4 [June, 



by a few threads drawn amongst them from one to tlie otlier at various 

 angles which seemed to contract the opening, and to bring the stud- 

 like fastenings almost together ; at this point the larva rested for a 

 while ; and next morning I found any further watching was effectually 

 prevented ; the cocoon had been made, and the covering of the narrow 

 orifice last spun was of a pale rusty-red colour, which in a day or two 

 became a little darker, while the earlier fastenings I had seen spun 

 turned purplish-brown, looking like dark veins on a decaying part 

 of a leaf. 



On examining the cocoon after the exit of the moth, I found it 

 very smooth within, and made of very strong silk, not easily torn 

 open, of a rusty-brown colour like that of the leaf containing it ; the 

 pupa skin presented but little to be remarked in its general form ; its 

 length a little over half -inch, and diameter three-sixteenths ; in figure 

 rounded at the head, and tapei'iiig but little till near the anal tip, 

 which was rather prolonged in a blunt point ending with tlu'ee central 

 curled-topped bristles, with a shorter one on each side of them ; where 

 the thorax and another part had been rubbed a little, the rusty-red 

 colour of the pupa ski'n without gloss and rather rough, could be 

 seen ; the rest of the surface was covered witli a soft adhesive opaque 

 white powder. 



Emsworth : May 5tJi, 1877- 



CHARACTERS OP A NEW GENUS, AND DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO NEW 

 SPECIES, OF COSSONIDJE FROM THE SANDWICH ISLANDS. 



BY REV. T ELACKBURlSr, B.A. 



ANOTHEOEUS, gen. nov. 



Maxill(S in conspectti jyositce. 



Antennce medium versus rostri insertce, funicuJo 7-nrticu^ato, clavd 

 Tiaud eviJenter articulntd. 



Oculi in ctqyitis superjicie superiore ohlique inserti, rostri prope 

 hasin, fort iter granuJosi. 



Pedes mediocres ; tihiis omnibus a2'>ice unco armntis ; tarsorum 

 (tihiis parum hreviorum) articuJo tertio dilatato suh-hipartito, quarto 

 cceteris conjimctis lojigitudine cequali. 



Coxce anticcE evidenter, posticcs late (necnon eqregie), disjunct a;. 



This genus must be placed among the " Gossonides vrais " of 

 La'cordairc, having 7 joints to the funiculus of the antennae, and the 



