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each side of the back is a series of short erect dense fascicles of hair ; 

 in each series are twenty-four of these fascicles, that is, one on the 4th 

 segment, two on the 5lh, three each on the 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, lOlh and 

 11th, two on the 12th, and one much smaller on the 13lh : besides these 

 there is on the 9lh, JOth and llth segments a smaller fascicle of similar 

 hairs very slightly inclined forwards; on each side on a line with the 

 spiracles is another series of less conspicuous tufts; every part of the 

 body emits in addition long silky hairs, which, however, are so slender, 

 weak and scattered as not in any degree to conceal the tufts already 

 described. Colour of the head dingy gray-brown, with curved black 

 stripes, which approach on the crown, and recede in curves from each 

 other on the face; these stripes are composed of exquisitely fine dots 

 and lines : dorsal surface of the body purplish black, the anterior 

 raediodorsal tuft brown, the posterior black, the dorsal series of short 

 tufts black, the lateral series white ; the long silky hairs over the whole 

 body brown ; outside each dorsal series of black tufts is a broad stripe- 

 like series of minute polymorphous orange markings; the lateral sur- 

 face of the body is intensely black, variegated with vivid orange and 

 white markings, dispersed in oblique but irregular order : spiracles 

 long, narrow and almost white ; ventral surface black, adorned with 

 two yellowish lateral markings at each junction of segments and two 

 longitudinal slripe-like series of scattered markings: these commence 

 at the 5th and are continued to the 12th segment; legs brown, with 

 paler tarsi ; ventral clas])ers black, with four longitudinal pale lines on 

 each ; anal claspers almost black, with one such pale line on each. 

 Towards the middle of June it spins a tough leathery shuttle-shaped 

 cocoon, composed of yellowish silk largely interspersed with its own 

 hairs; this cocoon is attached longitudinally to the flowering stem of a 

 grass, and is generally placed in some exposed situation : within this 

 cocoon it changes to an oblong brown pupa, very blunt at both extre- 

 mities, from which the moth makes its escape in July. 



Edward Newman. 



Life-History of Phnrodesma bajnlaria. — Ef,'ps laid by captured female in pill-hox, 

 June 23r(l, 1864, large in pioportion to tlie size of the insect, oval, brownish, fiuely 

 reticulated : hatched July II th. Food, oak. Larva at first brownish, mollled, hairy ; 

 four bunches of green and white atoms along each subdorsal line, and a bunch on anal 

 segment, the gnawings of oak. Until I had ascertained, by watching a young larva 

 emerge from the egg, that it came out naked, I could scarcely believe that these 

 ornamcnls were not part of itself, as every individual was so adorned, though 

 apparently only just hatched. The one of whose binh I was an eye-witness was 



