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paler or more freckled hue than the type, and having a few 
distinct blackish dots below the costa. 
The Euplocamus ursella is one of the most universal moths 
throughout the intermediate and lofty districts of the island, 
though I have no evidence that it exists below the altitude of 
Plantation. It appears, I think, to belong more especially to 
the u cabbage-tree ” fauna, in the wood of which (particu¬ 
larly, though by no means always, when in a rotten or decom¬ 
posed condition) I have repeatedly found the larva. The latter 
is of a dirty whitish hue, extremely unattractive in appearance, 
and most active if disturbed ; when fully fed it spins a firm 
and somewhat silken cocoon, generally immediately under the 
loosened outer bark of the u cabbage trees.” The chrysalis 
is reddish brown, having the live posterior segments, on the 
upperside, armed at their base with a row of minute closely 
set spinules, the apex itself being furnished above with two 
strong recurved hooks, and below with two shorter and obtuse 
spine-like tubercles. 
Euplocamus anticella. 
Cerostoma anticella, Walk, in Melliss’s St. Hel. 192 (1875). 
Expanse 8-12 lines. With the fore wings of a glossy 
bronzy brown, and quite free from any spots or markings 
whatever; but the fold is rather darker, so that in worn 
specimens it has somewhat the appearance of being a dark 
longitudinal streak. Hind wings glossy greyish cinereous. 
Thorax rather paler than the anterior wings; body concolo- 
rous with the fringe of the posterior ones. 
Var. /3 with the fore wings of a pale golden orcheous, gradu¬ 
ally paler and duller towards the base, and entirely without 
markings. This is a very beautiful insect when fresh ; but it 
is more often captured as a mere whitish and insignificant¬ 
looking moth. Hind wings glossy cinereous, with a very 
faint iridescent tinge. Thorax concolorous Avith the anterior 
Avings, body with the posterior ones. Mr. Barrett informs 
me that this A r ariety is very close to the British Tinea palles- 
centella , nevertheless Avithout the characteristic irregular longi¬ 
tudinal line of that species. To me it appears as if it might 
eventually prove to be a distinct species from the typical 
anticella ; however, as I am extremely unwilling to multiply 
species, which, after a more careful research on the spot, may 
possibly turn out to be but varieties of a single variable species, 
I have considered it better to treat this particular form merely 
as an albino variety of Mr. Walker’s anticella. 
E. anticella is not uncommon throughout the interme¬ 
diate districts of St. Helena, ascending occasionally to the 
