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following spring; and of course the earliest females will lay the earliest eggs 

 and produce the earliest groups of young larvse. 



The Heteropterous larvse described by Mr. Saunders (p. 15) as attacking 

 the Currant Worms were not, as he supposes, those <if Steretrus ftmbriatus, 

 Say., which are quite different, but those of some species of Arma — perhaps 

 Spiuosa, Dallas, or Modesto., Dallas, or a species closely allied to Modesto,, 

 which I have found to live in the larval and pupal states in the nests of the 

 Fall Web Worm (Ili/pliantrla textor, Harris), preying voraciously upon the 

 inhabitants thereof. 



The reader will kindly please to correct the following slips of the pen in 

 the paper to which this forms a sequel : 



Page 10, line 2, for " latter'* read "former." 

 " 10, " 11, " "13" " "14/.' 



NOTES ON HADENA XYLINOIDES. 



BY W. SAUNDERS, LONDON. OXT. 



On the 17th of June I captured a female specimen of Hadena xyliuoides, 

 early in the evening on a sugar cask. Having confined it in a pill box I laid 

 it aside and did not examine it again until the 20th, when it was observed 

 that a number of eggs had been deposited. These, although examined 

 casually by the microscope, I neglected taking a minute description of. 

 They were about medium size, of a flattened conical form, greenish in color, 

 and ornamented with many strise. The eggs hatched on the 24th of June, 

 when the following description of the young larva as seen under a common 

 eye-glass was taken : — 



Length 012 in., cylindrical. Head rather large, bilobed, black and shining. 

 Body above green aud glossy, semi-transparent, with a number of raised 

 brownish dots on each segment, from every one of which arises a brown hair. 

 Second and terminal segments have each a patch of brownish black above 

 under surface similar to upper. Feet blackish brown ; prolegs green tipped 

 with brown. 



The middle part of body is arched when walking, the motion resembling 

 that of a Catocala; the anterior pair of prolegs do not appear to be used in 

 progression. The general appearance, glossiness and semi-transparency of 

 skin reminds one of a Saw-fly larva. 



Between the first and second moult another description of the larva was 

 taken. Length 032 inch. Head small, bilobed, pale brownish, very trans- 

 parent. 



Body above dull greenish brown along the middle with a reddish tinge at 

 each extremity. 2nd segment above similar in appearance to head. A pale 



