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seoment, but leaving a clear space for the black 
spiracles; another line of the same colour below, 
thickening under each spiracle; the belly dark 
purplish-brown, with a central pale yellowish stripe, 
opening widest and enclosing a short black streak in 
the middle of each segment, and edged with black ; a 
very fine pale yellow line also through the dark 
purplish-brown of each side of the belly; the head 
horny, and dull reddish in colour, with a transverse 
band of dark greyish-brown across the face; legs 
and hinder part of anal segment a dull brownish- 
ochreous. 
The cocoon is formed of brownish silk inside, shgeht 
but close in texture, and outside of fine particles of 
earth, and placed just below the surface. 
The pupa is stoutish in front, tapering rapidly behind, 
ending in a stout spike with two fine points; in the 
male the wing-cases are short and the antenna-cases 
distinct, showing pectinatious ; the skin smooth and 
shining, reddish-brown in colour. (John Hellins, 
July, 1871; E.M.M., September, 1871, VIII, 90.) 
ANISOPTERYX MSCULARIA. 
Plate CXXVI, fig. 1. 
On the 3rd of April, 1872, I received from Mr. 
W. J. Skelton, of Faversham, eggs of this species. 
Some of the young larve had emerged on the way, 
and the remainder of the eggs hatched immediately. 
The larvee grew rapidly on hawthorn, and by the 
middle of May were going down. 
The full-grown a ts may be described as 
follows : 
Length about an inch, slender, cylindrical, and of 
uniform width throughout ; head globular, slightly 
broader than the second segment; skin soft and 
smooth. Ground colour bright green, strongly tinged 
with yellow; head uniformly green. A dark green 
