ANTHROCERA EXULANS. 13 



ANTHROCERA EXULANS. 



Plate XIX, jBg. 1. 



When Dr. F. Buchanan White, in company with 

 Professor J. W. H. Traill in July, 1871, discovered 

 this to be a British species located on a hill at Braeniar, 

 as related in vol. viii of the 'Entomologist's Monthly 

 Magazine ' (p. 68), he very kindly sent to the Rev. J. 

 Hellins, and to me, some eggs at the beginning of 

 August, 1871. 



The larvae hatched on the 8th of August, and in the 

 absence of any knowledge of the nature of their food, 

 were tried with heather and other low plants, but they 

 chose to eat only of Lotus corniculatus, and throve on 

 it, moulted once, and fed on again till the 8th of 

 September, when they fixed themselves for hibernation ; 

 but in course of the ensuing winter they were unfor- 

 tunately attacked by mould, and perished one after 

 another, the latest in February, 1872, and I have since 

 learned from Mr. Hellins that his examples had met 

 with a similar fate. 



Naturally enough, as time went on I hoped the full- 

 grown larva would eventually be found, and its local 

 food-plant ascertained with certainty, in its northern 

 habitat, by some enterprising collector who would 

 perhaps afford me the opportunity of figuring it ; 

 although this has not happened from Braemar, yet 

 now, after the lapse of eleven years, I find myself in 

 possession of sufficient materials for completing what 

 I had, through the kindness of Dr. F. Buchanan White, 

 so long ago begun. 



For most of what follows I have been indebted to 

 the very kind help I have had the pleasure to receive 

 from Mr. George T. Baker, and his friend Dr. Jordan 

 of Edgbaston, both having supplied me with numerous 

 examples of the larva of exulans in different stages of 



