PYRAUSTA PUNICEALIS. 45 



On the 1st of September I found about twenty-five 

 had hatched and were feeding on the under cuticle of 

 Origanum leaves ; on the 10th two or three, in their 

 white pellucid coats, were laid up to moult ; and 

 others had moulted a first time, and now first showed 

 on their clear white skins small but distinct black 

 dots, and their intestinal canal showed yellowish-green 

 through the skin. With the most forward the second 

 moult occurred between the 17th and 20th, and they 

 were on the 20th in bright green coats having large 

 black spots, the heads and plates finely freckled with 

 black, and a dorsal green line edged with whitish 

 finer lines is distinctly visible now on the back. On 

 the 23rd the most forward were laid up for moulting, 

 and with them, this occurred for the third time on the 

 28th and 29th, some others being very much behind 

 these. They were in their mature dress, just like Mr. 

 Hellins described them in the E.M.M., vol. XI, p. 66. 



When the larva is full-fed and about to spin, it 

 changes its green colour to red. All the larvae spun 

 up in pieces of umbelliferous stems, the last one on the 

 22nd of October. (William Buckler, October, 1881 ; 

 Note Book IV, 95.) 



Herbcjla CESPITALIS. 

 Plate OL, fig. 2. 



A batch of eggs of Herbula cespitalis, received from 

 Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher, of Worthing, on the 23rd of 

 July, 1883, deposited by a moth from the second 

 brood, were globular and shining, the colour bright 

 orange. 



Four days later, on the 27th, they hatched, the 

 newly-emerged larvae being brownish-grey, and the 

 large head black. They were placed on a growing 

 plant of Plantago lanceolata, on which they spun a 

 web quite at the base of the leaf, beneath which they 



