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Lwrva of Xylophasia Scolopacina. — I am indebted to Mr. Batty for two healthy 

 larvae of this species. They feed on coarse grasses, and a species of wood rush. Their 

 bodies arc uaii'urmly cylindrical and slender. The head, and plate on the second 

 segment, are of a translucent greenish tint, and there is a black mark on each side 

 of the mouth. Ground colour of the body ohve green above ; on the back a fine 

 thread-like line of yellowish or pale greyish, enclosed by two others of dark grey, 

 which form the dorsal line and run through a series of elliptic marks of slate 

 colour. The sub-dorsal is a narrow line of slate colour, beginning at the third, and 

 after the fifth segment, merging into a broad lateral stripe (which commences on 

 the second segment) of dark slaty grey, most intense at its lower edge ; just above 

 which, on each segment, is a large blackish shining tubercle, furnished with a 

 bristle ; tlie ordinary dorsal tubercular spots small, with minute hairs. The spira; 

 cular region bright sulphur-yellow, and the belly greenish. — W. Bucklee, June 3rd. 



Xylina conspicillaris. — I bred two of this rare species in April last, one a re- 

 markably fine specimen, the other with very small and undeveloped wings. This 

 is but a poor reward, though, for upwards of fifty days spent in pupa digging during 

 the last season, and the insect may truly be accounted rare. — Abkaham Edmunds, 

 The Tything, Worcester, May, 1864. 



Agrotis dnerea bred. — Whilst searching on the " Gluseigs," near Llangollen, for 

 the larvae of A. Ashworthii on 25th April last, I took a larva quite unknown to me, 

 which turned to pupa before I had an opportunity of noting its description. The 

 pupa was short and stout, light coloured, with very conspicuous spiracles. In 24 

 days a fine lead-coloured female of A. cinerea appeared, reminding me of a bred 

 specimen of A. lucernea, though of course much smaller than that species. The 

 " Gluseigs" (spelt as pronounced by the natives), or " Great rocks," are limestone 

 knolls encircling the mountain of Castle Dinas Bran, with a gigantic "van- 

 dyked" edge, terrace over terrace ; and it was ui^on the top of one of the highest 

 ledges of the fourth knoll, counting from the east, that I found the above mentioned 

 larva. — C. S. (trf.gson. Spring Hill, Stanley. — 19th May, 1864. 



Ewpithecia Lariciata, Frey. — I am enabled to name two distinct localities for 

 this species. On Friday, May the 20th, I captured a pair on Ashdown Forest, in a 

 pine plantation near the little hamlet of Wych-Cross ; and on Saturday, the 4th of 

 June, on Leith Hill, in the same spot where last year I had secured six, I 

 obtained several more. By these dates it may be concluded that the best time 

 to be on the watch for this species will be the last week in May. 



It bears considerable resemblance to Eup. Castigata, but the wings are 

 longer and the colour less brown in tint ; a white spot behind the thorax also 

 presents a good character. — Edward Hopley, 14, South Bank, Regent's Park. 



Ewpithecia Fraxinata and Cymatophora Jluctuosa. — On the 19th of May two 

 specimens of E. Fraxinata appeared in my breeding cage ; the larvae from which 

 they were bred were beaten from ash ti-ees last August. During the past three 

 weeks I have also bred eight specimens of C. jluctuosa from larvae beaten from birch 

 last autumn at West Wickham and Darenth Woods. — Edward Meek, 5, King Street, 

 Old Ford Road, N.E.— June 2nd. 



