278 EMPHYTUS CARPINI. 



I have found newly emerged larvae on the budding 

 leaves then. 



This is a common species in all probability, but 

 seems to be rare in collections, a fact no doubt owing 

 to the imago appearing late in the autumn (end of Sep- 

 tember and beginning of October : I have taken it 

 even on October 17th), when little collecting is done. 

 It is generally distributed over Scotland ; from Eng- 

 land I have seen specimens from Worcester, Hereford 

 (Chapman), the London district and Devonshire. 



European distribution : Sweden, Germany, Holland, 

 France. 



10. EMPHYTUS CABPINI. 



EmpJiytus carpini, Htg., Blattw., 250, 11 ; Evers., Bull. Mosc., 

 xx, 27, 4; Kalt., Pfl., 81 (lar.) ; 

 Thorns., Opus., 275, 12; Hyin., 

 Scand., i, 196, 13 ; Andre, Species, i, 

 248; Cat., 30,* 8; Cam., Fauna, 

 21,6. 



Black, shining ; tegulae and legs for the greater part white ; femora 

 black, except at the extreme base and apex and sometimes beneath ; 

 coxae at base, apex of posterior tibiae broadly and hinder tarsi black ; the 

 four anterior tarsi fuscous. Scutellum smooth, impunctate ; vertex 

 and front shining, but faintly punctured. Wings subhyaline or hya- 

 line; costa fuscous; stigma and nervures black ; the tr. radial nervure 

 is received very near the second tr. cubital. 



Length 2f 3 lines. 



Of similar size and form to grossularice, but the coxas 

 are more broadly black at the base, all the femora are 

 almost entirely black, the apex of the hinder tibiae and 

 tarsi black ; anterior tarsi, and sometimes the apex of 

 tibiae, fuscous ; the vertex is punctured, the scutellum 

 smooth, shining; labrum generally black, and the tr. 

 radial nervure is generally received near the second tr. 

 cubital. The labrum is rarely pale. Another distin- 

 guishing point between them is that in Carpini the 

 last antennal joint is not longer than the eighth, while 

 this is the case in grossularice or nearly so. 



As in the preceding species the amount of black on 

 the legs varies. 



