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thorax and 8th abdominal segments much larger than the others, the 

 7th slightly so. Subsegraents on abdominal segments are six, the 

 1st being equal to two of the others ; the mcso- and metathorax have 

 five. On the shorter and smaller abdominal segments- — say 6th or 

 7th — there appear to be fewer subdivisions. 



Pupation. — To pupate, the larva spins a pad of silk, find attaches 

 itself by its anal claspers, hanging down with its head and thorax curved 

 up like a Vanessid. The bend is a gradual one, and occurs at the Ist 

 and 2nd abdominal segments. 



Pupa. — The pupa is Onim. long, opaque, pale whitish, mottled and 

 striped with pale olive-brown. The effect is to give to the unaided eye 

 a fictitious appearance of transparency. The wing-cases are large 

 and long, the abdomen short and tapering very rapidly. The meso- 

 thorax large, rising in a prominent curve dorsally, while the meta- 

 thorax is constricted, forming a waist dorsally. Two perfect imagines 

 emerged. The pupal cases I forwarded to Dr. T. A. Chapman for 

 examination. 



Notes on Spanish Geometrides collected by Dr. Chapman in 1902. 



By L. B. PROUT, F.E.S. 



The following notes may serve as a supplement to Dr. Chapman's 

 interesting account of his second visit to Spain, which has been ap- 

 pearing in the Record. As in previous instances, he has presented 

 the whole of the Geometrides to me, expecting, probably, that I 

 would work them out, which has, of course, been a pleasure even 

 more than a duty. They are a very interesting lot, especially as illus- 

 trating a fauna which is by no means too well known to us in Britain, 

 but also on account of some nice aberrations, variable series, etc. For 

 convenience of reference, I follow the general example of accepting, 

 in the main, the nomenclature of Staudinger's Catalog (3rd edition). 



The 169 specimens collected represent 31 species, the Acidaliinae 

 being again well to the fore (compare Ent. Bee, xiv., p. 193) with 

 eighteen species, the Larmtiinae follow with eight species, then Boar- 

 niiinae with four, and, lastly, Oeonwirinae, represented only hy Pseud o- 

 terpna coronillaria, Hb. — two (? s from Bejar. 



The largest, and, perhaps, on the whole, the most interesting, part 

 of the collection came, as might be expected, from the neighbourhood 

 of Bejar, our friend's headquarters, but the samples from Piedrahita 

 (nine species, 22 specimens) also include a few things which make one 

 covet more material. From Avila, it will suffice to say that the 

 Doctor brought five Ar'ulalia orhrata, Scop., and one nice ^ Stenha 

 (Bhodomeira) sacraria, L. 



The Acidalias from Bejar please me greatly, and most of the thir- 

 teen species deserve special mention on some account. Nice little 

 series of A. ynacilrntaria, H.-S., and A. litif/iomria , Bdv. (both new to 

 my collection), show them both to be somewhat variable as well as 

 local species. Then there is one specimen of the difficult A. derersaria, 

 H.-S., according to Staudinger a " Darwinian species," according to our 

 national collection a var. of A. inornata, Haw. There are twelve fine 

 A. sericeata, Hb., some very large in size. A. rolmhwta, Stgr. 

 (thirteen specimens), only, thus far, reported from Castile, and J. 

 lutuhidaria, Stgr. (two specimens), also only known from a few locali- 



