AGROTIS PUTA. 6 



The spiracles are black, and the tubercular warty 

 dots very dark brown, each furnished with a very 

 minute short hair. 



On the 14th January, 1868, 1 observed one larva no 

 more than half-grown, whilst the full-grown larvas had 

 lost much of their distinctive markings by becoming 

 more unicolorous in tint, a proof of their being now 

 full-fed. (W. B., E.M.M., IV, 199, February, 1868.) 



Agrotis lunigera. 

 Plate LXXI, fig. 2. 



Some years ago Mr. W. Farren obtained a few eggs 

 from a pinned ¥ of this species, which were laid on 

 the cork of his collecting-box, and he cut them out 

 and kindly sent them to me ; but as they hatched in 

 transit, I failed in attempting to rear them. 



It is now with the greatest satisfaction that I am 

 enabled to describe this larva, thanks to the persevering 

 exertions of Mr. Thomas Terry in rearing a few eggs, 

 obtained in a similar way, from a ? that had pre- 

 viously been poisoned and pinned. 



The young larvae, when first hatched, and until 

 after their third moult, were supplied with grasses, 

 dock, dandelion, and other food ; but they fed only on 

 the dandelion, and preferred the withered leaves, per- 

 forating them with small round holes. When they 

 came into my possession, I supplied them with Poly- 

 gonum, aviculare, which they attacked ravenously, and 

 would never after eat dandelion. Their growth and 

 condition became so satisfactory, that I have no doubt 

 this is one of their natural food-plants. 



They were sent to me on the 21st of last August, 

 being then three lines long, and in six days were half 

 an inch, and by the 8th of September one inch in 

 length and thick in proportion : they evinced great 

 aversion to light, and a desire for burrowing. 



