50 SYNOPSIS OF 



6. Flat larvse, with triangular heads, and usually 

 with black plates on thorax, mining the leaves of 

 plants. Phyllotoma, Fenella, Fenusa, Dineura despecta, 

 Blennocampa ulmi, Kalt. 



II. Larvae with not more than twenty legs. 



A. Larvse with greenish- coloured bodies, without 

 conspicuous markings, or with white, black, or pinkish 

 continuous lines on back or sides. 



a. Flat larvse without dorsal or lateral lines, feeding 

 on the tipper or lower surface of the leaf. 



i. Feeding on upper surface of the leaf, eating only 

 the upper cuticle, and giving out a nauseous smell. 



Body without hairs. Dineura stilata. 



Body with fine hairs. Dineura testaceipes, D. Degeeri 



ii. Feeding on the lower side of the leaf, eating the 

 leaf through and through, and not giving out a bad 

 odour. 



1. Onisciform, very broad and flat, the head 

 retreating and depressed in the centre. Camponiscus 

 luridiventris . 



2. Body slender, head not retreating nor depressed 

 in the middle. Nematus luteus, N. lilineatus, N. abdo- 

 minalis. 



b. Body cylindrical, rarely feeding on the flat sur- 

 face of the leaf, without distinct markings, nor with 

 contrasting colours. 



i. Body covered with distinct tubercles each ending 

 in a hair, feeding on the flat surface in which they eat 

 large holes. 



1. Body entirely green, spinning a close, oval, 

 brownish, single cocoon in the earth. Nematus pal- 

 lescens. 



2. Body darker coloured on the back and upper half 

 of the sides than on the lower part, spinning a loose, 

 irregular, whitish, double cocoon. 



Head light brown, body greenish. Cladius padi. 

 Head and body for the greater part black. Cladius 

 brullcei. 



ii. Body without tubercles or hairs, feeding along 



