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spun amongst the roots of grass, and others in loose, light soil, and the perfect 
insects came forth from the 27th to the 30th of May, 1871. Before proceeding 
with my description, I desire to offer my thanks to the Rev. Henry Williams and 
to Mr. H. D’Orville, for their valuable assistance in supplying larvee both in spring 
and autumn. j 
In October, the full-grown larva measures from 1 to 14 inch in length when 
stretched out, but often contracts itself to 1 inch; it is cylindrical, of about uniform 
moderate stoutness, tapering very slightly just at each end, the head being a trifle 
the smallest of the segments, and the anal segment rounded at the tip; the smooth 
head !and plate on the second segment are highly lustrous, and the skin on all the 
rest of the body is glossy, but, from being covered with multitudes of minute 
wrinkles, it has no very great play of light on its surface; there are also three 
deeper sub-dividing transverse wrinkles across each segment. The whole colouring 
consists in lighter and darker tints of a reddish-brown inclining to ochreous; the 
ground colour of the back and side is not very deep in tint, and is much like that of 
some of the Leucanide ; the dorsal stripe begins on the deeper brown plate of the 
second segment, where it is but a mere line, on the third and fourth it grows wider, 
and from thence is of about equal width to near the anal tip, being very much paler 
than the ground, indeed, almost whitish-ochreous, it is very finely edged with 
darker brown, and on each segment passes through a narrow elliptically-shaped 
mark of darker brown than the ground colour, composed of freckles; the sub- 
dorsal stripe is of similar width, but is very little paler than the ground colour, 
though very well defined by its having darker edges; below again, after an interval 
of the ground colour, which terminates in a dark edging, comes the spiracular 
stripe broader than either of the others, of about the same depth of tint as the 
sub-dorsal stripe, and defined by a paler edging above and below; about the middle 
of this broad stripe, runs the row of brown spiracles, each delicately outlined with 
almost black, and surrounded with a small pale halo; the belly and legs are of a 
slightly deeper tint than the spiracular stripe, and are faintly freckled with a still 
paler tint; the ventral legs are all tipped with deep brown, the anterior legs spotted 
with brown; the usual two pairs of tubercular dots on the back of each segment 
are deep brown, as are also the pair on the side situated above and behind each 
spiracle, each dot being furnished with a fine brown hair; the head is brown, and 
very dark brown round the mouth. In March, after hybernation, the larva is gen- 
erally of darker hue, the whole colouring being of deeper brown, with scarcely any 
trace of ochreous in its composition, but this is the only change, as all its details 
remain relatively the same. 
The cocoon is made of pale grey glassy-looking silk, compact and smooth of 
texture, firmly adherent to the substances around it, broadly oval in form, and little 
more than half-an-inch in length; the pupa is half-an-inch long, of moderate stout- 
ness, smooth, dark reddish-brown in colour, and very highly polished.—W. BucKLER, 
Emsworth, November, 1871. 
Description of the larva of Tephrosia crepuscularia.—On the 2nd of June last, 
I received from my friend, Mr. J. P. Barrett, of Peckham, several larve of this 
species, which, being full-grown, I described as follows. Moderately stout, length 
about an inch-and-a-quarter. Head flattened and notched on the crown, the same 
