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Observations on the i-arioris Insects 
various other groups, one of which I have called Laverna,* lo 
which our little moth belongs. 
12. L. sarcitella of Linnerits shines like silk, being covered with 
minute slippery scales of .in ashy brown colour; the head and thorax 
are densely clothed with depressed white scales ; the eyes and a 
line across the collar black ; the palpi or feelers are long and slender, 
divaricating and curved upward, composed of three joints, of which the 
second is longest, stoutest, and clothed with scales; the third long, tapering, 
and pointed : between them is rolled up the spiral tongue : on each 
side of the crown are inserted the antennae, which are as long as the 
body, like fine bristles and ciliated in the male; the abdomen is silvery 
ochreous-white, tufted at the apex in the male, conical in the female, and 
terminated by a retractile horny ovipositor : the wings lying flat upon 
the body when at rest ; the superior twice as long as the body, narrow, 
lanceolate, pale ashy-brown, freckled with a darker colour, having a 
dark-brown patch at the base and another at the middle of the pinion 
margin ; there are also 4 similar spots about the disc, more or less dis- 
tinct; the hinder margin is fringed with long ochreous and brown hairs; 
the inferior wings are shorter, narrow, and lanceolate, of a satiny-grey 
tint, beautifully fringed all round, the fringe very long on the inner 
margin : the legs are tawny-white spotted witti brown ; the fore pair are 
short, the hinder pair long- ; the 4 posterior tibise spurred at the apex, 
the hinder pair very long and hairy, with a long pair of spurs at tlie 
middle ; feet 5-jointed, terminated by minute claws and pulvilli. Fig. 
41, the moth at rest; fig. 42, the same flying : natural size, 2J lines long, 
8 in expanse. Fig. 36 shows a small portion of the webs torn off from 
the sacks, containing the maggots (fig. .>•), and chrysalides in their cells 
(fig- y)- 
From a box full of the peas, their webs, and refuse, I bred a 
parasitic insect belonging to the Family Ichnklmomdes 
ADSCITI and the Genus Bracon, which, no doubt, lives in its 
larva state upon the maggots of the moth or its pupa?. It appears 
to be a variety of Spinola s.t 
13. B. variegator. The/eninle is black and pubescent ; the head is 
hemispherical, bright ochreous, hinder part black, as well as a spot on 
the crown encircling the 3 ocelli ; eyes orbicular and brown ; antennse 
thread-shaped, not so long as the body, with 20 distinct joints, the 
basal one stoutest and a little elongated : thorax broader than the head, 
obovate ; the shoulders, a square spot on the back, and tiie scutellum, 
yellow or bright ochreous: abdomen depressed, oval, rather dilated, 
being broader than the thorax, but scarcely longer, thickly and minutely 
punctured, 7-jointed, scooped out at the base, forming a semicircular 
ridge with an indistinct dorsal one ; the sides ferruiiinous-ochre, espe- 
cially at the base; the apical segment ochreous, as well as the bellv; 
the ovipositor projects, and is only half as long as the body: 4 wings 
* Curtis's Brit. Ent., fob and pi. 735. 
+ Ins. Lituriae, vol. ii. p. 118, and Nees ab Esenbeck, Hym. John, 
affinium, vol. i. p. 8'J. 
