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drying up during tbe winter. Both the egg and the newly-hatched 
larva are of nearly the same colour as the imago, and their characters 
are typically Lygrid. The usual food-plant is certainly Galium aparine, 
and Hellins ( Ent . Intell., vii., p. 125) says it has also been taken and 
bred on G. molluijo ; his query as to Albin’s statement that it fed on 
hawthorn, was fully justified. Albin’s larva was found on May 30th, 
and spun-up on June 10th, so it is possible it was practically full-fed 
when he found it, and able to pupate even without his having offered 
it its proper food ; but his expression is: “ found feeding on the 
whitethorn near Eltham.” Mr. South tells me he has found this 
larva by day from time to time, by looking on clumps of goose-grass 
in dark places in hedges. 
Lyrjris pyraliata shows a fair range of variation in the position 
and distinctness of the markings, besides a slight variability in the 
ground colour ; but I do not remember to have seen any very startling 
aberrations. The $ s are generally weaker-marked than the males, 
and a little smaller, and there is a good deal of difference in shape. 
My own series of both sexes is, I think, fairly representative. I only 
know of one named aberration, ab. johansoni, Lampa (Ent. Tid., vi., 
p. 107), with the outer margin of forewings much shaded with grey- 
brown, &c. ; this has occurred at Wicken, according to Mr. Tutt (Ent. 
Record, ii., p. 224). 
This, according to the order which I have chosen, is the last species 
of the “ Cidaria ” of our British list, and brings this lengthy paper 
to a close. I do not pretend to have treated any of the species exhaus¬ 
tively ; to do this it would have been necessary to devote a whole 
evening to a single species. But I trust I have realised my expecta¬ 
tion of being able to say, here and there, something which has “ not 
too often been said before,’’ and to furnish some useful contributions 
towards the histories and relationships of one of my favourite groups 
of the Lepidoptera. 
