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though it retained the same pale greyish-green ground colour, it became conspicuously 

 marked with dark crimson on the head, more faintly on the second segment, where 

 was a dorsal line of the ground colour, and large crimson blotches on the back of the 

 fourth and fifth segments, in which dorsal and sub-dorsal lines could be seen of still 

 darker crimson ; a part of these blotches extended transversely down the side and 

 round the belly on the junction of the fourth and fifth, and nearly soon the junction 

 of the fifth and sixth ; whilst towards the end of the sixth, seventh, and eighth 

 segments on the dorsal division of each was a large and broad crimsou, somewhat 

 blunted, diamond-shaped blotch, edged behind with whitish ; at the division of the ninth 

 and tenth segments were three short and very fine crimson streaks on the dorsal 

 and sub-dorsal regions ; the eleventh without marking, the twelfth crimson with 

 ground coloured dorsal and sub-dorsal lines, and the thirteenth crimson, the 

 anal flap edged with ground colour, the front of the anal legs tinged with whitish 

 which continued down them as a stripe dividing a dark crimson blotch, from which 

 proceeded a small dash forwards on each side of the belly ; the skin soft and velvety, 

 the head only glossy. 



The larva spins itself up in a cocoon about f-inch in length by 5-inch in breadth, 

 of a roundish oval figure, attached to a stone, a leaf of the food-plant, or other 

 substance on the surface of the earth or a little below it, and composed exteriorly of 

 grains of earth, and smoothly lined inside with silk. 



The pupa is plump-looking, about y^^-inch in length, and nearly j-inch in 

 diameter in the thickest part, namely, across the ends of the wing-covers, which are 

 long in proportion and well developed, having the rays in slight relief ; the thorax 

 rounded near the head ; the eye-covers prominent, the abdomen rough with fine 

 punctured depressions except at the divisions, and tapering rather sharply towards 

 the tip, which is furnished with several fine curved-topped bristles, tbe two central 

 the longest : its colour a dark brownish olive-green on the back of the abdomen, 

 with brown divisions, and a darker brown dorsal stripe becoming reddish near the 

 tip ; the wing-cases darkest between the rays, together with those of the antennae 

 and legs bright olive-green, eye-covers brown, the whole surface rather sliining. — 

 William Bucklee, Emsworth : October 23rcZ, 1876. 



Gelechia lutulentella at Cheshunt. — At the beginning of August, amongst a 

 number of moths taken by the signal-man at light at the Cheshunt Station, I found 

 a good specimen of Gelechia lutiileniella. There is one peculiarity about it that I 

 believe has not been noticed before, viz., that it has a yellow patch on the upper-side 

 of the abdomen like that on Q. populella, but slightly smaller. This was obscured 

 by grease when I showed the insect to Mr. Stainton ; but I noticed it before setting 

 it out, and it has again become visible now that the grease has been removed. — W. 

 C. Boyd, Cheshunt : December llth, 1876. 



Padisca rujimitrana, JI.-S., new to Britain — Mr. F. J. H. Jenkinsou, of Trinity 

 College, Cambridge, has taken two specimens (1 (J , 1 ? ) of this new species, both at 

 light, in July of successive years, in Cambridge. One of these I sent to Mr. Barrett, 

 suggesting that it was probably rujimitrana, H.-S. ; he concurred, but kindly 

 forwarded figures to Prof. Zeller, who was enabled to pronounce with certainty that 



