2i4 
two green ones darker than tlie 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 with 
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 
pup» 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. 
Emsworth: February, ISQd. 
NOTES ON SOME BRITISH SPECIES OF EUPCECIUA. 
BT CHAS. a. BA.EBETT. 
Although my friend Mr. McLachlan, in concluding his valuable 
paper on the genus EupoeciUa, in the Annual for the present year, 
states that the descriptive part is " sufficiently well done in Mr. Wil- 
kinson's work," I think there is still room for a few words on the 
distinctive characters oi ciliella (rujlciliana) , sulroseana, 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 sulroseana, 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 species— SM&roseffWff, Reycleniana, Degreyana, and ciliella, 
between which the confusion seems principally to exist, and may in the 
first place explain it by the fact that they all have certain leading 
characters almost alike ; for instance, all four have the upper part of 
