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ocelli; the Dawlish specimens all tend to extra large spots, and the 
form arete is absent. 
Pararge megaera . — This 1 have fed up from the egg. It is easy to 
obtain females of the first brood, and placed under the same conditions 
as egeria, the larvfe are no trouble to rear. The eggs are fixed to a blade 
of grass, and hatch into a yellowish-white larva with a somewhat large 
head; they are much smoother in appearance than egeria , and much 
less marked. The larva as it gets older becomes a bright apple-green. 
The pupte, also, are nearly always delicate apple-green, although 
you get a darker form as in egeria. It is easy to distinguish between 
the pupte of egeria and megaera , the former being shorter and stouter 
than megaera. The larvte from the first brood feed up quickly, and 
produce a nice series during August. I have not carried megaera on 
through the winter yet, but hope to do so later. 
Satyr us setnele .—This insect I have only bred through from the 
larva at present; these are easily obtainable any mild evening. My 
larvre were taken at Folkestone on the cliffs just above the warren, 
where the rough grass grows in patches. June is a good time to look 
for them, and a quiet walk after dark with a lantern will reveal many 
grass feeders. The larvae are of a brownish colour, and very plump 
when fullfed, and tapering towards the ends. Their movements are 
very slow, quite snail like ; they hide away during the day right down 
amongst the grass. The pupie are unlike any other of the grass 
feeders; in fact, one not knowing would take it for a Noctua, being a 
shiny reddish-brown. Some pupated on the ground amongst the 
rough grass, and others went into the earth and made slight cocoons. 
These required to be kept somewhat moist; I lost several through 
drying up. 
Melanargia galatea .—I have taken the larvae at Folkestone at the 
same time as semele, in many hollows on the cliff's above the warren, 
where they are very common. Being yellowish-green they are easily 
recognisable amongst the grass culms. They pupate amongst the 
roots of the grass, a dirty yellowish pupa, turning to a dirty brown 
just before emergence. The beauty of breeding galatea is in getting 
such a rich yellow coloration, especially in the males. 
Epinephele ianira .—This I have also picked up as larvae, usually 
at the foot of hollows from which run grassy banks. Those I have 
bred come from Dover and Folkestone. The larvae are very pretty, 
varying in colour from apple-green (the usual form) to a dingy Brown. 
One can understand these different coloured forms when one is on the 
feeding ground, even by night where the larvae are abundant (I am 
speaking here of the fullfed larvae) on the rough pasture land fringing 
these hollows, the grass is so much more rank, and grows together 
with such a lot of other plants, mostly of a darker nature, that there 
need be some sort of protection by day to safeguard against enemies. 
When I have searched by day for these lame, I have found this brown 
form right down amongst the dried roots, while the green forms were 
nearly always hidden away amongst lady’s bedstraw and thick green 
plants of that description. I do not, however, advise searching by 
day. I simply wanted to find out where all the larvae got to during 
the day, as so very few are found on the same spot as that on 
which they simply swarm after dark. The pupa hangs amongst 
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