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is light semi-transparent yellowish-green, that of the belly rather paler, 

 the stripes of brighter and deeper green are situated one on each side 

 of the back and one below on each side close to the spiracles, the width 

 of the strijies being nearly equal to the spaces between them, the dorsal 

 space is faintly of a deeper greenish, showing more or less the pulsating 

 vessel ; the spiracles narrowly ovate are light reddish outlined with black, 

 the minute tubercular dusky dots are set within the green stripes, and 

 though lightly ringed with the paler ground colour are inconspicuous, 

 the legs furnished with brown hooks. 



"When nearly full-fed it becomes shorter and stouter, growing 

 more and more translucent as the stripes become fainter, the dorsal 

 vessel plainly pulsating, and delicate ramifications of the tracheal 

 system appear through the skiu. 



The pupa is about seven-eighths of an inch in length, moderately 

 stout, and nearly uniform in substance throughout, being much of a 

 cylindrical shape, though the upper parts of the thorax and short 

 wing-covers swell out a trifle more than the rest, and the head has a 

 beak, or rather pointed frontal projection, and the longish abdomen 

 slopes off beneath the end of the last segment to form an obtuse 

 dorsal ridge with granulated surface, and having two minute blunt 

 thorny projections wide apart, and a few minute bristles between 

 them : the colour, at first pale whitish-green, changes gradually to 

 brown, and, during four days, the head, thorax, and wing-covers 

 become darkish mahogany -brown ; the abdomen bright pale ochreous, 

 and it so remains about twenty-three days, when a further change of 

 a dark purplish-red comes uniformly over the entire surface, lasting 

 four days more, and then the perfect insect comes forth ; thus it will 

 be seen the pupa state lasts about a month. 



Emswortli : Septemler IMh, 1879. 



Further notes on Nonagria sparganii. — I and Mr. W. R. JefPrey have personally 

 made the acquauatance of the perfect insects of this species flying at large. We 

 tried for them both by sugar and light, but got most by mothing ; they fly early, 

 from 6.30 p.m., for about an hour. Mr. Buckler has, I know, described the larvae, 

 &c. I will add, that although the pupse generally lie head upwards, this is not uni- 

 versally so, for in about 4 per cent, of them the position is reversed. According to 

 the observations of my friends, the moths emerge about 4.30 p.m., but I have bred 

 five times as many, and with me they nearly always appeared between 8 and 9 p.m. 

 We found a few larvae in Sparganium. — Sydney Webb, Redhill : Sept. \Qth, 1879. 



Eromene ocellea at Folkestone. — The 4th inst. yielded me a small male of F. 

 ocellea in excellent condition. I found it at rest on a grass stem in the Warren, at 

 Folkestone.— Id. : August 24<t7i, 1879. 



