250 NEPHOPTERYX R060BELLA. 



others bad a deep transverse wrinkle beyond the 

 middle. 



In colour the head was cinnamon-brown, marked 

 on the crown and cheeks with several short streaks of 

 black; the back is broadly of the same brown, finely 

 and much freckled with a pale tint of the same, and 

 two lines of these freckles enclose the dorsal line, 

 which is a little darker than the ground ; after an 

 interval another line of pale freckles is followed by a 

 broadish stripe of darker brown traversed through 

 the middle with a broken line of pale freckles. Below, 

 the ground colouring is lighter than that of the back, 

 and freckled with cream-colour, thickly along the 

 oontact with the dark brown stripe just mentioned, 

 and particularly on the thoracic segments; the second 

 segment has three central length lines of dark freckles 

 and some few paler ones, but otherwise is very similar 

 to the head, as it glistens slightly in the same degree, 

 while all the rest of the body is dull without gloss ; 

 the flattened belly has very few pale freckles ; quite 

 a blotch is formed by those surrounding each spiracle, 

 which is of the ground colour delicately outlined with 

 black ; the ocellated spots on the third and the twelfth 

 segments are pale cream ringed with black; the tuber- 

 cular dots are black but very small ; on the back in a 

 halo of pale freckle colour a row of single larger black 

 dots occurs at the lower edge of the dark brown side- 

 stripe, and from each of these larger dots the fine 

 hair is longer than the others ; the front legs are cin- 

 namon, tipped and jointed with black. The colouring 

 altogether is rather paler on the last three segments. 



This larva went into earth on the 2nd of June. 



The moth, Phycis roborella, was bred on the 4th of 

 August, and was a lighter and less well-marked speci- 

 men than those bred from fig. 13, 1882, the subject 

 of the next description. 



On the 25th of May, 1882, I received ten larvae 

 from Mr. Hellins, beaten the day before from oak, 

 which were the subject of my fig. 13 of 1882. 



