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PSYCHE.
AN UNDESCRIBED SPECIES OF VESPA.
BY J. W. SHIPP.
Assistant in the Entomological Department Oxford University Museum. Having lately been occupied in ar-
ranging the wasps contained in the
Hope Sannders and Smith's collection
I have come across a curious species
which has not been mentioned by either
Saussure or McFarland, so 1 venture to
describe it here as a new species in
honor of Professor Westwood through
whose kindness I am able to devote my
time to the study of entomology.
This is the only true Vespa which I
know whose colors are bright dark red
and black, and although it somewhat
resembles V. sylvestris in general facies, it differs essentially from it both in color and the style of markings. It should be
placed in the second division of the
genus, viz., that in which the eyes ex-
tend to the base of the mandibles.
Vesfa westwoodii Shipp. Black. Head ;
mandibles with the exception of teeth, a trape- zoidal spot above clypeus, clypeus with the exception of a broad longitudinal mark*
widening at apex, the sinus of the eyes, a spot close to mandibles on the cheeks, and another longer one above, behind the eyes, red; an- tennae dull black, a line on the margin of the mesothorax at the sides of prothorax, tegulae, two spots, one on each side of scu- tellum, two on the post-scutellum and a spot under the anterior wings, red. Abdomen
black, first segment with a broad, red apical band, narrowing in centre; second with a broadish red band irregular, widening greatly at the sides, giving the idea of three spots run together; apical segment red with a black- ish reflection, bands continued underneath ; coxae and trochanters all black, femora black, knees red, tibiae red with a black patch in the centre of the inner margin ; tarsi red with a golden pubescence, wings with a slight yellow tint, larger nervures with a decided reddish tint.
Eyes extending to base of mandible.
Hab. N. Amer. Bor. Type in Ox.
Univ. Museum.
BRIEF NOTES ON TWO JAMAICA
PAPILIONIDAE.
BY T. D. A. COCKERELL.
SYNCHLOE jo~~~.-July 14, 1892, 1 saw a
female ovipositing on a sweet scented sticky Cleome, having a hairy stem, the leaf with five hairy or pubescent leaflets. The egg was laid on the under side of the leaf near the tip. Egg about I mm. high, long, cylindrical, shiny pale yellow, truncate above, with twelve strong vertical ribs and numerous small
weak transverse riblets. It was not attached other than by the secretion of the hairs of the plant; from the abundance of glutinous hairs on the leaf it would be hard to attach it in any other way.
PAPILIO p~~~us.-Larvae about to pupate
found on Prickly Yellow, July 13, 1892.
About 4 cm. long, stout, cylindrical, but first and last two body segments smaller. Head shiny brown with a whitish spot on each side of crown anteriorly. Body dark brown. A
pair of short subdorsal tubercles on each of the four first body segments those on the first ocherous; side of body with a broad dash of creamy white marbled with gray on 5-7th body segments and some of the same color on sides of 10th and 11th segments. Abdominal legs pale gray, blotched exter- nally with darker. Thoracic legs brown.




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laterally broad, subquadrate, densely clothed with hair; the third joint minute and almost lost in the hairy vestiture of the second joint. Antennae moderately long, heavily pecti- nated, with the setae appressed and almost uniform in length from the base to just before the tip, where they rapidly shorten. The antennae are in all the dried specimens before me curved downward at the tips. The pata- gia are relatively long, covering the inser- tions of both the primaries and secondaries. The abdomen is produced one-fourth of its length beyond the posterior margin of the secondaries, and on the dorsal line back of the thorax has a large and very prominent cluster of upright scales, giving the appear- ance of a small hump. The legs are moder- ately hairy; the third pair quite longwith the tibiae swollen at the end and armed at the ex- tremity and beyond the middle with double spurs. The primaries are subtriangular with the costa moderately convex, the outer mar- gin rounded, the inner margin slightly con- vex. The secondaries are subpyriform with the costa convex, the outer margin evenly rounded, and the inner margin nearly
straight.
primaries are rich brown with obscure gray- ish transverse lines along the costa; a
velvety brown spot near the base; a very large velvety brown spot beyond this on the inner margin, followed by a series of similar velvety markings disposed as a submarginal series, most prominent below the apex at the end of the third median and near the outer angle. The velvety spot near the outer angle is sometimes accentuated by a small silvery dot on its outer margin.
The pos-
terior wings above are uniformly wood-brown with the fringes checkered with darker brown. On the under side, the primaries and second- aries are pale wood-brown, the primaries clouded with fuliginous in the region of the cell and traversed by an obscure double sub- marginal band. The secondaries have a
large dark brown discal dot, a transverse median and an angulated submarginal trans- verse line. The fringes on the lower side are conspicuously checkered with dark brown. $2. The female does not greatly differ
from the male except in the size of the an- tennae but invariably in all specimens before me has the silvery spot near the outer angle of the primaries upon the upper side.
Expanse, 8, 35 to 38 mm. ;
Q, 38 mm.
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9. The female does not differ materially dez sp. nov, o'. Upper from the male except that the antennae are side of palpi and front pa,e brohvn. An- less heavily pectinated, the body stouter, and tennae testaceous.
Collar and upper side of
the wings relatively broader.
thorax pale brown. Upper side of abdomen The prevailing colors are brownish and
dark brown. Lower side of thorax and ab- greenish-brown, and the moths are of mod- domen pa,e bl-own. Legs conco~orous, the erate size, averaging less than two inches in tarsi and tibiae ringed brown. The expanse- The type of the genus is N. n&- prima,-ies are warm brown ma,.ked by very fugu, Holl.
narrow transverse basal, median, and limbal 99. N. nubifuga, sp. nov. 3. Palpi,
antennae, front, collar, and upper side of thorax dark brown. The abdomen above
slightly paler, having the dorsal cluster of scales very dark brown. The under side of the thorax and abdomen is brown, paler than the upper surface. Legs concolorous with the tarsi ringed with dark brown. The
lines of dark brown, margined on both sides by very fine grayish lines. On the inner margin before the base there is a large dark velvety, subquadrate patch of brown scales, and there is a similar linear patch of like scales below the apex on the outer margin, followed by a very narrow irregular marginal line of similar scales. The fringe is pale brown, checkered with dark brown. The
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