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ceplialothorax is similar to tliat of the nympli. The 

 whole creature is almost colourless, slightly grey. 



Distribution. — I have not ever found this larva or 

 nymph, and cannot therefore say where it usually lives ; 

 but in 18S5 I bred four from a pair of adults which I 

 kept in one of my cages, and I have since bred several 

 from adults kept in a similar manner, and have also 

 found a single cast skin of a nymph of this species on 

 a piece of decayed wood at Gomshall in Surrey. The 

 adult is rare. I reared the nymphs upon fungus grow- 

 ing on old wood. 



FoRTHER Notes relative to Species described in 

 Volume I of this Book. 



Orihata piriformis (p. 238). — In the drawing of the 

 nymph of this species, PL YI, fig. 2, and also in the 

 description, the lamellar hairs are omitted; they are 

 large, setiform, and upright. 



Orihata setosa (p. 243). — In the first volume of this 

 book (p. 244) I called attention to the fact that the 

 cusps of the lamellae vary greatly in different specimens, 

 and have since found, by examining large numbers of 

 individuals, that the variety is even wider than I was 

 then aware of ; every stage being found, from the very 

 long pointed cusp nearly reaching the point of the ros- 

 trum to a tiny point just over the insertion of the 

 lamellar hair, and, in these extreme instances, the 

 shoulder below the lamellar hair is apt also to form a 

 very small point ; thus since the publication of vol. i, I 

 have received two specimens, one from Mr. E. Bostock 

 and one from Mr. M. J. Michael, which have the cusps 

 of the lamellce truncated almost in the manner charac- 

 teristic of O.fuscijpes, yet they are not the same shape 

 as the cusps in that species ; but the lamellar hair 

 does seem to spring from the centre of the truncated 



