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with a golden green back. Great numbers of the inquilini- 

 cynipids dwell in the outer regions of these galls, with their 

 parasites, such as Eupehui and Tetrastich!; there are also 

 occasional inmates in these galls, such as a Fcenus, a Chrysis, 

 an Osraia, another aculeate Hymenopteron ; but a notice of 

 these and their associates^ Diomorus calcaratus and species 

 of Eurytoma and of Callimome, may be deferred. 



Naples. — Coleoptera: Ateuchus seraipunctatus, Anomala 

 Vitis, Scaurus striatus, Elenophorus collaris, Blaps gigas, 

 Pimelia bipunctata, Cistela sulphurea, Omophilus picipes, 

 Strangalia melanura. Hymenoptera: Scolia flavifrons, Dis- 

 colia hirta. Hemiptera: Callipterus Quercus. Diptera: 

 Dasypogon teutonus. 



Anomala Vitis, Cistela sulphurea and Omophilus picipes 

 frequent the desolate flanks of Vesuvius ; and there Ateuchus 

 seraipunctatus was abundant, and busily engaged in its 

 symbolical operations and constructions. Callipterus Quercus 

 and its Aphidius-parasite may be found on the under side of 

 oak-leaves. Various species of Aphides are abundant here, as 

 elsewhere in Italy : their life here must be very different from 

 that in Lapland, where I have found, near the North Cape, 

 the nest of an aculeate Hyraenopteron provisioned with 

 them : there the egg-state must occupy half the year j here it 

 may be of very rare and brief occurrence. 



Florence. — Coleoptera: Qcypus olens, Cetonia anguslata, 

 Purpuricenus Koehleri, Stenopterus prseuslus, Coptocephala 

 scopolina, Cryptocephalus Hypochceridis. Hemiptera: Miris 

 longicornis, Capsus Chenopodii, Cicada Fraxiui. 



In Italy, during the spring, and in Switzerland, the sharp 

 sound of the field-cricket fills all the valleys; but the vibra- 

 tion of Cicada Fraxini about the Mediterranean, in the 

 summer time, is more loud and incessant: it may also be 

 heard in the Vallais, at Sion, a spot of which the resemblance 

 to Italy has often been remarked. 



Lucca. — Coleoptera: Geolrupes vernalis, Cetonia raorio, 

 C. affinis, C. lucidula, Anomala Vitis, Lachnoea tripunctata, 

 Coptocephala scopolina, Cryptocephalus Hypochceridis, 

 Hispa atra. Ncuvoptera : Ascalaphus longicornis. Hyme- 

 noptera : Discolia hirla. Diptera : Laphria maroccana. 



A. longicornis may be distinguished at some distance 

 among butterflies by its peculiar flight. I have seen it 



