94 PROCRIS GERYON. 



legs parallel, nearly as long, and also free; the tail 

 rounded ; a transverse row of small points on the front 

 edge of the back of each of the abdominal segments ; 

 the colour is a deep shining olive on the wings and 

 head, the abdomen is more bronzy. I noticed the 

 f rass of the larvae seemed to hang together with a little 

 silk spinning, but whether this is so in nature I do not 

 know. (J. H., 15, 10, 86.) 



P.S. — I have just looked up a note by Rev. E. Hor- 

 ton, at p. 141, vol. i, E.M.M., in which he says that 

 on May 18th, 1864, he took Geryon, larva, pupa, and 

 imago at the same time ; on June 2nd he took the 

 imago of statices ; June 9th, statices laid eggs, Geryon 

 laid eggs June 17th; statices larvae hatched, July 4th, 

 Geryon larvae, July 20th. He tried to pair statices ? 

 with Geryon $ , but failed ; he could see no difference 

 between the eggs and young larvae of the two species, 

 but found that statices would not eat rock-rose, nor 

 Geryon sorrel. He found some of the statices larvae 

 veritable miners, buried far between the upper and 

 under skin of a leaf, some only put in the front part 

 of their bodies, and he noticed the " thread of black 

 excrement." Geryon has the same habit of burrowing. 

 (J. H.) 



Anthrocera trifolii. 



Plate XIX, fig. 2. 



Mr. Buckler figured the larvae on March 6th, April 

 15th, and May 13th, 1865; on May 18th and June 

 16th, 1866 ; and May 24th, 1869 ; breeding the moths 

 on June 19th, 27th, and 30th. Dr. Knaggs sent me 

 eggs in the summer of 1864, the larvae from which I 

 brought through the winter successfully, and one of 

 them, I believe, is represented after hibernation in 

 fig. 2. I bred moths on July 7th and 8th, 1865. In 

 1865 again I had eggs, the larvae from which hatched 



