240 MYEL01S MAHMOHEA. 



of them being very small, each bearing a fine hair; 

 in the subdorsal region of the third and again of the 

 twelfth segments was an ocellated spot of flesh-colour, 

 with minute black centre bearing a hair ; the tip of 

 the anal segment a little paler than the rest of the 

 colouring, and rather shining ; the spiracles were 

 small, circular, and flesh-coloured; the anterior legs 

 were marked with black ; the ventral legs were dingy 

 flesh-colour, tipped with dark brown books. 



The deep reddish-brown pupa, three and a quarter 

 lines in length, was of moderate stoutness and of the 

 usual contour, bat with the abdomen terminating in a 

 knob, furnished with three extremely minute, curved- 

 tipped bristles. (William Buckler, December, 1873 ; 

 E.M.M., February, 1874, X, 214.) 



Myelois pinguts. 

 Plate CLVI, fig. 9. 



In Stainton's 'Manual' the undescribed larva of this 

 species is said to feed in decayed ash-trunks ; and 

 Hofmann, in his work of 1875, gives no description 

 of it, but merely says, - fi In spring, under the bark of 

 ash ;" neither is any description of it afforded in the 

 interesting records of capture of the perfect insects 

 to be met with in the ' Entomologist's Weekly Intelli- 

 gencer ' (see vol. vi, p. 164, and vol. viii, pp. 131 — 133, 

 179), although the finding of the larva is mentioned, 

 together with good hints for collectors; I therefore 

 hope now to throw some light on the larva and a 

 little on its habits, so far as they have been ascer- 

 tained with much perseverance by Dr. Wood, of 

 Tarrington, who kindly provided me with examples 

 of the larva and pupa in situ to figure. 



This larva inhabits the living bark of ash, frequently 

 pollard trees, never affecting any dead or decayed 

 portions of a tree, nor penetrating to the wood ; nor 

 -does it eat far into the bark, however thick, but 



