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being at the end of each segment, and there was an 

 undulating subdorsal line of similar blackish-brown 

 hairs, and another, scarcely so dark, above the spira- 

 cles. The spiracles were of the brown ground colour, 

 circular, finely ringed with black. A little below them 

 was a fringe of bristly hairs, which were either cream 

 coloured or very pale brown. Slight fascicles of 

 longer black hairs diverged from each tubercle of the 

 body ; the head also bore a few blackish hairs. 

 (W. B., Note-Book III, 266.) 



Thecla rubi. 

 Plate XIII, fig. 3. 



The larva of this species had long been a desideratum 

 to me, even after all the other British species of the 

 genus, some of which are very much scarcer in the per- 

 fect state, had been duly figured. Perhaps the reason 

 was that I and my friends tried to take it from the 

 bramble only ; but although diligent search was made 

 for it on that plant in localities where the butterflies 

 absolutely swarm, no one could find it for me ; nor 

 would butterflies shut up in a glass cylinder, with 

 bramble buds and flowers, deposit their eggs on them. 

 Doubtless the larva has been found on bramble buds, 

 as Albin's account of it fully testifies, still I can now 

 give two other food-plants for it, which I cannot help 

 fancying are more to its taste. 



On the 25th of June, 1868, Mr. W. H. Harwood, of 

 Colchester, who had made acquaintance with the larva 

 during the previous year, kindly sent me some fine 

 full-grown examples, beaten from broom, I lost not 

 a moment in depicting them, and no sooner were they 

 done, than on the following day I received others from 

 Mr. C. Gr. Barrett, then at Haslemere, he having, quite 

 by accident, discovered them on Genista tinctoria, and 

 most fortunately he was able to send me four in dif- 



