Egg.—Pea-green colour; round, with deep longitudinal lines from the top to the bottom. Deposited in twos and threes up to us many as eight or nine at one laying before flying away. The eggs change next day to a mottled gray colour, resembling the dried plant stalks on which are they are laid. They are not deposited directly on the food plants, which are lupin and clover. They hatch out in nine days.

Larva, first stage.—A slender looper. Head quite large and bilobed, Light green from the head to the first segment back of the thoracic legs, which are six in number; thence dark green to the segment joining the four abdominal legs, lighter beneath; remainder of body light green. Length, about 6 mm.