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but as its habitat had been destroyed I had given up, after 
several years’ search, all hope of again seeing it. However, 
accident revealed what careful search had failed to discover. In 
the autumn of 1872 I had rambled several miles from home, 
and was sitting down boiling my tea with the help of a spirit- 
lamp, when at my feet and around me I discovered the dried 
capsules of my old friend in a new locality, and many of them 
bore unmistakable signs of having been eaten out by some 
Lepidopterous larva. After I had enjoyed my tea I set to 
work pupa-digging, but without success, so was reluctantly 
obliged to abandon the search until last summer (1873), 
when I again made a pilgrimage to the locality, and then 
had the good fortune to find the plants in flower, and to 
collect from them several larve, some of which I knew to be 
the larva of Dianthcecia carpophaga; the others were unknown 
tosme: <1 succeeded in rearing from them several healthy 
pupz late in the year: these I have kept in a warm room, 
and last autumn one specimen of D. carpophaga emerged, 
and two others the beginning of April, and on the 28th of the 
same month a fine specimen of D. albimacula made its appear- 
ance. This morning I had the pleasure of seeing the second 
specimen drying its wings. 1 do not care to make the 
locality public until I find how its food-plant is distributed, 
as an eager collector might, so far as I can see at present, 
clear the whole of the plants in the course of one visit, and I 
should not like to see it served as some of my hunting- 
grounds have been by ruthless hands. When young the 
caterpillar conceals itself in the seed-capsule, and, as it grows 
older, at the root of the plant, crawling up after the sun has 
set, to feed on the unripe seeds. When full-fed it is about 
one inch and a quarter, long, tapering slightly towards each 
end. The head is smaller than the 2nd segment, pale brown 
in colour, with four darker lines down the face; the colour of 
the body is pale ochreous-yellow, inclining to brownish 
yellow on the anterior segments. The points of a series of 
dark brown triangular marks form the dorsal line, and the 
legs of each triangle pass diagonally through two black 
dots on each segment, and reach almost to the spiracular 
line, which is waved, and dark brown in colour. The 
spiracles are pink, surrounded by a black ring, and over 
each is a black dot; the legs, claspers,"and body beneath, 
