488 Dr. Harry Mfingham on the Larvae and 
spiracles of the Ist abdominal segment are completely 
displaced and appear on the underside. The 6th, 7th, 
and 8th abdominal segments are reduced in width, and the 
9th and 10th more or less fused together. The whole 
cuticle is very rough and covered with minute wart-like 
protuberances in masses of ochreous and dark brown which 
produce a marbled effect. One of the many surprising 
features of the larva is the presence at many points of 
chitinanths, resembling those hitherto only found in 
Lycaenid larvae. At text fig. 5, Bis a diagrammatic draw- 
ing of the underside to show the position of the true head, 
the first pair of spiracles, and the usual Geometrid prolegs. 
Farquharson refers to the larva as a “looper,” so that 
we may assume that when alive it adopted that familiar 
method of progression. Mr. Prout has kindly examined 
the drawings of the larva and thinks it is certainly a Geo- 
metrid “ perhaps an Emerald.” I am indebted to Sir Geo. 
Hampson for reference to another Geometrid larva with 
which it may be compared. It is that of Uliocnemis cassi- 
dara Guén. (= Comiboena biplagiata) and is illustrated 
in Hampson, Il. Het. IX (p. 145), Pl. 176, fig. 18, from a 
drawing by Mr. E. EK. Green. It is described as yellowish 
drab, sides of the somites produced into fleshy processes 
on which the larva fastens small pieces of withered leaves 
and stick, as a disguise. It rests with the thoracic somites 
doubled under the body. Ceylon. 
In this case the processes are not flattened but are in 
the form of tubercles. The appearance of the resting larva 
in its curious attitude and with its decoration of particles 
of dead leaf is very peculiar and evidently highly protective. 
Farquharson’s larva was found at Agege, Oct. 18th, 1917. 
g. ON THE Cocoon OF CHIONEMA FARQUHARSONI B,-B. 
The single example of this new species of Lithosid moth 
emerged from a pupa enclosed in a remarkable cocoon. 
The latter consists of an extremely thin silken bag covered 
all over with what are evidently the larval hairs. Each of 
these consists of a central stalk covered with innumerable 
fine branches, and each hair is attached to the cocoon by 
one end, so that all radiate from the centre, the result being 
a regularly constructed ball of mouse-coloured down. 
(See also p. 464.) Farquharson, Moor Plantation. 1916— 
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