EMMELESIA DECOLORATA. 



I am indebted to Mr. Moncreaff and Mr. Porritt 

 for supplies of this larva. (Edward Newman; 

 Entom., September, 1867, III, 325.) 



Emmelesia tjsniata. 



On the 14th August, 1877, I received fifteen eggs 

 from Mr. J. B. Uodgkinson, together with the battered 

 remains of the parent moth. The eggs were laid in 

 a glass-topped box, one or two adhering to the box, 

 the others loose. 



The egg is elliptical, with a depression on either 

 side, the surface very finely pitted. At first they 

 arrived of a dirty whitish colour; by the 20th they 

 were yellowish, and on the 21st were of a light salmon- 

 colour, becoming of an orange tint by the 24th and 

 turning brown on the 25th, and blackish-brown on 

 the 26th and 27th. One hatched on the 26th, one at 

 12 p.m. on the 28th, another in the morning of the 

 29th, and another in the afternoon. All the rest died 

 in their shells. 



The larva when first hatched is dingy blackish- 

 green, with the posterior segments rather lighter, and 

 a paler spot halfway down the back; on the third 

 day it is a paler but still dingy green. 



Gircdea lutetiana and Hypericum per for a turn, an ash 

 leaf and a nut leaf were tried as food. These five 

 larvae sustained themselves on, I believe, the Hypericum 

 flowers and seed-pods up to the 6th of September, 

 when they were laid up for moulting, but from cir- 

 cumstances I being unable to attend to them, they 

 became damp in the bottle, and on the 8th I found, 

 them dead. 



They had grown to be fully an eighth of an inch 

 long. The head was darkish brown, and on the second 

 segment a plate of similar brown with paler lines 

 through it, though small, could be discerned. The 

 body was of a warm rather pinkish light brown, with 



