3 PR0CRIS GLOBULARLE. 



black, the white subdorsal marking inclines to creamy- 

 white, sometimes to yellowish-white, this is contrasted 

 strongly below by a broadish stripe of dark green 

 tapering towards the head and a little also to the 

 hinder part of the body ; on the smooth skin between 

 the dorsal tubercles at the beginning of each segment 

 and of the white subdorsal marking are sprinkled some 

 most minute black dots, only a few are on the white 

 where it is broadest, but they are numerous on the 

 dark green stripe following it ; the side below is 

 entirely green including the tubercles, and the whole 

 of them are studded thickly with short and fine 

 blackish bristles, the spiracles black, anterior legs 

 black, the belly and ventral prolegs green. 



The situation of the cocoons could be detected by 

 very slight elevations on the surface of the deep pot 

 of earth, where, before the larva? had buried them- 

 selves, all had been quite level, and when the cocoons 

 were removed from only just below the surface, for 

 inspection after the insects were bred, I found each 

 was of broad-oval shape about 9 lines by 7 or 8, 

 exteriorly composed of grains of earth very firmly 

 united to a few fibres of grass-roots, of which there 

 were plenty in the turfy soil and which served to bind all 

 together. On removing the earthy particles I reached 

 the inner cocoon of opaque greenish-white soft silk, 

 yet strong and elastic, reminding me in these qualities 

 of that of Odonestis potatoria, and in the softness of 

 its closely-woven interior of that of Bombyx mori; it 

 was 7 lines long and 3 lines wide, rounded off anteriorly, 

 widest in the middle, and tapered to a blunt point at 

 the posterior end. 



In each instance (except one) the pupa had evidently 

 emerged from the cocoon and travelled away from it 

 a little distance, as I found the pupa-skins thus lying 

 on the bare earth, and only the old larval-skin lay 

 shrivelled up at the bottom of the deserted cocoons ; 

 but the one from whence the Anomalon had come still 

 contained the pupa-skin, minus only a portion of the 



