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THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



they would be thrust down into the moss. When first laid they 

 were, as Mr. South informed me, pale straw colour. When I 

 examined them about ten days later, the black head and red 

 body of the larva were visible through the shell. In shape 

 ovoid, rounded at both ends ; length about 0*5 mm., and greatest 

 width 0-37 mm. They varied somewhat in size. The whole 

 surface was very minutely pitted and broken up into irregular 

 pentagonal cells. The newly hatched larva measured I'o mm. 

 and the width of the head was 0-25 mm. The body tapers 

 gradually to the anal extremity and is slightly flattened. The 

 segmental and subsegmental divisions are very well marked. 

 The head is dark olive-brown, the prothoracic shield brown with 

 a pink tinge, meso- and metathorax greenish-grey. The abdo- 

 minal segments are red with a scarlet tinge, except the ninth 

 and tenth, which are again greenish-grey. The legs are large, 

 and the prologs rather long and slender. The spiracles are 

 large, circular, and dark ringed. The meso- and metathorax 

 have each three subsegments, the tubercles being on the second 

 subsegment. In the abdominal segments, tubercles one and 

 three are on the first subsegment, while two is on the second 

 subsegment. Tubercle four is below and slightly behind the 

 spiracle ; five, quite separate, below and in front of four. 

 Tubercle six not seen, probably absent ; seventh represented by 

 a pair of tubercles. The tubercles are grey, and, I believe, bear 

 a single simple rather long seta, but of this I have no note. 

 There are a few rows of spicules on each subsegment. 



NEW LEPIDOPTEEA-HETEROCERA FROM FORMOSA. 

 By a. E. Wileman, F.E.S. 



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Notodoiita {?) hasiiiotata, sp. n. 



Fore wings brownish, greyish on costal area, a black patch on 

 basal fourth ; a whitish patch at end of cell, enclosing a black dot ; 

 antemedial line black, twice angled towards the inner margin diffuse 

 towards the costa ; postmedial line black, crenulate, terminating on 

 inner margin near the antemedial ; veins marked with black, blackish 

 streaks between them on the outer area ; fringes brownish, chequered 

 with black. Hind wings pale fuscous, brownish hairs on the inner 

 margin, veins darker, a black cell spot. Under side whitish buff, 

 suffused with blackish on costal two-thirds of fore wings, powdered 

 with blackish on costa of hind wings ; all the wings have a blackish 

 cell mark, and an incomplete postmedial line. 



Expanse, 56 millim. 



Collection number, 1197. 



One male specimen from Kanshirei (1000 ft.), April 27th, 1908. 



