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OVUM. According to M r Buckler, page 65 of 

 no. 75 of the Entomologist's Monthly Magazine., 



" The egg may be called large for the size of the 

 fly, and is nearly globular, though somewhat ovate in 

 shape, and placed on end ; the shell is glistening and 

 ribbed, but not deeply, with about thirty longitudinal 

 ribs, and with very shallow transverse reticulations, 

 in colour pale greenish-yellow, and afterwards pale 

 pinkish-gray, speckled with claret-brown." 



The ova deposited in the autumn, hatch in about 

 fourteen days, the larvae hybernating. 



LARVA. On Dactylis and various species of Poa, 

 in May and June, after hybernation, and again in 

 October. 



E. Newman in British Butterflies, vol. I, page 83, 

 states that the caterpillar of Aethiops will feed, in 

 confinement, on Agrostis canina. 



E. Ligea. 



TIMES OF APPEARANCE. July and August. 



HABITAT. Saint-Martin- Vesubie : on the Chemin 

 de Venanson ; Balme de la Frema, but not at any 

 considerable elevation ; and the Borreon. 



On June 29 th or 30 lh 1889, I took a single specimen 

 of the /, very worn, which had probably been 

 hybernating, in a little piece of land off the Route de 

 Venanson. On July 24 th of the same year, several more 

 were captured on the ascent to the Balme, not very 

 for from the top. 



LARVA. On Milium, Poa and other Grasses, in 

 March, April and September. 



