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eatings, etc.) of dock, dandelion, violet, clover, milfoil, plantain, 

 thyme, marjoram, and knotgrass. The marjoram was least appreciated, 

 but I saw larva?, with many a shake of the head, nibbling the flower- 

 parts. The younger leaves at the tops of the thyme spray gave the 

 greatest satisfaction, though only the upper surface seemed to be 

 consumed. The dock and knotgrass were eaten quite through. The 

 more partial eating of the thyme leaves may be attributed to the 

 difference in size between some larva? and others, for, although of one 

 batch, the size as usual varied much. The larvae have not yet (Octo- 

 ber 4th, 1907) hybernated. Of the twelve originally set apart for the 

 experiment but four are left — owing, probably, to my carelessness in 

 providing fresh food. The survivors are quite as large as those left 

 upon hawthorn, and appear to be more brightly coloured.] 



Explanation of Plate IX. 

 I.— The egg. 

 II. — Larva newly-hatched — 



(c) Forked hairs on dorsal area. 



(d) Reverted hairs. 



(e) Tactile hairs on 6th abdominal segment. 

 (/) Two hairs on 1st thoracic segment. 



(g) Clubbed organs on the lateral flange. 

 III. — The Isi abdominal segment enlarged. 

 IV. — Larva second stadium — 



(7j) Cupped hairs on dorsal area. 

 (i) Heart-shaped hairs, 

 (j) Thoracic spiracle. 

 V. — The first abdominal segment enlarged — 



(k) The spicules. 

 VI. — Larva preparing to change to third stadium. 

 VII. — Hairs on 1st thoracic — (I) first stadium, (m) second stadium. 

 VIII. — Larva third stadium — thoracic segments, dorsal view. 

 IX. — „ „ „ 5th abdominal, „ 



Lepidoptera in Hungary in June {with two plates). 



By ALBERT HUGH JONES, F.E.S. 

 (Concluded from p. 247.) 

 On June 15th I left for Herculesbad, being distant 294 miles in 

 a south-easterly direction from Budapest. It was a good day's journey, 

 even for a Hungarian " Schnellzug." I arrived late in the afternoon 

 and found comfortable quarters in the Stefaniehof. No meals of any 

 kind were supplied in the hotel, and these were all obtained at the 

 restaurant at the Kursalon which had all the comforts of a good club, 

 there were some excellently placed electric lamps, which, after the 

 dining guests had departed from the verandah, gave plenty of employ- 

 ment to the moth collector. For all these privileges there was a 

 visitors' tax of 24 kronen. Herculesbad consists of a number of showy 

 hotels, the Kursalon — the baths and a few shops — the village of 

 Pecseneska being about two miles distant near the railway station. 

 The elevation of 485 feet is low for a locality so far south, which 

 accounts for so many species being out so early. In addition to the 

 many acts of kindness shown to me by Herr Aigner, I am yet indebted 

 to him for giving me a letter of introduction to Dr. Hermin Fischer, 

 a retired surgeon -general in the Austrian army. There was not a 

 single day that we did not make excursions together, and I found him 

 a most agreeable companion and ;i keen lepidopterist. The nature of 

 our collecting-grounds in the neighbourhood i any be judged fairly by 

 the photographs reproduced as plates x and xi. 



