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motion, being situated deeply in the incisions of the segments. 

 On each segment, and immediately behind each orange spot, 

 where those spots are present, is a wart, i'rom which springs 

 an abundant tuft of short brown hairs; a similar wart is also 

 situated below each spot, and a third below the second ; this 

 third wart is placed immediately below the spiracular line, 

 which partakes very much of the dull orange colour of the 

 dorsal spots, and is edged on either side by a narrow line of 

 velvety black ; from all the warts there spring similar tufts of 

 short brown hairs. The ventral space is grayish ; claspers 

 light brown, furnished with short hairs at their juncture with 

 the body. The eggs from which these larvae were hatclied, 

 Mr. Kay tells us, " were deposited July 24 ; larvae hatched in 

 nine days, will feed on lichens, chickweed, lettuce, dandelion, 

 and sallow, and although kept in a warm place with the 

 intention of forcing them, they grew very slowly ; apparently 

 they would hybernate in their natural state." As near as Mr. 

 Kay "could tell, the larvae moulted some ten or twelve times. 

 One of this batch began to spin a cocoon on November 16th, 

 by drawing together two leaves of sallow." — [Rev.] P. H. 

 Jennings. 



EuTHEMONiA RUSSULA. — Whilst Collecting in North Kent, 

 on the 28lh of June last, I met with E. russiila in great 

 numbers. I found it required much disturbance of the long 

 grass to get the females to fly, and even then their flight was 

 a mere hover and down again into the grass: the males flew 

 wildly at the slightest disturbance. Amongst my captures 

 were two females, one of which laid six eggs in my collecting 

 box ; these I saved. Six days after, upon examining the 

 box I had placed them in, I found six larvte ; these I at once 

 supplied with a few small pieces of lettuce, upon which they 

 fed. They continued to feed well until the end of July : 

 then four of them seemed inclined to hybernate, the other 

 two continuing to eat the lettuce-leaves most ravenously. 

 On the 10th of August one spun up, and the imago, a male, 

 appeared on the 23rd of the same month; the other spun up 

 on the 20th of September, and the imago, also a male, 

 appeared on the 8th of October. The other four larvae are 

 hybernaling: 1 now supply them with French lettuce leaves 

 twice a week, and they occasionally eat it on n)ild days. — 

 E. R. Sheppard; 13, Limes Villas, High Road, Lewisham. 



