78 HELIOTHIS DIPSAOEA. 



The pupa is five-eighths of an inch in length, of 

 moderate bulk, the head and palpi rather sharply pro- 

 duced, back of thorax swollen, wing-covers broad at 

 the ends ; abdomen tapering, and ending in two 

 longish anal points, the abdominal rings roughened 

 on the middle ; the colour a pinkish red-brown ; but 

 I see that the pupse that are standing over to the 

 second year have become dark brown. The cocoon, 

 composed of silk of the weakest texture, is very flaccid, 

 but no doubt protects the pupa in the sandy soil. 

 (W. B., March 12th, 1875; E.M.M., April, 1875, 

 XI, 256.) 



Anarta melanopa. 

 Plate 0, fig. 1. 



For eggs of this, and of the following species also, 

 I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. J. T. Carring- 

 ton, who sent them to me from Perthshire. 



I received the eggs on June 4th, 1875 ; the larvae 

 hatched on the 10th ; they soon began to feed on 

 tender leaves of Arbutus unedo, or Luzula pilosa, 

 sallow, flowers of Helianthemum vulgare, and on Vacci- 

 nium vitis-idsea, and by the 16th were growing and 

 thriving well. By July 3rd they were three-quarters 

 of an inch long, and feeding only on sallow, S alios 

 capr&a, and 8. acuminata, having gradually deserted 

 the other food-plants supplied to them; those that 

 now survived, some two or three only, continued to 

 feed till after the middle of the month, and about the 

 end of the third week in July turned to pupse ; one of 

 them, without having attempted a cocoon, became a 

 bare pupa on the surface of the soil ; but as another 

 entered the earth, and apparently formed a cocoon, 

 we may suppose the latter would be the habit in a 

 state of nature. 



The egg is almost globular, the shell delicate, 

 shining, with rather more than fifty ribs, the trans- 



