20 HERMINIA CR1BRALIS. 



edged with paler lines ; the subdorsal line is paler 

 than the ground ; the spiracular region is also paler, 

 and slightly inclining to ochreous ; the spiracles are 

 small, and black in colour; the usual dots are dis- 

 tinct, being rather darker than the dorsal line ; the 

 belly paler than the back. 



The cocoon was spun against the side of the chip 

 box, and was of a longish oval shape, being more 

 than five-eighths of an inch long, and less than three- 

 eighths of an inch wide, extremely slight, being a 

 very open network of silk, with bits of moss drawn 

 in, but still with interstices left, through which the 

 pupa could be seen. 



The smooth pupa is not quite half an inch long, 

 slender, rather widening at the shoulders, but other- 

 wise cylindrical, and tolerably uniform throughout, 

 the last segment of the abdomen tapering to a blunt 

 spike, which is grooved or fluted in two steps, as it 

 were, and its tip set with several small spines with 

 curved ends ; its colour dark rich brown, the edges of 

 the wing-cases and the segmental divisions in the 

 abdomen of a lighter reddish-brown. (John Hellins, 

 September, 1873 ; E.M.M., October, 1873, X, 103.) 



Odontia dentalis. 

 Plate CXLIX, fig. 1. 



On the 29th of May, 1868, 1 received a good supply 

 of larvae of Odontia dentalis from Mr. R. Kent, of 

 St. Leonards-on-Sea, a dozen of which 1 at once for- 

 warded to Mr. William Buckler. 



They were mostly full-grown, three-eighths of an 

 inch long, in colour dirty white, with two rows of 

 black spots running the whole length of the dorsal 

 area, and another row of black spots on each side 

 above the spiracles ; the head was black and shining, 

 and a plate also blackish, but divided in the centre, 

 on the second segment. 



