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liaving instead a horny wart, cleft and bilabiate — not 

 raised above the rest of the surface, — and furnished 

 also with a few small bristles; the wing-covers long, 

 the antennas and leg-cases very long, projecting at 

 their ends free from the abdomen. The colour is a 

 light warm brown on the wings and ventral surface, 

 which, with the abdominal tip, are shining, while the 

 thorax and the back of the abdomen are a little 

 darker, and rather reddish-brown, without gloss ; the 

 spiracles, projecting conspicuously large, like nipples, 

 each on a slight eminence, were darkish brown in 

 colour and shining, surrounded by a paler ring at the 

 base, three of them being near the margin of the 

 wings on the sixth, seventh, and eighth segments, and 

 a smaller one less defined on the twelfth, but on the 

 intermediate segments none are to be seen. 



To complete my notes in chronological order, I 

 must here add that, on the 11th of August, 1875, I 

 received, from the Rev. A. Fuller, a female moth of 

 this species, captured by him a few days before, 

 while it was flying about a pond at Harting. This 

 moth was boxed and forgotten for a day or two, and 

 when the box was opened it contained a batch of eggs, 

 some of them still adhering to the abdomen of the 

 insect. 



The eggs were laid on the chip in clusters, with 

 some in a string that were attached to the tail of the 

 moth, all firmly glued together on the surfaces of the 

 chip. 



The shape of the egg is roundish -ovate and much 

 flattened, without gloss, and of a very deep yellow 

 amber colour. I placed the chip with the eggs to 

 float in water, and on the 19th of August two eggs 

 were turned black ; a few days later they had all 

 become black, but none of them hatched, and I threw 

 them away late in September. (William Buckler, 22nd 

 October, 1875; E.M.M., February, 1876, XII, 210— 

 213.) 



After preparing the above notes for the press. 



