BOARMIA CINCTARIA. a 
coloured, delicately outlined with black, the skin 
below them a little puckered, showing yellowish in 
some places; the belly 1s of a more bluish-ereen, 
having a ventral paler stripe, faintly edged with 
darker green than the ground, and on either side are 
two faintly paler ragged lines, also edged with darker 
green; the lines of the back all terminate in front of 
the anal flap, which is light yellowish-green, with a 
sprinkling of most minute black freckles; freckles 
also occur on the hinder parts of the all legs; a 
fine short bristly black hair proceeds from each of 
the usual tubercular situations, but can only be seen 
with a strong lens. 
The pupa skin is nine-sixteenths of an inch in 
length, of ordinary shape, thickest at the ends of the 
wing-cases, plump in character, tapering rather sud- 
denly to the anal tip, which has a small projection 
and a spike from it divided in two sharp points; the 
abdominal divisions are smooth; the rest of the surface 
is finely punctate; the colour dark mahogany-brown, 
and rather shining; on the abdomen a few extremely 
fine short hairs pointing backwards. (William Buck- 
ler, August 9th, 1877; H.M.M., September, 1877, 
XIV, 83.) 
BOARMIA ROBORARIA. | 
Plate CXII, fig. 3. 
I am indebted to the kindness of my friend Mr. J. 
P. Barrett, of Peckham, for the opportunity of 
watching this interesting species in all its stages. 
The eggs, which I received on the 11th of July, 1871, 
seemed to be deposited in clusters, were oblong- oval 
in shape, and in colour reddish- brown. 
On July 14th they hatched, and the young larvee 
were at once supplied with fresh oak-leaves, on which 
they fed so long as leaves were obtainable ; this food 
failing in the autumn, tender oak-twigs were sub- 
