164 THE entomologist's record. 



Cannes.] Pale straw-yellow in colour ; upright, ribbed egg, but oval in 

 horizontal section, longest diameter about y^oin., shortest diameter 

 about ^^oin., and height about JqIei. Upright ribs about 48 in number, 

 transverse ribs apparently dividing them into a number of pearly 

 shining nodules, but these are really the hollows ; towards the crown 

 of the egg, the primary ribs appear to carry a number of very fine 

 spicules arising at the intersection of the transverse ribs ; top flattened, 

 magnifying power not equal to determining the nature of the micro- 

 pylar area ; underside appears to be smooth. — Ibid. 



Tamarisk- FEEDING Lepidoptera. — -I beat the tamarisks to the east 

 of the cabins at Almanarre, near the sea (between Hyeres and Car- 

 queiranne) to-day, September 11th, 1904, with very good results. Larvfe 

 of Pseudophia ilhinaris were more abundant than any others, but 

 A(/(Ustis tamaricis ran them close. In less than a couple of hours, and 

 from about half-a-dozen trees, I knocked out between 60 and 80 larvae 

 of the former, in all stages, from the 1st up to the penultimate. (1) 

 Pseudophia illunaru. — The young larvfe of this species are light (but 

 bright) green with white markings up to the 4th stadium (1st stadium 

 pale grey-green, semi-transparent, and with darker marks). The skin 

 in the 4th stadium is variable in colour, but generally reddish or 

 reddish-grey (like the smaller twigs), lighter underneath, sometimes 

 greenish. In the 5th and 6th stadia, the colour is darker and colder 

 grey, the colour of the larger branches and trunks on which these older 

 larvjE rest. In all stages, they are so extremely like the part of the tree 

 on which they live that it is most difficult to detect them, and very 

 few would be found unless beating were resorted to. The same thing 

 applies to the other larvae on tamarisk. (2) A(/distis tamaricis. — The 

 curious, slowly moving larva of A. taviaricis, so well represented by 

 Milliere, is abundant. There are at least two broods in the year if not 

 more. I knocked out a few small ones, but most were nearly fullfed. 

 I also knocked out an imago. The imago at rest assumes a remarkable 

 attitude, the wings folded and raised over the head like two long palps. 

 The uniform grey variety of the larva was not rare. (2) (Jelechia plntelli- 

 foniiis (olbiaella, Mill.). — The larva of another species of which I found a 

 half-dozen to-day, and which I had found before (frequently in June), is 

 long and thin, about the thickness of a bit of the tamarisk foliage, which 

 the larva absolutely resembles. It is green with a yellowish- white 

 lateral line, enlarged by a wedge-shaped projection on each segment, 

 rising obliquely backwards and shaded in front by a brown-green oblique 

 mark. There is a narrow double dorsal line of pale yellowish -green. 

 Head, greenish; larva tapers towards the end of the body; analclaspers 

 stretched out behind, something as in Fseudophia illimaris; segments 

 rather swollen and incisions deep ; walks rapidly, taking very short steps, 

 and throws itself about violently if touched, jumping like a Buprestid 

 beetle. I once found a yellowish-fawn coloured variety (Ste. Maxime, 

 August 28th) of the larva. I have not yet reared an imago. (4) Macaria 

 aestiiiiaria. — The larva of this species is not very common. I got 

 six specimens to-day, including what may be simply a variety or may be 

 another species. It is similar in shape, but has a smaller head (perhaps 

 it has another moult to pass), and instead of being bright green with 

 white marks, it is a pale tea-and-milk colour with M -shaped, brownish 

 marks on the dorsum on each segment, the base of the M towards 

 the head, it has some yellowish lateral marks ; venter lighter than 



