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stages, and bears black or dull brown or sometimes yellowish brown 

 ocelli, the apex of antennae, and mandibles. The first somite is rather 

 small and is not distinctly chitinized ; each of the other somites has 

 about eight somewhat greenish tubercles which are arranged in two rows 

 and from each of which a long yellowish hair grows right up ; the legs, 

 prolegs, and anal legs are all of the same colour as the body, the anal 

 ones being longer. When full-grown the body-length becomes about 

 15 mm. 



The young caterpillar lives in the rolled-up leaves and eats inside 

 them, but after the second moult it fastens two or three somewhat 

 matured leaves or folds a single leaf irregularly, and nibbles them from 

 inside of the shelter here and there as in the preceding species. The 

 larval stage occupies more than two weeks at any season, after which 

 the caterpillar fastens almost always two leaves firmly together (but 

 on the mulberry tree or egg-plant folds a single leaf at the margin) and 

 turns to the pupa within. 



The pupa is small and slender, with a yellowish brown or dull brown 

 tinge. The wing-sheaths, with the rather sharp apex, extend to the 

 posterior margin of the third abdominal segment, and the antennal 

 sheaths do not reach their apical extremities. Each dorsal segment 

 froin the third to the eighth bears a blackish transverse carina near 

 the anterior margin and just behind this is a row of many minute very 

 short spine-like tubercles ; after the middle of each segment there is 

 a fine blackish transverse carina. The anal segment is produced behind, 

 and the apical part of that prolongation is depressed and is slightly 

 curved below, tinged with a reddish purple-brown ; the dorsum is 

 concave, bearing two yellow hooks at each side and four in the middle 

 of the apex, while the venter is distinctly transversely furrowed and 

 bears a single hook near the end of its furrow. The pupae are usually 

 about 7 to 10 mm. long. 



In about four to seven days after pupation the moth usually appears, 

 though one of my observations showed that twenty days elapsed before 

 emergence. The moth is commonly found from May to July, and it 

 is attracted, by light as are other moths. 



Nothing can be added to what was said under the previous species. 

 It works similarly and should be dealt with in like manner. There are 

 a small Ichneumon fly and a small Tachinid fly, which have been reared 

 from the larvae and the pupae respectively. 



No. 21. — Clania variegata, Cram. (OJio-Minoga.) 

 This Psychid is a widely distributed species, commonly found 

 throughout the whole year, and it sometimes appears in very injurious- 



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