92 APAMEA UNANIMIS. 



29th of October the lines had greatly faded, and the 

 ground had become very much of a flesh-colour, and 

 they had almost ceased to feed. I found two of them 

 had snugly ensconced themselves in a leaf of the 

 striped grass, within a tubular hybernaculum made by 

 their curling round the upper surface and slightly 

 spinning the opposite edges together. By the 31st 

 March, 1881, only one was alive, and that was in a 

 moribund condition ; the others were all dead, and 

 turned of a brownish-black colour, and the last sur- 

 vivor died on the 2nd of April. 



In the garden here at Lumley, during August, I 

 found on the striped grass some larvae, at first quite 

 small, and very much like the Yorkshire larvae from 

 Lord Walsingham ; and gathering the grass as food for 

 the latter, I frequently found I had gathered a larva 

 with the grass. There must have been a large number 

 of these larvae on the six large tufts of grass, which 

 became greatly ravaged by October, when not a leaf 

 of any freshness would be found entire on either of 

 the tufts, which towards the end of the month were 

 melancholy spectacles, every green shoot devoured, 

 and only the dry, rapidly bleaching leaves left, with 

 large portions of them much cut away, showing the 

 previous ravages of the larvao. On the 18th of October 

 I took a lantern soon after dark, and by its help found 

 six larvae, one on each tuft. At that time there were 

 a few green shoots remaining, but they had nearly all 

 disappeared by the 29th. 



When I again looked at the Lumley larvae on the 

 12th of February they were all dead but two, and those 

 two had become smaller. (W. B., Note Book IV, 161.) 



