244 ilYPOCETALOTA AHENELLA. 



spot appeared at one end of most of the eggs. Next 

 morning, the 14th, six were hatched, three more by 

 midday, another later, one on the 15th, and two on 

 the 16th. 



The newly-hatched larva has a blackish-brown head 

 and plate on the second segment, and light greenish- 

 grey body ; and it at once evinces a habit of hiding 

 itself by spinning any leaf or object to some surface 

 as a retreat for security. I put them with Thymus 

 serjoyllum and Lotus corniculatus, but in three days 

 they had all escaped. (William Buckler, 20th July, 

 1883 ; Note Book IV, 205.) 



GYMNANCYLA CAN ELLA. 



Plate CLVIII, fig. 7. 



On the 16th of September, 1869, I was on the sea- 

 shore close to the spit of sand at the inner mouth of 

 Emsworth harbour during a gale of wind, and chancing 

 to look at a shoot of Salsola kali, which still protruded 

 an inch or two above the rapidly accumulating sand, 

 I saw a small larva blown off from it ; this I imme- 

 diately picked up, but my attempts to look for another 

 were at that time entirely frustrated by the blinding 

 sand-drift. 



However, my solitary captive was contented to feed 

 up on the little piece of Salsola which I brought home 

 with it, and in a few days became a pupa; the perfect 

 insect appeared in July, 1870, and was named for me 

 by Mr. H. Doubleday with his usual kindness ; and as 

 he at the same time told me that the species was not 

 as yet common in British collections, I thought that 

 some account of its larval state might not be unac- 

 ceptable, and for this purpose have now put together 

 the results of my investigations carried on during the 

 present year, 1871. 



On the 31st of August, 1871, at East Hayling, near 



