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them, passing into the anal foot. Spiracles white in a narrow black 

 oval. Feet all present. Length, 30 mm. 



Pupa. — Cylindrical \ the abdominal segments slightly tapering. 

 Cremaster, two thin, sharp divergent spines. Body punctured. Colour 

 red-brown, darker in the sutures on the back. On the dorsum posteriorly 

 to each of the three movable abdominal sutures, and also posteriorly to 

 the one before them, is a transverse row of large deep punctures, becoming 

 smaller towards the sides and not reaching beyond the dorsal half of the 

 body. The wing cases are wrinkled. Pupation occurred in June, and 

 the moth emerged Jan. 10 (in a warm room). It was the form co?ifiuejiSy 

 Morr. 



Gortyna cataphracta., Grote. 



Mature Larva.— Head pale brown, mottled with dark brown, and 

 with a black stripe at the side covering the eyes ; mouth parts largely 

 black ; labrum pale, narrowly brown above ; jaws sharply dentate on the 

 ends j a few hairs ; width, about 3 mm. A large, testaceous, cervical 

 shield, edged with black below, and narrowly bisected by a whitish dorsal 

 line. Body whitish, with a dull purple stripe in the subdorsal spaces, 

 obsolete anteriorly ; another more extensive lateral one, and traces of one 

 in the subventral space. A number of brown-black blotches in two 

 irregular transverse rows per segment, varying in size. Anal plate 

 testaceous, shaded with blackish at the sides. Thoracic feet and spiracles 

 black. Length, 35 mm. 



Pupa. — Cylindrical ; of unusual length in comparison with its 

 diameter ; obtusely rounded anteriorly ; wing cases moderately promi- 

 nent. Cremaster short, thick and rounded, with two sharp, divergent 

 spines ; cases creased ; body segments punctured on their anterior edges. 

 Colour reddish-brown, the body lighter. Length, 20 mm.; width, 5 mm.. 



Pood Plant. — Rhubarb, in the leaf stems of which it bores, pupating 

 in its burrow after biting a hole, across which it spins a few threads. 



Hypena ( Bomolocha) abalietialis, Walk. 



Mature Larva. — Head bilobed, green ; the mouth brownish ; labrum 

 and antennae white ; ocelli black ; width, 2 mm. Body slender, con- 

 tracted at the sutures, the skin forming distinct folds, Two rows of 

 small warts on the cervical shield, and others on the body arranged much 



