194 A. E. GIBBS — KOTES 01^' LEPIDOPTERA 



a female quaker moth "at sallow" at Bricket Wood. She seemed to 

 be rather exhausted, and on the 9th I uncurled her proboscis 

 with a pin, and fed her with sugar. This revived her, and in the 

 night she deposited about 20U eggs on an oak twig. They were 

 spherical in shape but slightly flattened, and at first of a creamy 

 white tint ; in three days they began to turn dark in the centre 

 and on the rim. On the 13th she laid about 150 more on the 

 same twig, on the 15th about another 50 on the lid of the box, 

 and on the 16th about 70 more. On the 19th and 20th, for some 

 reason or other, the moth destroyed the batch she had laid upon 

 the box-lid, but in the night of April 20-21 she deposited another 

 40 to 50 on the side of the box. The total number laid, including 

 those the mother destroyed, was thus approximately 500. In 

 the night of April 25-26, sixteen days after the eggs were 

 deposited, the little larvae began to emerge, and were of a lightish 

 green tint with black heads. After this the other eggs hatched 

 at regular intervals, and the larvae, which were fed on whitethorn, 

 began to pupate in July, and by the middle of that month they 

 had all gone into the chrysalis state, in which they remained until 

 the spring, the first moth appearing on March 20th. 



The Satellite [Scopelosoma satellitia). — A hybernated satellite, 

 taken at sugar on April 22nd, laid 41 eggs of a chocolate-brown 

 tint. These hatched on May 10th, and duly fed up and pupated. 

 The first imago appeared on September 9th. These caterpillars 

 are terribly cannibalistic in their habits, and will devour any other 

 larvae which come within their reach. The entomologist who is 

 unfortunate enough to get one of these creatures introduced into 

 his feeding-cage will probably find the majority of his pets 

 devoured in a very short time. Calymnia trapezina is another 

 ill-mannered larva, and will ofi^end in the same way and as badly 

 as satellitia. The larva of the satellite is an evil-looking creature, 

 almost jet black in colour. The head is brownish -black, and the 

 second segTuent forms a black band with two very distinct orange 

 stripes upon it. The velvety black of the caterpillar is varied 

 by three indistinct longitudinal lines, and several snow-white spots 

 appear in a line with the spiracles — one between the second and 

 third segment, another between the third and fourth, another, 

 sometimes extended to a line or a blotch and sometimes entirely 

 absent, on the fifth segment, and a fourth linear white mark on the 

 eleventh segment. 



The Merveil-dtj-Joite {A(/riopis aprilina). — In the late spring 

 and early summer, when sugaring, the prettily-mottled cateii:)illars 

 of the meiweil-du-jour moth may be found crawling up the bark of 

 the oak trees to feed. Last year we took several at Bricket AVood, 

 but most of them died when pupating. Those who wish to rear 

 this moth may easily find the larvae by searching the trunks of 

 the oak trees carefully by the light of a lantern. They hide in 

 the crevices of the bark, and a glance at the cateqiillar will at 

 once show that its colours assimilate very nearly to those of a 



