ACIDALIA OSSEATA, 99 
able ; skin very rugose, and ridged with warts not quite 
so prominentasthoseof A. holosericeata; bristles shehtly 
clubbed. Colour a brownish-grey, hinder segments 
paler ; a pale dorsal line with dark edges interrupted 
at the four middle folds by a whitish dot, behind 
which comes a black X, the arms of which reach 
beyond the dorsal ridges of warts; the spiracuiar 
ridge is paler than the ground, and below it are some 
oblique blackish dashes. 
Pupa in a cocoon just below the surface of the fine 
soil. (John Hellins, July, 1868; H.M.M., September, 
3638.) Vi,.96.) 
ACIDALIA HOLOSERIOBATA. 
Be Oxyiin fo. 1 
To Mr. A. H. Hudd, of Clifton, Bristol, I am in- 
debted for the opportunity of watching the earlier 
stages of another Acidalia, viz. A. holosericeata, and 
his kindness is the more thankworthy in that he 
supplied me with eggs three years in succession, until 
I could succeed in breeding the moths. Whilst en- 
gaged with this species I took in hand some others, 
A. bisetata, A. scutulata, and A. interjectaria (as we 
must now call what used to pass in this locality for 
A. osseata), and made notes of their various stages, 
also A. imutaria and A. mumutata; but having described 
these before, I now go no further with them than 
ee ORs 
I confess I am not satisfied with what I have done 
about the eggs. More careful labour with the micro- 
scope than is in my power to bestow is needed to 
make good work here; I should hke the micrometer 
to be brought into use for the more accurate com- 
parison of dimensions, and a good equipment of 
condensers and reflectors will be required to make 
quite suré of the colouring and markings of the 
surface; and, after all, | fancy it will be found that 
