yt) . April, 



I suspect there are many blossoms which offer a possible food for the 

 larva. I have myself tried those of the clematis and found that they 

 took to it readily, usually ascending the filament of an immature 

 stamen, and rifling the still moist pollen-sacs. This food failed them 

 soon, however, the blossoms being over, as a rule, by the middle of 

 August, when the larvae are just hatching. 



I see that IVeyer is an authority for Erica as a food-plant for 

 An/iohis. I have certainly seen the butterfly on the open heaths on 

 Dartmoor at considerable distances from any hedge or woodland. 



From the 9th to the 20th September my larvae were full-fed ; a few were then 

 of a plain light green colour, most were marked with pink on the back and sides ; 

 in a few cases there were a double row of pink dashes on the 3rd, 4th, and 5th 

 segniento on the edge of the dorsal ridges, with a median interrupted line of pink 

 on the remaining segments. When full-fed, all the larvae changed to a dull, livid 

 pink colour, this change being effected in the course of a few hours ; they then 

 shewed a disposition to descend the sprays of ivy, and it was found that a few ivy 

 leaves scattered over the bottom of the cage afPorded them suitable conditions for 

 pupation. The larva spins a small mat of silk in the concave side of an inverted 

 ivy leaf, a pretty strong silken girdle is made, which fits into the hollow between 

 the pupal thorax and abdomen ; this, with the anal support, securing it firmly, its 

 face to the leaf. The pupa, of a rounded dumpy shape, reminds one of that of 

 C. PhlcBas ; it is of an ochreous tint, dashed and blotched with brown. 



On September 30th, owing, I suppose, to the unusually w^arm 

 season, a ^ specimen of the butterfly emei'ged ; the rest of the 

 pupae, some thirty in all, are hibernating, and seem, to all appearance, 

 perfectly healthy. The exquisite condition of the bred specimen, with 

 uninjured cilia, so rarely seen in captured ones, alone renders this 

 butterfly well worth the trouble of rearing. 



Buckhurst Hill, Essex : 



January 12th, 1896. 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF BORNE AN LYCMNIDM. 

 BV HAMILTON II. DRUCE, P.Z.S., T.E.S. 



Lehkra Anna, sj). n. 



$ . Upper-side : fore-wing bright reddish-brown, deepening to brownish-black 

 along the outer margin, which is broadly darker; costal margin and base blackish- 

 brown. Hind-wing black ; anal half pure white ; a dull black spot in the lobe 

 partially covered with green scales, a patch of greyish scales between the lower 

 median nervule and the sub-median ncrvure, and a black spot between the two lower 

 median nervules. Tails pure white. Under-side bright dark green ; inner margin 

 of fore-wing white ; the white projecting upwards rather beyond the middle, and 



