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The pupa short, stout, reddish-brown in colour, the anal segments 
ill enveloped in the cast larva skin (I notice this to be the case with 
le other species also), enclosed in a thin web, in which bits of moss 
id lichen were sometimes inwoven, and placed under any protecting 
iver, such as a stone. 
The moths I bred were very fine, much larger than any I ever 
ptured, and although varying somewhat among themselves in the 
pth of their grey tints, yet none of them were at all like stramineola. 
Lithosia mesomella. On two or three previous occasions, I kept a 
•va or two alive from summer till after Christmas, having fed them on 
How leaves, green or decaying ; and last spring I managed to retain 
e even until the new sallow leaves were out again, but it would not 
sume feeding after hybernation, and so died ; it was then quite half- 
-inch in length ; in colour a velvety-black all over, and covered on 
ery segment, save the head and 2nd, with tufts of singular spatulate 
rk grey hairs. I should much like to procure some sort of food on 
lich this species would feed up, for they would never take to any sort 
lichen I gave them. 
Lithosia plumheola (complanula) . I will only remark that the 
•va of this species assumes its lateral reddish-orange stripe at its first 
second moult, when but little over a line in length ; also that it 
jms to feed and grow more slowly than the other species. 
Galligenia miniata. Eggs obtained from a female captured July 
bh, 1867 ; the larvae hatched before the end of the month ; fed slowly 
t almost continuously till the end of May, by which time six out of 
leteen survived to spin up ; the moths out June 19th— 30th. 
The food chosen at first was a sallow leaf, which had become damp 
i rotten by being kept in a glass stoppered bottle ; afterwards when 
kced outdoors in a flower-pot they ate withered oak and sallow leaves 
i various lichens ; in spring they nibbled the slices of turnip put in 
;h them as traps for slugs, and at last settled down steadily to eat 
J red waxy tips of Lichen caninus, and fed up to quite full size on 
s^food. In a state of nature I understand they are found feeding 
3n the lichens that grow on the boles of oak trees. 
The eggs of miniata are very different from the usual round pearly 
ids of the LithosicE, being more fusiform in shape, rich yellow in 
our, and placed on end with great regularity at a little distance 
m each other in rank and file ; my batch of eggs was deposited in 
r rows, viz., three of five eggs each, and one of four. 
