132 NEMATUS CONSOBRINUS. 



Head scarcely so broad as the mesothorax, shining, roughly punctured, 

 covered with short pale down ; pentagonal area distinct, front project- 

 ing ; antennal fovea large, deep ; the clypeus ernarginated, but not 

 very deeply ; black, the clypeus and labrum white ; the outer orbits 

 brownish. Thorax black, faintly punctured ; tegulas and pronotum 

 pale fulvous ; pleurae half shining, smooth. Legs pale fulvous, coxae 

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

 femora and tibiae pale white. Wings ample, hyaline, iridescent, costa at 

 base testaceous, the stigma is of a darker testaceous colour. The first 

 transverse cubital nervure is faint ; the second cellule is more than 

 double the length of the third, angled where it receives the recurrent 

 nervure ; the second recurrent nervure is received considerably in front 

 of the second transverse cubital. Abdomen pale fulvous, the basal half 

 black above; the cerci long, pale white; sheath pale fulvous, darker 

 at the apex, and pilose. 



The $ has the antennae compressed and of the same length as the 

 body. 



Length 3 3 lines. 



Ab. a. As in type, but the pleurae for the greater 

 part pale fulvous. 



b. As in type, but scutellum black ? 



Var. a. Antennas, clypeus, scutellum, pleuraa, and 

 sheath black, the eyes not surrounded with brown; 

 the dorsum of abdomen black to the seventh segment. 



This is a rather variable species, especially in the 

 quantity of black on the thorax and abdomen. 



The larva feeds in early summer on the leaves of 

 the gooseberry. It has a green head, marked more or 

 less with little black points, and bearing soft hairs. 

 The body is green, shining, the skin beset all over 

 with transverse rows of black tubercles, each bearing 

 a hair ; the second segment, and more or less of the 

 last, and the sides over the legs yellow ; the back has 

 a bluer tint than the rest of the body, perhaps through 

 the food shining through. Cerci yellowish, black at 

 the tips. When young the head is black, the body 

 green w'th black points ; at the last moult it loses the 

 black tubercles, and becomes of a bright green colour, 

 yellowish behind the head and on the last segment. 

 The cocoon is spun in the earth. There is, I believe, 

 only one brood in the year in this country. 



Seemingly a not uncommon species. I have seen 

 specimens from Clydesdale, Rannoch, Worcester, York, 

 and Lastingham (Rev. T. A. Marshall). 



