7718 Insects. 



Description of lite Larva of Miselia Oxyacantha. — Does not roll in a ring or feign 

 death when distuibed. Crown of the bead slightly notched ; body cylindrical, but 

 exhibiting the segnienlul divisions very manifestly: back of the 12ih segment raised, 

 but scarcely humped, bearing two pairs of small warls, the posterior pair wider apart 

 and rather larger than the anterior pair: colour brown-gray or red-brown, very dull; 

 the back of each segment has four white dots : belly gray-green, with a conspicuous 

 black median stripe : legs and claspers green. Feeds on Crataegus Oxyacantha 

 (whitethorn), and is full fed by the end of May, when it spins a thick cocoon on the 

 surface of the earth, and changes to a pupa, from which the perfect insect emerges in 

 September and October. I am indebted to Mr. Thomas Huckett for this larva. — 

 Edward Newman. 



Life-Histories of Sawjlies, translated from the Dutch of M. Snellen 

 Van Vollenhoven. By J. W. MAy, Esq. 



(Continued from p. 7573). 



Allantds tricinctus, Fabr. 



Fabr. Sijst. Piez. 30, 5. De Geer, M^moires, ii. 2, p. 234, tab. 



xxxiv, figs. 9 — 19. Hartig, Blalt. und Holzwespen, p. 288, 



No. 7. Brischke, Blatlwespen-larven, le Lief, S. 15, Taf. iii. 



fig. 5. 

 Allantus niger, articulo prirao antennarum fiilvo, fascia eborina ad 



basin clypei, abdomine atro fasciis Iribiis anoque flavis. 



The larva, as well as the perfect insect, of Allantus tricinctus has 

 already been known for some time, and if it had been our intention to 

 describe those species only which were wholly unrecorded, or of which 

 the last stage only was known, we should not have included this or 

 the two following species ; but as we intend, if the wish be not too 

 bold, to describe in time every species of our indigenous sawflies, we 

 must not exclude those which have already been observed in two or 

 three stages of development, the more so that even of the greater 

 number of these good natural figures are wanting. 



We find the larva of this species was first described by De Geer, in 

 his ' Memoires ' (we quote the German translation of this work by 

 Johann August Ephraim Gotze, Neurenburg, 1778 — 1783). He found 

 it in this country in August and September on the leaves of the honey- 

 suckle. After him it was described by Hartig and Brischke. 1 have 

 also in ray posession a description in manuscript by C. B. Voet, a 

 painter who resided at Zwolle. The larvae do not live exclusively on the 

 leaves of the honeysuckle {Lonicera); they are also found on the jasmine, 



