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pot, but chiefly on the leno, and supported below by two 

 leaves of L. album,, to which it was partly attached ; 

 in shape ib was horizontally oval, but flattened at the 

 top by the leno, and it measured an inch and three- 

 eighths long by three-quarters of an inch broad, and 

 the same in depth ; it was of whitish silk and semi- 

 transparent, so that the larva could be faintly seen 

 within it. 



On the 24th I examined the pupa, which was a 

 little over three-quarters of an inch in length, very 

 stout, with the tips of the wing-covers rounded and 

 projecting from the abdomen. Its colour on the head, 

 thorax, and abdomen blackish-brown, the segmental 

 divisions pale pea-green, the wing-cases a bright full 

 green at their edges and extremities, changing gradu- 

 ally from thence towards their base into blackish- 

 brown, and with but little polish. 



The moth appeared on the 20th of June, 1873. 

 (William Buckler, June, 1873; N.B., I, 137 and 

 165.) 



On the 3rd of August, 1882, I received from Mrs. 

 Battersby, of Oromlyn, Eathowen, co. Westmeath, 

 a batch of eggs laid by a captured female in a chip 

 box, scattered over the surface singly, and side by side 

 in little groups. 



The egg is round or globular, though a little flattened 

 beneath where it adheres to the chip ; it is numerously 

 ribbed and reticulated, very slightly glistening, and is 

 of so pale a tint as not to be readily seen on the chip, 

 though on close scrutiny and comparison together the 

 delicate tint of the egg inclines to a greenish straw- 

 colour. On the 4th many showed three brownish but 

 extremely faint small dots, only visible with a strong 

 lens. These dots represented the ocelli and mouth of 

 the head of the embryo, and in the morning of the 

 5th they began to hatch, and by the evening altogether 

 fourteen or fifteen were disclosed, some much whiter 

 than others, just as about ten or eleven eggs had 

 brown centres, and they will, I suspect, prove to be 



