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moult. They are now of a dull olive green colour, with a very pale 

 yellowish stripe down each side, no trace of hairs, but still half loop as 

 they walk. 2nd moult. Dull brownish colour with distinct yellowish 

 lateral lines below the spiracles, with a fine yellowish line above, also a 

 very fine centrally dorsal one, and a minute yellowish line round the 

 segments. Head pale brown, with three tiny lines down it, anal seg- 

 ment with one dark patch in centre. On being disturbed the larva falls 

 to the ground and curls up. Legs and under side olive green, ^rd 

 t?wult. There is now a drab line down each side with a slender black 

 one underneath and a brown one above. There are also three pale 

 lines down the back, the side ones are yellowish and the central one 

 white with two rows of small black spots on either side, those on the 

 loth, nth and 12th segments being v/edge-shaped and smaller towards 

 the head ; two black lines down the head and a V-shaped white mark. 

 Underside drab, ^th moult. The lateral stripes of a very light brown, 

 with a darker one above and below each of them, the three pale dorsal 

 lines are very distinct, the central one being white, whilst on either 

 side of it is a row of very black oblong spots, each of which alternates 

 with a similar spot of very pale brown. The head has two distinct 

 dark brown stripes, continuations of the dark markings on the back. 

 The legs and underside are of a pale greyish brown. K^th moult. It 

 has now a very light greyish brown stripe down each side, with minute 

 black spots down its centre. Both above and below this, is a dark 

 brown stripe. The three lines down the back are more distinct, being 

 very light brown edged with black ; the spots on the segments are 

 oblong in shape, and brown and black alternately. (In all the stages 

 the larva tapers towards the head). Two distinct black lines on the 

 head and V-shaped marking on the anal segment. 6/// moult. Same 

 as last, but the three lines are yellower, the centre one ending in a V- 

 shaped marking on the head, and the dark spots down the back are 

 squarer, the light ones much darker, and a distinct wedge-shaped 

 marking on the anal segment. The larvae pupated in October, and 

 emerged from November 15th to December 27th." 



Mr. Milton exhibited Eupithecia exlensaria, E. pulchellata, and 

 Ephestia kiihniella ; also the following Coleoptera : — Oxyporus rufus, 

 Silpha ^-punctata, and Cleonus sulcirostris ; and in Diptera, Stratiomys 

 riparia, and Gastrophilus equi, bred from the larvae. Mr. Battley 

 exhibited Silpha Icevigata and other Coleoptera from Southend. Mr. 

 H easier, series of Liosomus ovatulus, and the var. collar is, from 

 Highgate. Mr. Lewcock, living specimens of Ditiarda mcerkeli from 

 Penzance ; also a number of beetles received from Mr, Jarvis, of Cape 

 Town, on which he read some notes. — G. A. Lewcock and A. U. 

 Battley, Hon. Sees. 



South London Entomological Society. — Thursday, April 23^-^. 

 — Mr. South exhibited for Mr. Leech a series of Chrysophanus 

 phlcBas, containing vars. schmidtii and eleus ; also an Indian form, 

 titiana, with the <? like eleus ; a China form witli a dark <? , the ? 

 being almost typical, and a strange ? from the Canaries. Mr. Adkin 

 exhibited Eminelesia albulata just bred from Shetland pupae obtain<;d 

 HI 1888; from these pupae four emerged in 1S89, twenty in 1890. 

 He also exhibited mines of Lithocolletis vacciniella and pupae of Cedestis 

 gysseleniella, in situ in pine shoots from Rannoch. Mr. Tugwell, series 



