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backwards it continues as a violet-white line to the 
anal extremity. On the dark marking the shining black 
tubercular warts project conspicuously from white 
rings, on the green portions they are also green, small 
in size, and escape notice ; the spiracles are also incon- 
spicuous, being small, and of the same colour as the 
seoments on which they happen to come; all the legs 
are yellow-green. 
The cocoon is placed just on the surface of the soil, 
and formed of small particles of earth, leaves, etc., 
fastened together with a tough, although not hard, 
lining of pale silk. 
The pupa is five-sixteenths of an inch in length, 
rather stout in proportion, the abdomen tapering off 
rapidly from the end of the wing-cases, and ending in 
four or five curled-topped spines of unequal lengths, 
but twisted together so as to look lke a spike; the 
eye-cases rather prominent; in colour the wing-cases 
are tinged with greenish, all the rest mahogany-brown 
and shining. 
_I have now made acquaintance with the earlier stages 
of three species of Asthena, namely, A. candidata, 
A. sylvata, and A. blomeri, and find them exhibiting 
as close a resemblance in these as in the perfect state. 
Of A. luteata I do not know so much, and am anxious 
to know more. (John Hellins, January 10th, 1877; 
H.M.M., February, 1877,*XIIT, 213.) 
ASTHENA BLOMERI. 
Plate CXVI, fig. 5. 
To Mr. W. H. Grigg, of Bristol, is due the credit of 
discovering the larva and food-plant of this species, 
which have baffled us so long. 
In July, 1873, Mr. Grigg took the moths in some 
numbers, and found them to lay their eggs freely in 
chip-boxes, and he most kindly sent me a good supply 
