BLENNOCAMPA GENIOULATA. 179 



Blennooampa ASSIMILIS. 



The larva feeds on Galium aparine in June. It is 

 13 — 14 mm. long, rather rounded and cylindrical. 

 The ground colour is bright greyish-green ; the back 

 bluish, always blending into the ground colour ; and 

 at the sides the ground colour is often of a yellow 

 tint ; before the last segments the blue is broken off 

 by a clear space. The segments are covered with 

 many small warts, each ending in a black microscopic 

 hair. On the lateral folds over the legs are whitish 

 bristles. The fore-legs are short aud thick ; the first 

 joint is shining black, and the basal joint has a black 

 plate. Head brown, shortly haired ; on the vertex 

 are two large black spots, and on the sides over the 

 black eye-spots is a larger dark brown spot, there 

 being also one on the face ; the mouth dark brown. 

 The young larvae brighter; the dorsal stripe is smaller, 

 and the head almost without the dark spots. 



MONOPHADNUS. 



Body ovate ; cheek appendages linear ; antennae 

 moderate, the third joint longer than the fourth ; pro- 

 sternum not distinct; the transverse radial nervure 

 rarely interstitial ; posterior wings with one closed 

 discoidal cellule ; claws bifid or simple. 



Blennooampa geniculata (Vol. I, p. 238). 



My description of the c? of this species was taken 

 from bred specimens, which had the abdomen con- 

 tracted, thus showing the antennae to be longer in 

 proportion to the body than they really are, they 

 being, as I find from caught specimens, somewhat 



