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before spinning one of the larvse became of a light 

 olive-greenish tinge all over, the other a pinkish flesh - 

 colour. 



The cocoon is about three-eighths of an inch in 

 length by three-sixteenths in width, closely and firmly 

 attached to the surface on which it is made; its shape 

 suggests the idea of a broad boat turned bottom up- 

 wards and rather prominently keeled at one end by 

 what is really a bluntly-beaked projection inclined a 

 little upward, while at the rounded-off opposite end 

 are two rather long silken moorings, the base and 

 sides of each converging into tapering points which 

 seem outworks of additional security ; the colour of 

 the cocoon is naturally of a light drab, the projection 

 dark greyish-brown ; but like 0. vinula the larva, in 

 finishing off the exterior, picks up particles from the 

 neighbouring surface on which it is constructed, and 

 contrives, by sticking them on its work, to make it 

 harmonise with its surroundings ; I noticed that, as 

 in the case of G. vinula, the moth makes its escape 

 by a small orifice at the top, while the rest of the 

 cocoon remains so hard and tough that one must use 

 the forceps to pull it further open ; the inside is lined 

 with a smooth cloth-like substance. 



The pupa-skin measures five-sixteenths of an inch 

 in length, is thick and dumpy in its proportions, with 

 the wing-covers and antenna-cases long, and the end 

 of the abdomen very bluntly rounded with, on each 

 side near to the previous segmental division, two 

 slightly projecting and divergent minute points. The 

 colour of the upper surface is darkish brown, deeply 

 tinged on the thorax and back of the abdomen with 

 dark purple, the wing-covers and all the under parts 

 light brown, the whole surface being entirely without 

 gloss. (William Buckler, 11th June, 1877; E.M.M., 

 July, 1877, XIV, 42.) 



