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edges of the grass blades, and makes an opaque web 

 not much bigger than itself for a biding place. After 

 hibernation, in May, its size is noted as 25 mm. in 

 length, the figure viewed from above nearly even in 

 width, tapering a little at segments 2 and 13, 

 but viewed sideways it tapers in a curve considerably 

 from segment 8 to 13, which last is flattish, and 

 forward again to 2, which is the smallest seg- 

 ment; the head is like a knob, but the lobes are 

 divided; the ventral surface is flat. Altogether the 

 appearance is plump. The colour is now pale green, 

 the skin thickly covered with very short dark brown 

 bristles, the head dirty white, with dark brown stripe 

 down the outer edge of each lobe, the neck whitish- 

 green. I have no notes of the fullgrown larva or 

 pupa. (J. H., 25, 9, 85.) 



Pamphila comma. 



(One of the few larvae of which there is no figure 

 in this volume, see ante, p. 142.) 



On 24th August, 1867, Mr. Brown, of Cambridge, 

 sent me a few eggs of this species. I kept them out- 

 of-doors, and on 27th March 1868, I found the larva 

 eating his way out of one of them. He was so slow 

 about it, that I had to attend to something else before 

 he got out, and when I was able to attend to him again 

 he had managed to disappear. The only value of 

 this note therefore lies in this, that it indicates the 

 habit of the species to hibernate in the egg. (J. H., 

 12, 11, 85.) 



