THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 381 
shorter and stouter, the colour having changed and assumed ~- 
a regularly annulated appearance. On the Ist of August I 
turned out and examined the earth, being anxious to describe 
the pupa. I found they had undergone their transformation ; 
each had formed a neat little cell in the earth, but without 
any admixture, so far as I could perceive, of silk; the head- 
case of the pupa forms a small and slightly-projecting knob ; 
the case of the prothorax, or perhaps tippets, is also knob- 
like on the back; the wing-cases are of medium length, and 
the wing-rays are rather strongly marked; the surface is 
rather deeply and confluently punctured, giving the pupa a 
dull appearance, which I mention in contradistinction to the 
glabrous exterior so commonly observable in pupe; and 
there is a deep medio-dorsal puncture on the dth, 6th, 7th 
and 8th segments, and each of these deep punctures is 
surrounded by a glabrous space; the abdomen terminates in 
two very acute and moderately long divaricating spines. The 
contour of the wing-cases is dull greenish and semi-transparent, 
and that of other parts dull pale brown. This moth is the Pha- 
lena griseata of the Vienna Catalogue, as first pointed out by 
Mr. Doubleday ; and also of Hiibner, Treitschke, Duponchel, 
Boisduval, Herrich-Scheffer, Guenée, &c. The late Mr. 
Stephens gave it the name of Minoa niveata, in a footnote, 
at p. 147 of his ‘Systematic Catalogue,’ evidently supposing 
it to be the Phalena nivearia of Scopoli and Fabricius; and 
English entomologists have generally preferred adopting this 
transference of names. The late Mr. Curtis, also, gave it a 
new specific name, Clarkiata, as a well-merited compliment 
to a Miss Clark, a very accomplished entomologist, who, I 
believe, captured the first recorded British specimen, and 
whose family Mr. Curtis frequently visited at the time. Miss 
Clark subsequently became Mrs. Cole; and to the obliging 
kindness of her son, Mr. W. H. Cole, I am indebted for a 
supply of the larve, and much information respecting the 
economy of this interesting insect. I ought also to mention 
that the Phalena farinata of Borkhausen, a name applied 
to the species, is identical with Nivearia of the Vienna 
Catalogue, and is totally distinct from our British insect. 
In my ‘British Moths’ I have restored the prior name of 
Griseata. Herrich-Scheffer places it in the genus Chesias ; 
but it may be remarked that the genera of Geometre have 
