60 XYLOPHASIA SCOLOPAC1NA. 



the dorsal line and run through a series of slate- coloured 

 elliptic marks. The subdorsal is a narrow line of slate- 

 colour, beginning at the third, and after the fifth seg- 

 ment merging into a broad lateral stripe (which com- 

 mences on the second segment) of dark slaty-grey, 

 most intense at its lower edge ; just above which, on 

 each segment, is a large blackish shining tubercle, 

 furnished with a bristle ; the ordinary dorsal tubercu- 

 lar spots small, with minute hairs. The spiracular 

 region bright sulphur-yellow, and the belly greenish. 

 ( W. B., 3, 6, 64 ; "E.M.M. I, 50, 8, 64) 



Xtlomyges conspioillaeis. 

 Plate LXIII, fig. 6. 



For the ability to publish some account of the 

 preparatory stages of this rare species I have to thank 

 Dr. Wood (of Tarrington), whose eyes were keen 

 enough to detect a moth resting near the ground on 

 an old gate-post, looking, for all the world, like a 

 splinter of the wood on which it was sitting. My friend 

 had previously found others in similar situations, but 

 this was the first female, and, luckily, it proved fertile. 



The moth was found on June 4th, 1877, and she 

 deposited her eggs in clusters on the sides of a chip 

 box during the night of June 5th. In the cluster sent 

 to me on the 9th I found them lying three deep, but 

 cannot say if in nature they would have been laid so 

 thickly ; possibly they might, for some species I know 

 — such as Tseniocampa miniosa and gracilis — lay all 

 their eggs in one dense heap. 



The larvae were hatched on June 14th and 15th, and 

 ate about half the cluster of empty egg-shells before 

 settling down on the food supplied, viz. Lotus cornicu- 

 latus. The first moult took place on June 20th and 

 21st, the second on the 27th and 28th, the third about 

 July 5 th, the fourth from the 12th to 15th of July, 



