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breadth, the sides with swollen knotched projections. The head is 

 brown, the eyes black ; the mouth of a darker brown than the head. 

 The legs are white. The pupa state is passed in the earth. 



The imago is shining black, the abdomen reddish-yellow, save the two 

 basal segments; the legs yellow ; the wings a little clouded. 



At least that is the way I read the description : " Gliinzend schwarz, 

 Beine, Schenkelringe und Hiif ten gelb ; " but Andre (Species, p. 317) 

 reads it " feet black, coxae and trochanters yellow." If that is the right 

 translatioiH clearly the word " Beine " should have been left out, but as 

 it is I can only make it mean that the legs with the coxae and trochanters 

 are yellow, it being a common thing to mention the colour of the coxae 

 and trochanters, as they are, as a rule, differently coloured from the rest 

 of the legs when these are light coloured white, yellow, or red. 



Genus HOPLOCAMPA . 



Hoplocampa, Htg., Blattw., 276. 



Wing with two radial and four cubital cellules. Lanceolate cellule 

 contracted. Hind wings with the recurrent and transverse nervures 

 present. Antennae short, third ninth joints almost equal. Eyes 

 oblong, not reaching to the base of mandibles. Clypeus incised. Legs 

 of moderate length, the patellae small, but distinct; claws with a 

 minute subapical tooth. Cerci long. The subcostal cellule is wide 

 and its cross nervure distinct. The basal nervure is received on the 

 costa a good piece in front of the cubital nervure, and does not run 

 parallel with the transverse cubital. The transverse median is received 

 in the middle of the cellule, and has a distinct " bulla " or clear spot at 

 its lower end; there being also a similar clear space at the upper end 

 of the first recurrent nervure. Accessory nervure in front wings 

 received not far from the end of the 2nd tr. median nervure ; in hind 

 wings it is longly appendiculated. In hind wings the recurrent and 

 transverse cubital nervures are almost united. 



The species are pale yellow or ferruginous. They 

 are small in size, smooth and shining, seldom or never 

 punctured. The larvae have from six to seven pairs of 

 ventral legs. They are, as a rule, whitish or yellow 

 in colour, and live either in fruits or in galls. One 

 species (H. brevis), however, is green and bears forked 

 spines and lives in the rolled down leaves of the rose. 



Hoplocampa forms a connecting link between the 

 Selandriades and the Nematina, it having almost the 

 neuration of the latter, save as regards the position 

 of the recurrent nervures. 



In the position of the basal nervure and in the form 

 of the antennae it differs from the Selandriades, while 



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