APPENDIX TO VOL. I. 221 



Blennocampa alternipes, Thorns., Hym. So., i, 207, 3 ; Andre, 



Species, i, 310 ; Cat., 

 38*, 13; Brischke, 

 Beob. ii Blattw. (2), 

 80, 31, Taf. v, f. 3, 

 (lar.). 



Black, covered with fuscous pubescence, the knees and anterior tibiae 

 in front, white ; cerci testaceous. Wings hyaline, costa and stigma 

 black ; transverse radial nervure interstitial ; second radial cellule a 

 little longer than first ; second cubital cellule longer than the third on 

 the upper side, but shorter on the lower owing to the third transverse 

 cubital nervure having an oblique curve towards the apex, and forming 

 a very sharp angle with the cubital nervure. 

 Length 3 lines. 



I suspect that this is only a form of B. subcana with 

 the posterior legs entirely black, for beyond this I 

 have been unable to find other points of distinction. 

 If this view be found correct, Zaddach's name will of 

 course sink. 



The larva (teste Brischke, I. c. supra) feeds on the 

 raspberry in gardens, eating out holes from the under- 

 sides of the leaves, and living solitarily. It is from 4 

 44 lines in length, somewhat thickened in front, clear 

 green, darker on the back through the food canal, 

 which forms a dark stripe. On each segment stand 

 two transverse rows of white thorns, which, except on 

 the last segment, are cleft at the top, the anal segment 

 having them single. The head is shortly pilose and 

 dark green with a blackish spot on the vertex running 

 from one eye to the other. Between the eyes are two 

 blackish spots ; the mouth region darker. At the 

 last moult the larva casts off the spines, and becomes 

 shining green, only the eye-spots being black. The 

 longish cocoon is spun in the earth. 



Not common : Loughton, Essex (T. R. Billups). 



Continental distribution : Sweden, Germany, France. 



HOPLOOAMPA. 

 To Synopsis of Species at p. 258, add 



6 a (66) Lateral lobes of mesonotum black. Cratacgi. 



66 (6 a) Lateral lobes of mesonotum not black. Plagiata. 



