54 HEPIALUS HECTUS. 



The tubercular blackish dots are very small, each 

 emitting a fine hair of great sensitiveness. The spira- 

 cles very small and black. 



It is extremely difficult to inspect the larva carefully, 

 as it evinces the greatest aversion to light, and makes 

 rapid efforts to hide itself. At such times if one of its 

 hairs be touched with a finger, most violent contortions 

 ensue, or else it springs backwards, and will run that 

 way quite as rapidly as forwards, and in its twistings 

 and wrigglings it rivals the most nimble of Tortrices. 



The pupa is about five-eighths of an inch or little 

 more in length, very slender and of about uniform bulk 

 throughout ; the head and back of thorax a little pro- 

 minent, the abdomen slightly curved backwards, long, 

 and scarcely tapering at the end, which is obtusely 

 rounded. The wing-cases are very short in proportion. 



On the back of each abdominal ring are two trans- 

 verse ridges of minute curved points or hooks, and a 

 pair of them on the under surface of each ring, the 

 penultimate having a ridge of them in addition, and a 

 circlet of them on the blunt and rounded tip. 



The colour of the pupa is rather dark brown, but the 

 golden blotches begin to appear through the wing- 

 covers, and increase in brightness as the hour draws 

 near for .the disclosure of the imago, the pupa pre- 

 viously making its way nearly out of the cocoon in 

 readiness. The moths bred were all out from the 26th 

 of June to 6th of July. (W.B., 68 ; E.M.M. V, 177.) 



Hepialus velleda. 

 Plate XXX, fig. 4. 



It is with a feeling of great thankfulness to Mr. 

 Joseph Steele, of Oongleton, that I am able, through 

 his untiring exertions, to bring to light the history of 

 this species. 



The eggs were scattered by the parent moth on the 



