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are at a loss to assign it to its systematic position ; they also agree in con- 

 sidering it not to be RhopalocerOus. The eggs were laid on a currant leaf, 

 and were received by me through Mr. Scudder after a three days journey. 

 The following description was made soon after I received them, July 18th. 

 Long. diam. .07, trans, diam. .05 inch. Top-shaped, taperiDg towards the 

 apex, where they were slightly flattened ; sides much compressed, lacteous, 

 sordid, with a large jet spot on each of the compressed sides, and a black dot 

 above. Just before hatching, the spots disappear, the ground colour becomes 

 pale lemon yellow, and the shell is luteous. Larvce appeared on the 29th.; 

 the first act of their existence was to eat the egg-shells entirely, except the 

 basal part by which they were glued to the leaf. When two days old, these # 

 caterpillars are one-sixteenth of an. inch long; head large, perpendicular, top- 

 shaped, reddish-brown, luteous ; eyes black, shining ; mouth small, jaws not 

 powerful ; body tapering towards urite, above yellowish-brown, lighter under, 

 neath, very distinctly separated along the stigmatical line from the darker 

 shade of the upper surface. Above, on each segment four black spines, 

 branching thus — first a stout pedicel, branched like a Y, the inner branch 

 beirjg shorter than the outer, both divarications ending in four setoid 

 appendages, three very short, and the fourth and exterior one as long as 

 the rest of the spine and curving like that portion of an ellipse which 

 would be included between two adjacent points of the intersections of 

 the transverse and longitudinal axes with its circumference. These spines 

 are .05 inch long. Whenever they move they march in single file. From 

 several experiments I made, I am satisfied that they have no certain leader 

 in moving. Their eyes seem to be useless, for they did not appear to per- 

 ceive any difference between light and darkness, the leader seeming to feel his 

 way along in a manner very unusual for larva?, and those behind having each 

 a very delicate silken thread about the length of the head of the larvse, which 

 attaches it to the one in front. There are prop-legs on 'the 2nd., 3rd , 4th., 

 5th and last abdominal segments. 



ENTOMOLOGY AT HELLMUTH COLLEGE. 



At the request of the Head Master, the Rev. A. Sweatman, I recently ac- 

 companied my friend, Mr. W. Saunders, to the college, to adjudicate the 

 prizes given for the collections of native insects, made by the boys during 

 the summer vacation. Considering that this is the first effort of the school 

 at entomology the result is most gratifying, and I feel sure that some slight 

 notice of these collections will be of interest to the readers of the Entomologist. 



The first prize, value 615, was awarded to William Hugh Wood, who 

 resides in Walsingham, in the county of Norfolk, and contained representa- 



