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colour when found was light straw, and the egg was 

 marked with two faint crenulated zones of pinkish, 

 one below the other, the surface glistening. On the 

 24th the colour of the eggs changed to a cloudy 

 greyish tint, and on the 25th to a leaden hue, and in 

 the afternoon they hatched. 



The young larvse marched about vigorously as 

 semi-loopers with twelve legs ; though the two other 

 anterior pairs of ventral legs are present, they are yet 

 so small as only just to be detected. The colour of 

 the larva, including the head, is lightish green, with a 

 darker green internal vessel showing through the 

 skin, which is dotted with black, each dot bearing a 

 black short bristly hair. In four days the alimentary 

 canal became very deep green in parts, though else- 

 where the skin is translucent and almost colourless, 

 and the head pale whity-brown. The larva when 

 disturbed coils the head round over its back, and 

 at this period eats small holes through the leaf of 

 Stachys sylvatica. 



Their first moult was from October 3rd to 5th, when 

 they were rather less translucent, and their bodies of 

 a subdued dirty greenish tint but still shining a little, 

 the black tubercular dots smaller in proportion and 

 less noticeable, and the two anterior pairs of ventral 

 legs more visible. By the 16th their bodies had become 

 darker, of a semi-transparent green, with a decidedly 

 pale dirty yellowish whitish opaque spiracular stripe, 

 and the twelfth segment so rotund as to create my 

 belief of their being Ph. meticulosa. On this day one 

 was laid up, apparently for moulting, as its body seemed 

 empty, being such an uniformly pale yellow-green 

 colour; late in the evening the other two also were 

 laid up, but their darker colouring not yet changed 

 until the next day, when they also were of a light 

 yellow-green colour. 



On the 21st of October all three had moulted the 

 second time. I now identified them for certain as 

 Phlogophora meticulosa. They were now of a darkish 



