70 CHAR^AS GRAMINIS. 



Charjias GRAMINTS. 



Plate LXIV, fig. 4. 



The description of this larva must be culled from 

 the note under the preceding species, p. 69. 



Paohetra leucoph^a. 



Plate LXV, fig. 1. 



On the 3rd of June, 1882, I received from Mr. 

 Benjamin Arthur Bower, of Langley, Eltham Road, 

 Lee, twenty-nine eggs of this species on chip in groups 

 of four or five, and some singly, others loose, laid by a 

 moth taken by himself at Box Hill, at rest on a tree 

 trunk on the 22nd of May. 



Their hatching seemed imminent on their arrival, 

 as they had all changed colour ; when first laid Mr. 

 Bower said the eggs were of a light drab, and changed 

 in a few days to purplish-brown ; they were laid on 

 the side and bottom of a chip box, in an irregular 

 mass, in some parts four deep. The egg is round, 

 convex above and flattened beneath, and is numerously 

 and finely ribbed and reticulated. Some were of a light 

 drab colour, others darker drab, and most were of a 

 leaden grey, all of them showing a dark grey ring at 

 the apex and a thicker dark grey ring round the base ; 

 these on the darkest eggs approach to blackness, and 

 all the ribs glisten with a pearly lustre. 



The eggs began to hatch at 8.30 in the evening of 

 the day of their arrival, and continued during the 

 night, only one being unhatched the next morning. 

 The young larvse were confined with Dactylis glome- 

 rata, Brachypodium sylvaticum, and Poa annua at once, 

 and in the morning of the fourth all showed signs of 

 being eaten (the last named the most) by small trans- 

 parent patches appearing of eroded or denuded cuticle 



