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space longitudinally, though rather free latitudinally. 

 I ought to say that flimsy as the cocoon looks, it is 

 really very hard, firm, and elastic. 



The pupa is green Avitli sundry markings, and these 

 appear to increase with the age of the pupa, till it be- 

 comes very dark. I fear I ill-treated my pupa3, as only 

 one emerged, and the rest have, I think, died and dried 

 up. I imagined they would all come out very soon, with 

 a view to a second brood ; I now think that this is the 

 rare exception, and that the pupee lie over the remainder 

 of the summer, and possibly the winter, though it is 

 perhaps more likely that the insect hibernates as a moth. 



The pupa has a rather prominent globular head, a 

 distinct waist (dorsally), the abdominal segments gradu- 

 ally tapering and arching forward. The free segments are 

 4, 5, 6, ?, and 4, 5, 6, 7, $ , the wing and leg-covers ex- 

 tending over the fourth and part of the fifth segments. 



The abdominal spiracles are each in a lofty brown cone, 

 very similar to that of the larva, and on either side, 

 somewhat dorsally, is on 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and less 

 markedly on o, a hook or spine, dark in colour, curved 

 backwards, and ending in a sharp point — behind and 

 outside these is a fine hair with recurved curled tips, 

 and a similar hair is placed above and another below the 

 spiracle ; about ten similar and longer hairs form the anal 

 armature. The spiracles have an unusually dorsal posi- 

 tion, and there is along interval between the subspiracular 

 hair and two ventral ones. Six similar smaller hairs are 

 on the face and head, and the mesothorax possesses two 

 pairs. There is a minute point which appears to be the 

 maxillary palpus, and is carried in dehiscence at the 

 extremity of the first leg-piece. The maxillas are 

 separated to show the labial palpi broadly, and a portion 

 of femur shows between the maxilla and first leg. The 

 antennas and second legs extend to end of wing cases, 

 the tips of third legs beyond, the maxilla falls a little 

 short, and the first legs reach little more than half way. 

 The first legs touch the antennas and exclude the second 

 from the head. The prothorax is reduced to a very 

 narrow strip and the dorsal head-piece is very large. 



The formula of abdominal free segments is the same 

 as that of a very large number of the Incompletas, 

 Tortrices, Psychids, Sesiids, true Tineids, Cossids, etc., 

 so that this does not go far in showing an alliance with 



