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days. The larvae fed up with great rapidity on flowers of 

 cow-parsley {Anthriscus syhestris). They had all spun and 

 turned by the end of June. The perfect insects emerged 

 between the last week in July and the middle of August. 

 From these I obtained another batch of eggs which hatched 

 in a few days. I fed the larva up on their typical food- 

 plants, Senecio jacohcea and SoUdago virgaurea. They were 

 nearly as long again as the summer brood in attaining full 

 growth. These latter, though fed on such different pabulum, 

 differed scarcely at all in colour and appearance from the 

 autumnal brood. The moths of the summer brood were 

 rather smaller and darker. 



Eup. tripunctata, H.-S. — This name must sink and be 

 superseded by Alhipuncfata, Haw. Mr. Dale, who possesses 

 Haworth's old original specimens, says they are precisely 

 identical with the modern Tripunctata of Herrich-Schaffer. 

 I suspect that this species, like the preceding, is double- 

 brooded. It is (at least when bred in confinement) one 

 of the earliest to appear, but the larva is not iiatched till the 

 beginning of September, and may be found full-fed till the 

 end of October. On the 19th of August I took a fine 

 fresh S (the only perfect insect I ever took), and a few days 

 afterwards I found the eggs upon the unexpanded buds of 

 Angelica sylvestris. The larva was tolerably plentiful in 

 this neighbourhood. 



Eup, trisignata. This larva was also pretty plentiful. 

 The perfect insect does not seem to be double-brooded. In 

 the wild state it does not seem to emeroe till Ausfust, the 

 eggs may towards the end of the month be found deposited 

 pretty freely on the buds and flowers of Angelica sylvestris. 



Eup. expallidafa.—'M. D'Orville and Mr. Hellins have, 

 during the past summer, bred this insect from larvas taken in 

 1860. 



