. British entomology; being illustrations and descriptions of the genera of insects found in Great Britain and Ireland: containing coloured figures from nature of the most rare and beautiful species, and in many instances of the plants upon which they are found. bledabout on its back. By putting two bees {A. lahialis) under a glass in the sun,two Stylops were produced ; the bees seemed uneasy and wentup towards them, but evidently with caution, as if to fight,and moving their antenna? towards them retreated. I oncethought the bee attempted to seize it; but the oddest thingwas to see the Stylop
. British entomology; being illustrations and descriptions of the genera of insects found in Great Britain and Ireland: containing coloured figures from nature of the most rare and beautiful species, and in many instances of the plants upon which they are found. bledabout on its back. By putting two bees {A. lahialis) under a glass in the sun,two Stylops were produced ; the bees seemed uneasy and wentup towards them, but evidently with caution, as if to fight,and moving their antenna? towards them retreated. I oncethought the bee attempted to seize it; but the oddest thingwas to see the Stylops get on the body of the bee and rideabout, the latter using every effort to throw his rider. A largehole is left in the tail of tlie bee when the Stylops escapes,which closes up after a time. I have found five species ofAndrenae infested. The specimen figured was bred from A?idrena labialis, andpresented to me, together with others, for dissection, by myesteemed friend J. C. Dale, Esq., in honour of whom I havenamed the species. The minuteness of the second joint ofthe antennae, the small size of the second joint of the palpi,and the differently formed wings, are sufficient characters todistinguish it from any species hitherto described and figured. 3SS. c ^.-^, J: (g«-«C,.^«,.- /.-Mir WALKERI. Order Strepsiptera Kirhy. Rhipiptera of the Genus, Stylops Walkevi —Stylops Curtis. Antennce inserted in a cavity on each side the front of the head,before the eyes, slender, pubescent and scabrous, longer thanthe thorax, terminated by 2 long compressed lamellae, 5-jointed,1st and 2nd joints short, cup-shaped, 3rd produced on the sideand forming a long lanceolate appendage, 4th joint slender,half the length of the 5th, which extends beyond the apex ofthe 3rd (G). MaxillcE long, slender, lanceolate and horny (3).Head short, producing an obtuse lobe in front and a smaller one oneach side. Eyes remote, lateral, globose, composed of abo
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