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The pupa is very stout and plump, 15 mm. long and 

 7 mm. at the widest, just where the wing-cases end; 

 the head-piece slopes from the shoulders but ends 

 squarely, the back of the thorax swells up roundly, 

 falling in a little at the waist, whence the abdomen 

 swells out again in a round curve to the tail, the seg- 

 ments being very slightly marked ; the ventral outline 

 is gently curved; the wing-cases rounded; the abdomen 

 ends in a square piece, on which is placed a short blunt 

 spike set at the end with two little groups of short 

 straight spines. The general colour is pale putty- white; 

 the wing-cases and antenna-cases freckled with pale 

 brown, the abdomen with a more yellowish tinge, the 

 segmental rings marked with deeper yellow, and there 

 is a broadish yellow stripe down the middle; the 

 spiracles in one specimen were large, and ringed with 

 brown ; the pair of spiracles at the shoulders large and 

 dark brown in colour, thus being conspicuous on the 

 pale ground; the anal spike chestnut-brown. (J. H., 

 25, 9, 85.) 



LASIOMMATA iEGERIA. 



Plate IV, fig. 1 (see ante, p. 27). 



Mr. Buckler having spoken of the larva after hiberna- 

 tion, I may give dates for the summer brood : June 

 26th, 1885, I captured a female, which laid a good 

 many eggs the same day; the larvse were hatched 

 July 5th, full fed about July 27th, and had all become 

 pupse by August 2nd, and the butterflies were bred 

 between August 11th and 17th. I saw examples of 

 this second flight at large up to September 24th. 



The egg is laid on its end upon a blade of grass, in 

 form it is dumpy, not globular, but with upright sides 

 and round top, just 1 mm. high, and slightly less than 

 1 mm. wide ; it has no ribs, the shell is very glossy, 

 covered all over with fine irregular raised network, 



