7002 Tnsects. 



O. EupHhecia pumilata. After two or three unsuccessful attempts 

 to rear this species on Convolvulus Sepinm and C. arvensis, I luckily 

 tried a brood with Clematis flowers, on which they throve wondeifully ; 

 they must, however, eat other things, as the moth appears throughout 

 nearly half the year ; one was brought me from the lamps on the 22nd 

 of November, evidently just fresh from the pupa. The larva when 

 first hatched is bright orange, with a dark head, and the very smallest 

 creature in the shape of a Maskel — not belonging to a Micro — that I 

 am acquainted with. 



O. Melanihia ocellata. This larva is remarkable for having the 

 dorsal markings repeated on the belly, though with this difference — 

 that the six Vs on the back are formed with whitish lines, and have 

 the angle pointing towards the tail, while the ventral Vs are red and 

 point towards the head. 



O. Melanippe procellata. This larva is the largest of the genus, 

 and very difficult indeed to describe. In figure it is long, and tapers 

 towards the head ; ground-colour pale yellowish brown, paler in the 

 last four segments ; dorsal line black, interrupted at the segmental 

 divisions from the fourth to the tenth with a reddish dash followed by 

 a black dot, and terminating at the tail in a dark spot ; subdorsal lines 

 dingy brown and rather diffuse, almost touching the dorsal line on the 

 middle segments, but receding again at the segmental divisions, and 

 thus leaving a pale space around the black dots they become lighter 

 on the posterior segments ; there are two or three brownish wavy 

 lateral lines, becoming more clouded from the sixth to the ninth seg- 

 ment, where they quite run into one another, but after that become at 

 once paler and thinner ; spiracles black in a white ring ; there is a 

 dark dash above each leg. Some larvae are much darker than others, 

 and have all the lines quite black and much clouded, so as to allow 

 very little of the ground-colour to appear. The brood I had were 

 hatched on the 22nd of August, ftill grown in a month, and fed on 

 young shoots of the garden Clematis. 



O. M. unangulata. Of this species I have seen five or six broods, 

 and have so far found the larva not to vary very much. In shape it 

 tapers slightly towards the head : the ground is of a pale stone-colour ; 

 there is no regular dorsal line, but a series of dusky dashes and dots, 

 and at the five middle segmental divions these dots become enlarged 

 and quite black in colour, and are preceded by an oblong transverse 

 reddish mark, and that again by a square white spot ; there are two 

 very wavy and diffused subdorsal lines of a very faint dusky black, but 

 just above the spiracles is a pretty clear thin line of the ground-colour, 



