Volume 29, Plate XXX / Entomology (Insects)

Phryganea Grandis, Cimbex Decem-Maculata & Athalia Centifoliæ

1. Phryganea Grandis. This insect has brownish-grey upper wings marked with cinereous spots, a longitudinal black ray, and two or three white points at the extremity, the antennae as long as the body. It is found plentifully in many parts of the Continent and not unfrequently in Britain.
2. Cimbex Decem-Maculata. The genus Cimbex has six-jointed antennae with the second joint longest and the terminal one club-shaped, large acute toothed mandibles, and very thick hinder thighs in the males, its larvae bearing twenty-two feet and able to squirt a greenish liquid when annoyed. One of seven or eight British species and among the rarest, this insect is black with a violet-tinged abdomen, the segments marked with greenish-yellow spots, the antennae and tarsi testaceous and the wings pale fulvous.
3. Athalia Centi­foliæ. This is the Turnip saw-fly, lately so injurious to agriculture, about four lines long and bright orange-yellow with a black head and antennae, a black thorax with a reddish-orange collar and front spot, and reddish-yellow abdomen and legs, the wings yellowish at the base with a dark-brown stigma. Its caterpillar has six pectoral, fourteen abdominal, and two anal feet, dull slate or greyish-black with a lighter side-line, and is known as black palmer, black canker, or nigger.