ATHALIA SCUTELLARLffi. 313 



also a yellowish mark on the metanotura and the wings 

 are not yellowish = var. Orientalis, Cam. 



3. ATHALIA SCUTELLAEI^I. 

 Plate III, fig. 9, Larva. 



Athalia scutellarice, Cam., B. M. M., xvii, 66 (1880) ; Andre, 



Species, i, 581 (Suppl.). 



Luteous, pilose ; the head (except the apex of clypeus and the labrum, 

 which are white), meso- and metanotum (except the apex of middle lobe 

 of mesonotum and the greater part of the scutellum, which are luteous) 

 and the upper half (in some cases only the third) of pleura, black. Legs 

 luteous, the apices of the four posterior tibiaB and the joints of all the 

 tarsi broadly annulated with black. Antennae black, eleven -join ted, 

 testaceous on the under side. Wings hyaline, nervures, costa (save at 

 extreme base, where they are testaceous) and stigma black. $ similar, 

 but with the mesonotum entirely black. 



Length 2 2 lines. 



Allied to A. rosce, but distinguished by its smaller 

 size, more pilose body, luteous sternum and scutellum 

 in the ? , by the third cubital cellule being shorter in 

 proportion to the second and at the same time wider 

 at the base, by the third joint of the antenna3 being 

 more than double the length of the fourth, which is not 

 the case with rosce, while the tar sal joints at the base 

 are of the same colour as the rest of the legs, and not 

 whitish as in the commoner species. 



The larva is of a deep velvety black colour. On the 

 sides at the top are twelve white tubercles which are 

 longer than broad; over the legs there is a row of 

 larger and more oval tubercles of the same colour, 

 while above these on the abdomen there is a row of 

 smaller white tubercles situated above the space sepa- 

 rating the larger ones below them, this middle row of 

 tubercles being of the same shape as those on the top. 

 The head is deep black and covered with a moderately 

 long pile ; the legs are fuscous-black, the abdominal 

 ones white or dirty-white. The skin is rough and of 

 a velvety texture. 



The larvae feed on Scutellarice galericulata in the 



