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without eating, until the latter part of May, and the 

 last of these individuals did not die before the 3rd 

 of June. 



The full-grown larva is from one and a half to one 

 and five-eighths of an inch in length. (W. B., 1879, 

 Note Book III, 241, 247.) 



NoCTUA C0NFLUA. 



Plate LXXVII, fig. 2. 



Eggs and one young larva hatched received from 

 Mr. Longstaff, August 26th, 1869, from Forres, N.B. 

 The egg is at first a dirty yellowish- white, soon 

 changing to pale whitish-grey, having a zone round 

 the middle, and a blotch of pale brown on the upper 

 surface, some having splashes of brown. Its shape 

 globular above, but flattened beneath. 



By August 30th, I found I had four young larvse 

 about one-eighth of an inch long, extremely pellucid 

 and shining, rather thick in proportion to length ; the 

 head black, a blackish-brown plate on the second 

 segment, the dots small and blackish, each with a hair ; 

 the body dirty greenish and translucent, the interior 

 showing through the skin as a dark slaty-green internal 

 stripe. They fed readily on knot-grass and dock. 

 By the end of September I found only three larvae, 

 and soon after this date their transparent look dis- 

 appeared, and they became of a light greyish-buff 

 colour on the back, and greyish-brown on the sides ; 

 the pale subdorsal line finely edged above with a thin 

 thread of black. Their growth was very slow, and 

 they ate but little ; at the end of December they were 

 about half an inch long, and stout in proportion. 

 (W. B., 1870, Note Book I, 24.) 



Eggs from Mr. Norman at Forres, July 17th, 1870. 

 The egg is whitish-flesh colour, with a pinkish-brown 

 blotch at the top, and a zone of the same colour round 



