94 JOURNAL OF SCIENCE. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES. 
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BY MR. ALEX, PURDIE, B.A. 
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Argyrophenga antipodum— Egg whitish yellow, of a trun- 
cated barrel shape, and fluted ; attached by the end. Larva, on 
leaving the egg, whitish-yellow, tapering to its anal segment. 
Chrysophanus salusttus—About November, caught a female 
on the common dock (Rumex obtusifolius). She laid a single 
egg ona dock leaf. In January, last year, I found a female 
ovipositing on plants of sorrel (Rumex acetosella). The eggs 
were laid singly on the undersides of the leaves, during bright 
sunshine. Egg of a delicate light blue, hemispherical, pitted. 
The pits were hexagonal or pentagonal, and reticulated inside. 
Nyctemera annulata—Egegs found in November and De- 
cember, sometimes on the underside of leaves, sometimes on 
wood or stones. Egg light yellow, shining, hemispherical. 
When magnified, slight rounded projections are seen on the 
surface. Laid side by side in groups, from twenty to seventy 
together. The caterpillar feeds commonly on the introduced 
groundsel (Seneczo vulgaris), sometimes on a large Erechtites. 
Its original food may be Senecio lautus, for I have found many 
very fine specimens on it. 
Porina variolaris—Egegs small, white, and spherical. 
[pana leptomera—Caterpillar large, cylindrical, looping in 
habit. Colour whitish-grey, similar to that of the moth. Found 
feeding on Rzbes sanguineus (common flowering currant). 
Chrysalis, reddish-brown, with a point at the tip of the abdomen, 
enclosed in an oval earthen cocoon. 
Agrotis suffusa—Egegs laid in January, side by side, in small 
groups. Egg small, whitish, hemispherical, and fluted. Cater- 
pillars feed on grass, and were full-grown about March or April. 
They were a little over an inch in length, of a dark earthy grey, 
with the dorsal area lighter ; a narrow light dorsal line edged 
with black; on each side of this a line of black dots; small 
black lateral tubercles ; spiracles dashed with whitish. Under- 
side of a bluish leaden colour; hind margin of head. sharply 
emarginate ; indications of chitinous plates on the second seg- 
ment. Chrysalis, very light brown, subterranean; it was placed 
in an oval cavity, but I found no trace of a cocoon. 
Mecynu polygonatlis—Caterpillar feeds on Sophora tetraptera. 
In December, I found both eggs and young larve on the under- 
sides of its leaflets. Eggs, overlapping scales, forming an 
unbroken whitish mass, Caterpillar, when full grown, about 
seven-eighths of an inch in length; ground colour a curious 
olive green, showing as a broad dorsal stripe ; in each segment 
there are six subdorsal raised patches of a glossy black, three 
on each side ; in the third and fourth segments the two anterior . 
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