270 THE entomologist's hecord. 



TiNEiXA which are so characterised. The first pair of legs are cut 

 off from the antenna; by the second pair. 



The peculiarity which separates this pupa from all the others that 

 I have examined is the immense size of the dorsal head-plates 

 (cephalo-thoracic pieces), compared with the very narrow and 

 dwindled pro-thoracic plate, so that at a casual glance the latter is 

 overlooked and the former mistaken for it. This plate exists in many 

 of the Pyralides, so that the exaggeration of it in the species under 

 consideration does not necessitate its severance from that section ; 

 another feature, which is not rare in the Pyralides, is that the 

 wing- and leg-cases, etc., though attached only as far as the fourth 

 abdominal segment, yet project freely beyond it ; the wing-cases as far 

 as the posterior margin of the fifth, and the leg-cases to the middle of 

 the sixth segment. There is also a tendency for the fixed incisions of 

 the abdominal segments (1st to 4th) to open a little in dehiscence. 

 The 7th, Hth, 9th and 10th segments are very solidly soldered 

 together ; the incision between the 7th and 8th is obvious in the J , 

 but the others (and this one in the 2 ) ai'e very obscure. With these 

 exceptions the pupa agrees fairly well with the Pyralis type. In 

 all these respects it agrees also very nearly with the higher Obtect 

 TiNEiNA, though most of them have, like the Pyralides, a maxillary palpus. 

 The chief agreement is in the large head-piece and small prothorax, 

 a feature that does not occur in any other Obtect group, and is in its 

 extreme development in Onwixlfs. Epcnucnia is very near it also, 

 but this is a remarkable pupa, leading from the Incomplete to the 

 Obtect Tineids as a connecting link. 



A paragraph on the relationship of this pupa to that of I'tmiii/ionis 

 would be of the same kind as the celebrated chapter on the snakes in 

 Ireland. There is no relationship between them. I'tcm/i/ionis has 

 not followed the line towards the Macros that has been taken by the 

 Pyralides, but has struck out an entirely sepai'ate line of its own, 

 and still retains nearly all the features of a Micro pupa. The only 

 point that interests us here, in connection with (hneodcs, is that the 

 one Micro character which Orne&drs has preserved and exaggerated 

 (the large cephalic dorsal plate) happens, in Ptrrop/mrns, to have taken 

 precisely the contrary direction. In Ptvi-npluinis it hardly exists, and 

 is difficult to see ; yet it does exist, and that so effectually that, as in 

 nearly all Micros, it carries the eye-cover with it on dehiscence. 



Calamia lutosa, its variation, habits, etc. 



By the llev. C. K. N. BUllKOWS. 



Encouraged by the theory that if you desire to capture a whale, 

 your best plan is to angle with a sprat, I consented to fall in with 

 the views of our energetic secretaries, and promised to fill in a gap in 

 the season's programme by putting together a few notes about my 

 experience of this species, although I imagine that some of my 

 hearers probably know a great deal more about it than I do myself. 



I have each autumn, since I first settled in Rainham, noticed a few 

 specimens of Calaiitia hitosa — sometimes at sugar in my garden, 

 sometimes at the station lamps, sometimes on shop windows in the 

 village — these last, always on Fridays or Saturdays, when the windows 

 are more brightly lighted, and the lamps kept burning later than on 

 ther days of the week. 



