68 YPS1PETES IMPLUVIATA. 



The side, as far as the spiracles, is freckled and 

 clouded with dark purplish-brown, similar to the back, 

 and a fine longitudinal line of the pale ground colour 

 runs through it near the lower part; the spiracles are 

 black, and followed by a broad stripe of the pale 

 ground colour, and then a fine interrupted line of 

 blackish ; the tubercular dots are black, each emitting 

 a hair, and the prolegs tipped with blackish. 



In other examples the ground colour is pale pinkish, 

 ochreous, or flesh- col our, and the markings are brown 

 and much paler; the black wedge shapes almost, or 

 even entirely, absent, and the dorsal line is inter- 

 rupted at the beginning of the segments. 



By the middle of October these larvse had ceased 

 feeding, and did not retire to earth, but remained 

 motionless within their hiding-places in the leaves, 

 and so continued until the beginning of December, 

 when they became pupae therein. 



The pupa is nearly half an inch long, rounded at 

 the head, thick in the middle, the abdomen tapering 

 to a point with anal spikes attached to the threads 

 spun within the leaf; its colour is bluish-black, and it 

 is entirely without gloss. 



The perfect insects appeared from the 22nd to the 

 24th of May, 1868. (William Buckler, January, 

 1870; B.M.M., July, 1870, VII, 42.) 



OOREMIA PROPUGNATA. 



Plate CXL, fig. 7. 



I received a batch of eggs of this species through 

 the kindness of Mr. Owen Wilson, of Carmarthen, on 

 the 16th of June, 1876. 



The eggs were globular, smooth, and polished, and 

 uniformly pale straw-colour ; two days later, or three 

 or four after they were deposited, they had become 

 orange, and before hatching changed to lead colour. 



