48 STENlIADiE. 



Occurs in June and August near water. 



The aquatic larva feeds on Anacharis ahinasti-vm, 

 Straliotes aloides, &c. 



The larva is furnished with eight rows of " hranchiiP," 

 composed of fleshy filaments of unequal leu'jth, tapering 

 to a point. Ground-colour pale yellowish olive, marked 

 with a few small purplish freckles ; dorsal stripe 

 darker ; head brown, with darker markings ; spiracles 

 black ; branchiffi pale gi-ey. It forms a cocoon 

 amongst its food, and is double-brooded. 



E. M. M. xii. 161. 



Hydrocampa nymphaeata, L. 

 nympha:alis, Scliitt., D. L. 

 (Plate 6. fig. 8, c? ? .) 



Loc. Scotland (widely distributed), Hugby, Marl- 

 borough, Plymouth, Possil Marsh, Devon, Bristol, 

 Chester, Hastings, Suflblk, Bradford, Scarborough, 

 Shefi&eld, Wakefield, Norfolk, Lyndhurst, Epping, 

 Deal, Pembroke, Ireland. 



This species is found in June, and again towards the 

 end of July and August, in the neighbourhood of 

 water. 



The larva, which is aquatic, lives in a floating case 

 formed of leaves of its food-plant, viz. CaUitriche 

 verna (starwort) or Fotnmogeton nataiis. It usually 

 pupates under water amongst its food-plant, but some- 

 times above the surface or on some neighbouring 

 vegetation. 



The ground-colour of the larva is light olive-brown ; 

 dorsal plate darker. The plate ou the second segment 



