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probably attacking any low plants that may suit its 

 taste. It seems also that the larvsB invariably both 

 feed and rest on the blades of grass with their heads 

 downwards. (W. B., January, 1870 ; E.M.M., March, 

 1870, VI, 235.) 



Eggs were laid between the 18th and 22nd of 

 September, 1883, by females taken in Darenth Wood, 

 Kent, by Mr. B. A. Bower, from whom I received the 

 eggs on the 28th of that month. 



The egg is pinkish-brown at the top with a whitish 

 zone, that is to say the top of the egg in the centre is 

 pinkish-brown speckled with darker brown and sur- 

 rounded by a broad whitish ring having at its lower 

 ragged edge a ring of dark brown, and beneath this 

 the colour is light pinkish-brown. The general shape 

 is rounded and a little flattened below, and the shell is 

 ribbed and reticulated. On the 1st of October the 

 dark parts of some of the eggs turned darker purplish- 

 brown, which made the broad white ring more con- 

 spicuous, but by the 12th this ring had gradually 

 become of a drab colour, hardly noticeable from the 

 general colour, which had changed to grey-brown on 

 the rest of the shell. On the 21st of October I 

 moistened with water some of the eggs, and next 

 morning I found eight of them had hatched. (W. B., 

 October, 1883 ; N. B., IV, 215.) 



Epunda nigra. 

 Plate XC, fig. 2. 



Description of four varieties of the larva. — I am in- 

 debted to the kindness of the Hev. John Hellins for 

 many examples of the very beautiful larva of this 

 species, collected in the spring of 1866 by Mr. Thomas 

 Terry and others, found chiefly on Galium Wjollugo and 

 other low plants, though in confinement they preferred 

 hawthorn. 



When full-grown they attained from an inch and a 



