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more or less interrupted, along a series of double 

 dorsal diamond-shapes of close darkish grey freckling, 

 within a larger diamond outline of freckles on the 

 back of each segment. Each of the small tubercular 

 spots, which are ranged in threes on either side of the 

 dorsal region, is of cream- colour or pale drab, bearing 

 a dot of blackish-grey on its upper margin ; lower on 

 the side is a single similar tubercular spot, below which 

 the grey freckles form a dark contrasting edge to the 

 paler, widish spiracular stripe of reddish-drab or 

 flesh-colour, most delicately freckled with whitish. 

 The spiracles are pale flesh-colour, finely outlined with 

 black ; the side below them, with the legs, is of similar 

 freckled ground colour, but rather paler than the back, 

 and the belly is unfreckled. 



The pupa is nearly five-eighths of an inch in length 

 and about a quarter of an inch in diameter, of some- 

 what dumpy shape ; the head and thorax thick and 

 rounded, the three flexible rings of the abdomen well 

 cut at the divisions, their anterior edges having punc- 

 tate roughness, convexly tapered towards the rather 

 blunt tip, which is furnished with four diverging 

 shortish spines, the outer pair much the shortest. 

 The colour is dark purplish-brown, and the surface 

 shining. (W. B., 30, 4, 78; E.M.M. XV, 17, 6, 

 1878.) 



Aporophyla australis. 

 Plate LXIV, fig. 1. 



On October 5th, 1867, Mr. Thomas Terry, of Babbi- 

 combe, gave Mr. Hellins some eggs of this species, 

 laid by a captured ? about three weeks previously. 



On the 16th October the larvae began hatching; 

 they fed on Poa annua and other smooth grasses and 

 chickweed, and being kept in a warm place (out of 

 doors) did not seem to hybernate, but fed slowly 

 through the winter, and by the end of January, 1868, 



