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and Ct/tmis scoparius ; whilst staying at Chagford daring the second and third weeks 

 of last month (August), I found several larvae of the second brood on flowers of 

 Ulex nanus : these differed slightly from the others, the head being of a darker 

 brown, the dorsal stripe darker, and the markings on the sides of a paler (almost 

 whitish) yellow. — Id. 



Pseudopterpna cytisaria feeding on Ulex. — Last June I beat some larvae of this 

 species from young shoots of Ulex ewropcBus ; this may serve to explain what has 

 sometimes beeu a puzzle — the presence of the moth in localities where Cytisus sco- 

 parius could not be found. — Id. 



Catocala promissa in Devonshire. — This is not such a common species that a 

 new locality for it need not be recorded ; we took a fine specimen of the imago at 

 rest on the trunk of an oak tree, August 12th, at Chagford. — Id. 



Anisopteri/x cescularia and A. pometaria. — That I can bring forward something 

 worth knowing about this species is due, I must at once acknowledge, to an enquiry 

 sent across the Atlantic by Mr. C. V. Riley, Chief of the U. S. Entomological Com- 

 mission at St. Louis. 



It appears that orchards in the United States suffer from the depredations of 

 the larvae of two species of Geometers, one of which Mr. Riley gives as Anisopteryx 

 pometaria, and the other— though closely allied — he finds it necessary to place in 

 another genus, and names Paleacrita vernata : with regard to A. pometaria he was 

 anxious to settle definitely whether it was the same species as our ascidaria, but 

 with the materials at hand he could not satisfy himself on one or two points, specially 

 as to the number of legs in the larva ; in A. pometaria, he found an undeveloped 

 pair of ventral legs on the 9th segment (the 8th as he reckons it), but in no descrip- 

 tion that he could find in English books and magazines was there any mention of 

 this feature in A. cBscularia, while Guenee says (Tome X, p. 255), " II ue faut pas 

 " chercher des caracteres pour les Anisopteryx dans les premiers etats, car les chenilles 

 '' ne different ni pour la forme, ni pour les couleurs, ni pour les moeurs, de celles des 

 " Hyhernia du premier groupe." 



Through Mr. McLachlan, the question came to Mr. Buckler and myself; and as 

 cescularia was one of the species done years ago, before we quite knew the impor- 

 tance of every small detail, we could not answer it ; now, however, wo can ; the 

 larva of cescularia has the small pair of legs on segment 9, but the species is suffi- 

 ciently distinct from pometaria, differing from it in the ovum, larva, and imago : and 

 I will close this introductory part of my note by saying that I have examined the 

 larvae of Hyiernia rupicapraria, leucophcearia, progenimaria, and defoliaria, and of 

 Cheimatobia brumata, but could find no trace of the pair of feet on the 9th segment, 

 nor does it exist in the species mentioned above, Faleacrita vernata. 



Mr. J. G. Ross, of Bathampton, kindly sent me a batch of eggs of cescularia 

 on April 3rd, 1877, a portion of which was at once despatched to Mr. Riley ; with 

 me, the larvae did not hatch till the 25th, while Mr. Riley in a letter dated the 

 23rd said the parcel had reached him with the larvte hatched, and dead ; I suppose 

 the temperature in the steamship was higher than iu my room, and expedited the 

 hatching : mj' larvae ate oak, and were full fed during the first week in June, but a 

 week later again I beat a few from an oak tree, some of wliich were not full fed for 

 several days after. 



