GRAMMESIA TRILINEA. Ill 



of grey ; spiracles black, eacli placed on a little swell- 

 ing ; belly pale grey. Sometimes the ground colour 

 is a dirty reddish-brown, with the dorsal line partak- 

 ing of the same tint, but paler, edged with black as 

 before, most distinctly at the folds ; the subdorsal 

 row of stripes of the same colour as the dorsal line, 

 but of uniform width, and showing distinctly only on 

 the anterior part of each segment, where also appear 

 a pair of black dots; the spiracular brown stripe 

 tinged with ochreous. There is another variety of a 

 dirty flesh-colour, with the markings but faintly visible. 

 (J. H., 6, 2, 66 9 E.M.M. II, 278, May, 66.) 



Caradrina Morpheus. 

 PI. LXIX, fig. 2. 



While searching for larvae in an orchard, in the 

 evening of September 12th, 1864, I found a small 

 larva, then unknown to me, feeding on the lower leaf 

 of a dwarf bramble close to the ground. As it ap- 

 peared mature while it was before me to be figured, 

 the next day I was induced to provide it with earth 

 as well as with food, and before long, after feeding a 

 little, it spun itself up in an earthen cocoon, placed 

 just beneath the surface of the soil, and attached to a 

 leaf and part of the stem of the bramble ; from this a 

 fine female specimen of Morpheus emerged on the 7th 

 of June, 1865. 



Since this my first introduction to the species, 

 having been desirous of a further acquaintance with 

 the larva for the purpose of testing the correctness of 

 its assigned habit of hibernating and feeding again in 

 the spring, I feel greatly indebted to Mr. W. H. Har- 

 wood for sending me five larvae on September 29th, 

 1871. These he had found with several more, chiefly 

 on Sedum telephium, but a few on sallow, and one on 

 Galium mollugo. 



These larvae fed very well on the Sedum as long as 



