50 NOLA OENTONALIS. 



smallest, under them are the black spiracles, then 

 another row of tubercles ; the head and second seg- 

 ment tapering, the head smallest, dark, or blackish- 

 brown, very glossy ; colour of the body a kid-leather- 

 like skin, a dingy pink, or dingy purplish-pink ; the 

 straight dorsal line ochreous-yellow T , with a black 

 velvety V-mark at the beginning of each segment 

 through which the dorsal ochreous yellow line runs, 

 separating each black V into two wedges. A black streak 

 or line bounded anteriorly the lower margin of each 

 subdorsal tubercle, and another, shorter and less notice- 

 able, bounded the subspiracular tubercular. The 

 tubercles were so large in proportion, and occupied so 

 much space, that but little of the soft skin was seen 

 between them, and a general brownish effect was pro- 

 duced by the rather brownish hairs which radiate from 

 them. As usual in this genus the longer hairs were 

 single, issuing from the lower tubercles, and noticeably 

 from those of the thirteenth segment. A faint ap- 

 pearance of a paler ochreous line along the spiracles 

 was most noticeable where the spiracles occur on it, 

 so that this faint yellow line had an interrupted 

 appearance. (W. B., Note Book IV, 175.) 



Spilosoma lubricepeda. 

 Plate XLY, fig. 4. 



On the 3rd of July, 1879, I chanced to find sixty 

 eggs laid on the underside of a hawthorn leaf, side by 

 side close together in a group ; they were globular and 

 apparently smooth-shelled, glossy, and of an opaque 

 whitish colour ; by their being of a good size I had the 

 wish to prove their identity. 



On the 12th they seemed rather less white and less 

 glossy, and on the morning of the 14th they had 

 turned to a light grey colour, with a dark grey 

 blotch or two and with fine, black, hair-like equa- 



