AGR0TIS LUNIGERA. 7 



the spiracles, and here the tubercular dots were paler 

 than those on the back. The larvae were then from 

 one inch three-eighths to one inch and a half in length, 

 thick and stout in proportion. 



At the beginning of November I gave them some 

 fine loose soil to burrow in, continuing to supply 

 plantain and a little chickweed, of which lattert hey 

 ate but sparingly, evidently preferring the plantain. 



From this time the larvae came up out of the soil 

 but seldom until January, when they ate and tunnelled 

 through some pieces of carrot, with which they were 

 supplied all through February. (W. B., 1875, Note 

 Book III, 21, 22, 52, 53.) 



Agrotis exolamationis. 

 Plate LXXI, fig. 3. 



A female moth taken at sugar, June 13th, 1874, 

 by the Rev. A. Fuller, began to lay eggs on a piece of 

 leno on the 14th, and continued till the 22nd, when 

 she died after depositing 171 eggs. 



The egg is of considerable size for an Agrotis, being 

 larger than that of A. saucia ; it is rounded above and 

 flattened beneath, thickly ribbed, and with fine reticu- 

 lations. When first laid it is whitish and semi-opaque 

 but changes in a few hours to a more glistening dirty 

 flesh-colour ; by the fifth day the opacity had gra- 

 dually become greater than at first, and a dull purplish- 

 pink blotch appeared at the top, and a narrow zone* 

 at a short interval below ; this narrow zone is in most 

 instances a little blotched irregularly. 



These eggs changed colour to an opaque pinkish-grey 

 on the 26th of June and began to hatch early the follow- 

 ing morning, all the larvse being out of their shells by 

 the evening of the 29th. 



The newly -hatched larvae were pale greyish, with 

 blackish-brown heads and plate on second segment, 



