62 HYLOTOMA PAGANA. 



The var. Stephensii, besides having the pleurae yellow, 

 has the four hinder femora pale yellow ; the pleurae in 

 the c? are also sometimes yellow, and the sutures of 

 the mesonotum, and the posterior tibiae and tarsi are 

 occasionally for the greater part of the same colour, 

 while on the other hand there may be only a slight trace 

 of this colour in the pleurae in the darker-coloured 

 specimens. The labrum and the two front legs may 

 be tinged with yellow, and the antennae may be fuscous 

 or light brown. Eversman (Bull. Mosc., xx, 11) de- 

 scribes a cT of pagana having the tibiae and tarsi 

 luteous, but this may possibly be referable rather to 

 H. fuscipennis, H.S. 



The larva is yellowish-green with eight rows of 

 black shining tubercles, those in the three lateral rows 

 being the largest. It feeds on roses. 



According to Reaumur (Mem., ii, 122, pi. xv, figs. 

 1 3) the eggs are laid in a double row in pairs 

 placed close against one another in the branches of the 

 rose. G-oureau confirms this and records Scolobates 

 auriculatus, Fab., as a parasite. Brischke states that 

 the larva resembles that of H. rosce, but differs from it 

 in having three transverse rows of black shining tuber- 

 cles, but on the last segment there is only one row. 



So far as my experience goes pagana is not common 

 in England, where it is confined to the middle and 

 south. 



It is universally distributed over Europe, also in 

 Japan and in the East Indies. 



It has also been recorded from North America 

 (Georgia), but H. abdominalis, Leach, may have been 

 mistaken for it. 



