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Ennomos fuscantwria. — Having during the past summer made the notable 

 discovery that the larva of this species varies more than (in my ignorance) I was 

 pleased to think it did, I venture to send descriptions, made with Mr. Buckler's kind 

 help, of the varieties that so far have become known to us. 



The larva may be generally described as elongate, with the true legs well de- 

 veloped, the third pair being sometimes of large proportions, and with two anal 

 points. 



The vai'iety which I first set eyes on gratified a crotchet of mine, inasmuch as 

 it resembled the leaf-stalk of the ash, from which tree I beat it. In figure it was 

 smooth ; in colour it was green on the back, with a sub-dorsal stripe of yellow ; the 

 spiracular stripe primrose yellow reaching to the mouth, and bordered above with 

 deep green, which became lighter near the sub-dorsal line ; the belly apple-green ; 

 two little warts on 12th segment ; the true legs black, ventral legs tipped with 

 crimson-brown, and the anal legs green. This I thought was the invariable pattern 

 of fuscantaria, but last summer Dr. Knaggs sent me 6 larvae to rear for him, and 

 I found that at their last moult some of them developed an entirely difierent ap- 

 pearance ; to wit, the ground colour was reddish-grey, sUghtly mottled with 

 greenish ; sub-dorsal yellow stripe scarcely visible ; spii'acular line rather greener 

 than the ground colour, and becoming yellowish from 2nd segment to the mouth ; 

 across the 3rd segment was a row of red-brown warts, the largest being on the 

 sides ; large transverse red humps on 6th and 9th segments, and very small ones 

 on 8th and 12th ; lateral red warts on 5th, 6th, and 7th, and a ventral hump on 

 7th ; pale lateral warts on 10th, 11th, and 12th ; the true legs crimson-brown, the 

 third pair being very large. And Mr. Doubleday sent Mr. Buckler another larva, 

 which appears intermediate between these two. It was nearly smooth, the ground 

 colour a pale apple-green, sub-dorsal and spiracular lines yellow, but not clearly 

 defined ; the last five segments suflFused with pink ; two small red spots placed on 

 a swelling at 7th segment ; two dorsal warts on 12th ; small lateral warts on 10th, 

 11th, and 12th ; on 3rd segment a short red-brown stripe, running backwards from 

 the spii-acles to middle of the back.— Eev. J. Helmns, Exeter, Novemler 4th. 



Dasypolia Tem^oli. — I took a c? specimen of this species (the first I ever saw 

 alive,) at rest upon the whitewashed interior wall of one of the County Prison 

 Corridors, yesterday, at about 10.30 a.m. ; I suppose he had been attracted by the 

 gaslights during the previous night to enter the open window at the end of the 

 con-idor, and as might be expected of a gentleman who had found his way into 

 prison after knocking about late at night, his appearance was not very reputable. — 

 Id., November 16th. 



TrocMUum culiciforme. — I met with a fine specimen of the above at Darenth 

 Wood, on the 26th of May, seemingly fresh from the pupa. — ^eorge Stockley, 

 Bromley, Middlesex, November 7th. 



SuffoUc captures. — I can add to my friend Mr. Skepper's list of captures at Bury 

 that S. certata is as common there as A. hcrherata. At Aldeburgh D.pinastri swarmed 

 at sugar, and I took a pair of H. suasa, and also of A. valligera, much larger than the 

 specimens from Lowestoft. — A. H. Wratislaw, School Hill, Bury St. Edmunds. 



