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Nematus, among others, — on account of their being wholly with- 

 drawn under the skin, some light is thrown upon the subject. The 

 penultimate pair of legs existed, indeed, before, but were always 

 kept drawn up under the skin of the abdomen. Head and abdomen 

 are now entirely without hair; the larva has a thick sausage-like 

 appearance, and is very slow in its movements on account of the 

 great quantity of fatty matter pervading the body. The larva is 

 full grown by the end of September or the beginning of October, 

 when it descends from the leaves and spins, just below the surface 

 of the ground, a cocoon, in which grains of earth are included, 

 something like that of Nematus septentrionalis. 



The imago appears in May of the following year, and is readily 

 recognized by its colour. The head is orange-red ; eyes black ; 

 antennae brown ; ocelli ruby-red ; labium and mandibles brown. 

 The clypeus is emarginate below. The upper surface of the pro- 

 and mesothorax is orauge-red ; breast and metathorax purplish 

 black, with the exception of the cenchri, which are white ; the 

 abdomen is also of this tint, and is somewhat lustrous. The 

 ovipositor is black; but the posterior styles or spinous dermal 

 appendages of the last segment are red. All the coxa3 are black; 

 further, the anterior legs are red, with a brown mark on the 

 under side of the femora ; the intermediate legs are black, with 

 little orange spines at the extremities of the tibiae. 



I first found the imago at Eotterdam. I afterwards received it 

 from Utrecht from M. Six, and from Voorst, in Gelderlaud, at 

 which place it was taken by M. Wttewaall. The larva is common 

 near Leyden and Houten. I conclude it has many enemies, as few 

 full-grown larvae are met with. The larva always lives solitarily 

 and unsocially. 



Birds of the Malvern District, Resident, Migratory or Occasional 

 Visitors. By Edwin Lees, F.L.S., F.G.S.* 



" My friends, the woods and feathered race." 



De Lille. 



Except in the * Illustrations of the Natural History of Wor- 

 cestershire,' published in 1834, no full account of the birds of 

 Worcestershire has ever appeared, and no particular catalogue 



* Keprinted from the ' Transactions of the Malvern Naturalists' Field Club,' and 

 communicated by the Author. 



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