272 Rev. T. A. Marshall's monograph of 



Semasia rufillana, Wilk., in July ; and another pair from 

 Depressaria scopariella, Hein. Also a ? by W. Bennett 

 from Epldppiophora scutulana (i.e., either civs i ana, Zell., 

 or Pflngiana, Haw.). Ratzeburg records that several 

 females were reared by Saxesen from Tortrix hercyniana, 

 Tr., in the Harz momitains. Cocoon 5 lines long, re- 

 sembling tissue-paper. 



3. Microdiis tumidulus, Nees. (PL VI., fig. 5). 



Microdus tumididus, Nees, Mon., i., 147 ; Wesm., 

 Nouv. Mem. Ac. Brux., 1837, p. 16, pi. (wing) ; 

 Reinh., Berl. ent. Zeit., 1867, p. 354, <y ? . 



Black ; maxillary palpi dusky, or pale with the basal joint dusky ; 

 labial dusky with the apical joint pale ; a spot on the posterior 

 orbits, and the legs, rufo-testaceous ; coxse, upper trochanters, hind 

 tibiae at the apex, and their tarsi, black ; sometimes the hind tibise 

 are obsoletely ringed with dusky near the base. Wings infuscated, 

 squamulae testaceous or pitchy, nervures and stigma fuscous. 

 Antennae S" ? '-^8 — 30-jointed. Metathorax somewhat gibbous 

 behind the middle, and sloping thence abruply to the apex, rugulose, 

 with 2 carinse diverging in the middle and enclosing an ovate space. 

 The rest as in the preceding species. Terebra as long as the body. 

 ^ ? . Length, 1^ — 2^; wings, 2^—4^ lin. 



Var. 1, $ . Hind coxae rufo-testaceous. 



Var. 2, (? ? . Orbits entirely black. 



Five specimens, two males and three females, taken 

 near St. Albans ; and one male bred by W. H. B. Fletcher, 

 of Worthing, from Ptocheuusa inopella, Zell. ; the last 

 belongs to var. 2. According to Reinhard bred once by 

 Moschler from pupa (?) of PJitJioroblastis acwnmiatana, 

 111., which feeds on Chrysanthemum leucanthemum. 



4. Microdus cingidipes, Nees. 



Microdus cinqidipes, Nees, Mon., i., 148, ? ; Wesm., 

 Nouv. Mem. Ac. Brux., 1837, p. 18 ; Reinh., Berl. 

 ent. Zeit., 1867, p. 354, <? ? . 

 Black ; palpi dusky, hardly paler at the apex ; 4 anterior femora 

 at the apex, and thek tibiae, rufo-testaceous ; hind tibiae white, the 

 apex, and a ring near the base, blackish; hind tarsi white at the 

 base ; the other tarsi darkened towards the last joint, which is 

 black. Wings slightly infuscated, squamuke black, nervures and 

 stigma fuscous. Antennae <} J 30 — 31-jointed. Metathorax rugu- 

 lose, with 2 more or less obsolete carinae, effaced before the apex. 



