54 ENNYCHfA OCTOMACULATA. 



bad the tail held fast by threads of the hammock, 

 which supported it free from contact with the outer 

 cocoon, the tail being very near the end opposite to 

 that from which the moth emerged; the skin itself 

 was exactly three-eighths of an inch long, moderately 

 stout, with well-developed thorax and long wing- 

 covers, the tail of the abdomen tapering to rather a 

 prolonged blunt point ; in colour it is of a darkish 

 warm brown, darkest on the thorax and anal point, 

 the surface of the wing-covers and lower rings of the 

 abdomen shining. (William Buckler, 12th July, 

 1881 ; E.M.M., August, 1881, XVIII, 57—59.) 



The ichneumon which Mr. Jeffrey bred from these 

 larvae proved to be a common species of Braconid, 

 Macrocentrus linearis, var. pallipes. (William Buckler, 

 July, 1881 ; Note Book III, 222.) 



Agroteka kemobalis. 



Plate CL, fig. 5. 



I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. W. H. Tusr- 

 well for eggs of this species, which readied me on the 

 4th of June, 1875. Unfortunately I was not able to 

 place the larvae immediately on their being hatched 

 (8th of June) upon their food, and from this cause 

 most of them afterwards came to grief; they are so 

 small and delicate that they cannot bear moving. As 

 soon as I could, however, I procured hornbeam leaves 

 and shoots, having been informed that the moths were 

 all captured off a hornbeam hedge, and not knowing 

 in what condition they would be most acceptable, 

 placed leaves in all stages — young, matured, and 

 withered — in the bottle with the larva?. Had I been 

 able to let the larva? at once have access to leaves 

 just unfolded from the bud, I have little doubt all 

 would have gone well. As it was, their strength 

 seemed gone, and thev died off without feeding, till I 



