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extremity,f urnishedwith minute curly-topped bristles ; 

 in colour it is dark purplish-brown, with the lower 

 abdominal divisions golden-brown, the wing-covers 

 glistening, and all the rest glossy. (William Buckler, 

 June 5th, 1880; E.M.M., July, 1880, XVII, 28— 

 31.) 



That I am able this year to offer a few more 

 observations on the larva of Botys pandalis, as a 

 supplement to those on p. 28 of this volume of 

 E.M.M. [and repeated just above], is owing to the 

 great kindness of Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher, who sent 

 me on the 27th of May a batch of eggs laid by a 

 female he had beaten out from a tangled growth of 

 rose and bramble in the New Forest. 



These eggs were laid in a chip box, in five separate 

 flat patches, containing from ten and upwards to 

 twenty in each, as near as they could be counted with 

 the aid of a strong lens, which also showed them to 

 be somewhat overlapping one another, yet withal 

 showing so smooth a surface as to look like a deposit 

 of yellow grease upon the chip. 



Four days after I had received these eggs there 

 appeared on many of them two most minute dusky 

 specks, and after two more days strong bluish-black 

 marks (doubtless the ocelli, mandibles, head, etc., so 

 accurately observed by Mr. Jeffrey). Every day 

 produced these appearances on more of the eggs in 

 succession, while from the most forward at intervals 

 the larvaa were hatching by night, when, on the 8th 

 of June, the remainder were fatally arrested by a 

 sudden fall in the temperature. 



On the 2nd of June, the first four young larvse were as 

 an experiment placed with leaves of rose and bramble ; 

 the next four with leaves of Teucrium scorodonia; 

 after a day or two I found the former had gnawed a 

 little of the cuticle from the softest of the bramble 

 leaves only, thus causing their white bodies to be 

 very faintly tinged with greenish, while the latter had 

 made holes quite through the leaves of Teucrium, 



