66 ENDR0MIS VERSICOLOR. 



ring ending with a prolonged flattened caudal process 

 tapering a little to the squarish extremity, where it 

 has a margin of hooks and bristles ; the surface is 

 remarkably dull, and rough everywhere, except in the 

 divisions between the movable rings, yet even there 

 it is quite dull; the roughness on the head, thorax, 

 upper rings and wing-covers is striated, granulous, or 

 wrinkled ; the movable and lower rings of the abdomen 

 have on the back transverse rows of stout and sharp 

 hooks pointing behind ; the colour is a sooty or dingy 

 brown, black in the abdominal divisions. (W. B., 18, 

 6, 83 ; E.M.M. XX, 73.) 



Drepana sicula. 

 Plate LII, fig. 4. 



I feel extremely obliged to Messrs. W. H. Grigg and 

 W. J. Thomas for giving me the opportunity of 

 figuring and describing the larvae of this rare species, 

 for although it had been described and figured before, 

 and the description in Stainton's manual is correct as 

 far as it goes, and one of Hiibner's two figures is also 

 correctly drawn, yet as the other of his figures really 

 representing D. falcataria has been reproduced under 

 a wrong name in a recently published book on moths, 

 the importance of a true representation and descrip- 

 tion has become all the greater. 



Mr. Grigg first sent me an egg which he had ob- 

 tained June 7th, 1884, from one of two captured 

 females, kept alive for three days. This egg must 

 have been fertilised, for during the next five days it 

 went through the first changes of colour, but finally it 

 shrivelled up. 



Last year, 1876, Mr. Thomas sent me five eggs, laid 

 June 19th by a pinned moth. These eggs, which 

 reached me June 23rd, were deposited, three of them 

 in a little group on a piece of paper, and the other 

 two loose. 



