SA TYRID.K. 2ori 



pinkish-browu ; anal spikes pink ; legs faintly brownish ; 

 prolegs green ; the fine hairs whitish. 



When young it has a large head, and the body, which is 

 squat-looking, tapers from it to the tail ; the skin is dull, 

 with the usual raised spots prominent and whitish, each bear- 

 ing a longish bristle ; head granulated, and having also 

 bristles arising from elevated spots ; colour whitish-buff, with 

 yellow -brown dorsal and sub-dorsal lines ; head brownish, 

 with whitish raised spots. 



September to June, hybernating when small. (Buckler.) 

 On DactyUs glomcraia and various other common grasses, 

 apparently with little preference for any in particular ; 

 indeed, the butterfly shows no special liking, but distributes 

 her eggs in an impartial manner, not even taking the trouble 

 to attach them, but allows them to fall to the ground among 

 the grass. This is a curious habit, differing from that of 

 most other species, which attach their eggs, either singly or 

 in batches, to the food plants by a viscid secretion. In the 

 present species this viscid secretion is absent, and the egg is 

 dry and hard, resembles dull bone-white china, and is covered 

 with a delicate rhomboidal network with tiny knobs at the 

 knots and finer meshes on the top. (Buckler.) The young 

 larva doubtless hybernates at the roots of grass. 



Pupa very stout and plump, squared in front, and sloping 

 thence up to the thorax, which swells up roundly, falling in a 

 little at the waist, whence the abdomen swells out again in a 

 round curve to the tail ; ventral outline gently curved ; wing 

 cases rounded ; the abdomen ends in a square piece, on which 

 is placed a short blunt spike, terminated with short straight 

 spines. Colour pale putty-white ; wing and antenna cases 

 freckled with pale brown ; abdomen with a more yellowish 

 tinge ; the segmental rings deeper yellow ; and a broadish 

 yellow stripe down the middle ; anal spike chestnut brown. 

 (Buckler.) From its straight anal spines it is unable to sus- 

 pend itself, but the larva changes to a pupa among the roots 



