266 PEMPELIA DILUTE LLA. 



subdividing transverse wrinkle; the legs are all much 

 beneath the belly. 



In colour it is very dingy olive blackish ground 

 colour with a blackish dorsal line, and a rather less 

 black subdorsal line, both of them edged on each side 

 with a finer line of olive ocbreous ; the head is black 

 and rather shining ; the black mouth has a transverse 

 bar of ochreous olive above it ; the papillae are of this 

 colour tipped with black ; the plate on the second 

 segment is blackish and with very little gloss ; all the 

 rest of the skin of the body is quite dull and smooth 

 without the least gloss, excepting the minute tuber- 

 cular warts of the ground colour which glisten 

 slightly; on the subdorsal region of the third segment 

 is a greyish ocellated spot with black central dot and 

 longish hair ; another, similar but less noticeable,, 

 occurs on the twelfth segment ; the anterior legs are 

 black ; the hair from each tubercular wart is very 

 fine. 



From this I bred an ichneumon on the 9th of August,. 

 1878, and sent it to Dr. Capron. 



On the 23rd of June, 1879, Mr. C. G. Barrett sent 

 me three more of the larvae of Pempelia subornatella , 

 precisely similar to the single larva of last year, 

 excepting that these were not more than from three- 

 eighths to half an inch long. The largest was laid up 

 for moulting when, on my return on the 26th, I first 

 examined them. This moult was -safely over and by 

 the 2nd of July the larva measured quite five-eighths 

 of an inch ; the head and second segment were black, 

 with the plate slightly glistening like the head; the 

 body was a dead or dull black, on which were faintly 

 shown a dingy olive or blackish-olive line on either 

 side of the black dorsal line ; two other blackish-olive 

 lines follow at wider intervals along either side, the 

 lowest so faint and broken as barely to be traced, the 

 upper less faint and bearing the usual minute warty 

 glistening black dots and hairs on a base of glistening 

 blackish-olive ; above the legs by a faint mark or two- 



