutorhynchus Quercus & ruber, on oaks 

 Nedyus rufitarsis rubicundus 



troglodytes, variety guttula 



Resedae sulcicollis 



marginatus Gymnactrou Veronicas 



Echii, on Echium vulgare Rhiuusa Antirrhini, on Antirrhinum 



* llapaa-YifAOi, insigniter notatus. 



