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which is slightly squared ; dorsal margin nearly straight ; 

 whole surface smooth, not very thickly scaled, glistening 

 purplish- brown or almost purplish-grey, costa slightly darker ; 

 cilia moderately long, similar in colour except at the extreme 

 edge, which is paler. Hind wings rather long, bluntly rounded 

 at the apex, gently rounded behind, purplish-grey, rather 

 paler and more thinly scaled than the fore wings ; cilia rather 

 long, purplish-gi'ey with paler tips. Under side like the upper, 

 but a little paler in colour ; cilia shining purple-brown. 



" Female short, bent into a semicircle, almost spider-like ; 

 anterior portion slender ; head very small, horny and shining ; 

 the body, which appears silky, is of a reddish colour, with 

 six bars of black-brown colour in the form of rectangular 

 parallelograms, which occupy all the dorsal surface after the 

 fourth segment ; on the upper portion of the three first 

 segments, which are much contracted, is a blackish horny 

 shield. The legs are long. The anal extremity is very 

 obtusely terminated by a thick tuft of hairs or down, brown 

 beneath, greyish -white or yellowish above, from which pro- 

 jects the ovipositor, 5 mm. in length, and composed of three 

 sections, which withdraw one within another. Feet horn- 

 colour. Antennas so short that they can only be seen through 

 a magnifier." (Bruand.) I have copied Bruand's description, 

 since it appears not absolutely certain that we have in this 

 country separated the female of this from those of the allied 

 species. It, like them, withdraws its whole body from the 

 case on emergence from pupa, but remains upon it, clinging 

 tightly with depressed head, rounded body, and the anal 

 segment pressed close down to the case and almost touching 

 the under side of the head. Mr. Bond says that the females 

 reared by him are larger and more obese than those of the 

 other species. This is confirmed by the specimens fi'om his 

 cabinet which when dry are stout, with the head and dorsal 

 region blackish-brown, under parts mixed browns, anal tuft 

 very pale, ovipositor of moderate length. 



End of May, June. 



