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, e,gs hatch in the autumn. Having reared broods of P. flavo.ncta Bove^l 
I el of which always hatched in April, I thought it very .n^probable 
'; :! oh a closely luied species as ni.ro.incta should hatch .n Sep^m- 
tSore wrote to Mr. Stainton. asking him to refer to Freyer's account of 
a f t^species and he most kindly sent me a translation of .t from wh.h 
rLat the eggs hatch in April like those of all the other spec.es of FoUa. 
confirmed by my friend M. Milli^ro. , f n 
;L Lnd L .La, rathe, difficult to rear, many ot thea. dymg whea tall. 
_He»ey DooDiEDAT, Eppiug, August 14th, 1869. 
„.. o» e„s of Lymna i™„.-I thiak Mr. Dembski h=. mUtakea the egg. of 
I Zet fe/those ot i. Arion.- he say, they are ob.oag aad e.ther wh.te 
lir ho,e of A».-..«.™ ."«»•««• ■^^ ''^^' "' "" ^^'""""' z 
Id very closely resemble those of the »o.o«e.. I have acver seen the 
■:iJZ. bat my friead Mr. Baokler informs me that they are roaad,^^ 
,ed on the top and pale bine, the coloar of a hedge-sparro^ . »8f- J >»'>-» 
rv=B of all the .i„gle-b«oded species of Lycna bybernate, and feed m the 
. till the end of May, wlioa they assamo the pnpa state.-lD. 
* Lm Mr. Herbert Marsdcn. a .J and ? Lv»„« AHou. ahre, captured by 
;:;eth:" and accompanied by two small plants ot «.,-« .»^»n-» ■» 
Ze plants were potted separately, and the insects put on one of them ander 
TcZder Daring a gleam of sunshine, the ? certainly appeared to me to 
r feg game gst the Bowers, bat the weather l«ing cold and Condy.I 
1 Lther obserLoa till the following day. when I again saw her depos>t 
S:; dirn'rcmoved the batterdies to the second plant ia order that I might 
7 t the flrat on which they had been tor two days; aor was I d,8- 
*;7:r on thrloralg of the 17th. on looking over the blossom, with a 
::rn;.Tketec^dsroggs!alllaid on the calyces between the he^s of lowers, 
™:ti::r:::r::Xaddcpres.edonthetop, pale greenish. 
3 in colour. ^^^ myself, yet wo have 
ions of this very interesting species on a future occasion, 
isworth, Av-gif'St IZth, 1869. 
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twelve year, smco I ""' J^ ^^^ „,^^^ ,„,, i„ ^Hs neighbourhood. 
iTi\:t^r::: ::::::,! s„pposed thom to be .»»...-„ whichi 
': cell roaud Bristol ; but, apou o.mpariag case, o, n,y mseot w.th cases of 
