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eggs, sixty-four of which were on the ground, and the rest on 

 the food-plant, common gromwell (Lilhospermum arvense). 

 Those on the food-):)lant were ahiiost all on the under side of 

 the leaf, and often in pairs or triplets, but otherwise very 

 much at random, there being no apparent order. Echinus- 

 shaped, longitudinally ribbecl. When fresh laid pale yellow 

 in colour, assuming a streaked reddish appearance on the 

 second day. 



Orthosia Lilura. — A female, taken at sugar, September 

 21st, deposited on the night of the 23rd one hundred and 

 forty-seven eggs, in a compact and orderly-arranged mass, on 

 the under surface of a leaf of common birch (Betula alba), 

 very similar in size and shape to those of E. lutulenta. In 

 colour, white when fresh laid ; in a few hours the centre 

 assumed a shade of reddish brown, and a ring of the same 

 colour appeared round the middle. The caterpillars emerged 

 the first week in October. 



Miselia Oxyacanihw. — A female, taken at sugar, October 

 12th, deposited twenty-nine eggs on the night of the 13th on 

 its food-plant, common whitethorn (Cralajgus Oxyacaniha). In 

 colour a faint yellow-green. Echinus-shaped; longitudinally 

 ribbed ; eight long and eight short ribs, the longer terminating 

 in a point, and giving the eggs a conical shape, and forming 

 an edge round a small crater. Most of them were laid 

 indiscriminately on the upper and under sides of the leaves, 

 singly, and near the edge; a few on the foot-slalk, just at the 

 base of the leaf, or at juncture with the twig, or just on the 

 twig itself. 



Phlogophora meiiculosa. — A female, taken at sugar, 

 October 14th, laid one hundred and thirty-three eggs on the 

 night of the 15th. In colour a faint yellow. Echinus- 

 shaped; longitudinally ribbed; rather depressed at the top ; 

 ribs running up to the circumference of a small convexity. 

 All deposited at random : eighty-one on the muslin cover, 

 forty on the leaves of the food-plant, and twelve on the 

 ground. Those on the food-plant without any order: some 

 on the upper, some on the under side of the leaves, some on 

 the edge, some on the inner surface, and some on the foot- 

 stalk. 



P. II. Jennings. 



Lougfield Rectory, Gravesend, 

 October 10,1874. 



