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mandibles and a few spots on the lobes darker brown; 

 the most conspicuous of its markings is the broad 

 pulsating vessel which forms the medio-dorsal stripe; 

 it is of a considerably darker tint than the general 

 ground colour; there are no other particular markings, 

 but the sides are variegated a little with a darker 

 shade of the ground colour. The ventral surface is a 

 little paler, and each proleg is tipped on the outside 

 with a black dot. 



Freyer describes the larva as " pale green, with 

 several slender, rather darker, lateral lines." This 

 mast have been taken from a very different variety 

 to mine. 



Mr. Hodgkinson collected the larvae from golden-rod 

 (Solidago virgaurea), and in his note accompanying 

 the one sent me says, " the plants they are on are 

 denuded of flowers, as a rule, and generally shabby." 

 He could find no larvae on the plants which were 

 in full bloom. (George T. Porritt, 2nd December, 

 1875; E.M.M., February, 1876, XII, 209.) 



BOTYS ASINALIS. 



Plate CLIII, fig. 7. 



On the 3rd of July, 1865, I received from Mr. A. E. 

 Hudd, of Clifton, some eggs of Botys asinalis. 



These eggs were scale-like, being very flat, of a 

 slightly oval form, deposited in little patches of ten or 

 less on the sides of the chip box ; in colour they were 

 very slightly greenish, and very shiny, looking some- 

 what like spots of grease. On being examined with 

 an inch lens after the larvae were hatched, the shell 

 appeared to be very thin, and most delicately 

 reticulated. 



By the 6th of July the heads of the larvae could be 

 seen like a tiny black dot in each egg, reminding one 

 somewhat of a patch of toad's spawn ; and a few 



