80 EPTJNDA NIGRA. 



with brownish heads, and after their first moult 

 became pale yellowish-green with brown heads ; tuber- 

 cular dots dark brown, each having a fine hair. 



They soon began to show a decided partiality for 

 grass over the various low plants supplied to them, 

 and after their second moult they became rather pale 

 and bright yellow-green, rather long in proportion to 

 their thickness, and by the middle of December they 

 retired beneath the axils of the stems of grass. From 

 the 24th to the 30th of that month the grass was 

 attacked with mould, which killed them off. (W. B., 

 January, 1869 ; N.B., II, 144.) 



AGRIOPIS APRILINA. 



Plate XOI, fig. 2. 



On the 17th of November, 1883, Messrs. J. 

 and W. Davis sent me a dozen eggs, laid together 

 on chip side by side irregularly in a group of ten 

 and another of two. The shape of the egg is round, 

 slightly subcorneal or depressed dome figure, having 

 about fifteen stout ribs of pale greenish-drab, the 

 interspaces black and also the central top of the shell. 

 (W. B., November, 1883 ; N.B., IV, 210.) 



Phlogophora metictjlosa. 

 Plate XOI, fig. 3. 



On the 18th of September, 1881, after gathering 

 food for other larvso, I found three Noctua eggs, two 

 of them laid on a leaf of Stachys sylvatica, one being 

 on the upper side and the other on the under side of 

 the leaf, and the third egg on the upper side of another 

 leaf of that plant. 



The egg is of a good size, hemispherical in shape, 

 boldly ribbed from a circular ring or flattened boss 

 at the top, with shorter ribs filling the spaces 

 between the long ones, and plainly reticulated. The 



