EMMELESIA AFFINITATA. 6 



belly, or a pinkish fawn-colour, or pinkish-brown, as 

 individuals differ, and having a dorsal line and sub- 

 dorsal lines of deeper pink, but interrupted at each 

 segmental pale fold of skin ; a pinkish lateral line 

 runs a little above the spiracles, which are rather large 

 in proportion and blackish-brown ; the tubercular dots 

 are inconspicuous, though their positions are indicated 

 each by a minute bristle when seen through a lens. 



A variety occurs of a pearly pinkish-grey ground 

 colour, and another variety with rosy-pink melting 

 gradually into reddish-fawn colour on the hinder seg- 

 ments, and having the anterior plate dark only at its 

 hind margin, quite light brown in front, with a fine 

 paler dorsal dividing line. 



The pupa is of a dumpy form, five-sixteenths of an 

 inch long ; the thorax very plump, and rounded off to 

 the moderately produced head ; the wing-covers long 

 and tumid, having their neuration in slight relief; 

 from them the abdomen rapidly tapers in the female 

 to rather a sharp point furnished with two minute 

 bristles ; in colour it isbrownish-ochreous with darker 

 brown divisions of the flexible segments of the abdo- 

 men, the surface glistening. It is generally enclosed 

 in an earthen -covered silken cocoon attached to a 

 small stone or other substance, though sometimes the 

 cocoon is spun within the remains of a seed-capsule 

 eaten out by the larva, where it becomes partly adhe- 

 rent to quantities of frass. (William Buckler, 7th 

 August, 1879; E.M.M., October, 1879, XYI, 102; 

 and Note Book III, 101 and 248.) 



Emmelesia ALCHEMILLATA. 



Plate CXXVIII, fig. 2. 



The larvae from which the following description was 

 taken were sent to me at the end of September, 1877, 

 by Mr. J. B. Hodgkinson, of Preston, who had found 

 them feeding on the seeds of the common dead-nettle. 



