CIDARIA SUFFUMATA. 89 



CiDARIA SUFFUMATA. 



Plate CXLIII, fig. 4. 



Half a batch of eggs arrived from Mr. J. T. Car- 

 rington, of York, on the 14th of May, 1872. They 

 were laid singly and in clusters. 



The egg is of an oval shape, its surface pitted 

 minutely or covered with a lace net-like surface or 

 minutely honeycombed pattern. 



When first laid, on the 2nd to the 5th of May, they 

 were white, as Mr. Carrington informed me, but on 

 the 14th more of an amber-like shining appearance. 

 On the 17th they became green, and on the 18th began 

 to hatch. 



The young larvae were at first of an ochreous green 

 colour, and were supplied with Galium mollugo and 

 G. ajjarine, and they at once chose the latter plant. 

 In three days they showed the internal vessels through 

 the skin as a deep pinkish stripe. By the 31st of 

 May they were three-eighths of an inch long, of a 

 similar ground colour, but no longer transparent ; they 

 began now to show much of their more adult mark- 

 ings, the back being covered with dark brown mark- 

 ings, with pale dorsal spots at the segmental divisions. 

 (William Buckler, June, 1872; Note Book I, 174). 



CiDARIA RETICULATA. 



Plate CXLIII, fig. 5. 



For some years Mr. J. B. Hodgkinson, of Preston, 

 has endeavoured to find the larva of this rare and 

 local species, until at length, in August, 1876, success 

 attended his efforts, and in 1877 he again found the 

 larva, and was lucky enough during the summer to 

 prove the identity of those found the year before by 

 breeding a specimen of the moth, as recorded by him 



