224 BRITISH LEPIDOPTERA. 



larvae received from the Eev. G. H. Baynor] . Bruand describes the 

 larva as " dirty white, or livid grey ; the head of a very shiny deep- 

 brown ; the corneous shield of the prothorax, which is a little less dark 

 (brown tint of horn) , occupies all the dorsal and subdorsal areas almost 

 to the base of the true legs. It is edged before and behind with livid 

 grey, and one can just distinguish a slight trace of the dorsal vessel in 

 the posterior portion, the mesothoracic shield is paler than that of the 

 prothorax, it is traversed by dirty white dorsal and subdorsal lines ; 

 the shield of the metathorax is still paler, and does not descend below 

 the subdorsal area, although there is, lower down, a longitudinal, slightly 

 corneous and brownish, spot, with another at the base of the leg. The 

 anterior and posterior edges of the meso- and metathorax are whitish. 

 The ventral area of the larva is livid grey. The true legs are horn- 

 colour and ringed with whitish. The trapezoidal points are indicated 

 by a slight darkening on the thoracic segments, and from each point a 

 fine grey-brown hair arises. There are also some short and very fine 

 hairs on the head and around the legs." 



Pupation. — The larva climbs to some fence, trunk, or wall, on 

 which to pupate ; its case usually hangs vertically ; and the period of 

 pupation lasts about three weeks. When near emergence the pupa 

 projects for some distance out of the larval case, and after the imago 

 has emerged the pupa- skin of both sexes remains sticking out in this 

 manner. 



Pupa. — The male pupa is of nearly uniform width down to, and 

 including, the 7th abdominal segment, and thence ends in a length 

 less than one of the preceding segments in a short blunt cone. It 

 averages about 7'5mm. in length and l-6mm. in width. The 3rd 

 pair of legs in the $■ pupa extends to the end of the 7th abdominal 

 segment, the wings and 2nd pair of legs to the end of the 5th, and the 

 1st pair to the end of the 3rd abdominal ; the 1st femur is well- 

 developed, the patches of dorsal spines are anterior to ion the 3rd, 4th, 

 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th abdominals, the spines themselves very small 

 and six or 'seven deep (from front to back) ; there is an extra pre- 

 spiracular tubercle, ii is almost directly behind i dorsally, iii is large, 

 rv and v are both subspiracular, vi single, vii double, and a single 

 ventral one just below, all with fine seta? (so that each abdominal segment 

 has 20 seta3, ten on either side). The. female pupa is not bent forwards 

 in the same way as those of almost all other Psychids, its straightness 

 and truncation being a marked feature. It averages about 8mm. in 

 length and l-9mm. in width. The labrum is very round, the two hairs 

 at base also prominent ; mandibles also round and not projecting 

 much ; maxillary palpi continuous with maxilla;, a slight line marking 

 off the extreme point of the maxilla itself ; the labium large, roughly 

 rectangular, and divided into sections (as in B. staintoni) ; the labial 

 palpi small, and separated from labium and from each other ; the 

 femora of 1st pair of legs showing centrally below the labial palpi (Tutt). 

 Male. — The maxillary palpi look separate ; the labial palpi and labium 

 are continuous ; the femora of 1st pair of legs show as a very long 

 piece ; the wings to end of the 5th abdominal ; the 3rd pair of legs to 

 end of the 7th ; the 2nd pair to the end of the wings, and the 1st pair 

 to the end of the 3rd abdominal ; the antennas very nearly to the end 

 of the wings (about one segment short thereof) . In both sexes the patch 

 of dorsal spines reaches beyond i medially ; ii is placed at anterior 



