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width asthe second, but very much narrower than the third segment, which is 
swollen laterally, forming a prominent hump on each side ; the remaining segments 
are uniform, and of about equal width until the 12th is reached, where there is a 
slight lateral dorsal ridge. Skin rather wrinkled, puckered along the sides. The 
third pair of legs appear longer than the others, caused by the 4th segment being 
swollen ventrally. 
Ground colour stone-grey ; in some specimens very distinctly variegated with 
reddish-ochreous, whilst in others a dull dirty black prevails. In the grey variety, 
which I will call var. 1, the head is stone-grey, marbled with different shades of 
brown ; the medio-dorsal stripe is dull dirty green, interrupted on several of the 
segments ; to the 5th segment the sub-dorsal lines are dark sienna brown, with a fine 
rust-coloured centre ; at this segment they are interrupted, but continued without 
the rust-coloured centre, at the middle of the 6th, until the 11th, when they turn 
downwards towards the front prolegs, forming an angle enclosing a pale yellow 
mark; they are seen again as a short, oblique, dark sienna brown streak on-each 
sile the ridge on the 12th segment ; on the 6th segment the sub-dorsal lines also 
pass obliquely upward, meeting in the centre, and forming a conspicuous V-shaped 
mark, the apex being pointed anteriorly; there are no perceptible spiracular lines, 
that region being variegated with smoke colour. The general colour of the belly 
is dull-yellow, thickly clouded with smoke colour, the space between the two pairs 
of prolegs being grey. The spiracles are small, brown with pale centres. Var. 2, 
the form variegated: wfth reddish-ochreous, has the head reddish-brown, marbled 
with darker brown, and a black V-shaped mark, the apex of which is pointed 
towards, and close to, the notch in the crown; the medio-dorsal line the same as 
in var. 1, as are also the sub-dorsal lines, but the pale mark on each side of the 
11th segment, above, and slightly in advance of the anterior pair of prolegs is 
lemon-yellow, much brighter than in var. 1. The ventral surface as in var. 1, but 
having the characteristic reddish-ochreous variegations. Var. 3, the smoke- 
coloured variety, is the darkest form I have seen. The head is grey, marbled with 
sm oke-colour, and this smoke-colour also prevails on the dorsal surface of the body. 
Singularly, the pale mark above the anterior part of prolegs is paler than in either 
of the other varieties, being nearly white. 
The larves seem partial to oak, and when at rest, grasp the stem with the 
claspers, stretching out at full length, with the anterior part raised. The two 
anterior pairs of legs are tucked in, whilst the ventral humps render the third pair 
very prominent. All the legs are slightly bent inwards. 
At the time these larvee were changing to pup, I was taking the perfect in- 
sect of the closely allied biwndularia at large.—Guno. T. Porrirr, Huddersfield, 
January 8th, 1872. 
Tinea pallescentella bred from a dead cat at South Shields—On the 15th July 
last, I observed a dead and desiccated cat lying beneath some old gas-pipes, and, 
on examining it closely, found it to contain both larvae and pups which have pro- 
duced Tinea pallescentella and T. rusticella, the latter the more abundantly. The 
former, though not so common, has appeared in greater or less numbers every 
month since July, and it is still coming out, for I took five specimens on the 14th 
of the present month, and two ov the 15th, and I doubt not but that it will appear 
