CO ' August, 
They fed well on Alsine media and Polygonum persicaria, and were one-third 
grown by July 14th, and by the 29th, some had obtained their maximum size, and 
the others by August 7th, and had all retired below the earth by the 14th. The 
moths came forth from June 11th to 13th, in the following year 1866. 
When young, the colours of these larvae were brighter and darker than they 
afterwards became, with distinct paler dorsal and sub-dorsal lines outlined with 
darker, and black spiracular lines, otherwise their markings were similar to the 
following. When full grown, they were very plump creatures, varying from an 
inch and five-eights to an inch and three-quarters in length, cylindrical, and tapei-ing 
towards the head ; the back and sides, as far as the row of spiracles, of very mot- 
tled dull brown, brownish-grey, dull greenish-gi-ey, deep purplish-brown, or dirty 
olive-greenish, for all these tints were found in the brood. The dorsal and sub- 
dorsal lines outlined with darker brown, in many instances only visible on the an- 
terior segments, and in others also at the segmental divisions. 
A series of darker brown diamond and wedge-shaped marks down the middle 
of the back, on the fifth to the twelfth segment, inclusive, viz., on each of those 
segments a diamond united to a wedge shape on either side, the broad ends of the 
wedges extending to the end of the twelfth segment only, and to about one-third 
from the ends of the other segments, each wedge pointing forwards reaching a-third 
into the segment in advance. The tubercular dots blackish, the upper pair placed 
on the edges of the diamonds, the lower pair on the broad ends of the wedges ; in 
the purplish -brown variety the dots and lines paler than the ground colour, and in 
some instances not visible. 
The whitish spiracles edged with blackish are placed along the terminal line of 
the above brown colouring, and the remaining surface below, including the legs, is 
of a dirty whitish or pale drab colour, the legs tipped with brown. 
Head with two central black streaks across the face ; a dark brown plate on 
the second segment, sometimes marked with one pair and in others two pairs of 
pale spots. — Wm. Buckler, Emsworth. 
Description of the larva of Badena adusta.— The larvge of this species seem easy 
to rear aa far as their full growth, on lettuce, knot grass, hawthorn, and sallow ; 
about the end of September they become torpid, and hybernate until the warmth 
of spring awakens them, when they spin a slight cocoon under moss and dead leaves, 
the perfect insects appearing towards the end of June ; but it frequently happens 
that in confinement the larvaa die during hybernation, as it is difficult to prevent 
their being attacked with mildew if kept moist, and on the other hand they die off 
if too diy. 
The full-grown larva is about an inch and a-half to an inch and five-eights in 
length, cylindrical, and of nearly uniform width, of a full green colour, with the 
whole upper surface of back and sides as far as the spiracles freckled with a deep 
purplish-red, which down the middle of the back becomes aggregated in the form 
of diamonds, each occupying the area of a segment within the sub-dorsal lines, 
these last, and the spiracular line with the space between them, are freckled and 
streaked obliquely with the same red colour. The dorsal line only indicated by a 
dusky spot at each segmental division ; the tubercular dots blackish. 
