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marked, deep, red-brown medioventral line ; prolegs somewhat glassy 

 (a little opaque), with black terminal hooks ; the true legs glassy, 

 shaded with black externally, black terminal book, ring of pale hairs 

 at joints, anal prolegs larger and stronger than the other prolegs. 

 The colour of the thoracic segments, ventrally, is slaty-grey, a little 

 more white and black like the back, but altogether less marbled, that 

 is, the venter of the abdominal segments slaty-grey and unmarbled 

 (most difficult to get a view of the ventral surface). There is a black 

 longitudinal line on the outside of the prolegs. The colour of the 

 venter is inclined to be slaty, nor is the thoracic region really more 

 marbled than the abdominal. Habits : Rolls itself in a ring when 

 disturbed ; crawls pretty rapidly when actively in search of food, 

 otherwise its habits appear to be rather sluggish, resting on the edge 

 of the leaf which it is eating in full daylight, and slipping down 

 readily to the ground if disturbed. [Larva3 at Draguignan. May 6th, 

 1905.]— J. W. Tutt. 



Egglaying of Euvanessa antiopa. — On April 26th, 1907, I saw an 

 Euvanessa antiopa, resting on a twig of willow, at about eighteen feet 

 from the ground, and quite out of reach. Its attitude was peculiar. 

 Head downwards, its wings were strongly deflexed, their angle above 

 about 250°, below about 100°. It was motionless thus (so far as could 

 be seen at the height it was) for a quarter-of-an-hour, in the evening 

 it was no longer there. Two days later, a close scrutiny showed that 

 where it was rested were some eggs, but not a full batch. I incline to 

 believe the butterfly had been seized (by the head ?) by some spider or 

 other enemy, but it is possible, so far as I know, that this may be an 

 usual attitude in oviposition. — T. A. Chapman. June 2nd, 1907. 



Egglaying of Eugonia polychloros. — On April 9th, 1907, I found 

 eggs of Eugonia polychloros on the way to Carqueiranne, they were 

 near the end of a last year's twig, with shoots of this spring about 

 one-and-half inches long. The eggs were laid closely together on the 

 upperside of the twig, encroaching on the sides, but not beneath, in 

 two patches, a larger and a smaller, the larger about an inch from the 

 end of the twig, the smaller separated by a narrow space, apparently 

 that they might be at the base of the next shoots of the year. The 

 eggs are very like those of Euvanessa antiopa in size and colour, all 

 appeared to have exactly eight ribs. The shoot was a horizontal one 

 towards the top of a small sapling, about six feet above one's head, 

 and were detected, by the slight appearance of thickening of the twig, 

 where the eggs were, on looking up into the tree. [These eggs have 

 been photographed by Mr. Tonge.] . — Ibid. 



Notes on eggs and larvae of Eugonia polychloros. — On June 

 21th last, I found two nests of E. polychloros larvae on adjoining elms. 

 They were both facing south, and about fifteen feet from the ground. 

 I cut off the end of the bough containing one of the nests, and found 

 the eggs on the middle of three branchlets, about ten inches from the 

 tip. They were laid along the stem on the north side. The larvae, on 

 hatching, had evidently started eating from their birthplace, working 

 upwards to the tip of this central branchlet, and when I found them, 

 had also denuded the upper half of the left branchlet of its leaves. 

 All the twigs on which they had fed, and even the cluster of eggs, were 

 densely covered with webbing. — (Rev.) G. H. Raynor, Hazeleigh 

 Rectory, Maldon. July 4th, 1907. 



