14 MILTOCHRISTA MINIATA. 



very short simple hairs, but the other segments have 

 each six whorls of wonderful plumose verticillate 

 hairs, those on segments 3 to 7 being fully one-eighth 

 of an inch high, and those on segments 8 to 12 a little 

 shorter, while along the sides and just above the feet 

 are tufts of plain hairs. When looking at one of them 

 in motion, I could not help mentally comparing it to 

 an animated hearse with palish plumes. 



The colour of the skin, when it can be seen, is a 

 waxy dark drab ; the plumes from the head to segment 

 7 are blackish mouse colour, and the rest a paler tint 

 of the same. When disturbed the larva bends into a 

 circle, placing the two extremities together, with the 

 tufts standing out apart. 



The cocoon is a long-oval in shape, very slight but 

 close in texture, the silk wonderfully interwoven with 

 the cast-off plumes stuck upright, so that whilst fresh 

 and uninjured by rain it might at first sight be mis- 

 taken for the larva ; one which I watched in progress 

 was completely finished, so far as outward appearance 

 went, in twenty-four hours. The pupa is short, 

 reddish-brown in colour, the cast larva skin adhering 

 to the anal segments. (J. H., 5, 9, 68 ; E.M.M. V, 

 111.) 



LlTHOSIA 0ANI0LA. 



Plate XL, fig. 4. 



A larva, feeding on olive-green house-top lichens, 

 with a taste for clover, was secured for figuring by the 

 kindness of Dr. Knaggs, on May 30th, 1862. 



Its head was dark brown, the body tapered a little 

 at either extremity, the ground colour brown, a thin 

 blackish dorsal line slightly widening in the middle of 

 each segment, the subdorsal lines composed of cunei- 

 form orange-red marks pointing backwards, and bor- 

 dered laterally with similar marks of black, a whitish 

 spot almost touching the point of each wedge ; the sides 



