114 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



There is a change of skin from the first to the second stage, but none 

 during the second stage. Third stage, up to about seven weeks old : 

 Horn bright orange-yellow. The long point disappears, the horn 

 becoming sausage-shaped and bent downwards. The ocelli, spiracles, 

 white lateral lines and spots are strongly marked. Legs dark red. 

 There is a change of skin from the second to the third stage, but no 

 further change of skin till the final one into a pupa. Fourth stage, up 

 to about eight weeks. There is no change in the horn, but the head, 

 which was previously green, turns dark brown, and a dark brown 

 divided spot appears on the first body-segment. The second and 

 third segments and part of the fourth turn bright yellow. The ocelli 

 are very beautiful, shading from the deepest blue to white. After 

 about a week in this stage the larva becomes very restless, ceases 

 feeding, and leaves the food-plant. In a few hours it turns to the 

 fifth a7id final stage. The horn is unchanged, but a dark dorsal line 

 appears on the second and third segments, broadening out on the 

 third segment to a dark brown band covering the back up to the base 

 of the horn. The lower parts and last segment turn orange-yellow. 

 In this stage the larva is on the ground, searching for a suitable 

 place to spin its slight cocoon. 



It turns to a pupa in about ten weeks from hatching. The pupa 

 is reddish-brown. The head, thorax and wings are enclosed in a 

 yellow and semi-transparent case. There is a black central line, 

 continuous on the thorax and wing-cases, broken on the back. The 

 spiracles are surrounded by black spots, and the whole body is dotted 

 with black. 



The moths emerged in about fourteen weeks from the hatching of 

 the larva.— F. B. Scott, Capt. I.A. ; Aden, February 27th, 1917. 



BlASTOTERE (" Bl^TOTEEES ") GLABRATELLA IN BRITAIN. — On 



p. 64 of the March issue of the ' Entomologist ' Mr. Pierce asks, 

 among other questions, where the occurrence of B. glahratella in 

 Britain was recorded. The name of the genus is not quite correct, 

 but if the moth Blastotere glahratella is meant, then this species was 

 recorded by Lord Walsingham in the ' Entomologists' Monthly 

 Magazine ' for the year 1906 at p. 169. — Alfred Sigh. 



A Question of Latinity. — Noticing Mr. Elliott's inquiry as to 

 correctness of Latin form, I venture to reply. The name rufo-ornatus 

 is not a compound word at all, but a double word, as is properly 

 shown by the hyphen ; such names, clumsier than simple ones, are 

 not to be imitated, but their use is recognised (Lychnis fios-cuctdi and 

 Strychnos nux-vomica of Linnaeus, Oinophila v-flavum of Haworth, 

 etc.), and violates no rule of Latin. The name rufidornatus is not 

 Latin at all ; a Koman grammarian would not have understood its 

 formation unless Mr. Morley had been good enough to explain it to 

 him. The good Latin word lividus offers no analogy ; in that case 

 there is no insertion of a letter, but -idus, a recognised adjectival 

 termination with a definite meaning (corresponding to the English 

 -ish, as in flavus, yellow, flavidiis, yellowish), is affixed to the stem 

 liv-. The adjectival termination -ms, implying simple connection, is 

 far commoner, ocourring in thousands of words, and, in fact, liviiis is 



