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ihe very dark brown dorsal line. The sub-dorsal stripes are double, brown, with a 

 paler ochreous-brown ground, followed by a pale stripe of ocbreous, enclosing a 

 very thin brown line ; the lateral lines double, dark brown, extending from the 

 mouth to the anal prologs ; edged above with black at the anterior portion of each 

 segment; the upper one widening below in the middle, along which are some 

 black dots. Belly and legs brown. Within the dark portion of the back, on each 

 segment, are placed four black dots in the usual order, and on the eleventh segment 

 there is an additional black dot on each side, outside the dark region. Sub-dorsal 

 lines, also, containing two black dots and a minute ring. 



Went to earth on the 24th of June. — Wm. Buckler, Emsworth, Ilants, 

 July, 1865. 



Notes on Toxocampa craccce, — On the 4th of May T received, through the 

 kindness of Mr. Horton, three little larvae of this species. They were from i to 

 ^ inch in length, and of a slender figure, using only two pairs of their ventral feet. 



One of these larvae soon perished from a bite he had received during his 

 journey from one of his companions ; and another died not long afterwards, as I 

 believe, from my neglecting to supply it with young tender shoots of vetch ; whilst 

 the third, after dwindling for a while, soon recovered its health when furnished 

 with food tender enough for its taste. 



As I could not procure Vicia sylvatica, Dr. Knaggs told me that Orohus 

 tuherosus and Vicia sepitim would replace it ; but I found that the young shoots of 

 the last named plant were most approved of. — Rev. J. Hellins, Exeter, July, 3.865 



Capture of Erastria venustula. — This insect has again made its appearance at 

 Bpping Forest. On the 5th ultimo I was at Loughton, and took a single specimen, 

 beaten from a low beech bush : a few specimens were also taken by other entomo- 

 logists on the same day. 



It has not, I believe, been uncommon this year ; as at least two dozen have 

 been taken to my knowledge. — S. A. Davis, Jun., Seven Sisters' Road, N., July 14th. 



Depressarice, ^c, in the Isle of Wight. — Affected, perhaps, by a longing for 

 retirement, I made most of my Entomological expeditions away from the coast ; 

 and, my captures among the Depressariw being good, had no reason to be 

 dissatisfied with the result. At Niton, a little hamlet near St. Lawrence, the fine 

 old thatches produced D. purpurea, arenella, Alstrcemeriana, and applana, in great 

 numbers, heracliana commonly, and a few specimens of choirophylU, albipunctella, 

 ciliella, and nervosa. Occasionally an excited farmer would remonstrate on the 

 dilapidation of his cow-house roofs, and ui'ge, with unanswerable logic, that his 

 property urns his and not mine ; but deferential politeness disarmed the fiercest 

 native, and the baited naturalist, feigning a perfectly excessive tenderness in 

 tapping the extreme edges of the thatch as long as the farmer, gratified by this 

 impressive manifestation of care, was in sight, would fall to his work again sturdily, 

 free from attack. 



At Ventnor, which yielded fewer species than any other place I visited, there 

 occurred a single specimen of capreolella, and a pair of liturella, together with an 



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