GNOPTLIOS OBSCURATA. Ad 
streaks on the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth seements 
were much larger and broader, and the dorsal area 
altogether much blotched and marbled with this dark 
colour, which gave it.a very irony appearance. ‘The 
ventral surface was smoky, with the pale central 
stripe pinkish, and like the others enclosing the double 
smoky line. 
The larve were fed on strawberry, and the first 
moth emerged on August 8th, a rather late date. 
(George T. Porritt, November 8th, 1879; KEnt., 
January, 1880, XIII, 12.) 
DASYDIA OBFUSCATA. 
Plate CXIV, fig. 2. 
The eges of this species were kindly forwarded to 
Mr. Buckler by Dr. F. Buchanan White in July 1869. 
Mr. Buckler took notes of the egg-state, and of the 
young larve till hybernation commenced, and from 
that period handed them over to me. 
The larve were hatched during August and the 
early part of September, fed readily upon Calluna 
vulgaris, and just as readily on Polygonum aviculare, 
attained the length of rather more than a quarter-inch 
before hybernation near the end of October; began 
feeding again towards the end of March, 1870; 
moulted some time during the first fortnight of April, 
and again in May, and by the end of June the most 
advanced were full fed, but they did not all keep pace 
together. 
‘The moths appeared from August 17th to Sep- 
tember 5th. 
The egg is shortish-oval in outline, flattened; the 
shell ribbed with lines of fine beads; the colour at 
first yellowish-white, changing in a few ‘days to salmon, 
and again, shortly before hatching, to bluish-grey, the 
ribs, however, showing white to the last. Judging 
from those sent by Dr. White, the eggs appear to be 
