290 BRITISH BUTTERFLIES. 



Epping Forest (Tugwell); larvae in May, 1865, at Loughton (Cole); 

 larvae fullfed June 6th, 1870 (Newman) ; June 22nd, 1872, at Bick- 

 leigh (Bignell) ; May 30th, 1874, in Chattenden Woods ; June 7th, 

 1874, at Loughton (A. H. Jones) ; June 7th, 1876, in Chattenden 

 Woods ; June 10th, 1876, in Epping Forest ; June 5th, 1877, in 

 Monk's Wood (Bower) ; larvae common in June, 188.1, in Epping 

 Forest (Eedle); June llth-18th, 1881, in Epping Forest (Mera); larvae 

 last week in May, 1882, in the New Forest (A. H.- Jones) ; June 10th, 

 1882, in Chattenden Woods (Mera); June 11th, 1891, in Epping 

 Forest (Dennis) ; June 10th, 1885, near Plymouth (Bignell) ; June 

 20th, 1891, in Epping Forest (Bayne) ; larvae throughout June, 1892, 

 in Epping Forest (Quail) ; a few quite small larvae, May 3rd, 1893, a 

 very early season, near Oundle; May 12th, 1893, in Chattenden Woods 

 (Bower); June 7th, 1893, and June 8th-15th, 1895, in Epping Forest ; 

 May 20th, 1896, at Brockenhurst (Turner) ; May 29th-31st, 1896, 

 about one-fourth grown, near Fairmead, in Epping Forest (Prideaux); 

 May 30th, 1896, in Epping Forest (Turner) ; 26 larvae beaten near 

 Ashford, May 31st, 1896 (Wood) ; June 2nd-8th, 1896, at Langworth 

 (Raynor) ; fullfed larvae June 16th, 1896, in the New Forest ; larvae 

 beaten from sloe June 19fch, 1896, near Peterborough (Pearson) ; larvae 

 in considerable numbers in June, 1896, on sloe, at Lyndhurst 

 (Edelsten) ; June 16th, 1898, m Barnwell Wold ; June 19th, 1898, in 

 the woods of Northamptonshire (Dixon); June 2nd, 1899, at Chingford 

 (James) ; larvae much more abundant in 1899, in the Epping district, 

 than in 1898, the earliest taken on June 10th, w T hen they were some- 

 what small (Lane) ; June 23rd, 1899, at Ringwood (Fowler) ; exceed- 

 ingly abundant in June, 1900, in Epping Forest (Pickett) ; larvae 

 June 9th, 1900, at Chingford, small, but abundant, still more so on 

 the 16th, and continued so until July 30th (Lane) ; June 19th-20th, 

 1901, at Mundon (Raynor) ; 110 larvae beaten near Ashford, June 

 26th-29th, 1901 (Wood); June 27th, 1901, in Epping Forest (Enock); 

 larvae occurred freely first week of June, 1902, in several spots between 

 Dawlish and Teignmouth, on stunted blackthorn bushes (Rogers) ; 

 June 26th, 1902, at Mundon (Raynor) ; 40 larvae beaten near Ashford, 

 June 30th, 1902 (Wood); larvae, June 11th, 1903, at Monk's Wood, 

 from Primus communis, and one from Quercus robur (Crisp, Ent. Bee, 

 xv., p. 243), a remarkable record! May 19th, 1904, in Monk's Wood, 

 one only, just hatched (Raynor) ; half-a-dozen larvae beaten from 

 sloe-bushes, growing by the side of a rushy moor, near Instow, 

 June 16th, 1905 (Mathew) ; 27 larvae near Ashford, June 18th, 1905, 

 June 28th, 1907, near Ashford (Wood). 



Larva.— First instar (newly-hatched) : Colour, pale slaty at first, 

 now (one day old) rather green ; head, polished black ; antennae, 

 labrum (basal portion) and some lower mouth-parts white; four or five 

 stout white hairs on each side. On the abdominal segments, tubercle i 

 has a long hair, colourless, spiculated, curved upwards and backwards, 

 length about 0*22umi. ; the seta on ii is shorter, arising well behind 

 and outside that of i, a very small hair on the anterior border at this 

 level ; then below tubercle ii there is a wide space, then a large 

 lenticle, very like a spiracle, below this a very minute one, and 

 another equally minute near the front margin of the segment; then 

 comes the spiracle, then, on the flange, three hairs in line and one 

 hair below ; again, below this, on the next flange, a small solitary 



