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Lent me, with chrysalis, by Mr. William Saunders, and ticketed : 

 "from larva, 135 f together with specimens of A. clandestine ticketed: 

 " from larva, 131." This species reminds me of Amphipyra itwrnata, but 

 it cannot be the same, although I fancy, in certain lights, that the hind 

 wings are warmer tinted within vein 2. From recollection of the type in 

 Mr. Saunders's collection, I cannot consider A. inornata a variety of A. 

 pyramidoides, as has been suggested. 



NOTES ON THE LARVA OF AGROTIS DEPRESSUS, Grote. 



BY W. SAUNDERS, LONDON, ONT. 



In the previous paper Mr. Grote describes a new species of Agrotis, 

 under the name of depressus, which was sent him from my collection some 

 lime ago : he also refers to Agrotis clandestina as received from me. This 

 latter species was first determined for me by Mr. C. V. Riley, of St. Louis. 

 Mo., and subsequently by Francis Walker, Esq., of the British Museum, 

 Mr. Riley has figured and described the larva in his first report on " The 

 Noxious Insects of Missouri," p. 79, and my own description was pub- 

 lished in the present volume of the Can. Ent., p. 35. 



1 now give a description of the larva of Agrotis depressus, Grote, which 

 I have reared for two summers past, having found it feeding on the grape 

 vine. It is a yellowish green larva sparingly covered with very fine 

 brownish hairs. Length 1.25 to 1.40 inches, nearly cylindrical. 



Head rather under medium size, somewhat flattened in front, slightly 

 bilobed : green, with a few short fine hairs. Mandibles tipped with dark 

 brown. 



Body above, yellowish green, a little paler between the segments, with 

 a dorsal and two lateral stripes of yellowish white, the lower one rather 

 most prominent, running through the spiracles and extending posteriorly 

 nearly around the anal lid. On each segment are several minute whitish 

 dots, slightly raised, but scarcely visible without a magnifyer, from each of 

 which arises a single fine hair. Spiracles yellowish, ringed with black. 



The under surface is of a deeper shade of green than the upper : feet 

 and prolegs green, faintly tipped with brown. 



This larva may be found full grown from the 10th to the 25th of June, 

 the moths appearing early in July. 



