MYELOIS MAiniOKEA. 239 1 



the circumstance of sheep's wool sticking in the 

 twigs. 



The individual sent to me arrived in a loosely-spun 

 web on the stem of a twig of dwarf sloe, and I noticed 

 that each time I changed its food it spun for itself a 

 fresh web, uniting some of the leaves together ; when 

 disturbed it was nimble and eager to escape, but in- 

 variably spun a thread Avhile walking, as a measure of 

 security for regaining its place on a stem. It fed on 

 the sloe leaves, though somewhat sparingly, and on 

 the 1st of June I found it had spun, during the pre- 

 vious night, a cocoon of brownish-grey silk, attached 

 to the end of the hammock-like web in which it had 

 been living, and to the stem and two or three leaves of 

 its food, the outside of it covered with leaf-gnawings 

 and frass ; it did not become a pupa till the 6th, and 

 the moth came forth on the 7th of July. 



This larva was five-eighths of an inch in leng-th, 

 moderately slender, nearly of equal size throughout, 

 the last two segments being a little tapered, and the 

 head, though full and with rounded lobes, rather less 

 than the second segment ; the ventral legs moderately 

 developed, but placed much beneath the body ; each 

 segment beyond the fourth is subdivided by one trans- 

 verse wrinkle, which, though slight on the back, was 

 deep on the side, unless when the head and front seg- 

 ments were thrown back, forming a concave line 

 above, when these wrinkles would appear deeply 

 indented, as well as the segmental divisions ; but when 

 the body was bent downwards, giving a convex out- 

 line to the back, these wrinkles disappeared ; the sides 

 were deeply wrinkled and dimpled, with an inflated 

 subspiracular ridge almost linear in its course. 



The colour was a very dark chocolate-brown, the 

 skin being without any gloss ; the head and the plate 

 behind it were of a dingy rusty red colour, the former 

 marked with a thick crescent of black on the crown of 

 each lobe, the latter blotched with black, and both 

 shining ; the tubercular dots were also polished, most 



