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very dark bluish-green dorsal pulsating vessel shows 

 through the translucent glassy skin ; the oval spiracles 

 are pale flesh-colour and slightly prominent; the 

 tracheal creamy-whitish thread on which they are 

 situate is plainly visible, and the branched ramifications 

 from it also ; the tubercular warty eminences are 

 transversely oval on the back and longitudinally oval 

 on the sides, all of the colour of the surrounding part, 

 and each with a whity-brown hair; on the thirteenth 

 segment are a few blackish freckles. 



The pupa is three-quarters of an inch in length, 

 of moderately slender proportions ; the head is well 

 developed, the thorax somewhat ridged, the wing- 

 covers long, the flexible rings of the abdomen well 

 cut and gradually tapered, with a prolonged point at 

 the thirteenth segment, furnished with two small 

 curled-topped converging spines crossing each other 

 near their extremities, thus ensuring a secure attach- 

 ment. The colour of the pupa is pitchy black, the 

 segmental divisions of the abdomen dark ochreous 

 brown, and with not much gloss excepting on the head 

 and thorax. 



The cocoon was a very roomy lining of silk within 

 leaves of nettle drawn together, and to this the old 

 larva skin adhered, and the tail-spines of the pupa to 

 the old larva skin. (William Buckler, June, 1878 ; 

 Note Book III, 232.) 



BOTYS LANOEALIS. 



Plate CLIII, fig. 4. 



Since the publication of that interesting paper, " In 

 Memoriam Carl von Hoyden," in the * Entomologist's 

 Annual ' for 1867, 1 had cherished the hope of obtaining 

 the larva of Botys lancealis, and this hope has at 

 length been fulfilled, thanks to the kindness of Dr. J. 

 H. Wood of Tarrington, who succeeded in detecting 

 it in Herefordshire, and kindly sent me two young 



