222 THE entomologist's record. 



The egg (Plate VII., figs, i and 2), when first laid, is white 

 or faintly greenish in tint, and soon becomes yellowish, it then 

 gets streaks of red in a network, as if it were going to take the 

 aspect of a/ni or auricovia ; the streaks, however, become more 

 numerous and suffused, there is a central red or brown dot on 

 the apex surrounded with a pale zone, and the rest of the egg 

 is finely dotted with yellow or orange dots on a reddish-brown 

 base. This colouring is assumed in two days in warm weather, 

 in cool weather not under a week is occupied in the progress of 

 the change to full colour. When massed together, the eggs 

 appear to have a black dot at the apex of each. They are laid 

 in a regularly imbricated fashion, and have in mass the silky 

 lustre already referred to. They are almost exactly i mm. in 

 diameter and 0.32 mm. in height. They have about 54 ribs, of 

 the same character as in the other species. In some lights the 

 crenulations of the ribs have more of the appearance of rows 

 of beads, but this is not due to any essential difference from 

 the other species, which would probably present a similar 

 aspect when favourably viewed. 



The newly-hatched larva (Plate V., fig. 7) is pale, but very 

 quickly the tubercles blacken, and when somewhat fed, or 

 indeed at first, with sufficiently close observation, the segments 

 present the typical pale and dark coloration characteristic of 

 Viniinia with the weak nth segment of Acro?iycta. The pale 

 segments have each tubercle surrounded by a white zone, the 

 rest of the segment being pale rufous, the dark segments are 

 brown, and the pale zones round the tubercles, in these, are 

 rufous. 



The anterior trapezoidals are large, with an angular hollow 

 edge to fit the posterior trapezoidals ; they have three strong 

 hairs, and two, or even three, weaker ones : the hairs, as well 

 as the tubercles, are nearly black. On the nth segment, the 

 tubercles are very small and the hairs short, but the anterior 

 trapezoidals possess five hairs. The other tubercles have one 

 hair each, on some posterior trapezoidals is a faint point as of 

 a second hair. 



The scutellum of the 2nd segment has three hairs on each 

 half, and the second tubercle (supra spiracular ?) has two hairs. 

 On the 3rd and 4th, the anterior trapezoidals have each three 

 hairs. Unlike venosa, the larva, as it grows, shows the alterna- 

 tion of light and dark segments less distinctly. 



In the 2nd skin, it appears to be black, but the skin is really 

 dark brown ; there are white areas around the trapezoidals of 



