100 MIANA FASCIUNCULA. 



the mouth ; a light brown shining plate on the second 

 segment and another on the anal flap, all the rest of 

 the body having a ground colour of a pale and subdued 

 flesh tint, rather inclining to greyish-ochreous ; the 

 dorsal stripe, of a darker tint of this colour, was well 

 deQned by a stripe of the pale ground on either side; 

 next a very broad stripe of pinkish-brown, followed by 

 a narrow stripe of the pale ground, finely edged below 

 with pinkish-brown; another narrow stripe of the pale 

 ground follows, and then a stripe composed of faint 

 freckles of pale pinkish-brown, beneath which came 

 the black spiracles. On the sides of the second, third, 

 and fourth segments were rather large, brown, shining 

 spots ; the anterior legs were pinkish-brown, the pro- 

 legs tipped with light brown ; a fine soft hair pro- 

 ceeded from each of the brownish tubercular dots, 

 which could only be seen with the aid of a strong lens. 

 The pupa-skin was a little over three-eighths of an 

 inch in length, stout in proportion, the head and 

 thorax rounded, and of about uniform bulk to a little 

 below the wing-covers, the abdomen tapering thence 

 to the tip, which was furnished with two diverging 

 curved points and surrounded with a few minute 

 bristles ; the colour mahogany-brown and glossy. 

 (W. B., 7, 76 ; E.M.M. XIII, 62, August, 76.) 



MlANA LITEROSA. 



Plate LXVIII, fig. 3. 



Eggs of this species arrived the 29th August, 1871, 

 from Mr. George Norman, of Forres. The eggs were 

 laid in little clusters and singly, and were not very 

 small in reference to the size of the moth. 



In shape the egg is spherical, a little flattened 

 beneath, ribbed and reticulated ; in colour a pale 

 straw tint, changing by September 9th to a dirty 

 flesh-colour, then to a drab and greyish just before 

 hatching. 



