138 BOTYS URTIOATA. 



The larva spins itself a strong enveloping outer 

 silken web, and within that a silken cocoon or 

 hammock, in which its change to a pupa is effected 

 and the tail of the pupa afterwards held fast, the old 

 skin lying by, the head and thoracic segments of 

 which show plainly its identity even after the moth 

 has emerged. 



The pupa itself is a little more than three-eighths of 

 an inch in length, quite of the usual pyralideous 

 shape, widest across the thorax, the wing-covers long, 

 the abdomen slender, the extremity slightly prolonged 

 above, from whence proceeds a group of about five 

 minute, curled-topped bristles. In colour it is of an 

 uniform brown, excepting only the abdominal tip, 

 which is darker, rather shining. (William Buckler, 

 October, 1876 ; Note Book III, 143 and 145-146.) 



Ebulea. crocealis. 

 Plate CLIV, fig. 1. 



On the 30th of October, 1877, I received from 

 Mr. Jeffrey five or six young larvse already spun up 

 in their hibernacula under the turned-down tips of 

 leaves of Inula dysenterica, but I turned them out to 

 examine, and in the hope that they would spin 

 themselves up afresh in a plant I had potted for them. 



They were about three-sixteenths of an inch in 

 length, rather stout in proportion, and slightly 

 fusiform ; the head was black, and there was a black 

 plate on the second segment, already broadly divided, 

 especially behind, with the ground colour of the body, 

 which is pale or whitish- ochreous, with a faint 

 greenish dorsal line between two paler lines ; aud also 

 the faintest indication of the future tubercular 

 dots and hairs could be made out with the lens, 

 enough to assure me that they were Ebulea crocealis. 



In April, 1878, I found only two remaining, and 

 both dead, but on the 1st of May I received three 



