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lines, but a dingy ochreous stripe, of greater or less 

 intensity in different specimens, extends along the 

 spiracular region ; the polished tubercles black, finely 

 but clearly encircled with grey ; spiracles black, with 

 very minute, almost imperceptible, white centres. 

 Ventral surface and prolegs rather paler and browner 

 than the dorsal area, the anterior legs tipped with 

 darker brown, and encircled with black at the bases. 



They were still living in galleries of web, just above 

 the roots of the food-plants, Plantago lanceolata and 

 P. major, but by the 21st of September had nearly 

 all spun up. 



The cocoons were fixed in corners, etc., of their 

 cage ; they were one-third to half an inch long, very 

 toughly and compactly formed of closely woven snow- 

 white silk. 



The pupa is about one third of an inch long, plump 

 and glossy ; the thorax, head, and wing-cases dark 

 sienna-brown, the abdominal divisions dark orange. 



The imagos appeared during the second week of 

 May, 1884 (George T. Porritt, June 8th, 1884; 

 E.M.M., July, 1884, XXI, 30—32.) 



Ennychia anguinalis. 

 Plate CL, fig. 3. 



In the belief that no description has been hereto- 

 fore published of the larva of Ennychia anguinalis, I 

 am induced to think the following account of it from 

 the egg may be acceptable ; and here I must thank- 

 fully acknowledge that it is entirely due to the kind 

 and friendly co-operation of Mr. W. E. Jeffrey, in 

 sending me the largest share of a small batch of eggs 

 he was lucky to obtain from the parent moth he had 

 captured, that I am enabled to give this history. 



I received the eggs on the 9th of August, 1881 ; 

 eleven of them were laid on leaves and on a bract of 

 the blossom of Origanum vulgare, and four on a leaf 



