68 [August, 



from a Lni-va I got last autumn on Impatiens noli-yne-tangere. I trust that IMr. 

 Buckler will be equally successful with the two larvae I sent him to figure. It is, at 

 any rate, a satisfaction to know that the larvte sent to him were identical with mine, 

 and from the same plant. — J. B. Hodgkinson, 15, Spring Bank, Preston : July lAth, 

 1877. 



Description of the larva of Eupithecia subciliata. — On the 21st May, 1876, Mr. 

 J. P. Barrett, of Peckham, collected a number of larvae of Eupithecia subciliata 

 from maple flowers at Box Hill, part of which he very kindly forwarded to me. 



Length about five-eighths of an inch, and rather stumpy ; the head has the 

 lobes rounded, is smooth and polished, and considerably narrower than the second 

 segment. Body cylindrical, plump and obese in the middle, but attenuated at the 

 extremities ; the skin seems toiigh, and the segments being transversely wrinkled 

 give it a puckered appearance. There are two well marked varieties, which, judging 

 from those sent me, are about equally common. The form we will take as Var. I, has 

 the ground colour yellowish-green, the green colour being strongest on the anterior 

 segments ; head almost green ; a deep purple broad stripe, still darker at the seg- 

 mental divisions forms the dorsal line ; a pale shade of pui-ple is also sufEused rather 

 broadly on each side the dorsal line ; sub-dorsal lines greyish-white ; there is an 

 equally pale waved stripe above the spiracles ; and a pale, but greener stripe along 

 the spiracles. Ventral surface uniformly dingy green. 



Var. II has the ground colour bright yellowish-green, the head tinged with 

 brown ; a dark green pulsating vessel forms the dorsal line; sub-dorsal lines greyish- 

 white ; there is a similarly coloured waved line above the spiracles ; and a pale 

 greenish stripe along the spiracles ; segmental divisions yellowish. Ventral surface 

 uniformly bright pale green tinged with yellowish. 



At the end of the month these larvae spun up between the leaves and amongst 

 the flowers of maple. The pupa is scarcely a quarter of an inch long, and some- 

 what stumpy : it is smooth and polished, rounded on the upper side, and has the 

 wing-, antenna-, leg- and eye-cases prominent : colour pale brown, the segmental 

 divisions darker, the wing-cases yellowish. 



The imagos appeared early in August. — Gr. T. Poeeitt, Highroyd House, 

 Huddersfield : Jtily 5th, 1877. 



[A condensed description of the larva of this species, by the Eev. H. Harpur 

 Crewe, appeared in the Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. ix, p. 17. — Eds.]. 



A'otes on Manx Lepidoptera. — So far I have found the summer of 1877 very 

 unproductive of insects, the Lepidoptera irregular in their times of appearance, and 

 several species of hibernating larvae usually numerous, viz., Setina irrorella, Epunda 

 lichenea, and Polia nigrocincta, have scarcely been seen ; possibly many have been 

 desti'oyed by the heavy rains which have deluged the island during the winter and 

 spring. I am unable to state the actual rainfall, but the proverbially oldest inhabi- 

 tant considers last winter to have been the wettest he remembers. 



Colias Edusa has been born out of due time here as well as in what Manx 

 people call " the neighbouring island." I saw one specimen on the wing June 10th, 

 and the occurrence of others have been named to me by visitors about the same 

 date ; the butterfly is usually seen here in August, but is never numerous. 



. Dianihoecia ccesia and capsophila have bcei^carce compared with last year, pro 



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