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between the upper and lower side. In all the examples 

 I have there is no distinction between the two sexes in 

 coloration. On the Continent specimens occur with 

 the base of the abdomen black and the femora more 

 or less of the same colour and the tarsi black or fus- 

 cous, wholly or in part. The var. angelicas has the 

 thorax luteous, except on the breast, the abdomen and 

 legs being also of this colour. I believe it has not 

 occurred in this country. The tegulae vary from black 

 to reddish, and the tibiae may be infuscated. 



Brischke (Beob., p. 123) states that the geminata of 

 Zaddach (1. c.) is not the Linnean species, it differing 

 from the latter in wanting the dark wing band, in the 

 tegulae being reddish-yellow, the scutellum keeled, and 

 the tibias uniformly reddish-yellow. 



The larva has been described by Brischke (Schr. 

 G-es. Natur., Danzig, 123, pi. viii, fig. 8). It feeds 

 on Rosa canina, eating the leaves along the edges. 

 The body is 15 mm. long, shining; twenty-footed; the 

 ventral legs small, peg-shaped ; the anal legs are deve- 

 loped, but seldom used. Above the body is rounded, 

 beneath flat ; transversely wrinkled. Each segment 

 laterally is three times angularly sinuated, and on each 

 stigma-bearing segment is, on a swelling, a clearly 

 stalked gland. Anal lobe broad, above indistinctly 

 incised, behind rounded, ciliated, and pointed on 

 either side, The ground colour is green, but darkened 

 down the back by the food canal. Eye-spots black ; 

 mandibles brown ; stigmas black, edged with white. 



The cocoon is meshy in texture, and yellow, and is 

 spun in the earth. The eggs are laid in the twigs. 



Continental distribution : Sweden, Germany, France, 

 Italy, Russia. 



