134 EUCL1DIA GLYPHICA. 



noticeable in the earlier stage, and there is also 

 another distinct streak of yellow on the side of each 

 lobe ; a brown stripe enclosing a very fine yellow line, 

 and broadly edged outwardly with yellow, forms the 

 dorsal stripe ; a double smoke-coloured line composes 

 the subdorsal stripe, and between it and the dorsal 

 stripe are two other irregular yellow lines ; above tbe 

 spiracles is a yellow line edged on each side with 

 smoke-colour, and between it and the subdorsal stripe 

 another irregular yellow line ; spiracles and tubercular 

 dots black. 



Ventral surface of various shades of dull ochreous, 

 with two greyish central lines ; a black mark on the 

 seventh and eighth segments, and a smoke-coloured 

 stripe below the spiracles. 



Feeds during the night ; in the daytime remains 

 extended at full length, flat along the stalks of the 

 food-plant. 



The cocoon is composed of bits of the food-plant 

 firmly knitted together with very closely woven silk ; 

 in a state of nature, however, it would probably be on 

 the ground. 



The pupa is about five-eighths of an inch long, and 

 of the ordinary shape, though rather blunt and dumpy ; 

 colour deep purplish-brown, with the abdominal divi- 

 sions and spiracles still darker ; it is powdered over 

 with a very pretty violet bloom, though more so on 

 the head, thorax, and wing-cases than elsewhere. 



From these larvas I reared a long and beautiful 

 series of imagos the following June. (Geo. T. Porritt, 

 January 8th, 1881 ; B.M.M., February, 1881, XVII, 

 210.) 



Phttometea ^enea. 



Plate CV, fig. 5. 



On July 30th, 1865, I received a batch of eggs from 

 Dr. Knaggs. These were of the ordinary Noctua form, 



