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out, the upper being pale ochreous (sometimes bearing 

 a few brown scattered freckles), the lower dark brown, 

 containing a slanting dash of still darker brown made 

 up of atoms ; on the lower edge of this come the 

 spiracles, which are not very conspicuous, being small 

 dirty whitish, outlined faintly with black. The sub- 

 spiracular stripe is of pale unfreckled ochreous, and is 

 attenuated a little at each end ; the belly and legs are 

 of a very slightly deeper tint of the same, and there 

 are some minute tubercular dots and freckles of dark 

 brown above and upon the legs, which are tipped with 

 dark brown. 



The pupa is about half an inch in length, moderately 

 stout and smooth, with no striking peculiarity of form, 

 dark brown in colour, and rather shining. (W. B., 

 September, 1871, E.M.M., VIII, 139, November, 1871.) 



NOCTUA SOBRINA. 



Plate LXXIX, fig. 1. 



On the 1 5th of August, 1 874, I received from 

 Mr. John T. Carrington, then at Camachgouran, 

 Loch Eannoch, Pitlochry, N.B., fourteen eggs of 

 this rare species, deposited on August 1st, by a 

 female taken in copula. Two of them were not fertile. 

 The eggs were loose in a piece of quill. 



The egg is globular, having a small depression at 

 one end, and about thirty ribs. On arrival the 

 eggs, with the exception of two of a bright pale yellow, 

 were of a rather deep flesh colour ; these on the 

 21st had become pinkish-brown, on the 22nd of a 

 blackish-purple. On the morning of the 23rd three 

 young larv39 were hatched, and seemed strong and 

 active. Their heads were shining blackish-brown, 

 their bodies purplish-brown, darkest on the back within 

 the subdorsal region, and with a plate of darker brown 

 on the second segment. By the 28th, eleven eggs out 

 of the twelve were hatched, one having failed. 



