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A Tariety occurs with the white sub-dorsal lines represented by series of grey or 

 dark ferruginous dashes. The reddish-brown pupa is enclosed in a brittle earthen 

 cocoon below the surface. I believe the imago appears a few weeks earlier in Scot- 

 land, where it is not scarce in some localities. — C. Fenn, Ashley House, Eltham Road, 

 Lee : llih December, 1876. 



Eupithecia minidata and its variety knautiata. — During this and last season I 

 made a few notes on the larvae of these two forms. At the end of September in last 

 year, Mr. Owen Wilson sent me a number of larvae he had found on Scabiosa sue- 

 cisa, near Carmarthen, which he and I at once suspected were those of Gregson's 

 so-called knautiata. They were much more variable than our form of minutata, 

 and considerably larger. Different specimens were purplish-grey, grey, brown, and 

 some almost black; whilst our ling-feeding form is nearly always pinkish, with a 

 small sprinkling of grey ones. I found those from the scabious would feed equally 

 well on ling, and also on ragwort ; whilst our ling-feeding form fed equally well on 

 ragwort. The images from the scabious-feeding larvae were, so far as I could make 

 out, in all respects the same as those from ling ; and for my part, I am tolerably 

 satisfied they are one and the same species. 



The larger size of the scabious-feeding larvee is sufficiently accounted for by the 

 more succulent nature of the food ; the hard dry nature of the ling seemingly has a 

 tendency to dwarf the larvae, whilst their colour arises no doubt from the ling flowers, 

 which part of the plant alone they eat. — Geo. T. Poeeitt, Highroyd House, Hud- 

 dersfield : December 2nd, 1876. 



Description of the larva and habits of Lohophora viretata. — On looking over 

 the scanty records of tliis species for the last twenty years, I find nothing to show 

 that it has more than one brood in the year, or more than one food-plant, viz., privet, 

 for the larva. In the belief, therefore, that some further light on its history may be 

 desirable, I have here put together the few facts, which within the last two seasons 

 have become known to me, and which go to show that viretata must at least be par- 

 tially double-brooded, the flights being in May or June and again in August, and 

 that, as is generally seen in the case of double-brooded species, the moths of the first 

 flight from hibernated pupae are larger specimens than those of the second flight, and 

 also that the larva is by no means confined to one food-plant. 



On 12th July, 1875, I received from the Rev. Bernard Smith, three larvae, which 

 had been found by him each in a slight web amongst flower-buds of Ligustrum 

 vulgare ; they continued to feed three days longer, eating, as I observed, the interior 

 of the flower-buds, portions of the leaves, and the rind of the flower-stalks ; on the 

 17th, they were spun up ; the moth appearing on 20th August. Mr. G. F. Mathew 

 also informs me that at the end of last May, and through June, he was feeding up 

 some F. plumigera, and that whilst providing them with fresh food, he occasionally 

 noticed between united leaves at the ends of the sycamore twigs, some small geometers, 

 but that taking them to be only C. brumata he threw away most of them ; after the 

 plumigera had gone to earth, he left the cage to itself — introducing no other larvae, — 

 but one day, about the middle of August, he looked into it to see all was right, when 

 he was astonished to discover two perfect specimens of viretata evidently just out, 

 and a day or two afterwards to find a third specimen, and thus became aware of the 



