74 [March, 



tremity. There are only four pairs of posterior legs, on the 8th, 9th, 10th and 13th 

 segments respectively, so that the larva, when walking, arches the 5th, 6th and 7th 

 segments ; skin soft and smooth ; tubercles slightly raised, and from each of them 

 springs a single short and inconspicuous hair. 



Ground-colour bright grass-green, exactly of the same colour, indeed, as the 

 vnider-side of the hop leaves on which it feeds ; the head tinged with yellow. A 

 darker green pulsating vessel showing clearly through the skin forms the dorsal line ; 

 subdorsal lines clear white ; spiracular lines also white, but much interrupted and 

 less distinct ; tubercles and spiracles black, and the head is also numerously dotted 

 with black ; segmental divisions yellow, but scarcely noticeable, the hairs grey. 



Ventral surface, legs and prologs uniformly of the same bright green of the 

 ground of the dorsal area. Feeds on hop, and when young (Mr. Jeffrey says) is 

 very inconspicuous, if at rest in its usual position along the midrib of the hop leaf, 

 the colour of the leaf and larva so closely resembling each other. 



Next day, on the 26th, the larva described became paler in colour and began to 

 spin its cocoon, which, on the following day, was evidently nearly completed ; during 

 the spinning a pretty pink colour spread over the dorsal area of the larva. The 

 cocoon is of white silk, but so slender, that the pupa can be distinctly seen through 

 it. The pupa is about five-eighths of an inch long, and very much of the ordinary 

 Noctua shape ; it is smooth and polished, the ribbed antennie cases prominent and 

 reaching to quite the bottom of the wing sheaths ; colour rich mahogany-brown. 



AVhen full-fed both larvae seemed exactly alike, and the first moth 

 emerged ou July 21st, the second on July 26th. 



Huddersfield : Felruary \Uh, 1891. 



Sphinx pinastri as a British Insect. — We take the following from Mr. Bloora- 

 field's " Lepidoptera of Suffolk," as of interest, because it concerns probably the 

 only corner in these islands in which this common and destructive continental insect 

 has any claim to be considered indigenous : — " Yery local. Tuddenham St. Martin 

 in 1877, Waldringfield, two specimens in 1878, and one in 1879, Saxmundhara in 

 1879, Ipswich in 1881 and 1882. Mr. N. F. Hele writes from Aldborough : 'in 

 July, 1881, a specimen was taken in the Vicarage grounds here, on the wing, in the 

 vicinity of some honeysuckle. During the months of July and August in the 

 following year we captured about forty specimens in this neighbourhood. We found 

 them at rest on the trunks of Scotch firs from four to about fourteen feet from the 

 ground, in every respect apparently without regard to wind or weather.' Until the 

 last two years Mr. Hele has not failed to take a specimen or two every year." — Eds. 



Plusia moneta, F., in France. — At a meeting of the French Entomological 

 Society on December 10th, 1890, the veteran Lepidopterist, Mons. J. Fallou, an- 

 nounced (Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr , 1890, pp. cexi) that he had captured a specimen of 

 this insect at Champrosay (Seine et Oise), not far from Paris, in June, 1890, the 

 first time during the twenty years he has resided there. He also gave some general 

 notes on its occurrence in France, commencing with Duponchel (vol. vii, 2, p. 63, 

 1829), who stated that it had then only been found in Normandy. Subsequently it 



