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shorter and stouter, the colour having changed and assumed 

 a regularly annulated appearance. On the 1st of August I 

 turned out and examined the earth, being anxious to describe 

 the pupa. I found they had undergone their transformation ; 

 each had formed a neat little cell in the earth, but without 

 any admixture, so far as I could perceive, of silk; the head- 

 case of the pupa forms a small and slightly-projecting knob ; 

 the case of the prothorax, or perhaps tippets, is also knob- 

 like on the back ; the wing-cases are of medium length, and 

 the wing-rays are rather strongly marked; the surface is 

 rather deeply and confluently punctured, giving the pupa a 

 dull appearance, which I mention in contradistinction to the 

 glabrous exterior so commonly observable in pupae ; and 

 there is a deep medio-dorsal puncture on the 5th, 6th, 7th 

 and 8th segments, and each of these deep punctures is 

 surrounded by a glabrous space ; the abdomen terminates in 

 two very acute and moderately long divaricating spines. The 

 contour of the vring-cases is dull greenish and semi-transparent, 

 and that of other parts dull pale brown. This moth is the Pha- 

 laena griseata of the Vienna Catalogue, as first pointed out by 

 Mr. Doubleday ; and also of Hlibner, Treitschke, Duponchel, 

 Boisduval, Herrich-Schasffer, Guenee, &c. The late Mr. 

 Stephens gave it the name of Minoa niveata, in a footnote, 

 at p. 147 of his ' Systematic Catalogue,' evidently supposing 

 it to be the Phalsena nivearia of Scopoli and Fabricius ; and 

 English entomologists have generally preferred adopting this 

 transference of names. The late Mr. Curtis, also, gave it a 

 new specific name, Clarkiata, as a well-merited compliment 

 to a Miss Clark, a very accomplished entomologist, who, I 

 believe, captured the first recorded British specimen, and 

 whose family Mr. Curtis frequently visited at the time. Miss 

 Clark subsequently became Mrs. Cole ; and to the obliging 

 kindness of her son, Mr. W. H. Cole, I am indebted for a 

 supply of the larvae, and much information respecting the 

 economy of this interesting insect. I ought also to mention 

 that the Phalaena farinata of Borkhausen, a name applied 

 to the species, is identical with Nivearia of the Vienna 

 Catalogue, and is totally distinct from our British insect. 

 In my 'British Moths' I have restored the prior name of 

 Griseata. Herrich-Schaeffer places it in the genus Chesias ; 

 but it may be remarked that the genera of Geometrae have 



