ENTOMOLOGICAL CABINET. 



JSGERIA ASILIFORMIS. Fabr 



Memythrus Vespiformis. Newman 



Clear undenting. Haworth. 



Bluish-black : head with a white spot before the 

 eyes ; the collar yellow : palpi with the base black, 

 the apex yellow : antennas bluish, beneath fulvous at 

 the base : thorax with a spot at the base of the wings, 

 and a line on each side yellow : abdomen glossy, 

 with the second, fourth and sixth segments on their 

 posterior part yellow : tuft of the tail black : thighs 

 black, the hinder part yellow at the base : tibiae yel- 

 low, with a black spot externally : feet fulvous : upper 

 wings above brown, with two transparent streaks, 

 the nervures and costa bluish ; beneath pale tawny, 

 with an indistinct central tawny lunule ; lower wings 

 transparent, with a lunular mark in the centre ; the 

 nervures and margin fuscous: fringe of all the wings 

 ashy-brown. In the male the antenna? are strongly 

 pectinated nearly to the apex. 



This is a very rare insect ; but has been occasion- 

 ally taken on poplars near London, in June and the 

 beginning of July. 



The caterpillar feeds on the wood of the poplar 

 tree and also on the willow. 



The caterpillar of JEgeria Tipuliformis may, at 

 this season, be observed in gardens, and its destruc- 

 tive operations seen by the cuttings from the currant 

 trees lopped off by the gardener ; and upon examina- 

 tion of these shrubs they will be found to have been 

 perforated immediately through the centre of the 

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