88 HELIODES AKBUTI. 



stoutisTa in proportion, of true Noctua form, with 

 plump twelfth segment ; the thoracic segments slightly- 

 taper towards the smaller and rather flattened head ; 

 the mouth prominent. In colour the head and plate 

 are of a light greenish tint and glossy, the ground of 

 the rest of the body is light green, the dorsal line dark 

 green, the whitish subdorsal line is finely edged above 

 with darker green than that of the back and side ; 

 the yellowish or yellowish-white spiracular stripe is 

 well relieved along the upper margin by a conspicuous 

 dark green stripe ; the spiracles are whitish, finely 

 outlined with black ; the tubercular dots are brown, 

 but too minute for any but powerfully-assisted vision ; 

 the belly and legs a rather paler green than the back, 

 the skin soft and smooth ; when it has ceased to feed 

 and is laid up all the lines soon disappear, and it is then 

 of a uniform green colour. 



The larva fabricates at about an inch or two beneath 

 the surface of the soil a cocoon of earth, with a thick- 

 ness of wall about one millimetre, or in parts even 

 less, kneaded well together with silk, and slightly 

 attached to a few coarse particles of earth outside ; it 

 is of close texture and not very brittle ; the general 

 figure is roundish or roundish-oval, and it measures 

 about nine by six or seven millimetres ; the interior 

 is very smooth, and just fits the pupa comfortably 

 without room to spare; the pupa itself is of a very 

 dumpy form, with rather a bluntly tapered abdomen, 

 having at the tip two fine thorny points of inconceiv- 

 able minuteness, and in contact with the compressed 

 old larval skin ; in colour the pupa skin is reddish- 

 brown and rather shiniug, and in length six to seven 

 millimetres. 



The perfect insects were bred, both male and female, 

 in the morning of the 4th, and a female on the ] 1th 

 of this month (May, 1882). (W. Buckler, 12th May, 

 1882 ; E.M.M., July, 1882, XIX, 36.) 



