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even so it is curious that each rosette shows the same direc- 

 tion of attack on every leaf. 



July 4th. — The larva has been eating pods as well as 

 leaves, so that there is probably no ground to suppose the 

 former to be too hard for it; the seeds seem to be the 

 portions eaten, portions of empty capsule remaining. 



July 5th. — Has taken to resting, as if it had done feeding. 



July 7th. — Resting on bottom of glass, without appar- 

 ently any special selection ; seems to contemplate pupating, 

 as it is very bunched and thoracic segments enlarged. 



July 8th. — To-day the larva is dark coloured, of very 

 miiform short thick cylindrical shape, and is evidently the 

 victim of the ichneumon to which the two others had suc- 

 cumbed. The parasite is now no doubt spinning its cocoon 

 inside the larval skin. 



July 11th. — The pupa is apparently beginning to mature ; 

 the wings, instead of being nearly black, but with a trans- 

 parent look, are now a deep rich brown, with the veins some- 

 what darker, and the rest of the pupa is not quite so dark, 

 but the eyes are black. 



July 14th. — Gradually got darker and then paler over 

 the abdomen. This morning white lines marked the opened 

 incision of abdominal segment 3 to 4 slight, 4 to 5 and 

 5 to 6 very definite white rings for whole circumference, 

 7 to 8, faint dorsal lines. The butterfly, a $, emerged 

 at 9 a.m. 



July 26th. — A parasite emerged to-day. 



July 30th. — Mr. Morley names the specimen Meloboris 

 crassicornis, Grav., an Ophionid ichneumon. 



On PI. LXVI are enlarged drawings of the larva skins 

 (figs. 1 and 2) (see Trans. Ent. Soc. 1914, p. 479) of P. eros 

 which produced Rhogas bicolor, and (figs. 3 and 4) the skin 

 of L. pyrenaica which produced Meloboris crassicornis. 



Of the five larvae sent by M. Rondou, one died and 

 three were parasitised, all apparently by the same para- 

 site, Meloboris crassicornis (see Morley's " Ichneumonidae," 

 vol. V, p. 172). Mr. Morley says (in letter) " he considers 

 it by no means impossible that, in your case, it was 

 hyperparasitic through a Rhogas." The two first examples 

 to declare themselves parasitised were killed for the sake 

 of the larval skins, of which I had only that of the 

 one that died, and that of course a poor specimen. The 

 parasitised ones had the outer part of the cocoon of the 

 parasite already spun inside, so that they also were not 



