THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



No. 73.] JANUARY, MDCCCLXX. [Price 6d. 



Life -histories of Sawjiies inhabiting Britain. By Charles 

 Healy. The Cliaracters of the Imago by Edward 



Newman. 



Family Druids, Newman. 

 Consisting of minute sawflies whose larvae mine between 

 the cuticles of leaves, feeding only on the parenchyma. 



Phyllotoma mellita, Newman. 



Head black and very shining : antennae shorter than the 

 thorax, slender, of uniform thickness with the ex- 

 ception of the terminal joint, which is rather more 

 slender, conical and pointed ; the basal half of the 

 antennae is glabrous, the apical half pilose ; but the 

 pile is very close and short ; the basal portion is 

 almost pure black, the apical half pitchy black ; they 

 are altogether paler below than above : the mouth is 

 pitchy red ; the palpi honey-yellow. 



Thorax intensely shining black, with a conspicuous white 

 tubercle at the base of each fore wing: sternum black 

 and shining. 



Abdomen black, shining, inclined to pitchy in the male, 

 dull black in the female ; sheaths of the saw black 

 and pilose ; the saw itself honey-yellow. 



Fore wings transparent, with a median transverse smoky 

 cloud very vague and indistinct ; stigma large, semi- 

 circular, smoke-coloured ; costal margin from the base 

 to the stigma dull yellow ; all the rays smoke- 

 coloured. 



Legs honey-yellow except at the base of femora, where 

 they are smoky black. 



Length of the body *15 inch ; expanse of the wings '325 

 inch. — E. N. 



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