THE LAEV^ 



OF THE 



BRITISH MOTHS. 



Procris globulari^;. 

 Plate XVIII, fig. 2. 



On the 25th of June, 1882, I had the pleasure to 

 receive from Herr Heinrich Disque, of Speier, several 

 eggs of Procris globularice, together with the parent 

 moth herself, which he had induced to deposit her 

 eggs in a small cylindrical box with glass ends ; one 

 egg hatched on July 10th, but the larva was killed in 

 the effort to take it from the cylinder ; on the 14th, 

 five or six larvae were hatched, but I was unable to 

 extract more than two of them uninjured, as they all 

 were much entangled with web or remains of cotton 

 wool obstinately clinging to the box ; the remaining 

 eggs hatched next day, but most unfortunately just 

 when my vision became disturbed from a bilious 

 derangement, and the larvae from them were all fatally 

 injured in my attempts to get them out of the box, 

 as next day with sight restored I saw them lying dead 

 on the leaves of Gentaurea. 



I now looked for the two larvae that had previously 

 been safely put with a leaf of Centaur ea nigra in a 

 small tin box, but could discern neither of them until 

 I held the leaf against the light, then at once I saw 



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