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lower edge and a concave upper edge, thickening the 

 stripe at each segmental division, and thinning it in 

 the middle of a segment, just where each round black 

 spiracle is placed on it. The belly is of a very pale, 

 watery, tint of greenish, and has the faintest possible 

 paler line a little below the spiracles ; the tubercular 

 warts are of the ground colour on which they occur, 

 each having a small central black dot with a fine hair; 

 the whole skin is very glassy and shining. 



The cocoon is more or less of an oval shape, about 

 half an inch in length by a quarter in breadth, exter- 

 nally covered with fine grains of sand or of earth, and 

 internally lined smoothly with greyish-white silk, very 

 tough in texture. 



The pupa measures three-eighths of an inch in 

 length, is moderately slender, and quite of the usual 

 pyralideous form, the thorax being slightly keeled, the 

 spiracles on the fixed rings of the abdomen rather 

 prominent and larger than those on the flexible rings, 

 the wing-covers long, the leg- and antenna-cases longer 

 still, extending a little free beyond them; the bluntish 

 tip of the tapering abdomen has a more pointed dorsal 

 prolongation, furnished with two very minute con- 

 verging bristles ; its colour is ochreous-brown and 

 rather shining. (William Buckler, 31st August, 1878 ; 

 E.M.M., October, 1878, XV, 102—104.) 



Ebulea stachydalis. 



Plate CLIV, fig. 3. 



TThe description of the larva of this species is given 

 under and in comparison with the next species.] 



