108 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD. 
both insect and plant were marked with more or less regular circular 
bands of alternate pale green and rose pink. The only observable 
difference between the larva and its food-plant was the comparative 
thickness of the larva, which was about double the size of the leaf 
stalk.—Husrrt 8. Puitures, M.R.C.S., F.H.S., 262, Gloucester Ter- 
race, Hyde Park, W. March 20th, 1900. 
SCIENTIFIC NOTES. 
Vivarrry oF SMERINTHUS OCELLATUS BRED IN CONFINEMENT.—1 was much 
interested in M. Lambillion’s note on S. ocellatus(vol. x1., pp. 830-2), but I 
am not at all surprised at the different power of egg-laying exhibited by 
the wild and artificially reared females. He reared a brood of 200 (10% 
of which were cripples). It is hardly possible that they could have 
obtained throughout their lives all the food they required. My own 
experience is that 50-60 require considerable active work to feed them, 
and artificial rearing is apt to hurry larve when almost full-fed, as 
many species, in natural conditions, often go on feeding after fullerowth 
is apparently obtained. Only a few of the very strongest individuals 
could possibly reach maturity under natural conditions, hence the 
test is scarcely a fair one.—A. Bacor, 134, Lower Clapton Road, N.E. 
=)OTES ON LIFE-HISTORIES, LARVA, &c. 
NEWLY-HATCHED LARVA oF EREBra ceto.—About 8mm. in length, 
by :-4mm.in diameter, dorso-ventrally, at 2nd abdominal segment. The 
lateral diameter slightly greater. Head; Large (‘6mm. in height), tall, 
wide, and thick from front to back. Rounded, with a rough pitted 
surface that gives it a granular appearance. Colour, pale wainscot 
brown. The hairs are short, stout, tapering, slightly curved and 
thorny. Those on crown of head correspond with those on dorsal 
area of body in that they are very short and much curved. Body: Of 
even thickness, and all the segments are of about equal length. 
Divisions not deeply cut, but clear and distinct, each abdominal 
segment having five almost equally well marked subdivisions, thoracic 
segments only four, the anterior of which is considerably larger than 
the following ones. The anal segment projects beyond anus dorsally. 
The skin is rough and granular in appearance, the colour like that of 
head, pale wainscot-brown, with a narrow darker mediodorsal stripe, and 
three narrow laterals of the same tint. The uppermost of these might 
perhaps be more correctly called a subdorsal stripe. The lateral flange 
is slightly raised, and is beneath the lower of the lateral stripes, situated 
on a broad band of a somewhat paler hue than the ground colour. 
Tubercles: The dorsal tubercles i and ii, are small in area, but rather 
tall, cone-shaped, bearing one very short, stout, tapering and thorny 
hair; these hairs curve backwards to an almost horizontal position, 
reminding one of those on the adult larve of Charaxes jasius, i and ii 
are situated in transverse line on the 2nd subsegment of meta- and 
mesothorax, but are far apart (on 1st and 4th subsegments) longi- 
tudinally, and in markedly trapezoidal position (ii much further from 
median than 1) on the abdominal ones. The dorsal hairs on anal 
“segment are much longer than those on other segments, and jut out 
beyond the segment. ‘Tubercle iii is in line above spiracle, iy and 
