128 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



attenuated anteriorly, the 2nd and 3rd segments being very 

 small, the 4th much broader and stouter, the 5th rather the 

 stoutest, the rest uniformly cylindrical, the 12th bearing a 

 short dorsal, scabrous, slightly curved horn, directed back- 

 wards. General colour of head and body either dark velvety 

 umber-brown or velvety oil-green ; in either case the dorsal 

 area is reticulated with darker brown, almost black, mark- 

 ings : on the anterior margin of the 4th segment are two 

 ocellated black spots, and on each side of the 5th and 6th 

 segments is a larger, almost circular, and very ornamental 

 black spot, containing near its upper margin a reniform 

 white spot, the upper margin of which is convex ; the centre 

 of this white spot is clouded with smoke-colour; the ventral 

 is much darker than the dorsal area, and on the thoracic seg- 

 ments is a lateral, paler, not very clearly defined stripe, which 

 ascends towards the ocellated spot on the 6th segment : legs 

 pale ; claspers concolorous with the ventral area. Towards 

 the end of August these larvae descend to the surface of the 

 gi'ound, and there, spinning a slight web, change to pupae, 

 and in that state remain until the following spring, when the 

 moth appears on the wing. The surface of the pupa is 

 slightly scabrous, with a keel-like case to the oral organs, 

 and a broad, flattened, deltoid, pointed, slightly incurved 

 horn on the 12th (now the terminal) segment. — E. Newman. 



Entomological Notes and Captures. 



Dianthoecia c<ssia, var. Manani, Sfc. — Mr. Parry says 

 (Entom. iii. 116) he now finds the specimens he took are 

 DianthcEcia cassia of the continental list, and thinks they 

 " ought to retain that name," &c. Having seen some of the 

 specimens he sold to Mr. Hodgkinson, and also a fair sample 

 of those he sold to Mr. Carter, I wish to say he can have no 

 idea at all what my var. Manani is like, his being all poor 

 faded specimens, and the males might do duty for several 

 continental species I know ; whilst my first brood is a dark 

 blue lead-colour, with a few yellow patches, without percep- 

 tible striga or stigmata ; the later specimens being typical of 

 csesia. To say the first or Manani form were caesia required 

 a thorough knowledge of continental moths, which 1 have 



