84 MAMESTRA FUKVA. 



The other circumstance was this. In the first in- 

 stalment of little larvae from Mr. Dunsmore was an 

 individual which, in point of colouring, for some time 

 presented no particular variation from its companions, 

 but eventually became noticeable by its outstripping 

 them in growth, when I began to pay it much atten- 

 tion, and gradually became aware of well-defined 

 differences developing themselves each time it moulted, 

 until at length, as I had begun to expect, the special 

 characteristics of poly o don appeared to convince me it 

 was that species. It continued to grow, and by the 

 month of April it had reached the length of two 

 inches (longer, in fact, than those I described in 1875), 

 with a body of proportionate stoutness, and looked 

 quite a formidable creature ; and to leave no doubt at 

 all in the matter I bred the moth on the 8th of June. 



Now, had I kept all these larvae together, I might, 

 — selecting the biggest examples for the purpose — 

 have taken my description from an ichneumoned 

 specimen or from the polyodon larva, and should thus 

 have missed the true characteristics of furva ; these 

 are printed in italics in the foregoing account, and it 

 is specially to be noted that the hend, plates, and warts 

 are not black, but reddish-brown. (W. B., 26, 10, 77 ; 

 EMM. XIV, 182, January, 78.) 



Apamea connexa. 



On the 17th of August, 1873, I received from Mr. 

 J. R. Wellman seven eggs of this species laid on a 

 piece of cork, in two groups, composed of three in 

 each group and a single one, all adhering to the cork 

 by a gummy substance. The egg is spherical, but a 

 little flattened, very finely and delicately ribbed ; of a 

 pale pinkish-drab colour, and lustrous as a pearl. On 

 April 1st, 1874, the eggs began to turn darker, of a 



