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Ibis season, 1880, 1 bred a male specimen rather crippled on May 
2/ th, and this afternoon a fine female, the remainder no doubt retarded 
by ungenial weather. 
The full grown larva is seven-eighths of an inch in length, of 
moderate slenderness, cylindrical, though tapering very little from the 
fourth segment to the head, and again only at the end of the thirteenth, 
all are plump and well defined, with a transverse wrinkle across the 
back of each ; the ventral legs shortish, the anal pair extending behind: 
the colour of the back and sides as far as the spiracular region is very 
dark grey tinged more or less with purplish-brown, the dorsal line still 
darker, the glossy head of the same dark colour is marked with black 
in front of each lobe, a black glossy plate dorsally divided with dark 
grey is on the second segment, and on either side of the third and 
fourth are two faintly paler longitudinal lines gradually lost beyond 
them, the tubercular spots large, black, and glossy, each with a fine 
hair ; below the small round black spiracles the whole surface is rather 
light greenish-grey or drab and the spots there are brownish-grey. 
The pupa is half an inch long, rather slender, of pyraloid character, 
with the back of the thorax and abdominal upper segments very 
slightly keeled, the head parts moderately produced, the wing covers 
long and well defined, the tapering hind part of the abdomen having a 
flattened taper prolongation and blunt extremity, furnished with 
minute curly-topped bristles ; in colour dark purplish-brown with 
the lower abdominal divisions golden-brown, the wing covers glisten- 
ing, all the rest glossy. 
Emsworth : June 5th, 1880. 
DESCRIPTION OE THE SPECIES OF MACROPIS. 
BY W. II. PATTON. 
Maceopis ciliata, n. sp. 
? . Length, to T 5 g in., expanse, to -fjf in- Black ; the head closely punc- 
tured, and having a thinly scattered short white pubescence ; mandibles piceous at 
the tip ; flagellum beneath fulvo-testaceous, a short fringe of hair on the inner side 
of the scape ; the eyes in freshly-killed specimens of a dull green, with varying longi- 
tudinal stripes or spots. Thorax closely punctured, the base of the metathorax very 
minutely punctured and not shining, pubescence on the sides of thorax and beneath, 
as also a line on each side of the scutellum, white, the pubescence on disc of thorax 
very short and thin ; wings sub-hyaline, shaded at apex, tegulse and nervin-es black, 
stigma piceous. Apical joint of all the tarsi dark piceous, joints two to four of the 
anterior and three and four of the intermediate tarsi fulvous, joints two to four of 
the posterior tarsi pale testaceous ; a ferruginous stripe on the intermediate tarsi 
beneath, and a stripe of white hairs on the intermediate tibiae and base of the first 
