116 BOTYS PANDALIS. 



up with silk ; in one instance the case was strongly 

 moored near either end across the under edge of a 

 beech leaf, from which a large oval piece had been cut 

 away as material for a similar construction, an inter- 

 esting example Mr. Jeffrey gave me to figure. 



Most unexpectedly, when I chanced to look into 

 their cages on the 16th of November, I found in one 

 a female, apparently just out of pupa; and in another 

 I found a second female equally perfect, while at the 

 bottom lay a dead male specimen, partly discoloured. 



This season, 1880, I bred a male specimen rather 

 crippled on the 27th of May, and this afternoon (5th 

 of June) a fine female, the remainder no doubt re- 

 tarded by ungenial weather. 



The full-grown larva is seven -eighths of an inch in 

 length, of moderate slenderness, cylindrical, though 

 tapering very little from the fourth segment to the 

 head, and again only at the end of the thirteenth ; all 

 are plump and well defined, with a transverse wrinkle 

 across the back of each ; the ventral legs are shortish, 

 the anal pair extending behind ; the colour of the 

 back and sides as far as the spiracular region is very 

 dark grey, tinged more or less with purplish-brown, 

 the dorsal line still darker ; the glossy head, of the 

 same dark colour, is marked with black in front of 

 each lobe, a black glossy plate dorsally divided with 

 dark grey is on the second segment, and on either side 

 of the third and fourth are two faintly paler longitu- 

 dinal lines gradually lost beyond them ; the tubercular 

 spots are large, black, and glossy, each with a fine 

 hair ; below the small round black spiracles the whole 

 surface is rather light greenish -grey or drab, and the 

 spots there are brownish-grey. 



The pupa is half an inch long, rather slender, of 

 pyraloid character, with the back of the thorax and 

 abdominal upper segments very slightly keeled, the 

 head parts moderately produced, the wing-covers long 

 and well defined, the tapering hind part of the abdo- 

 men having a flattened taper prolongation and blunt 



