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With a little careful attention you will find egeria easy to feed up 
in this manner, but never disturb them whilst they are changing their 
coats. If you start with the first brood you can get three or even four 
broods through by the end of the season. It is the last brood where 
the trouble comes in, some larv* hanging on all through the winter, 
but if brought indoors, they will feed up slowly, and you can produce 
your imagines at Christmas, or January and February of the following 
year. Those that go over in pup* emerge about same time as those 
that feed up rapidly early in the year. 
The imagines produced from the first broods are certainly the most 
variable and the finest bred; the subsequent broods are as if all stamped 
with one pattern, so if a good variable series is required, pay strict 
attention to those going over the winter. I have received wild parents 
from kind entomologists, or taken egeria from New Forest (Hants), Isle 
of Wight (Hants), Chalfont (Bucks), Clandon (Surrey), and Dawlish 
(Devon), and by far the finest for size and colour were bred from 
Dawlish $ s, the richness of colour easily making them recognisable 
as Devon specimens. Those bred from New Forest and Isle of Wight 
are somewhat dull in colour and a smaller form, while those from 
Clandon and Chalfont are a dingy race. The pup* of egeria are of 
varying colours, but mostly green, those hanging amongst the green 
fresh grass were of an apple-green shade ; a few preferred the outer 
ridge of the flower pots, and were reddish-grey; some pupated amongst 
the dryer grass stems, and were greyish in colour; some hung from 
top of muslin, and were whitish-green ; all these forms occurred in 
each cage, the coloration in each case being beautifully protective, and 
the adaptation to their surroundings strongly evident. 
Epinephele hyperanthus . — I obtained ova from both wild Dawlish 
and Folkestone $ s ; they were laid loosely, and were yellowish-white 
at first, turning darker later. Hatching in about three weeks, the 
larv* are somewhat stumpy, tapering towards the tail, and have 
a large head; the colour varies from drab to warm-brown, and the 
surface is somewhat bristly, giving it a rough appearance. The pupa 
is of a dirty whitish-brown marked with black spots, and the attempt 
at making a puparium is very poor, the larva simply crawling into the 
matted grass and pupating at the roots. Only two succeeded in 
attaching themselves to the blades, and it required little effort to move 
them. The feeding up of hyperanthus is a somewhat tedious job, as the 
larv* hybernate when very small, usually about end of October. I kept 
them on the growing grass all through the winter, and occasionally 
moved them to fresh pots of grass to ensure healthy conditions. I kept 
them indoors under observation all through the winter, and rarely 
passed a day without giving them a look. They started feeding (indoors) 
beginning of March, fed up very slowly, and started pupating beginning 
of. June. The pup* require a certain amount of moisture as well as 
sunlight, and will well repay the time spent by the lovely specimens 
bred, with that richness of colour (velvety-black) and white cilia, which 
you rarely get in captured specimens. I tried my experiments with 
Dawlish $> s because of their huge size and markings, the ringlets being 
very large — so different from those I took at Folkestone, which are 
a smaller race, with the form arete fairly common, and all tending to 
small spots, although you may get an occasional one with elongated 
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