62 OETHOSIA SUSPECTA. 



the paler ventral portion of the larva has the same 

 disposition in both. It takes in the pale area round 

 the anterior spiracular tubercle, from which a pale 

 line goes beneath the spiracle, thus claiming the 

 spiracle for the line or dorsal area. On the eleventh 

 and twelfth segments the spiracles are plainly in the 

 dorsal area in both species. In 0. suspecta the inner 

 margin of the subtrapezoidal line on the dorsal plate 

 of segment two is curved inwards ; in 0. vaccinii 

 nearly straight. All this takes long description, but 

 as a matter of fact, the actual differences are trifling ; 

 so that up to this point 0. suspecta and G. vaccinii 

 present only trifling specific differences. 



In the last skin 0. suspecta retains the small head, 

 and becomes so richly coloured as to remind one of 

 Tdeniocampa rubricosa. 



The pupa is very like that of G. vaccinii, but more 

 slender and tapering. The anal armature is also 

 similar. In 0. suspecta the wrinkled boss is larger 

 and longer, and so the secondary spines which cross 

 the two principal lyre-shaped spines in G. vaccinii, 

 arise further from the apex, and do not do more than 

 fully reach them. 



In larvse and pupse the species of Xanthia and 

 Orihosia differ from each other, often in small matters 

 only, and Cerastis is not far off, but 0. suspecta much 

 more resembles Cerastis than it does Xanthia or Or- 

 thosia, at least as pupa, and as egg and young larva. 

 (T. A. Chapman, January, 1893, E.M.M., XXIX, 42, 

 February, 1893.) 



Anchooelis rufina. 



Plate LXXXIII, fig. 1. 



On October 27th, 1882, Messrs. J. and W. Davis 

 sent me three dozen eggs of this species laid on a piece 

 of oak twig, side by, side in rows and scattered groups 



