Quail. — On New Zealand Lepidoptera. 235 



Pupa. (Plate XIII., fig. 7.) 



Colour, reddish - brown ; length, j^in.; widest at 4th 

 abdominal segment. Wing-cases extend to posterior ridge of 

 4th abdominal ventrally ; hind-wing margins show laterally 

 from post-thorax to anterior edge of 4th abdominal. On 

 dehiscence the headpiece, leg-covers, antennas, and proboscis- 

 covers remain intact, but separate throughout their length 

 from the wing-cases. Spiracles are transverse and fully de- 

 veloped on 2nd to 8th abdominal segments ; on 2nd and 3rd 

 the position is subdorsal, on others normal. Posterior edges 

 of 4th, 5th, and 6th abdominal segments term prominent 

 ridges; the other segments are smooth and taper gradually 

 to the 10th viewed laterally and dorsally, but ventrally the 

 10th is depressed suddenly from the suture to anal armature. 



The anal armature is more especially a dorsal apparatus, 

 though the two strong hooks are terminal processes. On the 

 dorsum there are two pairs of weaker hooks. Somewhere I 

 believe I have seen a statement of Dr. Chapman in which he 

 says that the more he studied the structure of the pupal anal 

 armature the less value it seemed to be. With this species and 

 31. composita (vol. xxxiii., pi. ix., fig. 21) there is decided af- 

 finity in the anal armature, which in both consists of six hooks, 

 yet there is abundant specific distinction. 



The moths emerged about the 10th September, 1901. 



A Contribution to the Life-history of Asaphodes (Meyr.) 



megaspilata (Walk.). 



Ovum. (Vol. xxxiii., pi. ix., fig. 4.) 



Colour, pale-green when laid, partly reddish to the naked 

 eye, but salmon-colour under microscope in two days. Shape 

 is longer then broad, small end rounded, broad end rather 

 flat, transverse section almost circular. The whole shell is 

 covered with hexagonal cells. The ovum is laid on its side. 

 The larva emerges at the broader end. 



Deposited on the 2nd December, 1900 ; hatched on the 

 16th December, 1900 — fourteen days. 



The young larvae do not eat the empty eggshell. 



Larva. (Vol. xxxiii., pi. ix., figs. 5, 6, 7, 8.) 



Newly hatched. — Colour, pale yellowish - brown. The 

 thoracic segments have thin red longitudinal lines ; the in- 

 cisions between abdominal segments 1 to 7 are ringed with 

 red all round. The abdominal segments also have yellow 

 spiracular and subspiracular lines running through the red 

 rings. 



The larva is robust, with uniform segments, but 7, 8, 9, 

 and 10 are very crowded. The thoracic segments have legs ; 



