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the head is shining black with reddish-grey margins to the lobes on the face, a trans- 

 verse streak of grey just above the mouth, and the papillse paler grey ; the ground 

 colour of the body is reddish-grey or light brownish-grey, darkest on the thoracic 

 segments, paler behind where it is slightly tinged with ochreous, and palest on the 

 belly ; on the second segment is a broad semi-lunar black shining plate dorsally 

 divided by a line of grey, a dark dorsal line is visible through the dull skin, which is 

 greatly relieved by the glossy tubercular spots of dark brown, these on the hinder 

 segments are of warmer brown and also the anal plate ; of the trapezoidal spots on 

 the back the front pairs are the largest, of a rounded-off squarish shape, the hind 

 pairs smaller and transversely oblong, and in front of the anal plate the two spots 

 are united together ; along the side is a longitudinal row of spots, two on a segment, 

 the front one roundish and less dark, the hind one transversely oblong and much 

 paler ; the spiracles are very small, round and black, sitvxated on the pale tracheal 

 thread which shows faintly through the skin, beneath these occur other tubercular 

 longitudinally-ovate shining spots, every spot furnished with a fine hair. 



On opening a cocoon- — which is of an earthy-brown colour, nearly half an inch 

 long, and roundish-oval form — the pupa was found quite lively within it on the 26th 

 August ; it was of moderate slenderness, a trifle over three-eighths of an inch in 

 length, the head obtusely pointed downward in front, the thorax convex, the eye, 

 leg, and wing-covers very distinct, and also the antennae, which take a sweeping 

 curve round the eye to the end of the wing ; the abdomen tapering to its rather 

 blunt extremity, the free abdominal segments deeply cut; in colour, light browuish- 

 ochreous, much freckled with darkish brown on head, thorax, and wings, these last 

 being rayed and margined with still darker brown, the eyes and anal segment equally 

 dark brown, the whole surface shining. — William Bucklee, Emsworth : December 

 2,nd, 1878. 



Note on Gelechia naneJla, Hiihii. — In Stainton's Manual (ii, p. 342), we read, — 

 " Larva in the flowei's of pears." This statement, I know, was founded on actual 

 observation, but it is only a little bit of the natural history of the species, and not 

 the beginning of it, for the egg could not have been laid in the flowers nor could the 

 larva have continued to feed there, seeing how short a time the flowers last, and 

 where it went afterwards we are not told. I am not in a position to say either ; 

 but I can add a little to the ultimate stage of the history. I sought in vain on the 

 trunks of the pear trees for the imago, but last July, on an apple tree, five feet from 

 the ground, I saw a dozen or more sitting close to empty pupa-skins sticking out of 

 crevices in the bark, from which, doubtless, they had but just emerged. I infer that, 

 after the manner of those of their race with the pear-flowers, the larvse of these had 

 fed on the apple-blooms, and that, after feeding up in the young fruit or leaves," they 

 had secreted themselves in the crevices of the bark of the tree, and there changed to 

 pupae. Perhaps some one has watched the manners of the species throughout' its 

 life and can give us the history. — J. W. DouaLAS, 8, Beaufort Grardens, Lewisliam : 

 December 10th, 1878. 



On a new Swammerdamia, hitherto confounded with ccBsiella. — Mr. Barrett sent 

 me, last September, a series of what he reputed two distinct species of Swammerdamia, 

 hitherto confused by us as ccBsiella. I was able, in reply, to inform him that Pro- 



