LEMIODES PULVERALIS. 149 



LEMIODKS PULVERALIS. 



On the 27tli of August, 1879, I received eggs, 

 together with a living female, of Lemiodes pulveralis, 

 from Mr. William Purdej, of Folkestone. 



The eggs were deposited in masses, and attached to 

 the bottom of a glass -topped box ; they were oval, 

 flattened at the base, and but slightly rounded above; 

 they had a semi-transparent appearance and were of a 

 dingy grey horn colour. 



They hatched out on the 9th of September, and 

 a week later the young larvaa seemed to be feeding 

 well on common garden mint; they were of a semi- 

 transparent straw-colour, with the alimentary dorsal 

 vessel slightly visible, and the head and frontal plate 

 black. (George T. Porritt, Note Book, 1879.) 



On the 7th of August, 1880, I received from 

 Mr. Sydney Webb a batch of eggs laid on the glass 

 top of a box, in number about fifty or fifty-four, in 

 little scattered groups. The eggs were laid by the 

 parent moth on the 4th of August. 



On arrival the eggs were of a dirty whitish colour, 

 or faint tint of drab, not flat, but swollen or plump, 

 of an elliptical form, and with the surface very 

 minutely pitted. On the fourth day the embryo 

 showed through the slightly glistening shell, coiled 

 round, of a faint greyish colour. Without undergoing 

 any change of colour they seemed to be getting 

 gradually rather more opaque on the 14th, and on the 

 15th, in the morning, that is on the eleventh day 

 after being laid, they were nearly all hatched. 



The newly-hatched larva is of a faint creamy white 

 colour, semi-opaque, showing the faintest possible 

 greyish internal dorsal vessel through the skin of the 

 anterior segments, the head and narrow plate on the 

 second segment light brown. On the 16th five more 

 were hatched. 



