DASYDIA OBFUSCATA. A, 
black, and are placed in a stripe of dark grey, with 
darker dashes at the folds, and some fine dark streaks, 
wavy and sloping upwards; this 1s followed by a line 
of whitish-grey, which melts into the grey or reddish- 
grey of the belly, the centre of which is buff, and 
bears a row of pairs of brown dashes down the middle, 
with five sets of curious curved pairs of streaks on 
either side at the folds between segments five to ten. 
The stout, stiff figure of this larva, its short legs, 
and its sluggish habits are all very congruous, but, as 
in former cases, | leave others to decide whether 
ficure forms habits, or habits form figure. 
The larva spins under the surface of the soil, but, 
owing to the death of most of my stock just when 
they had disappeared for this purpose, I am not able 
to say anything of the pupa or cocoon. 
‘lhe ** concave’ outline of the costa of the fore-wings 
(see Stainton’s ‘Manual,’ vol. u, p. 30) is very 
noticeable in the freshly bred moths, as they rest with 
expanded wings; in the male the concavity is greater 
almost than that shown by fHypena proboscidalis, 
though, of course, the tip of the wing is rounded, and 
not at all faleate. (John Hellins, May 11th, 1871; 
Hi.M.M., June, 1871, VIII, 20.) 
BoLETOBIA FULIGINARIA. 
On the 23rd of June, 1882, I received a larva of 
this species from Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher, together with 
a piece of fungus. 
The larva measured about an inch in length, and 
tapered very little, only just at each extremity, 1. e. 
from the second segment to the head, which is of a 
roundish full character, as 1s also the hinder end. Being 
a geometer with twelve legs, both ventral pairs are 
equaliy well developed, and those segments bearing legs, 
the ninth and tenth, are shorter than the fifth, sixth, 
