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Variety 2. — Ground-colour brilliant orange-ochre- 

 ous, visible in spots at the segmental divisions along 

 the centre of the back, and in narrow streaks along 

 the subdorsal region, a much-interrupted line along 

 the spiracles, and a row of spots and blotches on the 

 side just above the legs (the larger blotches being 

 above the anterior legs), and three broad stripes 

 meeting at the end of the anal flap ; all the rest 

 blackish. 



Variety 3. — Ground-colour dull brownish- ochreous, 

 seen as dorsal, subdorsal, and lateral stripes, on the 

 third and fourth segments with little interruptions, 

 and on other segments only the faintest traces of 

 them, excepting the anal, which is marked similarly 

 to those previously described, and the dorsal stripe 

 merely as a triangular spot at the end of the inter- 

 mediate segments ; all the rest of the body dull 

 brownish-black, and each spiracle placed in a swelling 

 blotch of intense and rather shining black. (W. B., 

 1867; E.M.M., February, 1867, III, 208.) 



Heliothis aemigeea. 



The eggs of this species are extremely small for 

 the size of the insect, nearly round and slightly 

 striated, of a pale yellowish-green, becoming a trifle 

 darker before hatching, which takes place in five or 

 six days. As the parent moth continues to deposit 

 a few eggs each night for a period of fourteen days, 

 and probably for a longer time when at liberty, those 

 first deposited are hatched, and change skins once 

 or twice before the last eggs are laid. Some of the 

 first larvge feed up rapidly, and become imagos the 

 same season ; but the bulk lie over in pupa3 till the 

 following year. 



The young larvse are very sluggish, moving little, 

 and eat only the lower surface of the leaf of the 



