126 I November, 
without sutural lines or punctures. Scutellum shining in the middle^ 
opaque and jjunctured at the sides. Wings hyaline ; the basal trans- 
verse vein, the sub-costal, and the base of the radial cell brown, 
distinct, but not suffused ; the areolet and the other veins decoloroua, 
obsolete. ? . 
Var. The femora and tibiae more or less fuscous. 
Long. I ; alar. exp. 2 lin. 
N. politus, Hart., in Germ. Zeits., 2, p. 193 ; 3, p. 339. 
Several times taken on oak trees in Leicestershire. Hartig thinks 
that this section of Neuroterus is of parasitic habits, like Allotria, 
which it so much resembles in its minute size and polished mesonotum. 
One species, N. parasiticus, Hart, inhabits the galls of Cynips glohuli, 
Hart. ; and if this be the habit of the others of the section, they should 
constitute a separate genus, and be referred to the group of Inquilini, 
the " After- Grallwespen " of Hartig. 
' ('To be continued.) 
THE LARVA OP DEPBESSABIA ULTIMELLA, STAINTON, 
BT P. C. T. SNELLEN. 
{Translated from the Tijdscrift voor Entomologie, 2/)id Series, Vol 2, Part l,pp- 26 — 30). 
It chanced that my finding, early in July, some larvse of Depres- 
saria nervosa, which had already long been known (also to myself), 
resulted in my obtaining possession of the larva of ultimella, which, as 
far as I know, is still undescribed. 
I had found the larvse of nervosa on the flowers of Phellandrium 
aquatictim, at a rather distant part of the fen, which still remains near 
Rotterdam, and, as I had to feed these larvse for some time, I sought for 
some food which occurred nearer to the town. I then found in a dry 
ditch close by the town some plants, on which I also found specimens 
of the larvse. Knowing that, as some other Depressarice do, they change 
to pupse within the stems of the TJmhellifercB frequented by them, I 
resolved to cut off and examine some of the stems of these plants. In 
the very first I found two spun-up larvse of nervosa, but along with 
them another larva, unknown to me, which had evidently fed on the 
interior of the stem, as was manifest from the indications of gnawing 
on the sides. Incited by this discovery, I examined not only the plants 
in my neighbourhood, but also those Avhich grew further along the 
ditch, and repeated my expedition the following day. By diligent 
