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slate-colour, by the 4ch were almost black, and on the 

 5th when put in the sun one of them hatched. 



The young larva had a black head and plate on the 

 second segment ; the body dark purplish-brown, 

 excepting the three or four hinder segments which 

 were colourless, the segmental divisions paler. On tho 

 7th the deep opaque purple- brown colour seemed dis- 

 posed in transverse bands round the segments. It had 

 been feeding on the cuticle of a piece of garden striped 

 grass, but on hunting after it I had the misfortune to 

 inflict on the larva an injury which proved fatal. None 

 of the other grasses had been touched. 



On the 20th of August, 1874, I received sixteen 

 eggs of this species from Mr. Wellman, all laid in a 

 cluster like a bunch of grapes, of the same form, colour, 

 and texture as above described, some of them perhaps 

 a little deeper pink. On April 6th, 1875, these eggs 

 began to turn a little darker, and by the 10th had 

 become purplish-black in hue, when one larva was 

 found early in the morning to have hatched. It 

 answered exactly to the description above noted. I 

 put it in a bottle with Holcus mollis, Molinia coerulea, 

 Aira cdespitosa, Luzula sylvatica. Another larva hatched 

 on the morning of the 11th, and one in the afternoon ; 

 two more by the morning of the 12th; by this time I 

 could observe a slight trace of the Holcus mollis having 

 been nibbled, and that the pale hinder segments of two 

 or three of the larvae had become dark like the other 

 segments. Another larva hatched in the afternoon of 

 the 12th, three on the 13th, two on the 14th, two on 

 the 15th, one in the evening of the 16th — altogether 

 fourteen larvae. 



On the 19th I sent three larvae to Mr. Hellins, on 

 the 22nd I placed four larvae on the growing potted 

 Holcus mollis ; on the 23rd I found the remaining three 

 larvae on the cut grass in the bottle were dead. 



The duration of each life seemed to average ten days, 

 about the period for a first moult. (W. B., Note 

 Book II, 38.) 



