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relieved by the glossy tubercular spots of dark brown ; 

 these on the hinder segments are of warmer brown, 

 and also the anal plate ; of the trapezoidal spots on 

 the back the front pairs are the largest, of a rounded- 

 off squarish shape ; the hind pairs are smaller and 

 transversely oblong, and in front of the anal plate the 

 two spots are united together ; along the side is a 

 longitudinal row of spots, two on a segment, the front 

 one roundish and less dark, the hind one transversely 

 oblong and much paler; the spiracles are very small, 

 round and black, situated on the pale tracheal thread 

 which shows faintly through the skin ; beneath these 

 occur other tubercular longitudinally-ovate shining 

 spots, every spot furnished with a fine hair. 



On opening a cocoon — which is of an earthy-brown 

 colour, nearly half an inch long, and roundish-oval 

 form — the pupa was found quite lively within it on 

 the 26th of August; it was of moderate slenderness, 

 a trifle over three-eighths of an inch in length, the 

 head obtusely pointed downward in front, the thorax 

 convex, the eye-, leg-, and wing-covers very distinct, 

 and also the antennae, which take a sweeping curve 

 round the eye to the end of the wing ; the abdomen 

 tapering to its rather blunt extremity ; the free abdo- 

 minal segments are deeply cut; in colour it is light 

 brownish-ochreous, much freckled with darkish brown 

 on the head, thorax, and wings, these last being rayed 

 and margined with still darker brown, the eyes and 

 anal segment equally dark brown ; the whole surface 

 shining. (William Buckler, 2nd December, 1878 ; 

 E.M.M., February, 1879, XV, 206.) 



