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pair; there are also others below the spiracles; the 

 spiracles are small, round, and margined with black ; 

 the thoracic legs are of the ground colour, but tipped 

 with chestnut-brown ; the ventral legs are whitish, 

 with the circlet of hooks dark brown. 



The larvae I had were living in long tubes of dusty 

 flour spun together rather toughly, and through 

 which they could travel easily; from one of them I 

 bred an ichneumon, named for me by Mr. Bridgman, 

 Exochus mansuetor. 



The pupa which I measured was about 10 mm. 

 long, and not quite 3 mm. at its widest ; in figure 

 very cylindrical and plump, the wing-cases reaching 

 just half its length, the tail ending in a blunt knob, 

 without a spike, but set with a group of six curled- 

 topped spines, arranged in three pairs of different 

 lengths, the longest pair being straight, and the other 

 two curved ; the whole pupa-skin glossy, as if 

 varnished ; the wing-cases yellowish-brown, the abdo- 

 men redder, and the segmental divisions still darker. 



The cocoon inside fitted the pupa closely, and was 

 made of tough white silk, well covered outside with 

 rubbish, and not very regular in outline, about ten 

 lines in length and four in width. (John Hellins, 

 February 7th, 1885 ; E.M.M., April, 1885, XXI, 248.) 



PYRALIS GLAU0INAL1S. 



Plate CXLIX, fig. 3. 



To the Hon. T. de Grey (now Lord Walsingham) I 

 am indebted for the opportunity of figuring and 

 describing the larva of this species, he having found 

 it in the manner he has detailed in the following 

 note : 



" Thinking that the nest-like bunches of twigs 

 which may often be observed growing at the ends of 



