b THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



nervures are almost united in front ; the disco- cubital nervure is 

 broken by a short stump ; the transverse median received beyond the 

 basal. 



This species has the wings yellowish hyaline, with a broad 

 fuscous violaceous cloud, as in A. nigrolineata, Cam., from 

 Assam ; that species may be known from it by the areola not 

 being longer than wide, and by the thorax being largely marked 

 with black. 



Buodias rufo-ornatus, Cam. 



The female of this species has been taken at Buxa, Bhotan. 

 In coloration it hardly differs from the male, the only difference 

 of note being that there is a small irregular yellow spot in the 

 centre of the base of the second abdominal segment. The basal 

 half of the hind femora is rufous. In length it is 17 mm., the 

 ovipositor is 6 mm. 



OPHIONIN.E. 



Paniscus longitarsis, Cam. ?. 



A single specimen may be this species. The tarsi unfortu- 

 nately are broken. The colour is of a deeper, more uniform 

 rufous than it is in normal examples : the ocelli are distorted. 

 The nervures are uniformly black, darker coloured than in 

 longitarsis. 



FOSSORES. 

 Pompilus capitosus, Smith. 



The abdomen in the only example is covered with a purplish 

 pile. The clypeus is yellow, except for a black mark, longer than 

 wide, in the middle, its apex not reaching to the end. The four 

 posterior spurs are yellow, black at the base. The second abscissa 

 of the radius is twice the length of the third, which is as long as 

 the space bounded by the third transverse cubital and the 

 second recurrent nervure. 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



Stenoptilia graphodactyla, a new British Plume. — While collect- 

 ing in East Dorset during the past summer, I had the good fortune to 

 discover the larvas of this pretty little moth feeding in the flowers of 

 the marsh-gentian (Gentiana pneamonanthe), and several of the perfect 

 insects were bred. I also beat one or two of them from amongst mixed 

 herbage, but they seem to be sluggish in their habits, and only fly for 

 a short distance after being disturbed. It occurred in boggy places on 

 heaths, and, unless the larva feed on other plants, I do not think it is 

 likely ever to be very plentiful, as marsh-gentian is excessively local. 

 This form of graphodactyla is near to var. pneumonanthes, Schleich. — 

 Gervase F. Mathew ; Dovercourt, Essex, Nov. 22nd, 1906. 



Myelois ceratoni^ and its var. pryerella. — In an article by Mr. 

 South (Entom. xxiii. p. 301) a reference occurs to tbe effect that 



