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without any lateral fovea. Elytra finely granulosa, strongly 

 developed at the shoulders, deeply striated. Pygidium depressed, 

 cariiiated at base, and deeply shagreened. Under side very dark 

 blue, shagreened ; anterior femora with a median tooth under- 

 neath ; anterior tibiae tridentate. 



Hab. Beaufort We«t, Cape Colony. Long. corp. 12-13 mm., 

 lat. 6 mm. Type in Sth. Afr. Mus. 



Modestns, Lansb. — " Obscure rubro-cupreus, supra rugulosus, 

 clypeo bidentato, thorace obsolete lineato, elytris obsolete striatis, 

 sinu lateral! valde profundo." Long. corp. 8-12 mm. 



Hab. Benguela. 



I may mention that Peringuey's description was read on 

 March Slst, 1886, the same year as Lansberge described bis 

 species. 



G. modestns is very closely allied to G. cupreiis, Boh., but is 

 more brilliant, and more distinctly granulated. 



Oxford, 18'J4. 



SPILOSOMA LUBEICIFEDA AND ITS VAEIETIES IN 

 YORKSHIRE, DURHAM, LINCOLNSHIRE, &c.- 



By W. Hewett. 



I HOPE that the following particulars, obtained from many 

 sources and from a careful examination of most of the Yorkshire 

 and Durham collections (not merely once, but often on two or 

 three occasions), will tend to throw a little light on this some- 

 what dark question, which has already been discussed at some 

 length by Messrs. Porritt, South, and Tugwell (Entom. xxvi. 

 247, 257, 296, 346 ; xxvii. 129, 205). The type of S. labnripeda 

 is generally distributed, and, I believe, common in most localities, 

 although, like many other species, it occurs in much greater 

 abundance in some seasons than in others. Mr. Finlay, ot 

 Meldon Park, Morpeth, when looking over my collection a shoit 

 time ago, informed me that the species is rare in sill stages in 

 the neighbourhood of Morpeth. The larvre, when full-fed and 

 about to pupate, are not by any means particular in the choice 

 of their aliode — such unlikely places as old kettles, pots and pans 

 of all descriptions, pieces of brown paper, newspaper, old rags, 

 the stalk of a cabbage, or in the pithy branches of the elder ; 

 and I have heard of from twelve to sixteen cocoons being taken 

 from one cabbage-stump. The egg, larva, pupa, and the ordinary 

 forms of the imago are too well known to need any description, 

 so I will at once proceed to the chief feature of this paper, viz., 



- Abstract of a Paper read before the Laucasliire and Cheshire Entomo- 

 logical Society, Nov. 12th, 1894. 



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