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seeds of this plant, and began to increase in bulk, growing paler in colour, but j 

 showing a dark line down the back. After a time they seemed to take to the 

 leaves of the madder, eating out the thick substance of them from below, and 

 leaving the upper skin quite perfect in large transparent blotches ; I should have 

 said that from the first they spun themselves little hammocks, with a hole at either 

 end, after the custom of their tribe, in which they passed a great deal of their time. 

 By 29th July they had attained some size, and had become translucent, of a shining 

 light brownish colour, with brown dorsal markings. By 7th August they were 

 gi'own as big as they intended to grow, and one or two showed symptoms of changing. 

 At this time the length was about f -inch, the figure tapering towards each end, legs 

 sixteen, the head small and flat, the segmental divisions strongly cut, a horny plate 

 on second segment, the whole skin very translucent and shining, with a few bristles. 



The colour was a yellowish-brown on the back, paler and more greyish below, 

 the reddish-brown dorsal line rather interrupted, the sub-dorsal stripe broader, 

 brownish, and containing within it two large black dots on each segment ; a broad 

 brown lateral stripe below again, with one black dot within it on the front of each 

 segment, the spiracles black. On examination with a lens the colours appeared 

 more pinkish. 



August 8th, and following days, the eight or nine larvae which I had succeeded 

 in rearing, spun themselves up to the sides of their flower-pot in silk webs, and 

 changed to rather slender bright red pupEe, with the antennse and wing-casea 

 reaching far down the abdomen, and ending in a projecting knob, August 31st, 

 and two following days, there emerged five images, rather undersized, but very 

 perfect. I suppose in nature this species cannot be double-brooded. Mr. Hudd 

 has kindly supplied me with the following dates of its appearance. 



This year he took the moths at the beginning of July, and could see no more 

 after the middle of the month ; however, within the last day or two, he has found 

 in his garden (on madder growing there) two very young larvEe, and the eggs 

 whence these emerged could not have been laid earlier than August 20th ; in 1864 

 he took the moth on August 14th ; and he tells me he once knew it taken at Ivy 

 so late as the end of September, but it was then in a very worn condition. 



I cannot conclude this note without thanking Mr. Hudd heartily for enabling 

 me to work out the earlier stages of this moth so satisfactorily. — John Hellins, 

 September 6th. 



Achroia grisella. — I have the ddbris of a bee-hive swarming with this species, 

 and shall be happy to supply any one in want of it. — E. Skepper, 13, Abbeygate 

 Street, Bury St. Edmunds. 



A new locality for QelecMa, pinguinella. — Quite recently, whilst on a visit to 

 Colchester, I had the pleasure of detecting half-a-dozen fine examples of this 

 novelty in a box belonging to a gentleman who has lately taken up the study of 

 Entomology. He informed me that the species had been abundant this season, and 

 that he had bred specimens from pupse found in decayed wood of poplars in the 

 neighbourhood of the above-named locality. He could, he said, have collected at 

 least a couple of hundred pupa) had he been so inclined. — F. Bond, 21, Adelaide 

 Road, N.W., October 10th, 1865. 



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