18 EMMELESIA BLANDIATA. 



The foregoing describes what I believe to be the 

 typical or complete design of the larva, for it was the 

 one shown by all the larvse in 1880, and by most in 

 1881, but amongst the latter there occurred three or 

 four of a variety showing an incomplete form of the 

 dorsal design, which, may be regarded as substan- 

 tiating in a manner the description in the Manual 

 after Freyer. 



In this variety the dorsal line as usual is complete 

 throughout, but at the beginning of every segment the 

 two outer or curving lines are absent as far as the first 

 pair of warts, and the pink ground so faintly shown 

 as scarcely to be noted there, but the remaining parts 

 of the design are quite perfect, and so stand out like 

 a dark arrow-mark, or in other words a very elongated 

 triangle at the end of each segment, through which 

 passes the continuous dorsal line. 



There were also two or three larvaG with the full 

 pattern, but of much duller colouring, being pale 

 brownish with a pink tinge, and the lines of the 

 pattern also duller. 



The larva goes into a light soil for its final change, 

 and forms a compact little cocoon not quite three- 

 eighths of an inch long and about half as wide. The 

 pupa measures five-sixteenths of an inch in length ; 

 it is without any peculiarity of form, and of a bright 

 yellowish-green colour for some time, having a broadish 

 stripe of crimson down the middle of the back of the 

 abdomen, suggestive of the larval design, and with 

 rather a glossy surface. (William Buckler, 7th Decem- 

 ber, 1881; E.M.M., January, 1882, XVIII, 180; and 

 Note Book IV, 39.) 



BUPITHECIA CONSIGNATA. 



Plate OXXIX, fig. 2. 



Towards the end of May, 1868, Mrs. Hutchinson, of 

 Grantsfieldj kindly sent me seven eggs of Eupithecia 



