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paljnna, L., and another from Depressaria angelicella, 

 Hiib. I obtained two specimens by beating an alder- 

 tree near Abergavenny, and a third by sweeping in a 

 marsh near Cornworthy in S. Devon. Cameron's col- 

 lection contains two, one taken at Kenmuir in Scotland ; 

 the other he reared from a reddish-grey cocoon, rough, 

 dull, and felted, attached to the stalk of a plant on the 

 shores of Loch Awe. This cocoon differs in colour and 

 size from that of P. multistriatus, Katz., of which I 

 possess an example, together with the perfect insect, 

 from Switzerland, presented to me by the kindness of 

 Mr. Bignell. The latter cocoon is white, and nearly 

 5 lines long ; those observed by Eatzeburg were brownish 

 grey. P. multistriatus, Eatz., is likely to be found in 

 England ; it is 2 — 4 lines long, formed like sticticus and 

 falcatus ; antennae 34 — 36-jointed ; the colour of my 

 specimen and Euthe's is rufo-testaceous without any 

 mixture of fuscous ; but others apparently vary like 

 their congeners. Eatzeburg's three specimens were 

 hatched out of cocoons attached to the needles of fir- 

 trees ; that author has figured the ^ , which seems to be 

 smaller than the ? . The individual referred to by 

 Wesmael (Nouv. Mem. Ac. Brux., 1838, p. 144) under 

 B. falcatus, and which was sent from Liege by M. Carlier, 

 belongs undoubtedly to this species ; it is preserved in 

 the Brussels collection. 



2. Pygostolus falcatus, Nees. 

 Leiopliron falcatus, Nees, Mon., i., 44; Blacus falcatus, 



Wesm., Nouv. Mem. Ac. Brux., 1835, p. 101, ? ; 



Tappes, Ann. Soc. Fr., 1869, pi. i., f. 16, <? ; 



P. falcatus, Hal., Ent. Mag., iii., 20, ?; Euthe, 



Berl. ent. Zeit., 1861, p. 158, <? ? . 

 Similar to the preceding, but much smaller. Rufo-testaceous, 

 unicolorous or varied with fuscous, viz., on the stemmatieum, 

 occiput, metathorax, and posterior portion of the pectus, together 

 with the base and apex of the abdomen. Antennae longer than 

 the body, filiform, 29 — oO-jointed (in 20 examples). Wings as in 

 sticticus, but the yellow stigma is often more or less infuscated, 

 and the recurrent nervure somewhat rejected, seldom interstitial. 

 Metathorax punctato-rugulose, sometimes with vestiges of 2 medial 

 and 2 lateral carinse. First abdominal segment faintly aciculated 

 or nearly smooth, especially at the apex. Terebra decurved, with 



