antenor w.ngs was almost unclouded, but the posterior wings had the cilia n 
hxnd margin coloured blackish, which shows indubitably that this, though v 
rarely, may sometimes occur naturally in pale coloured insects. At any rate i 
Hubner.an e.trema should induce all young Lepidopterists to write in their V 
books -IN CLOSKLT ALLIED SPECIES. BON't DESCRIBE OK EIOUKE EKOM A SOL J 
SPECIMEN." T) 
With reference to the occasional blackening of white insects, I may me| 
that I have a fine male StiljpnoUa saUcis with the apical third of the costa of II 
antenor wings conspicuously black.-H. T. Stainton, Mountsfield, Lewis! 
June 15th, 1869. «wia™ 
JJ^<^^9e pupation of a larva of Pterophorus. -On the 6th of May Monsic 
Milhere sent me from Cannes a larva on Andryala sinuata ; this is a compos, 
plant, with the underside of the leaf clothed with fluffy down; the larva whil^ 
was that of a Plume, already noticed by M. Milli^re in his Iconographie, vol i ■ 
331 pi 39, under the name of O.yptilu. l^tus,h.a already assumed the puj 
state before it reached me. But it had almost completely buried itself in the flu 
down on the underside of one or the leaves, and hence, instead of the pupa bei 
fBlly exposed, as is usual with the Plume pupa,, whether they are naked li^e fuse 
or hairy like pentMactylus, this was almost as well concealed as if it had be. 
m a cocoon, only a portion of the head end and a little piece of one side being 1,. 
exposed to view. — Id. 
Strange pupation of the larva of Gelechia atrella, Haw.-ln the Entomoloodsta 
Annual 1867, pp. 21-23, I gave a notice of the larva of this species which h* 
been discovered by Mr. Jeflfreybm-rowing down the stems of Hypericum, c^sui 
the tops of the plants to droop. 
In August, 1867, the Hon. Mr. De Grey sent me a box of insects to determine 
amongst which I found a fine specimen of Gelechia atrella, so fine that I suspected 
that It must have been bred, and enquired the history of it. 
The reply was, " Gelechia atrella I bred from a brown cocoon obtained It 
sweeping, m June, amongst grass in Buckinghamshire. There was much Eypericm 
m the place, and it may have been attached either to this or to the lono- cn-as« 
The cocoon was flexible and rather flat, and I much doubted if it were occupie, 
until the insect emerged in a glass pill-box, where I had put it." 
In May, this year, Mr. De Grey kindly gave me several stems of Eypericm 
tenanted by this singular larva, and as the plants began to wither before the larvs 
were fed up, I had to supply them with fresh food, and to extract them from thU 
old stems, a work attended with no little danger to the larv^, as I believe i 
squashed three of them in the process ; but I had at least three or four others aliv, 
and healthy, which I turned on to the fresh plants, into the stems of which the', 
eventually bored, ejecting their - frass" either at the summit of the stem (where "| 
had cut ofi- the tops, thinking thereby to facilitate their entrance) or at the sides i 
At the end of May I thought it time to examine these HypeHcum stems, to seei 
how the larvae were getting on, and to my surprise I found two brown, flat casea 
nearly half-an-inch long, evidently formed of a piece of Hypericum stem cut ofi" bv 
the larva, and no doubt intended as a puparium. It is diflicult to give a good idea ' 
