two green ones darker than the ground colour. At the bottom of the 

 sides along the lateral ridge, commencing on the third segment and 

 continued round the anal extremity is a whitish line. Between the 

 dorsal and sub-dorsal, on segments three to ten, are faintly paler oblique 

 lines of yellow-green, viz., one on each segment sloping downwards and 

 backwards ; the warts on the twelfth segment are very often suddenly 

 projected considerably, and then a circle of fine short hairs is visible 

 on their extremities. The surface of the body is also clothed witli 

 similar hairs. The head is black, having the base of papillae and a 

 streak across over the mouth of buff colour. They had all turned to 

 pupae by 24th June, one of them slightly attached to a stem of the 

 plant by the anal extremity, and lying, like the others, amongst a few 

 loose threads at the very bottom of the stems and partly in the earth. 

 The pupa is about five lines long, smooth but without polish, the top 

 of the head slightly projecting, the thorax rounded, the abdomen 

 plump, curving on the back outwards and backwards towards the tip, 

 which is hidden in the larva skin ; the wing-cases prominent and long 

 in proportion ; it is of a dull green tint, with a dark brown dorsal 

 line of arrow-head marks. 



The butterflies appeared July 5th to 17th. 



Emswortli : Fehruo.ry, 1 869 . 



NOTES ON SOME BRITISH SPECIES OF EUPCECILIA. 

 BY CHAS. a. BAEHETT. 



Although my friend Mr. McLachlan, in concluding his valuable 

 paper on the genus JEupoecilia, in the Annual for the present year, 

 states that the descriptive part is " sufficiently well done in Mr. "Wil- 

 kinson's w^ork," I think there is still room for a few words on the 

 distinctive characters oi ciliella (rnjiciliana) , suhroseana, and their allies, 

 the two new species noticed by Mr. McLachlan especially, because I 

 have found that great confusion exists in collections among them, and 

 also because, in the case of suhroseana, the localities given, both in that 

 work and in the Manual, appear to belong to ciliella and certainly not 

 to suhroseana. 



I will therefore endeavour to point out the distinctive characters 

 of the four suhroseana, Heydeniana, Degreyana, and ciliella, 



between which the confusion seems principally to exist, and may in the 

 first ])laco explain it by the fiict that they all have certain leading 

 characters almost alike ; for instance, all four have the upper part of 



