BOTYS FUSCALIS. 131 



front part of the thirteenth, where they form one large 

 spot ; a brown plate minutely freckled with blackish- 

 brown is on the anal flap ; the spiracles are small, 

 round, and black ; below them the spots on the belly 

 are of a light warm brown, and each spot bears a fine 

 hair. 



When full-fed, the larva, like other of its congeners, 

 undergoes a complete change of colour, and becomes 

 uniformly of a pale pinkish-flesh tint. 



The pupa is barely three-eighths of an inch in length, 

 of moderate substance, the wing-covers long, the 

 thorax keeled, also the three upper abdominal segments, 

 and on these the spiracles are tumid eminences, as 

 they are also on the penultimate, the last segment 

 ending in a taper, downward curving, flattened point, 

 slightly bifid, and furnished with six excessively fine 

 curly-topped bristles ; the colour is a light, warm, 

 mahogany-brown, the tips of the wing-covers and 

 abdomen darker brown ; the surface generally glisten- 

 ing. (William Buckler, 10th November, 1879 ; E.M.M., 

 December, 1879, XVI, 161.) 



BOTYS TERREALIS. 



Plate CLIII, fig. 6. 



On the 13th of September, 1862, I received a larva 

 of Botys terrealis from Mr. J. B. Hodgkinson, feeding 

 on flowers of golden -rod. 



The larva was five-eighths of an inch in length, 

 cylindrical, thickest in the middle segments, tapering 

 a little forwards to the head, which was quite as 

 broad as the second segment, and tapering also behind 

 to the anal tip; the head and thoracic segments are 

 rather flattened above ; the ventral legs are well 

 developed. 



In colour the head is pale brown, freckled with 

 rather darker brown; the ground colour of the body is 

 a bright rather yellowish green, becoming by degrees 



