6 AGROTIS LUNIGEKA. 



of the trapezoid als, and from these a darkish brown 

 imperfect chevron passes with its apex in front at the 

 beginning of each segment, but intersected by the 

 uninterrupted paler dorsal line finely edged with dark 

 brown, the ground being freckled with darker; the 

 sides of the larva brownish-grey, with the usual some- 

 what interrupted pale lines very faint, the sub-spira- 

 cular stripe pale greyish, all the tubercular warts black 

 and shining, and large in proportion ; a large black- 

 brown blotch on each lobe of the shining head, and a 

 shining black-brown plate, divided by a pale dorsal 

 line, on the second segment. 



As only two of the eggs had hatched with me, and 

 Mr. Ross had no better luck, he kindly sent me two 

 larvse at this date, and now the four larvse began to 

 grow well, and in addition to knot-grass, which soon 

 began to lose its succulence, I added leaves of 

 Plantago major, which they seemed to like equally 

 well, and by the middle of October it became their 

 only food. Towards the end of the month they were 

 looking their best, with their glossy skins of dark 

 greyish-greenish at their sides, more brownish on the 

 back, the chevrons long since vanished, but the rather 

 pale ochreous wedges and the patch of this colour on 

 the anal segment still remained and the dark blackish- 

 brown tubercular warty dots were still conspicuous; the 

 hinder pairs of the trapezoidals larger than the front 

 pairs and the one behind each spiracle larger than the 

 one above : the spiracles small and black ; the head 

 had a large blackish blotch on the crown of each lobe, 

 which split into two streaks down the front and side, 

 and a separate shorter streak was on the back of the 

 cheek, and a spot or dash in the triangular space 

 above the mouth. 



The pale lines above described were very ragged 

 and interrupted in character, not showing within any 

 of the deep wrinkles ; below the spiracles the colour- 

 ing was of a very pale dirty whitish-drab, or greenish 

 tint, having a double ragged interrupted line beneath 



