32 BEEBIA BLANDINA. 



above the lower of which are situated the circular black 

 spiracles, each in a little puffed eminence ; this lower 

 line in fact forms a ridge, edged below with an inter- 

 rupted brown line ; the belly and legs are of a some- 

 what warmer tint of the ground colour of the back. 



The larva thus described continued to grow till June 

 4th, when it was seven-eighths of an inch long, and 

 stout in proportion, with its back deeper in colour than 

 the sides ; and presently after this its colouring grew 

 paler with a pinkish suffusion spread over it, and by 

 June 22nd it had changed to a pupa, unattached, but 

 placed in an upright position amongst the grass near 

 the ground. 



Throughout its whole larval life this species is very 

 quiet and even sluggish. 



The pupa is nearly five-eighths of an inch in length, 

 the wing-cases long, the abdomen plump, thickest in 

 the middle, tapering to the tail, and ending in a blunt 

 flat spike ; the back of the thorax is rounded, the head 

 and the eye-pieces prominent. 



At first the head, thorax, and wing- covers were semi- 

 transparent, and of a pinkish-grey tint, the abdomen 

 ochreous, with dark dorsal stripe and other lines, and 

 spiracles also as in the larva ; but by July 10th the 

 eyes became black ; the thorax, antenna-cases, and 

 wing-covers, after passing through an opaque cream- 

 coloured stage, finally changed to a dingy dark pinkish- 

 brown. 



The butterfly, a very fine male, came forth on July 

 15th ; but at the present date (July 19th, 1870) Mr. 

 Hellins has a larva only just beginning to change. 

 (W. B., 19, 7, 70; E.M.M. VII, 64.) 



