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that a P. moneta had just emerged. Its wings were small and 
crumpled, but by eight it had developed into a most lovely 
specimen. When at rest it sits very high upon its legs, and the 
long recurved palpi make it look very peculiar. Upon killing 
and setting it I found that its legs were very brittle and came off 
at the least touch. 
After breakfast my governess and three elder children were 
Sent to search the monkshood growing in the various cottage 
gardens in the neighbourhood, while I went farther off in another 
direction. A week’s hunting produced five more cocoons, but 
I am sorry to say the moths had emerged from all of them—I was 
evidently a week or a fortnight too late. Nearly every night, 
until I left Frinsted, I watched the monkshood at dusk, and kept 
a bright light burning in one of the windows, but did not succeed 
in obtaining a perfect insect, though I have no doubt some were 
about. The nights during the latter part of our stay at Frinsted 
were cold and unfavourable for mothing, and sugaring was a 
complete failure. A couple of days before we left I beat two very 
small Plusia larve from monkshood, but whether they are moneta 
or gamma I cannot yet say; the latter was a perfect pest at 
night. ‘The second moth, a most perfect specimen, emerged on 
the 13th. 
H.M.S. ‘ Tyne,’ Chatham, Sept, 19, 1892, 
LIFE-HISTORY OF CARTEROCEPHALUS PALAMON, 
By F. W. Frouawsg, F.E.S. 
(Concluded from p. 228.) 
On October 8rd, one hundred and one days old; length the 
same as on Sept. 12th, but more robust, and the ground colour 
had changed to a very pale primrose-yellow, and the stripes of a 
slightly darker hue, the white lateral line showing clearly, and 
spiracles brownish ; the head pale buff with a faint lilac tinge, 
with a black patch above the mouth and brownish at the sides, 
the black eye-spots and central line showing as before. 
About the middle of October it prepared itself for hybernation 
by spinning two blades of grass together at the edges, so forming 
a tube, in which it remained perfectly motionless during the 
winter months; the two blades were united along one side, the 
other edges not quite meeting, but drawn round its body as close 
as possible, leaving a part of its dorsal surface exposed. In this 
enveloped state it remained absolutely quiescent from the middle 
of October until the 12th of March. During hybernation the 
colour had again changed, being on February 9th, 1892, a pale 
pearl-grey, and having a semitransparent appearance; the 
dorsal lines drab and clearly pronounced. 
