TEPHROSIA PUNCTULATA. AS 
dorsal area, with pale central and side lines, and the 
segmental clivisions yellow. 
The larva forms a cocoon below the surface of the 
eround, by drawing particles of earth rather firmly 
together with silken threads. 
The pupa is nearly half an inch long, and mode- 
rately stout in proportion ; it 1s of the ordinary cylin- 
drical shape, attenuated to the anal point, which is 
not very sharp; the wing-, leg-, antenna-, and eye- 
cases are well defined, those of the antenne being con- 
spicuously ribbed ; there are also two short but dis- 
tinct points extending outwardly forward from the 
head. Colour almost uniformly dark mahogany-brown. 
(George I’. Porritt, January 4th, 1878; E.M.M., March, 
1878, XIV, 235.) 
GNOPHOS OBSCURATA. 
[Plianwe Cosi, tee 1 
During the first week of August, 1877, I took this 
species not uncommonly on the heaths in the New 
Forest; and from one of the females eggs were ob- 
tained, which duly hatched about the third week of 
the same month. By the end of November the larve 
were rather over half an inch in length, and still feed- 
ing occasionally, though they had not eaten much 
for several weeks. ‘Towards the end of May follow- 
ing, 1878, they were full-grown, when I described them 
as follows: 
Length about three quarters of an inch, and rather 
stout in proportion. ‘The head has the lobes rounded 
at the sides, but is flat in front, and there is a sheht 
depression on the crown; it is slightly narrower than 
the second segment, into which it can be partiall 
withdrawn. Body ofnearly uniform width, but slightly 
wider at the middle segments than elsewhere; it is 
rounded above and below, but the two portions are 
distinctly separated by a wrinkled raised lateral ridge ; 
