14.4 SCORIA DEALBATA. 
The general colour is ochreous or brownish grey, 
but ornamented with so many waved and irregular 
lines that it is hard to describe. The head is pale 
ochreous; down the centre of the back is a double 
fine dusky line, which, with the first subdorsal line 
(composed of a double fine thread also), forms a series 
of irregular figures by alternately contracting and 
expanding; on the anterior and posterior segments 
the dorsal line becomes closer and darker. Below 
the first subdorsal line is a stripe of yellowish or 
reddish-buff, then comes another waved fine double 
thread; then the yellowish spiracles, scarcely dis- 
tinguishable in a drab stripe, which is bordered below 
with a dusky line, followed by a reddish-buff line; the 
belly drab, with central and subventral whitish lines. 
The usual spots are represented by fine black dots, 
and the central segments In one specimen were 
suffused with a smoky hue. 
- About the 20th of May these larve began to spin, 
and soon formed for themselves beautiful spindle- 
shaped cocoons of yellow silk, attached to upright 
blades of grass. And here, unfortunately, I can say 
no more, for after waiting some time for the perfect 
insects I examined the cocoons closely, and found that, 
by some mischance, the pupe had been killed. But 
although I failed, I think the species might be easily 
reared if kept in the open air, and fed on growing 
plants of dock, chickweed, knotgrass, and the coarse 
grass which, in its localities, is doubtless the favourite 
food of this species. (John Hellins, October 4th, 
1865; H.M.M., January, 1866, II, 190.) 
LYTHRIA PURPURARIA. 
On the 5th July, 1883, Herr Heinrich Disqué sent 
me with the dead parent moth about twenty-four or 
twenty-five eges of L. purpuraria. ‘The shape of the 
ege is elongate-oval and rather flattened, though 
