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dorsal lines are united by an ochreous transverse band ; the 

 bases of the dark triangles on this segment rest on this line. 

 There is, also, sometimes a transverse ochreous line on the 

 13th segment, but this is by no means constant. The sub- 

 spiracular stripe is paler than the ground colour, but not very 

 distinct, and is bordered above by an indistinct brown line ; 

 the spiracles are black, each in an ochreous ring; just behind 

 each spiracle on the 5lh to 12lh segment is an oblique dark 

 blotch slanting towards the subdorsal line, and varying in 

 intensity, its lower part often forming a darker spot behind 

 the spiracle; the obliquity of these stripes is towards the 

 head of the larva. Tho ventral surface and claspers are pale 

 grayish ochreous, the latter almost colourless ; the legs are 

 pale wainscot-brown. The ordinary dots are small, black, and 

 indistinct ; each of those on the dorsal surface is accompanied 

 by a tolerably distinct whitish or ochreous spot. The plate 

 on 2nd segment is brownish, with the three lines very indis- 

 tinctly marked. The two following varieties were reared from 

 the egg. Var. 1. Umber-brown, altogether more dingy in 

 appearance ; the segmental divisions not tinged with rosy. 

 Var. 2. Ground colour of back pale wainscot-brown, reticu- 

 lated minutely with darker; the dorsal lozenges much more 

 clearly defined than in either of the preceding varieties. The 

 triangular spots on the 12th segment are much paler than 

 those on the other segments. The sides are purplish-brown. 

 Rest as in the ordinary type ; but the subspiracular stripe is 

 tinged with rosy, while the segmental divisions show no 

 trace of that colour. The 13th segment is entirely pale 

 ochreous-brown, with a distinct dark dorsal line. The larvae 

 are full fed in April and May : they then bury and spin loose 

 cocoons, in which they turn to chrysalides, which very closely 

 resemble those of N. brunnea ; they are of a shining reddish 

 brown. The moths emerge in June. The first of my imagos, 

 bred from the larvae taken at large, emerged June 6th, though 

 one, bred from the egg, came out on May 31st. — Bernard 

 Lockyer. 



Description of the Larra of Eupilhecia pygmceata. — Long, 

 very slender, extremely attenuated on the capital segments ; 

 ground colour pale dull yellowish green ; central dorsal line 

 pale olive, connecting a series of very distinct and well- 

 defined urn-shaped blotches of the same colour, which 



