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of an inch in length, the globular head smaller than 

 the second segment, and this a little less than the 

 other segments, which are in proportion moderately 

 stout and cylindrical, the last segment tapering a very 

 little. As to colour, the head is darkish brown, 

 reticulated with darker, and without any gloss ; on 

 the second segment is a small, semilunar, dark brown, 

 velvety plate, dorsally divided by a line of the general 

 ground colour of the rest of the body, which is a 

 dingy pinkish-grey, faintly freckled with darker; the 

 dorsal stripe is not very visible till the fifth segment, 

 where it commences, and continues to be conspicuously 

 broad and blackish, being rather widened in the middle 

 of each segment, and becoming narrower on the last 

 two segments ; the subdorsal line is darker than the 

 ground colour, and a little broken in character ; the 

 tubercular dots are small and blackish, each in a ring 

 of unfreckled ground colour, and bearing a fine hair ; 

 a broken line of darkish freckles runs along the 

 spiracular region ; the spiracles themselves are black 

 and roundish ; the unfreckled belly is a little paler 

 than the back ; the anterior legs are tipped with 

 black, the others with brown ; just before spinning, 

 the general colouring is more pink. 



The pupa is about three-eighths of an inch in 

 length, moderately stout, offering no conspicuous 

 points of form or outline, very glossy and of a very 

 deep chestnut-brown colour, paler at the abdominal 

 divisions and attached to the web by the tip of the 

 tail, which is furnished with two central bristle-like 

 spikes recurved at their extremities, and near their 

 base surrounded with three or four others very much 

 shorter and extremely fine. (William Buckler, 31st 

 July, 1876 ; B.M.M., October, 1876, XIII, 110.) 



