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THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



lepidopteron. It is a recurrent variation. Similar specimens 

 exist in several cabinets ; there is a fine example in Mr. 

 Doubleday's. The specimen figni'ed was bred from a larva 

 found at St. Margaret's Bay, Dover, 1872, and has been 

 kindly lent me by Mr. Stevens for figuring in the ' Entomo- 

 logist.' — Edward NewnuDi. 



Economy of Chalcidia. [By Francis Walker, F^sq. 



Continued from p. 300.) 



SYNT01I0PU3 THOBACICUS. 



SniKGIGASTEB FLAVICORSIS. 



The accompanying three figures represent three genera of 

 Sphegigasteridae. The economy of Sphegigaster and of Merisus 



