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Notodonta carmelita at West Wickham. — On the evening of the 2r)th inst., I had 

 the pleasure of takin;:;- a pair ( S anil ? ) of thia insect off the Bishop's palings ; they 

 were at rest within au inch of each other, and, from their fine condition, had evi- 

 dently just emerged from the pupae. The same evening, my brother took 

 P. lacertula in the wood. — Wm. Cole, Tottenham, April 29th, 1865. 



Singular varriation of the larva of Liydia adustata. — The bright green or light 

 apple-green variety of this larva I have seen described once or twice ; but the 

 descriptions do not all give the same number and position of the red markings. 

 Some larvae figured and described by Mr. Buckler, last autumn, had — in addition to 

 the brown head, red legs, and lateral blotches mentioned (after Guenee) in the 

 Manual —on the anterior part of each of the sixth, seventh, eighth, eleventh, and 

 twelfth segments, a bx'ight red elongate spot, bordered on either side by a black 

 and then a white Jine ; they had also thread-like sub-dorsal and spiracular white 

 lines. 



But the following variety, captured here by Mr. D'Orville, I have never seen 

 mentioned before ; in fact, at first we took it to be a new species. Ground colour 

 above is a grey brown ; a broad ochi-eous yellow dorsal stripe, widest in the centre 

 of each segment, and contracted at the segmental divisions ; very thin sub-dorsal 

 and spiracular white lines ; on the front of each of segments four, five, six, and 

 seven, are two dorsal white spots, and on each segment ten black dots ; belly and 

 sides, for first five segments, are of same colour as the back, but for the remainder 

 are ochreous yellow. The lateral blotches on segments five, six, and seven, are 

 dark brown, followed by smaller spots on the hinder segments ; the head, also, has 

 a dark brown spot on each lobe. — Rev. J. Hellins, April 6th, 1865. 



On some varieties of the larva of Hyhernia leucopha^aria. — In February, 1863, 

 Mr. H. Doubleday kindly sent me a batch of eggs ; these were at first light green 

 in colour afterwards changing to a bluish-black-green. The larvae were hatched on 

 March 28th, being then dark dingy green in colour, and short in figure ; they fed 

 inside buds of oak, which I partially opened for them with a pin, and by the 14th 

 April they had become about a quarter of an inch in length, and were furnished 

 with a few bristles ; all their dark colour was gone, and they were now of a very 

 pale whitish-green. As they grew bigger, their skin seemed to grow harder, as 

 though to fit them for feeding exposed, and at last there appeared about four 

 varieties. These Mr. Buckler has kindly figured, together with some other larvae 

 captured at different times. 



When full grown — about the end of May or beginning of June — they had some- 

 what of a square-built figure, being stoutish, and of uniform size throughout ; in fact, 

 they can by no means be called elongate, although most of their congeners are 

 well described by that word. 



The variety most commonly met with has the ground colour of a very pale 

 yellowish-green, or very pale olive-green, with a yellowish dorsal line, double, but 

 nlmost running into one at the segmental divisions, and a sub-dorsal line rather 

 paler ; some specimens have, in addition, numerous ddts of pale yellowish-white. 

 This seems to be the variety described (from Guenee) in Stainton's Manual. 



The variety coming nearest to this, is one which I never saw except in the 



