CHILO PHRAGMITELLUS. 323 



The pupa is large for the size of the moth, those 

 which will produce female specimens being nearly an 

 inch in length. It is long, cylindrical, narrow, and 

 of nearly uniform width, tapering near and towards the 

 anal point, and also towards the snout ; it is smooth, 

 highly polished, and with all the parts well defined. 

 When exposed it is very active, wriggling and twisting 

 about rapidly and with the greatest ease. The ground 

 colour of the abdominal segments is deep ochreous 

 yellow ; the wing-, eye-, and leg-cases, abdominal divi- 

 sions, and anal point, dark brown. 



In some reed-stems I found, instead of the larva or 

 pupa, batches of cocoons of a small but very pretty 

 ichneumon, and in one instance the just-emerged 

 ichneumons were inside the stem. They were brightly 

 coloured, black and reddish-brown. A number of these 

 I forwarded to Dr. Capron, who informed me that 

 they were a species of Ajpanteles, new to science 

 (Bntom., XIV, 142). (George T. Porritt, 8th Feb- 

 ruary, 1883; Entom., March, 1883, XVI, 63.) 



Earias clorana. 



Plate CLXI, fig. 3. 



On the 7th of July, 1875, Mr. A. Thurnall sent me 

 for identification three larvse which be had found in 

 little bundles of leaves on the topmost twigs of osiers. 

 I had never seen the species in this stage before, and 

 did not at once remember what I had read of it, nor 

 was it till the larva3, on spinning up against the side 

 of their cage, gave me a further clue to their identity, 

 that I looked at the right page of Stainton's Manual, 

 and found all I wanted ; I had before been looking for 

 them among the Bombycina, thus unconsciously pay- 

 ing tribute to the correctness of the new arrangement 

 which places Earias in that family ; and I have noted 

 below the little points which all tended to give me 

 that impression. 



