64 ENDOTKICflA FLAMMEALlS. 



leaf lying on the surface above with other leaves 

 matted together ; another cocoon had but little earth 

 in its covering, and was chiefly composed of decayed 

 leaf of hornbeam and hazel, situated partly within a 

 curled-up leaf of the former kind, to which and to a 

 little moss it was fastened; another was a most clever 

 adaptation of the lower part of a dead sallow leaf with 

 foot-stalk remaining, the edges of the leaf having been 

 drawn round to meet, and fastened with silk formed 

 a hollow cone, which at the open end had been stopped 

 with grey-brown silk and the interior smoothly lined 

 with similar material ; in this the old larval skin lay 

 next the foot-stalk at the pointed end, and the tail of 

 the pupa next, altogether 15 mm. in length. 



The pupa itself is eight and a quarter mm. long, its 

 general figure very much of ordinary form, the head 

 and eye-pieces moderately well developed ; the thorax, 

 well produced, with distinct sub-divisions, is slightly 

 keeled, the hind margin on either side strongly 

 prominent, and convexly sloping downward to the 

 central point or end of the keel; the wing-covers 

 slant off towards the ends of the antennas and leg- 

 cases, which are long ; the moveable rings of the 

 abdomen have a punctate surface, but are smoothly 

 cut at the divisions ; the spiracles are rather prominent, 

 especially the largest on the twelfth segment; the 

 abdominal tip is a little prolonged, rounded, and 

 furnished with two longish curled-topped bristles 

 surrounded with four others of shorter lengths ; its 

 colour is very dark mahogany-brown approaching to 

 blackish at the anal tip, with a glossy surface. 

 (William Buckler, November 10th, 1882; E.M.M., 

 December, 1882, XIX, 149—154) 



The editors of the E.M.M. add a note to the abo\ r e 

 description that the mystery surrounding the trans- 

 formations of Endotricha flammealis has been simul- 

 taneously dispelled by the independent observations 

 of investigators of different nationality. At the 

 meeting of the Societe Entomologique de Belgique, 



