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than content themselves with leaves. Hoffmann’s experience also 
supports mine as regards the puparium. The hibernating Geometrid 
pupas which do not go to earth are not to be sought among the 
Larentiids, but rather among Acidaliids {(Jyrloghora = Zonosoma) and a 
few Boarmiids. 
Pupa. —The pupa is not at all unlike those of Egirrita or 
Operophthera. It is rather stoat, reaching its greatest girth at the 
extremity of the wing-cases, then tapering off rather rapidly to the 
tail. The eyes are rather prominent. The colour of the abdominal 
parts is reddish-brown; I cannot possibly describe it as ‘‘light 
yellowish-brown,” as Hoffmann says it is ( loc. cit.), and suppose it must 
either be variable or he must have described it bel'oie the colour was 
quite thoroughly set. The wing-cases, as he says, are yellowish-green, 
the head and the thorax are somewhat intermediate between the two 
colours, the wing-cases shade off more yellow at their outer extremities. 
Systematic Position, etc. —V ennui a cambrica, both as genus and 
species, was first made known to science so comparatively recently as 
1839, by our fellow-countryman John Curtis ( Brit. 7vat., xvi., fol. 759). 
It is of course always possible that seme as yet unidentified description 
of an older author may turn out to be referable to it, especially as it is 
a widely-distributed species, but at present I have no knowledge or 
suspicion of anything of the kind. Curtis defines his genus thus: 
“ Antennae inserted close to the eyes, on each side of the crown, rather 
short, setaceous, scaly and bipectinated m the male, the rays close, 
short, clavate and ciliated, becoming very short towards, and vanishing 
at the apex. Maxillae spiral, not so long apparently as the antennae. 
Palpi very short, not projecting beyond the head, nearly horizontal, 
slightly curved and scaly, triarticulate ? Head small, subglobose, 
densely clothed with close scales; eyes moderate, oval. Thorax 
subglobose. Abdomen somewhat linear, the apex a 1 ttle tufted in the 
male. Wings probably forming a triangle in repose; superior, 
subtrigonate-ovate; inferior, trigonate-ovate; cilia shortish. Legs 
rather long and slender; thigh rather long; tibiae, anterior short, 
with an internal spine, the others long and slender, with a pair of 
short spurs at the apex, the hinder the longest, with a pair also a little 
above the apex ; tarsi five-jointed, basal joint the longest; claws and 
pulvilli minute.” He gives good figures of the $ imago—the only 
specimen he has seen, taken at Hafocl in Cardigan, and given to J. C. 
Dale by Mr. House, of Clifton. Of the antennae, head, and hind legs ; 
he adds: “This pretty moth appears to be so nearly related to the 
genus Zerynthia (pi. 296)*, that I should not have given a figure and 
description of it here, had it not been an undescribed and very 
interesting species, from the approach which it makes to Ogorabia 
multistriyaria f ; indeed, I should have included it in that genus, but 
it is doubtful whether it may not be necessary to remove the Ogorabia \ 
to the genus before us ; the antennae are similar, but the wings have 
not the contour and texture of the type of Ogorabia which those of 0. 
* Type didymata , L., but embracing also Cvrenna, tin. ; m fact virtually 
coextensive with Coremia, Dug. Cat., Dbld. edn. 1, Barrett, Ley. Brit., viii., p. 141. 
t Curtis is alone in placing multistriyaria. Haw., in Ogorabia ; it is of course 
the insect we know as Lareniia multistriyaria. 
J That is, of course, multistriyaria; Packard, by missing the word “ the” in 
his quotation (given above) has missed the sense (vide supra). 
