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inches in length, of uniform and very moderatG stoutness, the head the smallest 

 segment, and tlie thirteenth a little tapered, it is noticeable that the tubercular 

 small warty dots bear each an exceedingly fine and pointed hair hardly to be seen, 

 in this respect very unlike the bhmt bristles of some of its congeners. In colour it 

 is either a warm brown or a greyish-brown, the sides being the part rather the deepest 

 in tint ; the spiracular region, belly, and legs of a paler tint of brown ; the rather 

 shining brown head freckled with darker, and having a dark brown streak down each 

 lobe ; the second, third, and fourth segments show but little markings, if any, of the 

 dorsal paler line, whUst on all the others it appears only in an interrupted manner 

 through a series of diamond shapes of darker brown freckles, two joined end to end 

 on each segment, the anterior one vei-y small, the other extending back to the fold ; 

 the fine sub-dorsal line is paler, bordered by a darker brown line, and this on the 

 fifth to twelfth segments inclusive bears on the anterior half of each a conspicuous 

 blackish mark much resembling an arrow point barbed behind, the upper barb some- 

 times prolonged faintly in brown atoms towards the hinder part of the chief dorsal 

 diamond ; the sides bear some faint zig-zag rows of dark brown freckles ; the spira- 

 cles are of the ground colour faintly outlined with blackish, not very noticeable ; 

 the belly is less freckled with brown, and has some few spots paler than the ground. 

 The pupa is not quite half-an-inch in length, moderately stout, the wing cases 

 rather long, and the tip of the abdomen terminated with two minute bristles curved 

 at their extremities ; the colour is dark reddish-brown and very shining ; the cocoon 

 is rather tough. — William Bucklee, Emsworth : March 10th, 1874. 



Notes on the larva of Euholia lineoJata.— The following account has been drawn 

 up from observation of many broods, kindly sent me from different localities during 

 a period of several years, and touches on a few points which I do not remember to 

 have seen noticed elsewhere. 



The moth is noted as being on the wing in every month from April to August, 

 but I do not know that there ai'c more than two broods in the year ; for the first, 

 May would be the month, early examples appearing in April, and late ones in June ; 

 and in like manner the second brood would be seen in July and August. 



The egg and larva states of the two broods do not differ much in dui'ation ; the 

 larva; come to hatching from eight days to rather more than a fortnight after the 

 eggs are laid, and feed up in the course of from four to six weeks ; the speed of 

 development in each case depending on the character of the season ; but, whereas 

 the spring flight has been eight months in the pupa, having passed the winter in 

 that state, the summer flight of moths comes out after little more than a fortnight's 

 stay in the pupa. 



The food on which I have taken the larva at largo is Galium verum, and I have 

 reared it on G. saxatile, but it does not seem to care so mudi for G. molluejo. I have 

 noticed that the moth is fond of resting on the coarse grasses, which grow in its 

 sandy habitat near the sea, where I have been accustomed to take it. 



The egg is rather a long oval in outline, the broader end being also thicker than 

 the other ; it is flattened, but is deposited almost upright on its smaller end, in 

 little clusters ; the shell is polished, but not brightly, and is very faintly reticidated 

 all over ; the colour at first pale straw, soon becoming almost orange, and at last jDalc 

 brownish -ochrcous. 



