198 SELANDEIA TEMPOEALIS. 



of the two succeeding species, the legs not so stout, 

 calcaria shorter and the hinder tarsi longer compared 

 to the tibise ; while the head does not project behind 

 the eyes, but is rather narrowed. The legs, too, want 

 the yellowish tinge so noticeable in Stramineipes. 



The larva is stated by van Vollenhoven to feed on 

 Polystichum felix-mas during August, resting with the 

 body stretched out on the upper side of the leaflets. 

 It is 22"' long, head smaller than second segment, 

 brown, with black eye spots ; the upper part of the body 

 to near the spiracles is leaf-green like the colour of the 

 leaf ; below that it is paler ; the spiracles brownish. 

 Legs glassy white with brown claws. A cocoon is 

 spun in the earth of the usual form. 



Rare, seemingly, in this country Glanville's 

 Wootton. 



Continental distribution : Sweden, Holland. 



6. SELANDEIA TEMPOEALIS. 



Selandria temporalis, Thorns., Op., 292, 6 ; Hym. Sc., i, 240, 9 ; 



Andre, Species, i, 296; Cat., 

 37,* 7. 



Black, smooth, shining, covered 'on head and thorax with a fuscous 

 pubescence ; labrum, tegulee, legs (save coxae which are black, and apex 

 of tarsi which is fuscous), yellowish-white. Wings subhyaline ; costa 

 and stigma black, the former testaceous at the base. Pentagonal area 

 indistinct. Temples not margined. $ 



Length 2 lines. 



A smaller species than Stramineipes, with the 

 antennap shorter, the palpi and apex of tarsi fuscous, 

 and easily known otherwise by the form of the temples 

 and the indistinct pentagonal area. 



A rare species. Taken by myself near Dumfries in 

 June. 



Continental distribution : Sweden. 



