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The larva when first hatched is not long (scarcely over 2mm.), toler¬ 
ably stout in proportion. Head large. Body without any noticeable 
deviation from the normal cylindrical form. Colour, yellowish light 
brown, head browner. Tubercles very large, black, supporting single 
setfe much longer and more conspicuous than in most Larentid species, 
slightly knobbed at tip (except apparently the ventral ones), nearly 
colourless or whitish. Trapezoidals pretty normally arranged, anteriors 
very slightly closer together than posteriors; on account of the thick¬ 
ness of the larva in proportion to its length, it is only on the first few 
abdominal segments that they present the quadrate form, on many of 
the segments they are set practically in a line—all four side by side. 
The spiracles are situate on decided eminences, and are very finely black- 
edged. I could not get bedstraw at the time when my larvie hatched, 
and failed to induce them to accept a substitute; therefore I was 
unable to follow up the history. It would appear, however, from 
Buckler’s figures, as well as from my recollections of some which were 
raised by Mr. Bacot a few years ago, that the larva continues to favour 
the appearance of Ochyria (Corennet) rather than of Lyyris, being fairly 
stout, with the setae longer than in Lyyris and Cidaria, and altogether 
of the charactistic “ Carpet ” shape and pattern. Thus the position 
assigned to the species by Lederer—between (Ochyria) ferruyata, L., 
and pomoeriaria, Ev.—seems to be to some extent supported, but the 
newly-hatched larva looks to me sufficiently different from that of 0. 
ferruyata to prevent my feeling prepared to accept them as congeneric. 
In our national collection, too, suffumata is placed (by Warren ?) in 
Ochyria, namely, at the head of the genus, and followed immediately 
by pomoeriaria ; the only other British species there retained in 
Ochyria is, however, the type of that genus, viz., desiynata, Hfn. 
Besides the well-known ab. piceata, Stph., this species produces 
another equally noteworthy aberration, the beautiful ab. porrittii, 
Robson and. Gardner (List Brit. Lcp., p. 45) of the Huddersfield and 
Dover districts, with its clear white ground colour and rich dark band. 
Messrs. R. South (Entom., xxiv., p. 171) and Sydney Webb (Proc. 
Ent. Soc., 1886, p. xxv.) have some interesting notes on breeding this 
and other forms, and the latter incidentally shows that the imago 
hibernates within the pupal shell, as with Graphiphora (Tacniocampa). 
Lygris, Hb.—It is fortunate that Lederer was not the originator 
of this generic name ; if he were, a very delicate question of nomen¬ 
clature would have arisen, namely, this: Could we legitimately have 
retained the name Lyyris , Led., for our genus, in which the essential 
character assigned by Lederer (the tuft of hair on the forewings of S) 
was wanting in at least one of the species ? As it is, however, our 
course is perfectly clear; the genus is Hiibner’s, was not founded 
upon the tuft, and is isotypical from the biological point of view, 
although it needs augmenting by some species which were erroneously 
omitted from it by its founder. Hiibner’s diagnoses were, as usual, 
superficial in the extreme, though his almost instinctive recognition 
of affinities led him to fairly sound results. “Stirps V. Petrophorae. 
—These have rather broad forewings, whose apex is almost pointed ; 
but their hindwings are smallish ; both pairs are coloured like 
stone.” “ Familia D. Flavac. —The forewings light yellow with 
angular dark-shaded bands.” “ Coitus I. Lyyndes.— The forewings 
reddish-yellow, for the most part grey-shaded.” I have already 
