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enumerated his four species, and it is a satisfaction to be able 
to reinstate pyraliata here after its removal to Cidaria in 1853 by 
Lederer, and its equally erroneous union with fulvata in Eiqjhia (recte 
Cidaria, Dup. restr.) by Warren in the national collection. 
I may point out the following characters of this very natural genus 
(excluding any reference to L ? reticulata) : 
Ova. —Rather large and stout, not much longer than broad, owing 
to the narrower end being strongly truncate, a very characteristic Hat 
surface being there produced ; Mr. Bacot (Ent. Record, xii., p. 132) 
compares to a bottle with the neck broken off. Surface not shiny, 
regularly granulated throughout, the hexagonal pattern only faintly 
indicated. Micropyle not discoverable—doubtless at the flat end, as 
in Cidaria fulvata. Colour yellowish or maize-colour ( pyraliata ), or 
some shade approaching flesh-colour, either nearly unicolorous ( asso- 
data) or irregularly blotched with dull purple or reddish (prunata, 
populata, and testata). Laid usually in July or August; hibernate 
undeveloped. 
I,arva. —AY hen first hatched, very nearly 3mm. in length, very thin 
in proportion. Head rather large, body slightly flattened, and the 
segments a little swollen laterally, but with no great departure from 
the normal cylindrical form. Colour pale brown (prunata), yellowish- 
or golden-brown ( populata, testata, associate), or bright golden-yellow 
(pyraliata) , in all the species with a conspicuous dark dorsal band, 
narrowing ofl to a point at the anus, and accompanied on either side 
(after a narrow intervening pale space) by a fine line of the same 
colour. Head orange, somewhat granulated in appearance. Tubercles 
small, setse extremely short, nearly colourless, knobbed at the tip. 
Pupa. —Green (associata) or brown, more or less variegated (prunata, 
populata, testata), all very similar in shape, and with very characteristic 
dark markings, including a dorsal stripe, a ventral stripe (less distinct 
in associata) and some markings on the wing-cases. Cremaster rather 
long, with the terminal hooks better developed and much more curved 
than in, for example, Eupliyia picata and other subterranean pupae. 
They are probably of considerable importance to these pupae, which are 
never subterranean, nor do they make anything worthy of the name of 
a cocoon, but merely spin up in a very flimsy habitation consisting of a 
few threads between leaves. 
No doubt a specialist in the study of the pupa would be able to give 
indications of much greater importance, and would smile at the above 
crude note ; but it will answer my present purpose of showing how 
easily distinguished the pupae of this genus are from those of the 
bulk of the Larentids. 1 ought to add that I have not yet had that 
of L. pyraliata, but have no doubt it will prove to conform to the 
characters here given. Cidaria, as I have here understood it (I can 
speak of C. fulvata and <truncata), and ('./ bicolorata, also have the 
same mode of pupation, and are green pupae, becoming almost white 
after the disclosure of the imago, just as with Lyyris dotata, but they 
lack the dark markings of this species and its allies. Thera again, 
pupates in like manner, and has a good deal of similarity to Lyyris — 
even including, in /. vanata, the dark dorsal lino ; but we could not, 
for many reasons, consider these two genera as one, 
Imayo. —Lederer’s character having broken down, 1 have nothing 
prominent to offer in its place. Tho superficial appearance (shape, 
