IBG THE entomologist's RECORtl. 



Ilaviug chanyod this skin (the -1th or 5th, I believe), they assume 

 their full phuaage, and grow rapidly to full-size. The contrast, in the 

 length of time in which they do this, and that in which they pass 

 their previous stages, is remarkable. — Sydney Webb, Dover. Sept., 

 1896. 



The larva of Plusia moneta. — Whilst staying at Tunbridgo 

 Wells for a few days, at the beginning of May, I found, on a plant 

 of monkshood, a half-grown larva of Plusia moneta. It was enclosed 

 in a slight web among its food-plant. It turned to a pupa on May 

 21st, and produced a fine moth on June 10th. The Larva may be 

 described as follows : — Colour when half-grown, dark olive green, with 

 numerous black spots on eacli segment ; an indistinct spiracular line ; 

 head, and legs black ; claspers, green. After the last moult it assumed 

 a light grass-green colour, with a dark dorsal stripe, and spiracular 

 line lighter. Larva scattered with minute hairs. On the 31st May a 

 pupa was brought me from the same locality, which was found spun 

 up among larkspur ; this produced a moth on June 13th. I nuiy 

 mention that the colour of the cocoon enclosing the pupa, from the 

 larva found on monkshood, was quite white ; Avhereas that found on 

 larkspur was of a golden yellow. — H. W. Andrews, Victoria Road, 

 Eltham, S.E. Au;/t(.st, 1896. [The larkspur pabulum is important 

 and interesting. — Ed.] . 



Note on the egg-laying of Hadena dissimilis (suasa). — A dark 

 specimen of Hadena dinsiviilis, caught at sugar on the night of June 

 21st, at Chattenden, was enclosed in a tin Idox, in which a depression 

 ran round at some little distance from the rim. One batch of eggs 

 was laid in four regular rows, about half an inch long, in this rim, 

 over which two other rows of equal length were placed. Another 

 batch, practically continuous with the first, consisted also of four rows, 

 about half an inch long. The female then seems to have shifted 

 her position, continuing the upper two of these rows for another 

 quarter of an inch, and completing the regulation four rows by com- 

 mencing two others directly above where the two lower ones left off. 

 These two upper rows were then continued alone for about three-eighths 

 of an inch. The eggs appeared to the naked eye to be of a 

 pale flesh-colour when first laid. They changed to a delicate violet or 

 purplish tint on the fourth day after being laid. The eggs hatched on 

 the afternoon of June 29th. — J. W. Tutt. 



Description of thr ovum of Zephyrus betul.e. — In the F.nto- 

 vwlogist's Record for June 15th (p. 92), a description of the egg of 

 Z. hetulae is asked for. The following description was made from 

 nine ova, deposited in captivity on August 27th and 28th, 1895. I 

 had observed the same female laying freely before I netted her. 

 Position. — All were firmly attached to the main twigs, at the base of a 

 smaller twig, thorn, or small excrescence. Five of the eggs were 

 placed on separate twigs, two on one twig, a quarter of an inch apart, 

 while the remaining two, on another twig, are in actual contact. 

 Colour. — Pure white. Shape. — The ovum rises in the shape of a 

 depressed sphere to about five-sixths of its entire height, above which 

 it is continued in the form of a cap. Markings. — Under the lens 

 the egg is seen to be beautifully and perfectly ribbed with minute 

 ridges, which divide it into hexagonal cells, giving it a honeycomb 

 appearance. The array of these cells is very conspicuous when 



