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the palest, and the hinder ones are much darker, all the 
lines being there strongly marked. 
The pupa is enclosed in a loose cocoon, formed by 
drawing together either earth or leaves with a few 
threads, and is slender in form, the tip of the tail 
ending very bluntly with three little horny warts ; the 
colour reddish-brown, the edges of the wing-cases 
brighter. 
The food supphed was Polygonum aviculare, and 
seemed to suit very well. 
It appears that the larvee of Acidalie, if they can 
meet with sufficient heat, and a supply of fresh tender 
food at the same time, will feed up so rapidly as to 
produce a second brood of moths in August or Sep- 
tember; thus, this season (1865), I know A. ornata, 
A. mancuniata, and the species I have just described 
have been partially double-brooded ; but I am inclined 
to think that with most of the species the greater 
number of the larvee hybernate. (John Hellins; Ent. 
Annual for 1866, p. 164.) 
AGIDALIA ORNATA. 
Plate CX VIII, fig. 4. 
I have more than once had eggs of this species, but 
never succeeded in rearing the larvee to full growth. 
On the 30th July last (1865) L received eges from Mr. 
Wright, the larve from which are at the time I write 
this still quite small, and not looking likely to come 
to perfection, although I took some trouble to procure 
for them plants of wild thyme, thinking it might suit 
them better than the garden sort. However, almost 
on the same day with Mr. Wright’s eggs, I received 
from the Rev. J. Greene some larvex feeding on mint, 
which had even then (last July) nearly attained their 
full growth ; and from other larvee of the same brood, 
Mr. Greene, in the course of last autumn, bred the 
moths. My small hybernating larve are about four 
