194 EUDOREA MUBANA. 



fchis district. They are found living in silken galleries 

 under the moss, a piece of moss and turf two or three 

 inches long often containing quite a cluster of them. 



Length about half an inch to a little over, and of 

 average bulk. Head the same width, or perhaps very 

 slightly narrower than the second segment ; it has the 

 lobes rounded, and is — as are also the frontal and 

 anal plates — very highly polished. Body cylindrical 

 and of nearly uniform width, tapering only a very 

 little at the extremities,. Segmental divisions well 

 denned, and these, together with the large raised 

 tubercles, give the body a rather wrinkled appearance. 



Ground colour dingy ochreous-brown, or in some 

 specimens purplish-brown, the head and plates in- 

 tensely black. A fine brown line, widening at the 

 segmental divisions, extends through the centre of the 

 dorsal area; a wavy brown stripe along the subdorsal, 

 and another one along the spiracular region ; all these 

 lines together giving a reticulated appearance on the 

 paler ground colour. The tubercles are very dark 

 brown, and are polished, but not so highly as the head 

 and plates. Spiracles black. Ventral surface of the 

 colour of the dorsal area. 



Having ceased feeding, the larva forms and lines 

 with silk a cavity in the soil at the roots of the moss, 

 in which it changes to a pupa. 



The pupa is nearly half an inch long, and of ordinary 

 shape and proportions ; it is highly polished, and has 

 the abdominal divisions, the eye-, leg-, and wing-cases 

 clearly defined, though not prominent. Colour bright 

 brown, the front of the thorax with an olive tinge ; 

 eye-cases darker than the ground colour, and the 

 abdominal divisions chocolate-brown ; these dark 

 abdominal divisions, too, show clearly, even through 

 the lower part of the wing-cases. 



The imagos emerge in June, and from a June moth 

 I one season reared a second brood in August. 

 (George T. Porritt, 9th May, 1882; Entom., June, 

 1882, XV, 133.) 



