62, PHORODESMA SMARAGDARIA. 
o’clock on the following morning, some had paired, 
remaining in copuld during the whole of that day, but 
parting towards the evening. By the following morn- 
ine the females had commenced depositing ova, and 
continued to do so for four or five days, each laying 
about 150 eggs altogether, and some more. (George 
Klisha, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., December, 1886, p. 465.) 
HPHYRA PUNOCTARIA. 
Plate CXYV, fig. 6. 
On the 28th of August, 1871, I received from the 
Rev. H. N. Bloomfield, of Guestling, near Hastings, 
a few eges of this species. They hatched in a few 
days, and the young larve were pale greyish-green, 
rather broadly transversely barred with brown. At 
the end of September they were full-fed, and may be 
described as follows: 
Length about an inch, and of moderate thickness in 
proportion. Head very slightly wider than the second, — 
but not wider than the third, segment (until full-fed 
it is considerably wider than the second) ; it is very 
finely notched on the crown, the cheeks are globular, 
and the face is flat. Body cylindrical, and of nearly 
uniform width throughout, the second segment being 
the narrowest, and the twelfth slightly the widest. 
In my brood were two distinct varieties, the more | 
numerous of which I will describe as Var.1. Ground 
colour pinkish-brown; head chocolate-brown, varie- 
gated with grey. A narrow but distinct pale erey 
line, edged on each side with a smoky-black line of 
equal width, forms the mecio-dorsal line; an exceed- 
ingly fine and almost imperceptible waved grey thread 
forms the subdorsal lines; and there is a similar line 
above the spiracles. On each side, and on each 
seoment, commencing on the spiracular region, is a 
dark smoky mark extending obliquely upwards and 
uniting at the divisions on the anterior of each 
