140 Dr. T. A. Chapman's notes on Pupse, 



an anal armature^ seated on the last (nine and ten) seg- 

 ment, which has a bulbous base, a pen-like form and two 

 deep hollows, one on either side. The maxillas show 

 between them a narrow opening with the labial palpi, 

 traces of femur between maxilla and first leg, the second 

 leg does not reach the head, the third leg is visible 

 between lower end of antennae, the second legs falling 

 short by about one-seventh of the length of the appen- 

 dages, and the maxilla and first legs by about another 

 one-seventh ; there is a small maxillary palpus. 



The dehiscence is by splitting down dorsally to, but 

 not through, the metathorax ; the mesothorax separates 

 half-way down the wings from the metathorax ; the 

 antennas separate from the head and for a quarter of this 

 length from the wings, but adhere to the second legs, first 

 legs, and max. palpi, the face and maxilla separate from 

 the antennas and legs, retaining the eye-covers and 

 adhering by the maxillary extremities to the rest of the 

 case. 



Chkysocoeys. — I obtained larvee, and bred them thirty 

 or more years ago, and was under the impression that they 

 could be had anywhere or at any time. It disappointed 

 me a good deal not to be able to get them during several 

 recent years that I have desired to study them afresh. I 

 was, therefore, very pleased last March to capture a 

 female moth, which very obligingly laid a number of 

 eggs. These were laid singly, on either side, on the 

 margins, or petioles, of the young leaves of the bramble- 

 shoots, with which I had placed the moth for this 

 purpose. 



The egg is urceolate in shape, about 0*5 mm. high 

 and 0'25 broad, rather narrower upwards, and having a 

 hemispherical or flattened base, very much according to 

 the situation in which it is laid, the rounded being the 

 primary form ; but when laid the egg is soft enough to 

 take something of the form of the surface it is laid on, 

 and sometimes has a regular flat base of the whole width 

 of the egg. The upper end is flat, with a well-defined 

 margin, from which arises a structure quite new to me 

 in lepidopterous eggs. There is often, in lepidopterous 

 eggs, a rim or ridge, or break in the smoothness of the 

 surface at this point. The egg of ChoTenfes is, perhaps, 

 as good an example of this as any. In Ghrysocorys this 

 rim carries fourteen transparent spines with bifid tips. 



