70 THE p:ntomologist's record. 



whole of the dark markings, hereafter described, were quite as 

 pronounceed at this date as they were afterwards, but were wanner and 

 more red in colour. The pupa was a rather slenderly formed and 

 graceful object, and was 2|in. in length exactly. The form of the 

 head, antennte, legs, and wings was to be traced under their separate 

 sheat'hings. The wingcases were long, and, at the point where they 

 terminated, the segment was sharply incised ; the segments from the 

 head to this point being full and firm in character. The body, posterior 

 to the termination of the wingcases, was smaller in circumference, 

 and tapered gradually to the anal segment, where it rounded off 

 suddenly to the anal point. On the 25th of the month the papa had 

 deepened in colour to a rich light sienna, freely freckled, though 

 minutely, with a deeper shade of the colour. The head and thorax 

 were large and bold in form, and after a slight depression in the out- 

 line at the 1st and 2nd abdominal segments, the pupa swelled gradually 

 to the posterior edge of the ith abdominal. Here it was emphatically 

 scored all round by the segmental division and marked with a deep 

 sienna band. The following two segmental boundaries were also 

 similarly accentuated. These three segments were much more heavily 

 depressed, as well as coloiired, at their posterior divisions, than the re- 

 mainder ; though all were distinctly and sharply defined. The anal 

 end was the richest in colour of any part of the pupa, gradually 

 becoming deeper in the sienna colour as it neared the anal point, which 

 was about xVi^- ^^^S ! projecting backwards and slightly upwards, 

 finishing in two minute points, diverging laterally. This anal point 

 was of a deep brown in colour, and not smooth or shiny in surface. 

 On the head, in the extreme front between the eyes, was a short, broad, 

 intensely dark line, suffused at the edges. This commenced immedi- 

 ately on the forehead between the eyes and travelled upwards, to stop 

 when vertically over their centre. It was set in an edging of unfreckled 

 sienna colour. This dark line commenced again behind the head on 

 the junction of the thorax with the skull. It is here dilated into two 

 rather diamond-shaped swellings, then traversed the thoracic covering 

 as a mediodorsal line, to stop again, abruptly, on the posterior end of 

 the thorax, where it again expanded into a diamond- shaped blotch. 

 These markings, in dark brown line, were most vividly and decidedly 

 drawn upon the pupa, and were thick and firm in character. From 

 this point the mediodorsal line extended, in a broken and interrupted 

 manner, to the anal segment, but was only faintly indicated upon 

 the centre of the segments. On the anal segment there was a small 

 but very distinct dorsal spot. There was a subdorsal series of small 

 darkish marks on the anterior edge of each segment, beginning at the 

 1st abdominal ; these were gradually more removed from the dorsal 

 centre as the segments widened, and, as they decreased in size again, 

 approached it more nearly. There were also two dark subdorsal dots 

 on the thorax, each side of mediodorsal line — one on each side of the 

 prothoracic segment, and one on each side at about the junction of the 

 meso- and metathoracic ; below these last was a small elongated dark 

 mark. The bases of the antennal sheaths were also defined with a 

 dark, thin, transverse line. The spiracular mark on the prothoracic 

 segment was visible in the dorsal view, as was also a suggestion of that 

 upon the 2nd abdominal segment. As these Avere shown in large 

 intensely dark brown blotches, they were sufficiently evident. 



