148 THE ENTOMOLOCilST's KEOORb. 



4. — 78 banded ^^ s, 37 banded ? s. (End of May to end of June.) 

 5. — 64 dark-banded i s, 30 dark-banded I s. (End of June to July.) 



In all 594 specimens were bred. Brood 1 produced some very 

 dark sprinkled forms approaching the Raindean type, the $ s were, 

 however, of the usual sprinkled form. Broods 2 and 8 produced 

 some curious forms, including examples of the two aberrations named 

 by Mr. Prout, to which reference has already been made ; some of the 

 plain orange,? s, too, have a bleached appearance; four reddish-brown, 

 instead of black, pup^e produced three remarkably coloured $ s (of a 

 tint approaching that of the ? ) and a very pale-banded ? (very similar 

 in tint to that of the three males) ; many specimens were undersized, 

 sufficiently uniform in the smallness to suggest a small race, although 

 occasional small exainples occur in almost every brood. The plain 

 yellow ? s in these broods were of a richer yellow' than those of 

 brood 1, whilst the banded ? s vary from the faintest yellow in their 

 bands to rich chocolate. The banded J s do not vary so much, but 

 nearly all have the hindwings with more chocolate than orange. The 

 $ s of brood 4 were all of the banded type, and were similar to the 

 banded forms of broods 2 and 8, the 2 s also were similar but varied 

 in the tint of the band. Brood 5 was the most remarkable on account 

 of the dark coloration ; some of the J s were exceedingly rich in coloui', 

 many with the hindwings entirely chocolate in coloration, on thn 

 other hand, the orange nuirkings were plain, quite a contrast from 

 the colouring of their parents ; only four specimens were sprinkled, 

 but this sprinkling gave them a beautiful appearance ; one of these 

 four examples has exceptionally deep-tinted bands, only a sn^all portion 

 of orange showing, and would, except for this, have been entirely 

 chocolate in colour ; one J differed from all the others in being of a 

 rich sienna colour ; the $ s are of rich coloration, with bands of dark 

 chocolate, four examples being exceptionally dark and so little marked 

 wdth yellow as to be almost unicolorous. 



From the imagines obtained from these various broods 1 obtained 

 the following pairings — (1) Orange $ x yellow $ . (2) Orange <i 

 X banded $ . (8) Banded $ x yellow J . (4) Banded J x banded J . 

 (5) Dark -banded $ x dark -banded ? . (G) Light -banded <? x light - 

 banded 1 . (7) Dark-banded $ x light-banded ?. (8) Liglit-banded 

 J X dark -banded $ . 



The larvae obtained from these pairings fed up to hybernating 

 stage, and although some were larger than usual at this period, none 

 produced autumnal imagines, although 1 placed them in the kitchen 

 with the idea of forcing, and they were ultimately placed back with 

 the others. Six of the broods were placed out of doors in sleeves; and 

 the two others were placed in the greenhouse in breeding-cages, but 

 the larvae of all hybernated about the middle of September. I left the 

 six sleeved broods out of doors with the idea of observing the effect of 

 exposure to the winter weather on them. One brood, examined at the 

 end of September, was found to contain about 150 larva* about f of an 

 inch in length, and, in addition, four or five earwigs which were 

 promptly killed. 1 examined the sleeve again in October, but found 

 only 28, and a number of small earwigs that must have devoured the 

 remainder. Other bags also were found to contain earwigs, which 

 Avere also killed. An examination of the bags in November and 

 December showed that the larvie were healthy, mostly hidden among 



