THE ENTOMOLOGIST 



Vol. XLIV.] JANUAEY, 1911. [No. 572 



ZANCLOGNATHA GRISEALIS, ab. 



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The above curious aberration of Zandognatlia grisealis was 

 captured at Wye, in Kent, by Mr. Percy Richards, on June 3rd, 

 1910. Compared with normal specimens it is rather larger in 

 size and somewhat paler in colour ; the lines are blacker and 

 thicker. The chief peculiarity of the specimen is that the first 

 and second lines are close to each other ; the former is straight 

 as usual, but nearer the middle of the wing ; the latter is 

 obtusely angled at end of the cell, touches the first line on the 

 costa, and approximates thereto on the inner margin. 



This species is a fairly constant one. It certainly exhibits 

 slight variation in the tone of ground colour, but aberration in 

 marking would seem to be very exceptional. 



EicHARD South. 



NOTES ON THE LIFE-HISTORY OF PARARGE 

 HIERA, Fabr., with DESCRIPTION OF THE 

 FULL-GROWN LARVA. 



By W. G. Sheldon, F.E.S. 



Whilst at Semmering last June I confined several females 

 of Pararge hiera over plants of various grasses for ova, which 

 were deposited sparingly ; in all I obtained about three dozen, 

 the ova, which were light green in colour, being of the usual 

 round Satyrid form, and affixed in ones and twos by the parents 

 to a blade of grass very near the apex ; in no case were they 

 more than one inch from it. 

 ENTOM. — January, 1911. b 



