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small branches ; the six anterior legs, and the pro-legs 

 on the ninth, tenth, and ventral segments, which are 

 larger than the others, are spread out from the body, 

 and give the larva a very sprawling appearance. 



Both larvae spun loose cocoons among the dead 

 leaves, etc., at the bottom of their cage, and changed 

 to ordinary- shaped pupae of a purple-plum colour, 

 powdered with greyish as a ripe plum also is. 



The moths, two fine specimens, emerged on August 

 25th and 26th, 1886, respectively. (Geo. T. Porritt, 

 January 8th, 1890; E.M.M., May, 1890, XXVI, 125.) 



Catooala nupta. 



Plate CIV, fig. 5. 



I received eggs during the winter (1870-71) from 

 Mrs. Hutchinson. The egg is circular, rounded and 

 convex above, rather flattened beneath, and ribbed. 

 It is of a brownish- grey colour, with two zones of 

 blackish encircling them, separated only by a narrow 

 ring rather paler than the ground-colour ; the ribs 

 themselves of the grey ground like the central patch 

 at the apex. (William Buckler, 1871 ; Note Book I, 

 67.) 



Catooala promissa. 

 Plate CV, fig. 1. 



On August 26th, 1875, Mr. J. Ross, of Bathampton, 

 most kindly sent me thirty-nine eggs of this species, 

 being the whole produce from six imprisoned female 

 moths captured by him in the New Forest on August 

 2nd, and with them the permission to select some for 

 myself. 



The eggs had been laid from the 9th to the 16th of 

 the month, some on oak bark, the others extruded 

 through the interstices of the leno covering of their 



