NOTES ON 1{KEKL)1N<; ANGEKONA PKUNABIA. 14? 



iiiuoD.n (lead leaves which 1 ha<I placed in the botloiu of the bag, chiefly 

 fixing themselves to the edge of a leaf, although a few had attached them- 

 selves to the inidrib of a leaf, and lay perfectly flat ; only a few remained 

 on the growing plant, fixed to the main stem, hanging head downwards, 

 at an angle of about 45° to the stem ; a few^ were noticed amongst the 

 dead blossoms at the top of the bush and were exceedingly well 

 protected, looking exactly like the decayed flower-stems. During 

 February there was a hard frost nearly every night, and the larvae 

 became rigid, I believe frozen ; those among the dead leaves appeared 

 to be more protected. The frosts, however, killed off many larva>, 

 especially of broods 4 and 5, of which more than a half perished. 

 At the end of February I brought the bags in and carefully examined 

 the contents, the results being: Brood 1 — 10 healthy larva>, 10 

 dead ones. Brood 2—6 healthy, 10 dead, 4 moribund. ]5rood H 

 — 6 healthy, 11 dead, 3 moribund. Brood 4 — 3 healthy, 16 dead, 

 1 moribund. Brood 5 — 1 healthy, IS dead, 1 moribund. Total 

 — 26 healthy, 65 dead, 9 moribund. The warmth of the kitchen soon 

 made the healthy larvae active, but the moribund ones gradually 

 died off". Of the healthy renmants, broods 1, 2 and 3 commenced 

 feeding at once, and in a week were casting their winter skins, but at 

 this period nine died. The three larva^ of brood 4 waited some ten 

 days in the warmer surroundings before commencing to feed, whilst 

 the single larva of brood 5 began after fourteen days. The larvje of 

 broods 1, 2 and 3 spun up between April 7th and 10th, those of 

 brood 4 by the end of April, and the larva of brood 5 on May 8th. 

 The quiescent period between the time of spinning the puparium and 

 the actual change to pupa, lasted five days. The first imago emerged 

 on April 28th after a pupal period of sixteen days. By May 2nd, all 

 the specimens of broods, 1, 2 and 3, were out, the two survivors of brood 



4 had emerged by the middle of May, and the single example of brood 



5 on May 25th. The actual results from this frozen and then forced 

 section of the five broods are as follow-s : 



1. — (> emerged [ = 2 orange <? a (typical) and 4 yellow ? sj. 



2.-4 ,, [ = 1 ,, (typical) and 1 banded ci (yordiatu), 2 bcinded ?s]. 



3.-3 ,, [ = 1 ,, ,, ,, ,. „ ,, „ 1 yellow ?]. 



4. — 2 ,, [ = 1 banded d" (Kordidta), anrl 1 banded ? ^ 



5.— 1 ,, [ = 1 dark ? J. 



Although I tried hard to obtain pairings I only succeeded in one 

 instance, and the eggs proved infertile. 



To return to the bulk of broods 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 which had not been 

 disturbed. Broods 1, 2, 3 and 4 started feeding at the beginning of 

 April, but brood 5 was nearly a month later, although wintered under 

 identical conditions, and some of the larvae of the other broods were 

 half-fed when they started ; when, however, they did commence, some 

 fed up very quickly and w^ere only about ten days later than the larv* 

 of the other -broods, but the remainder hung on a long time, and 

 imagines were emerging from broods 1, 2, 3 and 4 when these spun up, 

 and emergence was a good three weeks later. The results of these 

 broods w^orked out as follows : 



]. — 89 orange t? s, 1.5 yellow ? s. (End of May to end of June.) 



2.-45 ,, and ;{8 banded cf s, 23 yellow and 17 banded ¥ s. (End of May 

 to end of .lune.) 



3.-39 orange and 47 banded <^ a, 21 yellow and 2-5 banded ? s. (End of May 

 to end of June.) 



