168 LARENTIA FLAVICINOTATA. 
in the same relation to one another as exists in the 
genus Melanippe between M. rivata and M. subtristata. 
I received eggs of L. ruficonctata on August 15th; 
the larvee hatched on the 21st, and at first fed well on 
flowers of various stonecrops and saxifrages, but when 
the flowers were past, would not touch the leaves; 
however, Mrs. Hutchinson found that the leaves of 
Saaifraga hypnoides (a species I could not obtain) 
were readily eaten, and on that plant kept her larva 
through the winter, and on February 19th she kindly 
sent me some of them, then just moulting for the last 
time; these spun up during the last week of March 
and the first ten days of April, and the first moth came 
out on the 17th of May; from the moths of this first 
flight the larvee are found full-fed (and have been sent 
to Mr. Buckler) in July; and the second flight of 
moths is out at the beginning of August; DL. rwficine- 
tata, therefore, is double brooded, one brood going 
through all its transformations in the period between 
the middle of May and the beginning of August, and 
the other taking up the rest of the twelve months, 
chiefly in the larval stage. 
The ege is rather long-oval in outline, full, with one 
end blunted; the shell pitted all over with irregular 
reticulation; the colour (when I received the eggs 
from Mr. Carrington) light bright red, afterwards 
dingy. | 
The young larva is pale olive, with broad dorsal and 
finer waved subdorsal darker lines; head shining 
black, the blackish dots each set with a long bristle, 
somewhat clubbed at the tip; im about a month (with 
the second brood, that is) the dorsal pattern begins to 
appear, the colour otherwise being dark brownish ; 
the larvee that came to me in spring were about half- 
grown, with the dorsal pattern well developed. 
The full-grown larva is six-eighths of an inch long, 
in figure thick-set, tapering from the fifth segment 
to the head, which is small and rounded, and taper- 
ing, but not so much, from the tenth to the tail; 
