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bright ; the larva3 were then in their best coats, and 

 very thick and plump. Soon after, about the middle 

 of September, on attaining their maximum length — an 

 inch and a half when stretched out — their colours and 

 markings began gradually to fade away into a monotonous 

 dirty brown on the back, with greyish sides, and their 

 condition was less plump; the tubercular warts changed 

 to brown rings, enclosing buff dots, the hair or bristles 

 from each only visible through a powerful lens ; and by 

 the end of October they began to diminish in length, 

 with other manifestations of turning to pupa. 

 (W. B., E.M.M., III, 188, January, 1867.) 



On the 6th August, 1875, I received from Mr. J. G. 

 Ross, of Bathampton, twelve eggs, part of a batch 

 laid by a $ A. lunigera captured on July 26th, and 

 which began laying August 2nd. 



The eggs on arrival were of a dirty white, and in 

 the course of a few days began to show a faint pinkish 

 zone round the middle, and a spot of pinkish on 

 the top. 



The egg is small, circular, rounded at top, and a 

 little flattened beneath ; on the 12th August two of 

 the eggs began to turn grey, becoming lead colour on 

 the 13th, when they began to hatch. 



The newly-hatched larva is greenish-grey, with a 

 dark brown head. On the 19th they had become of a 

 pale brownish-och'reous colour, with the head brown, 

 and a small brown plate on the second segment, and 

 minute dark brown tubercular dots ; they fed on knot- 

 grass. 



On the 28th the tubercular dots appeared more 

 plainly on a still rather ochreous ground-colour, and 

 a distinct whitish dorsal line was visible. On Sep- 

 tember 6th they had grown to rather more than a 

 quarter of an inch in length, and were much darker 

 in colour ; they were now ochreous-brown on the back, 

 with an ochreous dorsal line and a wedge-shaped mark 

 at the hinder part of each segment on either side, the 

 point of the wedge touching the hinder tubercular dot 



