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the faintly paler dorsal and subdorsal lines of drab 

 just distinct enough to be seen ; the tubercular warts 

 black-brown, each with a fine hair, and in relative 

 sizes and situation arranged precisely the same as in 

 Rydrdecia micacea ; the spiracles oval and black, the 

 ventral and anal prolegs barred with black, the feet 

 fringed with dark-brown hooks that clung to any sur- 

 face they touched ; the skin, generally soft and smooth, 

 glistened slightly at the wrinkles while the larva was 

 crawling. 



The cocoon was about an inch long and half an inch 

 wide, of elliptical figure, composed of earthy particles 

 mixed with moss and other vegetable comminuted 

 matter, the inside smoothly lined with brownish silk. 

 The pupa was 9 lines in length, of stout and robust 

 character, the eye-pieces rather prominent, and beneath 

 them the head produced to an obtuse point ; the thorax 

 thick, with a swollen rounded form, the wing-covers 

 and all other parts clearly defined and smoothly wrapped 

 close to the body ; the lower abdominal rings tapered 

 gently to the tip, which ended with two fine points ; 

 in colour the head, thorax, and wing-covers were of a 

 very deep olive-green, the abdomen of a less deep and 

 brownish olive-green, the divisions of the moveable 

 rings darker, the surface shining ; the two anal points 

 had become entangled in silk threads that held the 

 old larval skin, and this skin still retained the very 

 remarkable anal plate already described, in such per- 

 fect condition as to afford the most satisfactory iden- 

 tification. (W. B., 3, 12, 83; B.M.M. XX, 176, 

 January, 84.) 



Apamba ooulea. 



Plate LXVII, fig. 5. 



On the 22nd of April, 1879, I received a larva in a 

 grass culm from the Rev. E. T. Daubeny, and another 

 from Mr. W. R. Jeffrey on 28th, and on supplying a stem 



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