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narrow medio-dorsal darker stripe ; the dorsal area on each 

 side of this dark stripe is very pale, and its exterior margin 

 almost white ; a narrow sinuons reddish stripe intersects each 

 division of this pale area ; lateral area pale ferruginous, in- 

 tersected by a narrow whitish stripe below the spiracles, 

 which are intensely black ; in addition to this principal 

 broad lateral stripe, there are two other very inconspicuous 

 stripes, the one above, the other below it; all the stripes 

 unite and terminate in the anal points, which are slightly 

 tinged with pink; ventral surface, legs and claspers pale fer- 

 ruginous. On the ]4lh of June my larva? left their food, and, 

 lying at the bottom of the gallipot, underwent pupation two 

 days subsequently, without attaching themselves in any way 

 to the grass or other object; in fact they seemed to make no 

 preparation whatever for the change : the pupa is short and 

 obese ; the head rounded and without any appearance of 

 ears ; the thorax convex, but neither keeled nor angulaled ; 

 the ventral surface very gibbose, more so than the dorsal ; 

 there is a prominent scale at the base of each wing-case, ap- 

 parently covering the spiracle, and the 13th segment is 

 attenuated, depressed, scale-like, and fringed with straight 

 bristles, which appear an indication of inability to suspend 

 itself. Colour pale wainscot-brown, partially transparent ; 

 the scale at the base of the wing-cases and ihe caudal scale 

 dark brown, almost black ; wing-cases delicately barred with 

 transverse brown lines, very faint indeed, but slightly darker 

 than the ground colour ; dorsal sin-1'ace of the abdomen in- 

 distinctly striped with a darker shade. I am indebted to Mr. 

 Pristo for a supply of the larva, which 1 have never hap- 

 pened to receive through any other channel. — Edward 

 Newman. 



Life-liistori/ of Eriogaster lanestris. — The eggs are laid in 

 a spiral mass round a twig of Crataigus Oxyacantha (white- 

 thorn), during the month of February, and completely con- 

 cealed by the blackish or smoke-coloured down with which 

 the end of the abdomen in the female is thickly clothed : 

 some examples of this nidus exhibit a corkscrew form ; in 

 others the rings are fused together, and the mass becomes 

 amorphous. In April the young larvae leave the egg-shell, 

 and no sooner is the whitethorn clad with its first mantle of 

 tender green, than they spin a web on the surface of the 



