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whitish placed on a thin dingy red line, and close 

 beneath them a rather broad stripe tapering at each 

 end, of greenish ochreous, edged above and below with 

 whitish (the whitish edgings of this stripe appear to 

 me to be the most distinctive mark of the species) ; the 

 ventral surface and legs of the same colour as the back. 



On the 19th of May, Mr. H. Terry succeeded in 

 finding a nearly full-grown larva on grass in its native 

 haunts, and subsequently two or three others on 

 flowers of wild mint and the leaves of Scabiosa 

 arvensis ; these he also forwarded to me ; they were 

 then an inch and a half in length, rather darker and 

 less brilliant in colour than the one reared by Mr. 

 Horton, but otherwise similar, even in the details, 

 with the exception that the spiracles were pinkish-flesh 

 colour, delicately edged with black, and each situated 

 in a purplish-red crescentic blotch ; the plate on the 

 second segment slightly tinged with the same colour, 

 and in the middle of the subspiracular stripe there 

 was a streak of dull pink beneath each spiracle. 



On June 19th, I received another larva from Dr. F. 

 Buchanan White, who had found it feeding on heather 

 in Inverness-shire ; this would not touch grass, but fed 

 up on heather within a few days after I had it. 



This larva was of the same form and character as 

 the foregoing, though the ground-colour was a rather 

 bright olive-green, and the dorsal stripe becoming 

 suddenly blackish on the fifth segment continues so to 

 the twelfth, being intensely black just at the beginning 

 of each of these segments ; on each of the same seg- 

 ments there was a black streak anteriorly on the upper 

 edge of the subdorsal stripe; there was also a fine 

 black spiracular line, interrupted only by the spiracles 

 themselves and at the segmental divisions. 



Although, as I said, this last-named Scottish larva 

 refused grass, yet from what I could see of the others 

 I am of opinion that this species is a veritable grass 

 feeder, probably eating grass all through any mild 

 weather that may occur in winter, and in spring 



