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,^.„>Ko. 0/ <». .««. 0/ E^<I. I««»t..-0» the 8th October, 1868 M. 
, Tel, of St. Mar,ch„rch, captured a 9 of this spece,, a„d ha™g mduced 
I depe'it her eggs i„ captivity, he Hed.y sent „0 a portion of the». ret.>..ng 
for himself, aad sending others to the Rev. E.Hortcn. , , fl 
rhe egg of -»<« is circular.a little depressed at top, an flattened heneath 
d and beaded ; when first laid it is of a canary yellow, and changes ,n a few 
to a pale pinkish greybrown, having the top and abroad .one ro^nd the 
,e of L sides of a n.nch darker tint of the same, m about a month . 
ges to a purplish grey tint, and Just before hatching assumes the bloom-bie 
^rrXtaJ'rulta.eonsly assumed by all the eggs in my possess!, 
ovember the 22nd. that is about si. week, after they had been la.d, but from 
°.eason or other unknown to me, no more than two larva, were hatched oat . 
Hends, as will be seen below, were more fortunate. 
The youn.. larva, at first has a very dark parphsb-brown head, the body pale 
, l: n°b°and translucent, the internal organs showing through the skm g,v. 
ppearance of a bro.d dark grey stripe down the back ; there .s » ^;"~" 
eon the second and on the anal segments, the tubercular dots d.stmot, and 
kish, each having a rather long dark brown hair. .,„,„, with 
My young larva, ted freely on P.a »,».<., but, the grass becommg mfectedw.th 
lew, hey both suddenly died on the Uth January, 1869. I am, however, able 
I oL thL history, Mr. Terry having k.ndly forwarded me some of^ ba^h u 
,Lry 20th , these were then thrce-eighths of an mch long, of a « S"'" «° 
back and sides, the ventral smrfaee rather paler , the most noticeable feature 
.h: tile was the sub-spiracnlar stHpe being whitish or greenish-wh.e .n some 
owish or of a pale flesh tint in others > and by aid of a lens one could see tha 
rosaninewa, of the ground colour, finely outhned with darker green, and 
subtrri paler green lo outlined with darker , also that tho g^und - our 
the back was delicately freckled over with darker green, an unfrcctled plate of 
,en on the second segment, and the head both paler. ., ,„„n in a 
These individuals fed tolerably well tor some days on maed grasses sown m a 
t, and toy varied their food a little by feeding on some of a m.ee^aueou 
lectio, of plants that had sprung up with the grass, especially on PolenUU. 
^^Z:. leaving chickweed and trefoil almost ^-^^^^'J^ 
a never seemed healthy since their arrival, and they soon began to dre off. 
agest-hved going about the middle of March^ Horton had been more 
Soon after this, I became aware that the iiev. lu. a.^ 
Jll. and though his stock of yonng larv« kept -"'^"-^ ^^s :; 
inter Ji been a temptation to robins as choice morsels of food not to be resisted 
"beretnledone'solitary individual uneaten, which he most kmdly entrusted 
„«^ ^r, Mav 8th I had the satisfaction of figuring it. 
-^ r 1 tLte inch one.eighth in length, and -derately sto^. o 
. usual ..*» --■^,:::zz!::^::::^:::^^:^-^^' 
^:in;°at%r en'If greemsh ochreous, edged above and below with whitish 
