Alectrurus (alektrorus)

[NL., alehove, and the Strand. ale -houses of Westminster Macaulay , Hist. Eng., iii. IMG:content-0481.png:[merged small][merged small][graphic][subsumed][ocr errors][merged small] a, cocoon; d, enlarged segment of same; b, female (cro shows natural size); c, tip of her abdomen from side, enlarged; e, larva. transformation in the dried and rigid skin of their host. A. riley i (Cre on) is uniformly reddish-yellow, and is parasitic on larvæ of the lepidopterous genus Acronycta.