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The larva spins a tough web of white silk for the 

 lining of its cocoon, the outside of which is stuck all 

 over with bits of the straw and husks among which 

 it has lived. Externally it measures about 15 mm. 

 by 10 mm., the chamber within being about 12 mm. 

 by 4 mm. 



The pupa is 11 mm. long, cylindrical, with all 

 the outlines rounded, the wing-cases short and 

 rounded, the abdomen rounded at the end, having 

 there a very short blunt spike furnished with four 

 curl-topped spines. The skin is rather glossy, the 

 colour pale mahogany-brown on the back, paler on 

 the under surface, the anal tip and spike dark brown. 



In the newly-bred moth the paler markings of the 

 fore-wings have quite a pretty pinkish tinge on them, 

 but in speaking of this point, as well as of the coloration 

 of the various parts of the larva, I cannot help 

 feeling the want of that certainty with which I used 

 to rely on Mr. Buckler's unerring judgment in such 

 matters, as well as that picturesqueness of detail 

 generally, which used to invest the larvae he described 

 with quite a personality of their own. (John Hellins, 

 from Notes by the late William Buckler, 4th August, 

 1884; E.M.M., September, 1884, XXI, 75—79.) 



Oledeobia angustalis. 

 Plate OXLIX, fig. 6. 



On the 2nd of August, 1883, Mr. Jeffrey sent me 

 two dozen eggs laid by a female which he captured on 

 the sea-shore on the 25th of July. They were laid 

 several in a cluster, others singly and loose ; the 

 shape of the egg is elliptical or broad-oval, the surface 

 finely ribbed and reticulated, and of a creamy whitish 

 colour. On the 4th they were turning yellow. 

 (William Buckler, 4th August, 1883 ; Note Book IY, 

 213.) 



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