24 BOARMIA ABIETARIA. 
black freckles; lines occur on the belly, but are very 
faint. Hach tubercular wart emits a fine short bristly 
hair, and these hairs are rather numerous on the head, 
the thirteenth segment, and anal legs. 
When full-fed, and beginning to contract for its 
change, the colourimg of the larva is turned to a 
dingy smoky-green. 
Apparently it makes no appreciable cocoon, and a 
few days before the moth is disclosed the pupa makes 
its way upwards towards the surface of the earth. 
The pupa is about three-quarters of an inch in 
length, stoutest across the ends of the wing-covers, 
where its diameter is a quarter of an inch, and from 
whence it tapers gradually to the end of the abdomen, 
which is furnished with a tapering projection, sepa- 
rating near the end into two fine short points; 
the surface of the thorax and wing-covers smooth, 
the abdominal rings very finely punctate, their 
divisions smooth, and of a dull violet-brown colour; 
all the other colouring dark brown and _ glossy. 
(William Buckler, February 11th, 1878; H.M.M., 
Mareh, 1878; XV; 219) 
BOARMIA CINCTARIA. 
Plate OXII, fig. 2. 
It gives me great pleasure to record my thanks to . 
Mr. J. G. Ross for kindly supplying me with eges of 
this species on May 26th, 1876, which were laid to- 
gether in a cluster. 
In shape the egg is elongate, elliptical, bluntly 
rounded at one end, and more gradually at the other, 
near which occurs a depression; the surface ribbed 
longitudinally and pitted; in colour light olive-drab, 
iridescent with the play of light in the numerous pits, 
and having a slight degree of transparency, showing, 
when held against the light, the darker embryo 
within; the colouring changes the day before hatching 
to pinkish-erey. 
