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very delicate greenish-yellow moth (Lasiocampa 

 Kottikerii, Dewitz), with white markings and a 

 fringe of black hairs on the top edge of the 

 under- wing. 



One night I was surprised to see two males 

 of this species fly into the room, as they were 

 not very common, but on visiting my chrysalis 

 box some hours later I found a female had 

 emerged from the pupa and had just come 

 to perfection, so of course she was the attrac- 

 tion. The caterpillar of Lasiocampa Monteiroi 

 (n. sp. Druce), a pale cream-yellow moth, is very 

 like this last, but not so prettily coloured ; its 

 cocoon is much larger and more hairy. 



When a moth or butterfly first breaks from 

 its pupa covering it is quite moist and flabby, 

 and the wings so small and shrivelled up that 

 it seems impossible they should ever become 

 large and beautiful ; the insect, however, generally 

 crawls up to the net covering the box, allowing 

 its wings to hang down, and so quickly do they 

 grow that one can see the process of develop- 

 ment. They should not be killed too soon after 



