fe ASTHENA CANDIDATA. 
This rich crimson colour continues on the third, fourth, 
and front of the fifth segments, bounded by the sub- 
dorsal stripes, within which it forms a broad stripe. 
It spreads on the fifth in a saddle-like way to the 
spiracles; on the sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth 
segments there is an irregular triangular blotch of 
crimson ; on the spiraculJar region on the tenth to the 
anal extremity it 1s filled up with crimson between the 
subdorsal stripes. The spiracles are of the ground 
colour, outlined with blackish. The ventral surface is 
pale yellow-green, broadly blotched on all but the tenth 
segment with crimson on each side, softens towards 
the centre, and on the last three segments is paler 
pink. The pale yellow spiracular puffed region 
separates the crimson above and beneath. 
The larva spun up in a slight web of a cocoon, to 
which the pupa was attached by the tail. 
The pupa was three and a quarter lines long, of 
moderate stoutness, but the abdomen rather sharply 
pointed, ending in a small spike with three diverging 
bristly curved points or hairs. Its colour was pitchy 
black, the abdominal divisions bright ochreous orange. 
The moth appeared May 28th, 1873. (William 
Buckler, May, 1873; Note Book I, 191.) 
ASTHENA SYLVATA. 
Plate CXVI, fig. 4. 
On the 15th of July, 1876, I was very glad to 
receive some eges of this species, which had been 
obtained by Mr. J. Batty on the 4th of the month. 
The larvee were hatched on the 16th, fed away at once 
on alder, preferring all through their growth tender 
open leaves, but avoiding the sticky leaf-buds; they 
erew rapidly, and by the 8th August were in their last 
skin, and in a few days more would have been full-fed, 
when | had the misfortune to get them killed. To 
replace them, Mr. Batty kindly sent me the larve he 
