312 CRAMBUS PINETELLUS. 



by the next day it had completed a cocoon of some 

 toughness. 



The moth, a very fine one, appeared on the 22nd of 

 July. 



The egg of G. pinetellus is of elliptical shape, and 

 under an ordinary pocket lens appears smooth ; at 

 first it is of a pale flesh-colour, deepening in tint by 

 degrees, and turning in eight days to blood-red, and 

 in six days more to a dingy purple, just previous to 

 hatching. 



The newly-hatched larva is of a drab colour, with a 

 blackish head. In early spring it is very dark, but 

 differs from the adult larva in size only. 



My larva which reached full growth was five-eighths 

 of an inch in length, moderately slender, cylindrical, 

 almost uniform in size throughout ; the skin, of a 

 dingy reddish slate-colour, was smooth but not 

 shining ; the head, the plates on the second and on 

 the thirteenth segments, and all the tubercular spots, 

 were jet-black and very highly polished, each spot 

 being furnished with a fine blackish hair; the spots on 

 the third and fourth segments are transversely oval in 

 front and fusiform behind ; on the other segments the 

 anterior pairs of dorsal spots were squarish, and 

 larger than the hinder pairs, which were somewhat 

 transversely linear; the spiracles are small, circular 

 and black. 



The pupa skin is about three-eighths of an inch in 

 length, moderately stout, the wing-cases long in 

 proportion ; the skin is smooth and polished, and of 

 a cinnamon-brown colour. (William Buckler, 6th 

 October, 1873; B.M.M., December, 1873, X, 162.) 



