276 PEMPEL1A HOSTILIS. 



ochreous stripe on the crown of each lobe, and a 

 streak above the mouth ; the papillse are black, finely 

 ringed with white ; the ground colour of the body is a 

 dingy blackish-olivaceous-brown, darkest on the anal 

 flap, rather glistening on the second segment, but 

 quite dull on the rest of the body ; two fine black lines 

 on the collar change from thence to a plain dorsal 

 stripe, rather darker than the ground colour as far as 

 the last segment, where it is black ; continuous from 

 either lobe of the head is a broad subdorsal ochreous 

 stripe on the second segment, opening out beyond in 

 two lines, which, after passing the thoracic segments, 

 become more dingy and somewhat greyish-ochreous, 

 and show but faintly ; midway along the side occurs 

 the faintest possible trace of an extra line, thin and 

 indistinct ; a subspiracular stripe begins on the third 

 segment, and continues of a dirty whitish colour just 

 above the legs to the end of the thirteenth, having a 

 fine line of the ground colour running through below; 

 the minute round spiracles are of the ground colour, 

 finely ringed with darker; the tubercular dots are very 

 small, blackish -brown, and slightly glistening, each 

 with a fine hair ; the ocellated spot on either side of 

 the third and the twelfth segments is of the ground 

 colour, ringed with black, and with a minute black 

 centre bearing an extra long hair ; the anterior legs 

 are black, the ventral and anal legs of the ground 

 colour. 



This individual produced an ichneumon on the 25th 

 of June, 1880. (William Buckler, 13th November, 

 1880; E.M.M., January, 1881, XVII, 178.) 



I was fortunate enough last June, 1880, to breed 

 three specimens of this rare insect, a species that has 

 not, I believe, been taken in this country for many 

 years. 



The larvas were met with somewhat accidentally. I 

 was hunting one day in the middle of September, 

 1879, among underwood, for larvse of the Clostevd3> 

 when I caught sight of a few strands of silk spun 



