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pale reddish, with a dark dot on the top of each lobe, and another dot 

 on each cheek ; the collar now with scarce any reddish tinge at all, but 

 showing its dots distinctly, namely, a row of six small ones close to 

 its front edge, about the middle on either side a double dot like a 

 Bgure of 8, and then a transverse row of eight dots varying in size, 

 and lastly, a pair near the dorsal line just on the hinder edge ; the 

 belly is now of a yellowish-white, the spiracles black, the thoracic 

 legs rich brown ; the dots and warts just as before, perhaps more 

 prominent, and as the lateral and ventral dots, as well as the dorsal, 

 ire all placed on shining warts, the effect is striking. 



The cocoon is regular in figure, about 20 mm. long and 12 mm. 



vide, of very fine gauzy texture made of white silk ; the pupa is 



lender, 13 or 14 mm. long, tapering gradually to the tail, the tip of 



vhich terminates in a long spike with square end, set with six long 



;urled spines ; the pupa skin is glossy and shining, curiously orna- 



neuted with tufts of hair ; on the back of each segment, just in the 



•egion of the sub-dorsal lines, there is a pair of tubercles, each set 



vith a whorl of eight or ten harsh looking waved and curled hairs ; 



[ihree of the anterior segments bear in addition each a pair of longish 



ransverse ridges behind these tubercles, and closely set with shorter 



urled bristles, and on the sides of the two segments next the head 



here is a group of three or four small spine-bearing tubercles ; below 



he spiracles the abdomen is ornamented with tubercles bearing fewer 



nd shorter bristles than those on the back ; the general colour is pale 



hestnut-brown, the wing-cases and some patches on the back of the 



ront segments darker brown ; the bristles, which under a lens look 



• ke cocoa-nut fibre, are light brown : altogether, this is one of the 



lost singular pupae 1 have seen. 



Exeter : September 6th, 1884. 



DESCKIPTION OF THE LARVA OF SCO PARI A CRAT^GALIS. 

 BY GEO. T. POEEITT, F.L.S. 



On the 6th of April last I received from Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher, 

 :' "Worthing, a supply of Scoparia larvae, with the information that he 

 fid collected them from lichens, " off a paling formed of oak-planks 

 ke sleepers ; many of the larvae live far in the wood, probably using 

 oles made by larvae of Basycera sulphurella. They are easy to find, 

 they make a slight web over the lichen." Two days later, on the 



