igg [December, 



and affixed their cocoons, which were made of debris, and were rather 

 fragile, either to the outside of the buds or in the angles of the shoots. 

 Five moths emerged. The full-grown larva is soft, fat, and shining, 

 of a dirty-yellow colour, with just the suspicion of a greenish tinge in 

 it on the thoracic segments. Head small, and deep black, as is also 

 the plate on 2nd segment. 



I may add that the silver fir grows remarkably well in Hereford- 

 shire, and often reaches a large size, but the group of trees that 

 supplies nigricana is only of some twenty or thirty years' growth. It 

 is not a fir that seems much liable to the attacks of insects ; its stiff, 

 thick needles are seldom seen marked by their mandibles, and with the 

 exception of the above, and the larva of O. distinctana that lives in the 

 needles, no other Lepidopterous larva appears to feed upon it in this 

 neighbourhood. 



Tarrington, Ledbury : 



11th October, 1880. 



FURTHER NOTES ON THE NATURAL HISTORY OF BOTYS 

 PANDALIS. 



BY WILLIAM BUCKLER. 



That I am able this year to offer a few more observations on the 

 larva of pandalis, as a supplement to those at p. 28, ante, is owing to 

 the great kindness of Mr. W. B. Fletcher, who sent me on May 27th, 

 a batch of eggs laid by a female he had beaten out from a tangled 

 growth of rose and bramble in the New Forest. 



These eggs were laid in a chip box, in five separate flat patches, 

 containing from ten and upwards to twenty in each, as near as they 

 could be counted with aid of a strong lens, which also showed them 

 to be somewhat overlapping one another, yet withal showing so smooth 

 a surface as to look like a deposit of yellow grease upon the chip. 



Four days after I had received these eggs, there appeared on 

 many of them two most minute dusky specks, and after two more days 

 strong bluish-black marks (doubtless the ocelli, mandibles, head, &c, 

 so accurately observed by Mr. Jeffrey). Every day produced these 

 appearances on more of the eggs in succession, while from the most 

 forward at intervals the larvae were hatching by night, when on 8th of 

 June, the remainder were fatally arrested by a sudden fall in the 

 temperature. 



On the 2nd of June, the first four young larva? were as an 

 experiment placed with leaves of rose and bramble ; the next four 



