4 EMMELESIA ALCHEMILLATA. 



Length nearly half an inch, and tolerably plump in 

 proportion ; the head is highly polished, it has the 

 lobes ronnded, is a trifle narrower than the second, 

 but wider than the third segment ; immediately behind 

 it, on the second segment, is an equally polished half- 

 circular plate, and there is also a similarly polished 

 plate on the anal segment. The body is cylindrical, 

 of tolerably uniform width, tapering a little pos- 

 teriorly ; the segments are plump, the divisions well 

 defined ; there are a few scattered short hairs. The 

 ground colour of the dorsal surface is a rather pale 

 but warm purple ; the head and the frontal and anal 

 plates are intensely black. A broad pale yellow stripe 

 extends throughout the dorsal area, dividing the 

 black frontal plate into two sections ; there is also a 

 similarly coloured but much narrower line along the 

 subdorsal region, and another one between this and 

 the spiracles. The spiracles and tubercles are minute, 

 black ; the hairs grey. The ventral surface is uni- 

 formly pale yellowish green, with a few minute black 

 tubercles. (George T. Porritt, 3rd April, 1879; 

 Entom., May, 1879, XII, 128.) 



Emmelesia albulata. 

 Plate CXXVIII, fig. 3. 



The larva of this species has been described more 

 than once before, and I should not have thought of 

 saying anything about it myself but that when, for 

 the purpose of procuring specimens for figuring, I set 

 to work this season to rear it from the egg, 1 found 

 that not one of my specimens corresponded with 

 previous descriptions. I am driven to the conclusion, 

 therefore, that this is a variable species, and proceed 

 to record the variety I have met with. 



On the 2nd of June of this year (1865) I took 

 some moths, and one female laid several eggs, and 



