1876.] Ill 



The pupa is about three-eighths of an inch in length, moderately stout, offering 

 no conspieuous points of form or outline, very glossy and of a very deep chestnut- 

 brown colour, paler at the abdominal divisions, and attached to the web by the tip 

 of the tail, which is furnished with two central bristle-like spikes recurved at their 

 extremities, and near their base surrounded with three or foiir others very much 

 shorter and exti-emely fine. — Wm. Bfckler, Emsworth : July ?>\st, 187G. 



Description of the larva of Cryptohlabes histriga. — For this larva hitherto 

 I believe unknown, I am indebted to the Rev. Bernard Smith, of Marlow, who 

 kindly sent me, on the 12th of September, 1875, an example, then no more than a 

 quarter of an inch long, within a folded oak-leaf: the leaf was, for a great portion of 

 it, quite skeletonized, and the lai'va afterwards reduced other oak-leaves to a similar 

 condition by eating holes through the substance between the veins, always keeping 

 the sides of the leaf folded to within a quarter of an inch of each other by means of 

 a quantity of lightly spun web ; I noticed it was the upper sui-face that was generally 

 thus folded together, though once the under surface was similarly treated for a 

 residence. 



The movement of the larva when walking is a short and jerky advance, with a 

 slight pause after every step. 



On the 23rd, it appeared to be full-fed, when I secured a figure of it, and the 

 description which follows, and towards the end of the month it spun itself up in a 

 brownish web, half an inch long, at the bottom of its cage, and the moth appeared 

 in the evening of June 4th, 1876. 



The full-grown larva is nearly five-eighths of an inch in length, moderately 

 slender and cylindrical, though tapering a little from the third segment to the head, 

 and a little more from the eleventh to the small anal tip, the segments well divided 

 and sub-divided by a transverse wrinkle on each, the spiracular region much 

 puckered, the ventral and anal legs fairly developed, but placed well beneath the 

 body. 



In colour, the head and back are lightish brown, marbled with ratlier a deeper 

 tint of brown, the dorsal line yet deeper, the sub-dorsal line blackish-brown, 

 followed by a line of the light brown colour, then by a broadish stripe of blackish- 

 brown, and beneath this a broad band of cream colour having a brown line running 

 through the middle of it ; the belly and legs drab, which deepens under the 

 thoracic segments to blackish-brown ; the spiracles light brown and not easily seen ; 

 the small tubercular dots black, each bearing a fine hair; an ocellated spot of brown, 

 with a black centre and a long hair, on either side of the third and twelfth segments. 



The pupa, nearly four lines in length, is rather slender and of the usual shape, the 

 surface of the abdomen slightly punctated, though smooth at the divisions ; the tip 

 ending with two curled-topped spines, the minute spiracles rather prominent and 

 black, all the rest being of a dark reddish-brown and shining. — Id. : August \st, 1876. 



Coleopiera at Aviemore, Inverness-shire, in July, 1876. — During three weeks' 

 stay at Aviemore in July last, I found a few interesting and rare species of Coleoptera, 

 the majority of Avhich, as might be expected, were similar to those found there by mo 

 in 1874, and recorded in E. M. M., xi, p. 64 ; still, a few species occurred that I had 

 not then met with. The period of my visit this year being a fortnight later than 

 in 1874, many moss and wood frequenting species did not put in an appearance, 

 others that were very common in 1874 were very rare on this occasion. 



