HERMINIA CRIBRALIS. 19 



Herminia CRIBRALIS. 

 Plate CXLVIII, fig. 9. 



On the 25th of July, 1872, eggs of this species were 

 kindly sent me by Mr. C. Gr. Barrett; unfortunately 

 I have missed the record of the date of hatching, but 

 it must have been some time in August ; early in 

 September I noted that the larvse would eat sallow 

 leaves, and they also ate Gar ex sylvatica and Luzida 

 pilosa, on growing plants of which I put them out to 

 hibernate. They were about half-grown (about half 

 an inch in length) when they ceased feeding for the 

 winter, but only one survived to commence feeding 

 again. On the 14th of April it came up from among 

 the close blades of the Lnzula pilosa, where it had 

 been hidden, and began to eat and grow ; about the 

 middle of May it moulted, and was full-fed about the 

 end of the first week in June. When I saw that it 

 had begun to shorten I put it in a large chip box 

 with some moss, and there it spun, and on the 13th of 

 June it turned to a pupa. The moth appeared on the 

 1st of July. 



All I can now say about the egg is that it was 

 globular. 



The larva is one of those plain dull-coloured things 

 that do not change much, except in size, throughout 

 their growth. When full-fed it is rather over three- 

 quarters of an inch in length, somewhat fusiform, 

 being stoutest at the eighth segment, and thence 

 tapering towards the head, and more rapidly towards 

 the tail ; perhaps its most noticeable feature is the 

 extreme shortness of the second segment, which looks 

 quite shrunk, and is about as wide as the head, but 

 the head, being globular, has its rounded lobes a little 

 projecting. 



The ground colour is a pale grey-brown, freckled 

 all over with tiny freckles of ochreous-yellow ; the 

 dorsal line is of a darker tint than the ground, and is 



