166 LARENTIA CASIATA. 
LARENTIA GASIATA. 
Plate CXXVII, fig. 3. 
[The following description was given by Mr. Hellins 
for comparison with LF. ruficinctata. | 
Some years ago I reared Larentia cxsiata from the 
ego, but preserved no record of the egg, or of the 
young larva. At that time I bred the moths in the 
end of May and beginning of June, but I do not know 
for certain whether this shows there are two broods, 
or only that the moth has a long flight; Mr. J. Batty, 
who has more than once sent me the larvee, tells me 
he believes there is but one brood of moths, most 
abundant in July; anyhow, from these the larvee are 
hatched in August, feed chiefly on whortleberry, but 
will also eat ling, hybernate, and do not feed ap till 
May, some even holding on till June. 
The larva when full-or own is seven-eighths of an 
inch long, not so stumpy to look at as I. ruficinctata, 
more cylindrical, taperig less rapidly to the head, 
which, however, is small and rounded; the bristles 
emitted by the dots shorter than in L. rujicinctata. 
In colour there are two varieties known to me: 
1. Ground colour on back deep red-chocolate ; a 
dorsal row of seven As pointing forward on 
segments five to eleven, with imperfect ones 
on the fourth and twelfth, much resembling 
those of L. rujicinctata, being outlmed with 
dark brown, and the interior being also yellow 
in front and pink behind, but they are both 
more extensive in size and brighter in tint; 
the segmental divisions are tinged with green; 
the dorsal line is almost continuous, but 
varying in colour, being brownish-red or 
more pinkish, in agreement with the sur- 
rounding skin ; at the segmental divisions it 
is bordered by two short whitish dashes, as 
are also two pairs of fine lines which run on 
