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and affixed their cocoons, which were made of debris, and were rather 
fragile, either to the outside of the buds or in the angles of the shoots. 
Five moths emerged. The full-grown larva is soft, fat, and shining, 
of a dirty-yellow colour, with just the suspicion of a greenish tinge in 
it on the thoracic segments. Head small, and deep black, as is also 
the plate on 2nd segment. 
J may add that the silver fir grows remarkably well in Hereford- 
shire, and often reaches a large size, but the group of trees that 
supplies nigricana is only of some twenty or thirty years’ growth. It 
is not a fir that seems much liable to the attacks of insects ; its stiff, 
thick needles are seldom seen marked by their mandibles, and with the 
exception of the above, and the larva of C. distinctana that lives in the 
needles, no other Lepidopterous larva appears to feed upon it in this 
neighbourhood. 
Tarrington, Ledbury : 
11 th October, 1880. 
FURTHER NOTES ON THE NATURAL HISTORY OF BOTYS 
PANDALIS. 
BY WILLIAM BUCKLER. 
That I am able this year to offer a few more observations on the 
larva of pandalis, as a supplement to those at p. 28, ante, is owing to 
the great kindness of Mr. W. B. Fletcher, who sent me on May 27tli, 
a batch of eggs laid by a female he had beaten out from a tangled 
growth of rose and bramble in the New Forest. 
These eggs were laid in a chip box, in five separate fiat patches, 
containing from ten and upwards to twenty in each, as near as they 
could be counted with aid of a strong lens, which also showed them 
to be somewhat overlapping one another, yet withal showing so smooth 
a surface as to look like a deposit of yellow grease upon the chip. 
Four days after I had received these eggs, there appeared on 
many of them two most minute dusky specks, and after two more days 
strong bluish-black marks (doubtless the ocelli, mandibles, head, &c., 
so accurately observed by Mr. Jeffrey). Every day produced these 
appearances on more of the eggs in succession, while from the most 
forward at intervals the larvae were hatching by night, when on 8th of 
June, the remainder were fatally arrested by a sudden fall in the 
temperature. 
On the 2nd of June, the first four young larvae were as an 
experiment placed with leaves of rose and bramble ; the next four 
