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less irregular, but invariably present. The farinose 

 matter on the body, and also the marginal fringe, dis- 

 appear with age ; the former, being very transient, is 

 never found on old adults, whereas portions of the 

 fringe may be retained for a much longer period. Anal 

 lobes orange-yellow. 



Second-stage female (fig. 9) slightly elongate-ovate, 

 and narrowed in front ; dark madder-brown ; with, 

 one central and two lateral longitudinal rows of equi- 

 distant, irregularly square or rectangular patches of 

 semi-opaque secretion, somewhat glassy in appearance, 

 but of a soft waxy nature ; marginal fringe as in the 

 previous stage. 



Male (fig. 10) of the ordinary Lecanid form. Dull 

 red or dull crimson ; thorax, apodema, and head very 

 dark crimson ; legs and antennae smoky brown, or 

 yellowish-brown ; eyes and ocelli black, shining ; caudal 

 filaments comparatively stout, and longer than the 

 body and stylus together. Ocelli four in number : 

 two ventral and two dorsal. 



Puparium of male (fig. 11) elongate-ovate, some- 

 times slightly narrowed in front ; semi-opaque, glassy 

 white, surface finely rugose or roughened ; carinae 

 distinct; there is a central series of six or seven 

 angular, or more or less cube-shaped, opaque, white 

 excrescences within the coronet, and a similar series, 

 but somewhat smaller and less distinct, extending all 

 round the puparium midway between the coronet and 

 the margin. Fringe glassy and more permanent than 

 that of the female. 



In the puparium figured and described by me * there 

 was a double row of submarginal excrescences, a 

 character I now find almost unique, and therefore not 

 typical. 



Long, 2 '25 mm. ; wide, 1 mm. 



Larva comparatively large, dark yellow at first, but 

 changing to crimson-brown ; antennae of six joints ; 

 first widest, and in length equal to the fourth and 



* In the paper by Mr. Douglas, ' Ent. Mo. Mag./ 1. c. 



