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body double, not in the ring form, and remains motionless 

 until all fear of detection has passed away. The head is 

 much narrower and altogether smaller than the 2nd segment, 

 rather porrected, perfectly glabrous but rather hairy ; the 

 body is obese, short and broad ; the segments distinctly 

 marked ; the general surface uneven and rugose, and very 

 sparingly clothed vvitii hairs. The colour of the head is 

 black ; the front of the 2nd segment is yellow, with a trans- 

 verse dorsal plate of a deeper yellow, and longitudinally 

 divided by a median line ; there is a medio-dorsal whitish 

 stripe, intersected throughout by a slender dark stripe ; on 

 each side of this is a broader lead-coloured stripe, containing 

 a median series of white spots ; and again below this is a 

 broad dirty-white spiracular stripe, which contains a median 

 series of lead- coloured spots, and also the spiracles, which 

 are black ; this extends to and includes the anal claspers ; 

 again below this is a lead-coloured stripe terminating before 

 the ventral claspers ; the ventral area is dingy honey-yellow. 

 All my specimens left their retreats when full-fed, and 

 changed to pupss on the earth, among leaves at the bottom 

 of the glass in which they were kept; this was on the 2nd 

 and 3rd of June : the pupa is long and slender, the tip of the 

 abdomen pointed ; the colour of the wing-cases is pale 

 brown slightly tinged with green ; the abdomen is redder. 

 I am indebted to my kind friend Mr. Jefiiey, of Saffion 

 Walden, for a supply of this interesting larva and a know- 

 ledge of its economy ; and I ought to mention that this is 

 the second time he has supplied me, last year's batch having 

 arrived at a time when 1 found it impossible to describe 

 them. — Edwn rd Newman. 



Eiitomolo<jlcal Notes, Captures, S^c. 

 Pupa Slate of Imecis, especially Cynips and Ichneuwon. 

 — We are so much in the habit of associating the pupa state 

 of insects with our ideas of death, that we often quite lose 

 sight of the extraordinary and mysterious changes which are 

 going on during the time insects remain in that slate. It is 

 no doubt owing to the opacity of the substance in which the 

 pupa IS enclosed that so little is generally known of these 



