Lepidopiera of Devon and Cornwall. 
99 
Loc. — Bolthead ; Whitsand Cliffs. 
Found on gi'assy slopes that are inclined to the sea. 
This insect "vras first discovered in England in 1860. The honour 
of first adding it to the list of British Lepidoptera is divided between 
Mr. King, of Torquay, and myself. It was taken by Mr. King, 
near Bolthead, (month not recorded), and by myself on the clift's at 
TVTiitsand Bay, on the 18th of June, 1860. Hence the species is 
both Devonian and Cornish, and has not hitherto been observed in 
any other county in England. 
Although this species was not taken in England until 1860, yet, 
during the past thirty years, descriptions, more or less accurate, have 
been inserted in the lepidopterological literature of this country. 
Stephens, Newman, Wood, and Westwood all refer to this insect as 
a British species ; but they included it among the indigenous 
lepidoptera by mistake, which arose through considering a rubbed or 
damaged specimen of T. ichneumoniformis to be this species. 
T. Philanthiformis, Lasp., is distinct from all the British species 
of the genus, but may be said to be nearer allied to T. ichneumoni- 
fomiis than either of the others. It is at once recognized as distinct 
from that insect by its abdominal segments being ornamented with 
THREE (tj-pical) \^B.Y NAREOW sil\t:ry-w^hite RINGS ; while, in 
ichneumoniformis, the abdomen is embellished with six or seven 
BROAD RINGS of a DEEP YELLOW. The former insect is altogether of 
a more sombre hue than the latter. 
The identification of this insect is most probably correct, since 
qualified continental lepidopterists have compared our insect with 
theirs, and pronounced it to be in agreement with the decision given 
above. 
Mr. Doubleday writes me on the 14th October, 1863 : — Since I 
last wrote to you I have sent specimens of our little Sesia to Dr. 
Standiger, of Dresden, who has paid gi'eat attention to the species 
of this genus. He says — ' Our insect is most certainly the Philan- 
thiformis of Laspeyres, but not of Herrich-Schbffer, and probably 
the Muscceformis of Esper ; ' but his plates are so rude that it is not 
always easy to decide, with certainty, which species he intended, 
when there are three or four very closely allied." 
76. T. cynipiforme, Och. 
Sesia Oynipiformis, Och. Schmett. Europ. ii. 151. 
Sesia Vespiformis, Lasp. Ses, Europ. p. 17. 
JEgeria Oynipiformis, Steph. 111. Haust. pi. 11, fig. 2, male. 
Synathedon CEstriforme, Newn. Mon. ^ger. Ang. Ent. Mag. i. 76. 
Trochiliura Cynipiforme, West. & Hum. Brit. Moth, i. 38, pi. 7, fig. 6. — 
Staint. Man. i. 104. 
