PGECILOSOMA FLETCHER!. 213 



The larva lias a long, cylindrical body, narrowed 

 towards the end ; the head small, ground colour pale 

 green, bearing a few scattered hairs, and covered with 

 a very fine granular white powder. Body of the same 

 colour as the head, but with a deeper greenish tint ; a 

 white line (of the same tint as the head) goes down the 

 sides, and there is another on the back. The skin is in 

 folds and much wrinkled, and like the head is covered 

 with a fine powder. The eyes are black, mouth brown, 

 legs pale green. 



At the last moult it loses the green colour, and 

 becomes of a dirty drab colour. Two or three of them 

 feed on the same leaf, resting flat on the underside, and 

 eating roundish holes in the leaf . According to Van 

 Vollenhoven they spin a cocoon, but they never did 

 this with me ; even when earth was supplied, they pre- 

 ferred to bore into the cork of the bottle which held 

 them, where they pupated without spinning a cocoon, 

 rather than burying themselves in the earth. 



Commonly distributed over Scotland, the imago 

 appearing at the end of May and beginning of June. 

 Norwich (Bridgman). 



Continental distribution : Scandinavia, Denmark, 

 Germany, Holland, France, Switzerland, Tyrol. 



4. PODCILOSOMA FLETCHERI. 

 Plate XI, fig. 4, ? . 



Pcecilosoma obtusa, Thorns., Opus., 289, 5 ; Hym. Sc., i, 231, 4 



(nec,KL). 



Fletcheri, Cam., Fauna, 20, 2 ; Andre, Species, i, 

 332, Cat. 42,* 1. 



Antennae a little longer than the abdomen, almost filiform, attenuate 

 at the apex, slightly pilose, the third joint a very little longer than the 

 fourth, the rest of the joints shorter. Head black, covered with a dense 

 greyish pubescence, the front broadly projecting ; antennal fovea3 

 small ; labrum and palpi sordid white. Thorax and abdomen shining, 

 covered with a greyish pubescence ; tegulae and edge of pronotum 

 broadly white ; cenchri very large, clear white ; blotch large. Abdo- 

 men short, thick, dilated and obtuse at the apex, and a little projecting 

 above. Saw black, projecting a little. The edges of the segments are 

 broadly white, the anal segment of a dirty luteous colour ; the sides are 



