LEUCOPHASIA SINAP1S. 27 



Vicia cracca or Orobus tuberosus, but not both. (J. 

 H., E.M.M. Ill, 210.) The imago emerged on the 

 9th of May, 1867. 



LASIOMMATA iEGEEIA. 



Plate IV, fig. 1. 



On the 23rd of April, 1873, I received from the 

 Rev. John Hellins, of Exeter, three larvae that he had 

 brought through hibernation, having reared them from 

 eggs. They were exactly seven-eighths of an inch 

 long and slender, thickest in the middle, the head 

 rounded; in colour a very bright green slightly inclining 

 to olive, the dorsal stripe darker green, attenuated at 

 each end, and having a faint paler central line within 

 it, and margined by a line of greenish-yellow. 



They were feeding on cock's-foot grass (Dactylis 

 glomerata). By the 28th they were an inch long, 

 though one of them was barely that length. On the 

 2nd of May one had become almost without lines, and 

 paler; May 6th one assumed the pupa state, but one 

 was still feeding on the 9th of May. 



The subdorsal lines are of the same greenish- 

 yellow, margined above by a fine line of darker green 

 than the ground colour; a little below run three 

 parallel undulating fine lines of faint greenish-yellow ; 

 the spiracles, which are flesh-coloured, being placed on 

 the lowest of these lines ; the space between the two 

 lowermost is the widest enclosing a faint interrupted 

 fine line, a little paler than the ground colour. 



The whole surface is very finely pubescent, giving a 

 soft velvet-like appearance; seen through a lens the 

 fine tubercular hairs appear black, the rest greenish. 



Each segment is subdivided by transverse wrinkles 

 into six portions, viz. five of equal width behind and 

 a broader one in front ; on the thirteenth segment are 

 two blunt whitish or flesh-coloured anal points. 



