66 XYLINA CONFORMIS ( = ETJRCTFERA). 



there, at the end of the segment, the pale yellow 

 dorsal stripe shows bright and unclouded ; on all the 

 segments, from the hinder tubercular dot, runs a thick 

 black streak, a little downwards and forwards into 

 the subdorsal pale yellow stripe, which it extinguishes 

 at that part nearly up to the segmental division, or 

 in some instances opens a little at one or at each 

 end, so as to allow the yellow stripe to appear. The 

 side, for about halfway or more down, is rather paler 

 than the back, then comes a very fine, rather wavy, 

 yellowish line, broken a little in character by black 

 atoms that make its edges appear ragged; the thin 

 subspiracular line is similar at a little distance below, 

 the interval being a little deeper in colour than the 

 side, and much freckled with deeper olive-brown ; the 

 belly and legs are rather paler and a little tinged with 

 olive-pinkish, and bear some few freckles of yellow 

 and olive, sprinkled just above the ventral legs ; these 

 last are tipped with pinkish-brown ; the tubercular 

 dots are all pale yellow, and distinct, and are deli- 

 cately ringed with black, as are also the oval, dirty- 

 whitish spiracles ; the head is olive-brown, freckled 

 and reticulated with darker brown ; the slightly more 

 shining second segment is, on the back, adorned with 

 two pairs of yellow dots. 



When the larva ceases to feed, its habit is to retire 

 into moss, or, if it does not find this, it will fold up a 

 leaf, or else fasten a leaf loosely to the surface of the 

 soil, and there spin an oval cocoon, three-quarters of 

 an inch long, of whitish silk, close, but semi-transpa- 

 rent, and closely adhering to the surrounding sub- 

 stances. 



The pupa has no striking peculiarity, being thick in 

 proportion, a little over five-eighths of an inch long ; 

 the thorax, wing-, leg-, and antennaa-cases finely corru- 

 gated, and the abdominal segments rather smooth, 

 terminating in a hooked point, by which it is firmly 

 attached to one end of the cocoon; its colour dark 

 brown, the incisions of the segments brownish-red, 



