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blackish streak, bifurcated a little at its hinder 

 end ; the spiracles are black ; the tubercular dots are 

 blackish, each in a ring a little paler than the ground 

 colour; the skin is without any gloss, but covered 

 with an exceedingly fine pearly pubescence, best seen 

 on the parts retiring from view. 



The pupa is a little more than half an inch in 

 length, of moderate stoutness, the abdomen very 

 slightly tapered off towards the tip, which terminates 

 in a spike of two diverging recurved spines, the base 

 encircled with six others of shorter lengths. Its 

 colour is dark brown with but little gloss, the surface 

 being very minutely pitted, excepting the abdominal 

 divisions, which are rather shining. (William Buckler, 

 September, 1873; E.M.M., October, 1873, X, 101.) 



Herminia nemoralis. 



Plate CXLVIII, fig. 8. 



It is with great satisfaction that I record my thanks 

 to the Rev. Bernard Smith for his kindness in sending 

 me the long-desired larva of Herminia grisealis, and 

 enabling me to complete my figures of the genus ; and 

 as no account of the larva has appeared since 1867, 

 when H. barbalis was, by mistake, described for this 

 species in No. 37 of the Entomologist, at pp. 223-4, 

 I venture to think the following description may 

 perhaps be acceptable. 



The larva, found feeding on oak, I received on the 

 15th September, 1875, and for two days it continued 

 to feed, and then spun a thin web of whitish-grey 

 silk, which held the upper surface of the leaf folded 

 together at the ends, and the sides also drawn together 

 a little, so as to form a hollow in the middle of the leaf, 

 wherein, on the 19th of September, it changed to a 

 pupa, from which the moth, a male, came forth on the 

 5th of June, 1876. 



The full-grown larva is from one-half to five-eighths 

 VOL. ix. 2 



