CIDARIA SAGITTATA. 85 



Mr. Buckler and myself a good supply, from indi- 

 viduals of which figures and descriptions have been 

 taken. 



Mr. .Fryer tells me that the moths are plentiful in 

 his garden during the first half of the month of July, 

 and be finds that they lay their eggs (of a pellucid 

 violet tint, changing to orange afterwards) in little 

 bundles of four or five together, on the seed-vessels 

 of Thalictrum aquilegi folium, and more rarely of T. 

 flavuru ; the larvae, orange-coloured when they first 

 appear, are hatched about the beginning of August, 

 and have a habit of biting half through the stalks of 

 their food-plant, and feeding on the leaves, which they 

 have thus caused to become partly withered. They 

 feed through the month of August, some of them being 

 found far into September ; and, although they are not 

 strictly gregarious, may be found on one plant to the 

 number of a dozen or more, their presence being easily 

 detected from their habit of feeding mentioned above. 

 I believe it is not yet known what wild plant they feed 

 on in their haunts in the fens, but I found that tbey 

 would eat the old dry-looking leaves of Aquilegia 

 vulgaris or columbine, though they would not touch 

 the young and slender ones. (John Hellins ; Entom. 

 Annual, 186^, p. 137.) 



ClDAMA EUSSATA. 



Plate CXLIII, fig. 2. 



[We give under the next species, G. immanata, Mr. 

 Hellins' comparative notes on the earlier stages of it 

 and the present one.] 



ClDAEJA IMMANATA. 



Plate CXLIII, fig. 3. 



I send the following note, in the hope that some 

 account of the investigation of the earlier stages 

 of these species, on which during the past twelve 



