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ceptibly is changed to a faint flesh-colour, in some 

 instances a very pale tint of drab ; the small dark 

 brown and shining tubercular dots, each furnished 

 with a fine hair, are ranged on either side of the back 

 in twos, forming in line along the subdorsal region ; 

 those on the front of the thirteenth segment are 

 large and squarish ; the anal plate is of the same dark 

 brown colour, and rather heart-shaped ; a single row 

 of dark brown dots is along the side, and others are 

 beneath ; on either side of the second segment is a 

 largish black-brown shield-like glossy spot in front of 

 the spiracles ; another, similar, occurs on the outside 

 of each anal leg ; the ocellated spot on either side of 

 the third and twelfth segments is black with white 

 centre ; the skin generally is soft, smooth and glisten- 

 ing ; some individuals show a faint purplish-brown 

 dorsal line, while others have onlv a faint darkness 

 sliding to and fro beneath the skin of the seventh and 

 eighth segments. 



When full-fed the larva envelops itself in a pearly- 

 greyish oval cocoon of silk, about 8 mm. long by 3 in 

 diameter, smooth within, but thickly covered outside 

 with grains of frass spun together and situated 

 generally in some excavated portion of the pod it has 

 fed in. 



The pupa is from 5^ to 6 mm. in length, and is of 

 an ordinary form, with prominent eye-pieces and 

 longish wing-covers ; the tip of the abdomen ending 

 in an excessively small round thorny boss ; its colour 

 darkish bronzy- brown and shining. (William Buckler, 

 14th August, 1882; E.M.M., October, 1882, XIX, 104 

 —106.) 



EPHESTIA F1CULELLA. 



Along with the larvae of Plodia (Ephestia) interpunc- 

 tella received from Mr. J. E. Wellman on the 21st 

 of December, 1878, and described further on in this 



