ACRONYOTA MYRIC^. 23 



longer hairs also proceeded irregularly from the twelfth 

 segment, pointing backwards. 



The Morayshire larva was much like the foregoing, 

 save that it had black hairs mixed with the olive ones : 

 its subdorsal blotches were less bright, though of a 

 deeper tint of yellow ; and there was more orange than 

 red in the transverse band of the third segment, as 

 well as in the subspiracular stripe, which last also 

 was interrupted at the segmental divisions. (W. B., 

 8, 70; E.M.M. VII, 83, 1870.) 



Leucania conigera. 

 Plate LVIII, fig. 1. 



On the 17th May, 1865, I received six larvae of this 

 species from Mr. Dorney, of Brighton, which he col- 

 lected for me on a very wet night, while they were 

 feeding on Triticum repens and other grasses ; three of 

 them were of a bright ochreous tint, and the others an 

 almost uniform grey variety. They were all cylindrical 

 in form, tapering but very little anteriorly, and an inch 

 and a half long. 



In the first-mentioned variety the colour of the back 

 was deep ochreous, the dorsal line pale sulphur-yellow, 

 bordered on either side by a black line, and well defined 

 in its entire length. The subdorsal line was rather 

 broad, of equal width, and uninterruptedly black 

 throughout, followed by a pale yellow line, finely edged 

 below with black ; next was a stripe of pale ochreous, 

 then another pale yellow line finely edged above with 

 black and followed by a broad stripe of deep ochreous 

 broadly edged with black both above and below, the 

 black spiracles being along the lower edge. Above the 

 feet was a stripe of pale dull ochreous, the belly and 

 prolegs being slightly darker. On the back of each 

 segment only the anterior pairs of black dots were 

 visible. The head brownish, streaked, and mottled 

 with black. 



