Entomological Society. 2807 



This species is most closely allied to Stigmonota redimitana, Gum., from which it 

 differs chiefly in heing larger, of a lighter colour and less glossy, and the fascia less 

 distinct : underneath, also, the fore legs and breast are not white. 



Taken at the end of May, flying in sunshine round beech-trees, at Mickleham. 

 He had great pleasure in dedicating this species to him in whose company he captured 

 it, Mr. Weir, who is well known as one of our most acute and industrious entomolo- 

 gists. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited some small Lepidopterous larvae mining in leaves of 

 Helianthemum vulgare, which plant was not hitherto known to afford nourishment to 

 any species of Tineae. 



A paper by Mr. S. S. Saunders was read, entitled " Descriptions of two New 

 Strepsipterous Insects from Albania, parasitical on the Genus Hylseus, with some ac- 

 count of their Habits and Metamorphoses," of which the following is an epitome : — 



Order Stbepsiptera, Kirby. 

 Genus Hylecthrus.* 



Caput magnum, transversum. Oculi ingentes. Antennae 5-articulatae ; articulo 

 basali brevi ; secundo parvo, truncato ; tertio longissimo, spatulato, tota fere 

 latitudine subaequali, quartumque basin versus latere externo ferenti; hoc 

 parvo, annuloso ; extimo (5to) tertio simillimo, simul productis, adsistentibus. 

 Palpi parvi, articulo basali crassiori, apice obliquo ; apicali graciliori, setoso. 

 Thorax antice constrictus, disco gibboso, capiti latitudine subaequali ; scutello 

 maximo, elongato-triangulari, margine antico sinuato, lateribus rectis, angulo 

 postico acuto porrecto. Pseudoelytra parva, apice valde dilatato, crassiori, 

 subconcavo. Alae, costa dimidio basali inspissata, seu potius nerva, subcostali 

 abbreviata. quasi conjuncta ; prima discoidali prope basin furcata, ramo antico 

 cum costa parallelo, ultra medium alae evanescenti, ramo postico ejusdem lon- 

 gitudinis, recto, deflexo : prope apicem alae neiva duplex incurva exstat, cujus 

 basis intra furcam retro extendet : nervis reliquis deflexis, quarum duae ap- 

 proximate, rectae, margine interno propriores ; altera recta analis fere oblite- 

 rata. Abdomen valde constrictum. Pedes longitudine mediocres, posteriorum 

 tibiis dilatatis, compressis, genubus constrictis; tarsorum articulis quatuor, 

 apicali integro. Mas. 



Femina (cui, modo congenerarum, alae, pedes, antennae, necnon oculi desunt) 

 vermiformis ; cephalothoracem complanatum, supra subconvexum, infra sub- 

 concavum, e dorso apis educantis tantum modo emittens. 



Sp. 1. Hylecthrus rcbi. 



Niger, gibbosus ; pedibus luteis ; alis lacteis, nervis saturate piceis. Mas. 



Long. corp. \ — § lin. Expans. alar, fere If lin. 



Femina, cephalothorace pallido, disco utrinque vitta brunnea, quandoque basin 



versus punctis obscuris duabus, seu lineolis transversis, signato. 

 Habitat in Epiro, intra corpora Hylaei versicoloris parasiticus. 



* Hylaeus, £%%of, hostis. 



