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noticeable that the great majority of the specimens which I 

 had opportunities of observing, were very undersized, which 

 may be due to their Guernsey diet not agreeing with them, 

 or to the extreme drought which made leguminous plants 

 produce small and less succulent fruit than ordinary so that 

 the larva? were poorly nourished. A certain small proportion, 

 however, were fully up to standard size, and in at least three 

 instances, two males and one female, I secured specimens 

 larger than the outside dimensions given by either Kane or 

 Lang. On a postcard dated September 14th, Mr. Tutt 

 writes : — " I found Boetica in Fontainebleau a fortnight 

 since, so I daresay its appearance has been general in France." 

 I would add that though the larva is very variable in colour, 

 its more ordinary appearance is very admirably delineated 

 in Professor Hofmann's " Raupen der Gross-schmetterliuge- 

 Europas," from which plate it should be easily recognised. 

 When quite small it is dark, almost black, but as it comes to 

 full growth its ground colour is indifferently green, either 

 olive or grass green, frequently ruddy brown, but there is 

 always a wide dark stripe down the middle of the back of a 

 more reddish hue, and a Avhite stripe on either side the 

 spiracles, which are yellow. There are also narrow double 

 darker lines from the spiracles to the centre of the back 

 slanting upwards towards the head. 



