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the skin, while the intestinal canal appears as a black 

 line when it is filled with food. As the animal grows 

 the head becomes light brown, with darker mouth 

 parts, the eye spots likewise being visible as black 

 spots ; the entire head is very shining. The body is 

 dirty yellow (sometimes dirty white), the legs have a 

 yellowish hue, while the slimy substance is more 

 abundant than it was when the larva was young. 



In its manner of feeding, pupating, &c., it agrees 

 with the other species. I have not noticed it in any 

 great abundance in Scotland, nor observed it do any 

 appreciable damage to trees ; but, according to Ratz- 

 burg, damage is done to the lime trees by a number 

 of the larvas feeding on a leaf, whereby it becomes 

 brown, curled up, and ultimately dies. 



It is a species common all over Britain. 



Continental distribution : Sweden, Germany, France, 

 Russia. 



3. ERIOCAMPA VAKIPES. 



Tenthredo varipes, Klug, Berl. Mag., viii, 69, 49 ; Htg., Blattw., 



279, 46. 



Selandria varipes, Ste., 111., vii, 51, 28. 

 Eriocampa crassicomis, Tishbein, S. E. Z., 1846. 



varipes, Thorns., Op., 287, 4 ; Hym. Sc., i, 225, 4 ; 



Andre, Species, i, 323; Cat., 41,* 



12. 



Black ; tibiae white at the base ; anterior testaceous at the apex. 

 Wings hyaline, a narrow infuscated cloud below the stigma ; the stigma 

 is almost testaceous beneath. 



The $ is similar, but the posterior wings have the tr. cubital and 

 recurrent nervures at edge of wing, and therefore without a middle 

 cellule. 



Length 2| 2 lines. 



Similar to the preceding, but wings clearer, only 

 smoky in the middle, and the tarsi are black. The 

 structure of the posterior neuration in the 3 distin- 

 guishes it readily. 



The larva (which is similar to that of annulipes) has 

 been found by Mr. J. E. Fletcher on oak. 





