84, AGIDALIA OCHRATA. 
grown to be nearly seven-eighths of an inch long; the 
wrinkles are now less deep than before. 
The larva fed well with me on flowers of Picris 
hieracwoides, Crepis virens, and Apargia autumnalis, up 
to the 11th of November, and got fat. It then by 
degrees contracted a little in its length and grossness, 
and at night on the 13th spun itself up in a bit of 
moss on some earth in a pot. 
The moth, a female, emerged in the evening of the 
14th of December, the pupa having been kept on the 
mantel-shelf, and a piece of blotting-paper moistened 
daily to prevent its being dried up. 
The pupa skin was nearly three-eighths of an inch in 
length, and of the usual figure, with a small rounded 
anal projection furnished with four fine curly-topped 
bristles, two of them shorter than the others; the 
colour light chestnut brown, with dark brown anal 
tips, the surface rather shining. 
The attitude of the larva when feeding was extended 
nearly straight along a stem; at other times the back 
was arched, with only the first four segments extended, 
its hold sustained with the prolegs only, or if at all 
alarmed the front segments are bent down under the 
belly in a coil. (William Buckler, December 15th, 
1880 ; Note Book IIT, 242, 253.) 
This extremely local species has not hitherto been 
recorded as bredin England. The following notes will 
be of interest. 7 
The eggs are not apparently attached to the food, 
but dropped loosely amongst it. They hatch in a few 
days, about the first week in August. Having no in- 
formation as to food-plant, a general selection of the 
most probable was made, and placed in a wide-mouthed 
bottle for their choice. For the first week, so little 
sion was there of any feeding that I feared I had lost 
them. After two or three weeks, although they made 
very little progress, still they were alive, and must 
have eaten something. Generally most of the little 
larvee were on or near Galium verum flowers, one of 
