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portion of the pupa is quite smoothly cylindrical and even, 

 its colour pale soft brown, totally without sculpture ; dorsal 

 and abdominal segments e(|ually smooth, devoid of pitting or 

 sculpture, yet well divided, looking as though turned out of 

 smooth grain-less brown wood, their margins a little more 

 red-brown ; spiracles large, narrowly horse-shoe shaped, dark 

 brown ; cremaster blunt, rather flattened, rounded behind 

 and quite devoid of bristles or spikes. 



Present vol.. p. ^yi. — Selenia illunaria. Mr. W. Evans 

 of Edinburgh draws attention to a circumstance which I had 

 overlooked ; that in Scotland a single generation only of this 

 species is known — emerging in May. He assures me that 

 he has never seen a Scotch specimen of the smaller, summer. 

 iQvm.=juliaria, Haw. 



P. 255.— Psodos coracina. Mr. Percy C. Eeid now 

 writes as follows: "I am sending you a pupa. I obtained 

 it at Rannoch. The local collectors know it well, and rear 

 numbers every saviuJ year, for it is usually common in the 

 odd years (1899, 1901, &c.). It is obtained by turning back 

 the moss and lichens, especially round the edges of the small 

 bare patches that exist at the proper elevation, or alono- the 

 edges of a footpath or sheep track, or round the sides of 

 rocks and stones. There is no cocoon ; the pupa is found on 

 the surface of the earth, or sometimes partially buried."' 



This is a very curious pupa.— Rather stout, thickest across 

 the shoulders; brilliantly glossy ; wing and limb-covers all a 

 little swollen, very smooth and almost devoid of wrinkling or 

 sculpture, semitransparent, pale yellowish-green, shading at 

 the ends of the wing-covers into pale olive-brown ; head 

 smooth and glossy, pale brown ; thoracic shield pale green ; 

 dorsal and abdominal segments also extremely glossy, devoid 

 of pitting or sculpture, yellow-brown, but with the hind 

 band of each red-brown ; anal segment rather bulbous ; 

 cremaster pale brown, very short and thick, rounded behind 

 and furnished with a few very short fine bristles, but with- 



