266 THE kntomologist's record. 



colour, minutely pitted, and bearing numerous whitish hairs, of which 

 eight on the crown and front of the face, arising from black points, 

 suggest a tuberculate origin. The ocelli are exceedingly black, and closely 

 packed, and hence are very conspicuous on the pale cheeks. The 

 mouth parts are very pale brownish. The thoracic segments each bear 

 four minute black tubercles, arranged in a straight transverse line over 

 the dorsum of each segment. Each of the two anterior and two pos- 

 terior trapezoidals (arranged thus . * • ■) of the abdominal segments 

 bears a short pale shiny bristle. The anterior trapezoidals are 

 much larger than the posterior. The anterior are placed on the first, 

 and the posterior on the third sub-segment. The abdominal segments 

 appear to be sub-divided into four main sub-segments, of which two 

 are again more or less sub-divided. The thoracic spiracle is large, 

 black and conspicuous. There is a black prespiracular tubercle, 

 bearing a long black hair. Across the dorsum of the thoracic seg- 

 ments there are 8 small black tubercular points, the most lateral pair 

 (one on either side) being situated a little out of the line of (behind) 

 the others. The true legs are transparent and glassy, and each one is 

 terminated with a black hook or claw. 



The abdominal segments 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, are about the same 

 width as the thoracic segments, but the hinder abdominal segments 

 narrow off to the anal segment. The anterior trapezoidal tubercles 

 are placed on the pale skin which runs down on each side of the dorsal 

 line. The posterior trapezoidals are placed on the brownish sub- 

 dorsal lines. The supra-spiracular tubercles are on the brownish 

 supra-spiracular line. There are two sub-spiracular tubercles, one 

 slightly in advance of, and the other slightly posterior to, the spiracle, 

 but some distance below. The segment preceding the anal segment 

 bears only two dorsal tubercles. The abdominal spiracles are black 

 and conspicuous ; the lateral tubercles are also black, each bearing a 

 pale hair. The anal points are made up of the coalesced tubercles of 

 the anal segment (3 for each point). The tubercles themselves are 

 conspicuously placed at the end of a pale prolongation, each bearing 

 a pale glassy-looking hair directed backwards. The prolegs are almost 

 transparent, each bearing a pair of black marginal tubercles on the 

 upper joint. The anal prolegs are large and spreading. The crotchets, 

 or hooks, at the end of the prolegs are black. Description made 

 September 16th, the day of hatching. 



The larvfe were observed to be much greener two days after 

 hatching (Sept. 18th). This was probably due to the food they had 

 eaten. — J. W. Tutt. 



The egg-laying of Hipparchia semele. — I found one egg only out- 

 of-doors, but several others were deposited in a glass case under fairly 

 natural conditions. Almost all these were placed about midway down 

 a grass blade. They were always laid on a fresh green culm or blade, 

 as is the case with Paranje c(ieria and P. vityacra, and unlike Epine- 

 phele ianira and E. titlionm, which seem to prefer to get near the 

 ground, and, I think, most often select the brown pieces of grass on 

 which to lay. Two or three only of the H. semele eggs were laid on 

 the glass sides of the case, and, as you saw, eight were on the middle 

 pairof legs of one of the butterflies (vide, ante, p. 214). I imprisoned 

 two rather worn females, and I had the impression that but one laid. 

 Those eggs on the butterfly's legs were probably the last she laid. 



