170 LARENTIA OLIVATA. 
LARENTIA OLIVATA. 
Plate CXXVII, fig. 6. 
Several years ago I bred this species, but took 
scarcely any notes of it, and was therefore very 
glad to receive from Mrs. Wollaston, at the end of 
August, 1875, some eggs which she had obtained 
from a moth taken at Teignmouth. 
The larvee hatched, but not all at once, during the 
second week in September, and were kept outdoors 
on a growing plant of Galiwm mollugo ; the winter 
being mild, they continued to feed slowly all the 
time, and seemed to be content with withered leaves 
when green ones failed them; by the last week in 
April they were full-fed, and most of them became 
pups during the first week in May. The larva of 
this species, lke that of L. pectinitaria (miaria), 1s 
extremely sluggish, as might, indeed, be concluded 
from a glance at its form. 
The egg of JL. olwata is rather small for the 
moth, of an oval form, plump; the shell glistening, 
with no raised reticulation, but yet covered with the 
little facets, as 1t were, which should be enclosed by 
reticulation; colour at first pale straw; then a 
palish vermilion-red; at last turning to a pale livid 
hue. 
The young larvais pale vermilion-red, with blackish 
head, but this gay colour does not last long, soon 
giving way to the dingy appearance worn for the 
remainder of this stage, and the description of the 
full-grown larva will suffice for it altogether. 
The full-grown larva is rather over five-eighths of 
an inch in length, very stumpy in figure, rugose and 
warty, with segmental divisions distinct, head not so 
wide as the second segment, with the lobes rounded, 
although narrow, the front and hind segments tapering 
very slightly. 
The ground colour is a pale ochreous, mottled with 
