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marked with blackish-brown, this latter colour occu- 

 pying the whole of the tips of the wings ; on the thorax 

 was a broad, dumpy, U-shaped blackish-brown mark, 

 and a narrow transverse linear bar of the same blackish- 

 brown across the middle of each segment on the back 

 of the abdomen, and a darkish brown line and similar 

 transverse bars on the ventral surface ; the whole pupa 

 very glossy. 



On the 25th of July, 1878, I received from Mr. 

 Tug well fourteen eggs, part of a batch of a hundred 

 laid by a bred female, which had paired ; they were 

 laid singly on coarse muslin. The shape of the egg 

 is globular, but depressed a little beneath ; it is appa- 

 rently smooth- surfaced. On their arrival they were 

 yellow, some a deep yellow, almost orange, and very 

 shining. The next day seven had changed colour to 

 darkish grey-brown, showing a blackish-grey blotch 

 in the centre beneath the top of the egg ; three of the 

 others showed central faint orange-brownish similar 

 blotches through their yellow shells, and two were 

 shrivelling ; in the evening of the same day (July 26th) 

 seven larvaa were hatched. 



When first hatched the larva was of a dark grey-brown 

 colour, with a faintly paler dorsal line ; head blackish, 

 and a blackish plate on the second segment ; minute 

 black dots and hairs on the body. The first moult 

 occurred on July 31st and August 1st, when the larvae 

 became orange-ochreous in colour, with minute black 

 dots as before ; the second moult occurred August 3rd, 

 4th, and 5th, for some were already in advance of the 

 others. The larva was now brownish-orange, of rather 

 a dingy hue, with a faint pale dorsal line, and a broader 

 faint pale spiracular stripe ; the head, the small plate 

 on the second segment, and the tubercular warts 

 blackish-brown. The third moult was attained by 

 the most forward larva August 5th, another was wait- 

 ing for the operation, the other four not being so far 

 advanced, indeed, one had a few hours ago completed 

 its second moult. I saw one larva eating part of its 



