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medially ; the plates of the anal prolegs are also chitinous, and brown 

 in colour. The remaining hairs are one-fourth, to one-third (for the 

 longest) the diameter of the larva ; the anterior trapezoidals are nearly 

 twice as far from the middle line as the posterior, their setaa shorter, 

 and placed on large chitinous plates ; the plates of the posterior are, 

 however, much larger ; iii is a very long hair, like ii ; the plates of 

 tubercles i and ii make, to some extent, two subsegments. The pro- 

 legs have a strong chitinous circle at base and possess usually 20-21 

 (rarely 16) hooks, arranged in the normal horseshoe fashion, the 

 anterior limb being the longer ; the anal prolegs carry 21 or 22 hooks. 

 The spiracles are small, raised, brown, chitinous rings (Chapman, from 

 larvffi obtained at Cannes). Bruand notes the larva as being : " D'un 

 blanc-sale tirant sur le vineux, avec deux raies laterales (de chaque 

 cote) d'un brun-noiratre, nettement indiquees ; un tres-petit point, de 

 meme couleur, entre ces deux raies superieures ; et une troisieme ligne, 

 peu reguliere, situee au-dessous des stigmates. Ces raies et ligne sont 

 interrompues aux intersections. La tete est noiratre, luisante, ainsi 

 que les pattes ecailleuses. On distingue a la loupe, sur les diverses 

 parties du corps, des poils grisatres, courts et tres-fins." Freyer's 

 description (evidently under low power) of the larva of var. sieboldii 

 reads as follows: "Small, slender anteriorly, thickening posteriorly, 

 thorax and head pale brown, dorsal line yellowish with similarly-tinted 

 oblique subdorsal stripe on either side ; abdomen red-brown without 

 distinct dorsal line, but marked on the sides with a dark stripe ; pro- 

 legs scarcely visible, merely warts." See also Hofmann's description 

 ante, p. 355, which also refers to the sieboldii form of this species. 



Pupa. — $ . The male pupa has labial palpi about as long as the 

 head is above them, bifurcated at tip ; the maxillae are also longer and 

 squarer than usual ; the jaws long and obvious ; the cheeks come 

 rather low down ; the dorsal head-piece minute, very narrow and 

 spindle-shaped ; antenna? slightly beyond first pair of legs, the meso- 

 thorax (but not metathorax) splits on dehiscence ; two stout ventro- 

 anal hooks ; scars of prolegs very strongly marked ; no hairs on anal 

 segment ; the abdominal segments dorsally consist of a smooth area 

 (subsegment), then a rough or granulated patch medially, followed by 

 a transverse series of spines just anterior to i, which is farther from 

 the median line than ii, the latter some little distance behind i, fol- 

 lowed in turn by the intersegmental membrane ; the intersegmental 

 membranes between 4-5, 5-6, 6-7, 7-8, with a fine row of spines or 

 points ; iii is above, iv and v directly below, the spiracles (v rather 

 below iv) ; vi appears to be multiplied into four points, at least there 

 are three points just above a slight lateral depression and one just 

 below, whilst vii is single just above the scar of proleg, and viii consists 

 of three other points just ventral to the scar. ? . The female pupa is pale 

 brown in colour, the head with very large and well-marked clypeus 

 extending nearly to vertex, ending below in the well-developed labrum. 

 The pupal head resembles the larval head in two points, not yet 

 observed as occurring in other Psychid pupaa, viz., (1) In the very large 

 and well-marked clypeus, divided off from the cheeks by very definite 

 lines of suture, meeting at vertex. (2) In the cheek-pieces extending 

 backwards and gathering in to make quite a neck behind towards the 

 1st thoracic segment, i.e., the face-parts are not a mere front plate a 

 little hollowed out as in most pupaa, but tend to be actually globular, 



