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dorsal line, but there are no perceptible subdorsal or 

 spiracular lines. The large tubercles correspond to 

 the ground-colour, but are much darker in tint ; the 

 spiracles are very small, and black. 



The ventral surface and prolegs are of the ground 

 colour of the dorsal area, but the legs, until towards 

 the base, are very dark sienna-brown. (George T. 

 Porritt, 7th November, 1883; E.M.M., December, 

 1883, XX, 154.) 



CliAMBUS GEN1CULEUS. 



Plate CLX, fig. 7. 



On the 4th of September, 1877, my friend, Mr. 

 William R. Jeffrey, kindly sent me a female moth of 

 this species alive in a pill-box, wherein she had laid a 

 few eggs loose, and continued to lay a few more until 

 the 9th, when she died. 



The eggs began to hatch on the 28th of the month, 

 one or two at a time, until the end of October, and, 

 as the young larvae hatched, they were in succession 

 placed on a potted turf of short grass cut from a dry 

 pasture, and I had no further trouble with them 

 through the winter beyond occasionally watering the 

 grass, which continued to look very well up to the 

 commencement of March, 1878, when it began to look 

 sickly and to die off; meanwhile a fresh turf was 

 potted just in time to receive the remaining larvae, 

 for many had already left their winter quarters in 

 quest of fresh pasture, and I picked up a few while 

 making their escape from the withered turf ; amongst 

 which, however, quite enough still remained, crawling 

 actively amongst the threads spun in connection with 

 their silken galleries, now for the most part aban- 

 doned; these galleries were close to the earth, and 

 some few partly beneath the surface, crowded with 

 frass at the bottom, and, being made of dirty-brown 

 silk, they were not conspicuous. 



