224 ERIOCAMPA LIMACINA. 



Apparently not a common species, and confined 

 principally to the southern counties. It has been 

 found in the London' district, at Norwich, Worcester, 

 Dorsetshire. 



Continental distribution : Sweden, Germany, Hol- 

 land, France, Italy. 



4. EEIOCAMPA LIMACINA. 

 PI. II, fig. 10 and 10 a, Larva. 



Tenthredo limacina, Retz., De Geer, 313. 



De Geer, Mem, ii. 269, pi. 38, figs. 



1625; Beau., 'Mem., v, 97, t. 12, 

 figs. 1 6. 



adumbrate, Klug, Berl. Mag., viii, 64, 56; Htg., 



Blattw., 280, 48; Evers., Bull. 

 Mosc., xx ; Tasch., Ent. f. Gart., 

 153, figs. 38 and 39; Gorseki, 

 Analecta, i, 186, t. Ill, figs. 2 and 

 2 a. 



cerasi, Bouche, Naturg., 137 ; Newman, Ent., viii, 



258. 



Selandria adumbrate, Ste., 111., vii, 48, 14; Kalt, Pfl., 174, 207 ; 



Toll., Tidj. Ent., xxi, lar. im., pi. i. 



atra, West., Ent. Ann., 1862, p. 132; Gard. Chron., 



1848, p. 524. 



Eriocampa adumbrate, Thorns., Opus., 287, 5 ; Hym. Sc., i, 226, 



5 ; Cam., Fauna, 24, 2. 



limacina, Andre, Species, i, 322, pi. xviii, figs. 4, 5, 



6 and 7 ; Cat., 41,* 13. 

 Monostegia antipoda, Kirby, Trans. Ent. Soc., 1881, 50. 



Black, shining, pilose; anterior tibiae testaceous, middle almost 

 fuscous. Wings hyaline, with a broad, smoky band in the middle. $ 

 and ?. 



Length 2^ lines. 



Distinguished from the foregoing species by the 

 darker colour of the legs, and by the transverse radial 

 nervure being received nearer the third transverse 

 cubital; from rosce by the less deeply ernarginated 

 clypeus, and differently coloured wings ; and from 

 Cinxia by the black tibiae. Occasionally specimens of 

 both males and females are bred having only one 

 middle cellule in hind wings. 



The eggs are laid on the underside of the leaf. 

 When very young the larva is white ; then it becomes 



