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purple grape obscures the green pulp within ; each 

 spot bears a fiue hair; the spiracles are small, round, 

 and black ; the anterior legs are green, the ventral and 

 anal leo-s translucent and almost colourless. 



The cocoon is of whitish silk, which, after a few 

 weeks, turns of a light flesh-colour; its shape is oval, 

 about 11 mm. long, and composed of a coarser outer 

 structure and a more compact and finer texture within. 



The empty pupa-skin was found to have nothing 

 remarkable in its form but a rounded knob at the 

 abdominal tip, furnished with widely diverging, fine, 

 curly-topped bristles attached to the lining, its length 

 beinc: 7 mm. ; in colour it is darkish brown and rather 

 shining. (William Buckler, 10th August, 1882 ; 

 E.M.M., September, 1882, XIX, 77—79.) 



Ennychia ootomaculata. 

 Plate CL, fig. 4. 



The larva of this species is, barring ichneumons, 

 easy enough to bring to full growth and to spinning 

 its cocoon for hibernation, but most difficult to 

 prevent from dying afterwards at the critical time 

 when the larva should become a pupa; this at least 

 has been the experience of my friend Mr. W. H. 

 Jeffrey and myself for four years in succession. 



Mr. Jeffrey found five or six of the larvae first on 

 the 19th of September, 1877, and kindly sent some of 

 his captures to me ; at that time the species was of 

 course unknown to us, and our hopes that one or 

 other might rear a moth were entirely foiled by all 

 the larvae dying within their cocoons before pupation. 



In 1878 Mr. Jeffrey found but two larvae, and these 

 ag^ain both died in the same wav ; in 1879 he found 

 four, and shared them with me ; before hibernation 

 we each lost one larva by parasites, and again the 

 unstung examples died in their cocoons. 



Nothing daunted by all this failure, Mr. Jeffrey 



