isin.] • 239 



duce plenty of butterflies, chiefly Danais, Euploea, &c. I get a speciea 

 of Halohates very freely by fishing from the ship's side with a water 

 net. Land shells are few in species and very hard to procure alive at 

 present, though two of the Helices are very fine. 



There are at least half-a-dozen people here who go in for collect- 

 ing butterflies, &c., in an amateur sort of way, and I have been able 

 to get a fair amount of information out of them as to the local in- 

 sects ; all agree that this is about the worst time of year, though, 

 judging from what I see in their collections, I find that in my short 

 visit I have obtained very nearly all the butterflies which they have — 

 just under 50 species. 



H.M.S. " Penguin," Port Darwin : 

 June \Qth, 1890. 



[These " notes " are in continuation of those published in Ent. Mo. 

 Mag., Second Ser., vol. i, pp. 284— 286.— Eds.] 



THE LARVA OF EUP(ECILI4 GEYERIdNA. 

 BY NELSON M. RICHAEDSON, B.A., F.ES. 



Whilst on a visit to the Rev. 0. P. Cambridge early in July last, 

 I had the satisfaction of finding the larva of Eupoecilia Geyeriana in 

 the seed capsules of Pedicularis palusfris, thereby confirming the 

 suggestion of Mr. C. Gr. Barrett made no less than sixteen years and 

 a half ago (Ent. Mo. Mag., xi, 192), and as I have proved its identity 

 by breeding the imago, I append the following description : — 



Length of full-fed larva, about 6 lines. Shape decidedly stumpy, the head 

 being only about half the breadth of the middle segments, the width of each segment 

 increasing gradually up to the 5th, after which there is but little alteration of breadth 

 until the 12th, which is narrower, the 13th being still more narrow and about equal 

 in breadth to the 2nd. The transverse section of the body would be nearly circular. 



The head is polished, very dark greyish-brown, nearly black, with a reddish 

 tinge about the jaws ; plate on 2nd segment like the head, but somewhat mottled 

 with a lighter shade of the same colour, and with a lighter brownish dorsal line. 

 Ground colour of larva a very light greyisli-brown (burnt umber with a little black 

 in it produces the right colour), rather darker above the spiracles, especially in the 

 first few segments. The dorsal vessel shows through as a rather darker brown dorsal 

 line. The usual warts are large and conspicuous, though not much raised, those 

 near the head being of the colour of the plate on 2nd segment, whereas the rest 



