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posture, plan of markings, &c., would, however, seldom leave one 
in doubt as to the relationship of the species. The males of some of 
them, if not of all, sit in a very characteristic attitude, with the end 
of the abdomen raised, and, indeed, recurved over the anterior part. 
If the tuft of hairs be considered of any classificatory value at all, we 
shall get the following sections : 
A. Forewings of male with a small pencil-tuft of yellowish hairs 
on the underside, near the base of inner margin ; L. prunata, populata, 
testata, associata. (= Lygris, Led. restr.), 
B. (if included in this genus). Forewings of male with long tuft 
of black hairs on the underside, near the base of inner margin ; 
A. reticulata (— Eustroma, Moore, Warr., nee Hb., Stph. restr.). 
C. Forewings of male without the pencil-tuft ; A. pyraliata. 
In the above remarks I have intentionally reversed the order of 
A. testata and populata as compared with South’s List; this is done to 
maintain what seems to me a decidedly more natural sequence of the 
species, the larva) of populata being much nearer those of prunata 
than are the larvae of testata. I shall follow the same order in my 
remarks on the individual species, and shall also reverse the order of 
A. pyraliata and associata for a similar reason. Of course C. fulvata 
in the middle of this group in South’s (Guenee’s) system is altogether 
an interloper, and I have dealt with it in its proper place. 
Lygkis? reticulata (Schiff.), Thnb.— I may introduce to the notice 
of British entomologists one named aberration of this species, viz., var. 
(recte ab.) ovulata, Borgm., Ent. Nachr., vi., p. 278 (1880), “smaller 
than type (cir. 18mm.), third and fourth white transverse lines of 
central area uniting on the common stalk of nervures G and 7, conse¬ 
quently on the anterior supplemental cell” (? areole) “or on the 
subcostal nervure,” &c. 
Lygris prunata, L.—I obtained ova of this fine species in July and 
August, 1898, from Torquay females. The description under the 
heading of generic notes will suffice for present purposes. One 
precocious larva hatched on March 27th, 1899, the rest from April 13th 
to about May 10th ; the average duration of the larval period was 
about 50 days, the ecdyses were three in number, as in all the species 
of Lyyris, Cidaria fulvata, the non-hibernating species of Ochyria and 
Xanthorhoe, &c., &c. I have a note that in the newly-hatched larva the 
prothoracic segment was somewhat swollen, the rest of the body toler¬ 
ably uniform in width, though the very elongate earlier abdominal 
segments increase slightly in thickness posteriorly. I do not think I 
can have been guilty of any error of observation here, but should like 
to confirm it ; in the fourth instar the /aeso-thorax is distinctly 
swollen, the pro-thorax small, only about equal in circumference to the 
head, but I have expressly remarked in my notes that there was “ no 
foreshadowing” of this meso-thoracic “collar” in the third instar. 
In the adult larva it is a very characteristic and handsome feature, 
being black, with white tubercular dots—apparently from Buckler’s 
figures it is red in some varieties of the larva. Newman’s description 
and Buckler’s figures have done full justice to the markings in this 
stage, and I need not say anything further about them. The pupa is 
very variegated in colouring, even more so than those of most of its 
congeners, and I confess my utter inability to describe it; its general 
characters seem quite to agree with the other species of Lyyris . The 
