108 lOctoljer, 



Miana furuncula. — In the present (September) number of this Magazine (at p. 

 91) , the discovery of the larva of furuncula has beau erroneously assigned to Mr. J. 

 Gardner ; whereas, in point of fact, this discovery was really made by Dr. Knaggs 

 eleVen years ago ! 



A brief account of the circumstance, together with a description of tlie larva 

 while it retained all its characteristics, will be found in volume iv, p. 137. — W. 

 BucKLEE, Emsworth : September 2nd, 1878. 



Ennomos alniaria at Alverstoke. — On looking over a small collection made by a 

 young friend resident here, I was surprised to see three specimens of E. alniaria, all 

 of which he took last autumn on the gas lamps about here. I hope, if I remain, to 

 be similarly fortunate. — E. F. Heath, The Brooklands, Bury Road, Alverstoke : 

 August 27th, 1878. 



Description of the larva of Acidalia imitaria. — -On the 13th July last, at 

 Thruxton, Hants, I captured a ? 4. imitaria, which laid eight eggs on the following 

 day. These hatched on the 22nd July, and the young larvae fed up rapidly on lettuce, 

 which they seemed to prefer to Polygonum. 



When first hatched, the larva is extremely slender and thread-like, more so than 

 the larva of any other species of the genus with which I am acquainted. Of the 

 eight larvae one was lost, and another died from the effects of a bite received from 

 one of its companions, the remaining six attained maturity about the middle of 

 August. 



The full-grown larva may be thus described : length about one inch and a 

 quarter, the head rather narrower than the 2nd segment and indistinctly notched on 

 the crown, the face flat with the lobes rounded ; the segments gradually taper from 

 the 12th to the 2nd, they are transversely ribbed throughout and overlap each other 

 at the divisions ; the colour of the head is wainscot-brown, and of the dorsal surface 

 of the body dirty greenish-ochreous, paler at the sides, especially on the skin-fold ; 

 the medio-dorsal stripe is very pale and hardly perceptible on the 2nd and 3rd 

 segments, but on the Jth and succeeding segments is of a greenish-brown colour, 

 which increases in intensity at the division of the segments and at the anal extremity ; 

 on each side between the medio-dorsal stripe and the spiracles are two very pale, 

 indistinct, and irregular lines ; the ventral area is pale dirty greenish, and there is a 

 faint indication of a central line throughout its length ; the spiracles are black, and 

 there is a minute black dot on each side of the medio-dorsal stripe on the 4th, 5th, 

 6th, and 7th segments. On several of the segments there are a few, irregularly 

 scattered, bristly hairs. 



The larva spins a light cocoon of loose threads, mixed up with morsels of dried 

 leaves. The pupa, which is about five lines in length, is of a golden-brown colour, 

 excepting the wing-cases, which are ochrcous-yellow. 



The first four imagos emerged on the 10th instant, and the remainder on the 12th. 



Notwithstanding the unusual food of the larvae, the imagos do not differ, either 

 in size or colouring, from the ordinary type of the species. — H. Goss, The Avenue, 

 Surbiton Hill : \Uh September, 1878. 



'Note on Coccyx distinctana, Wilkinson. — In his Notes on British Tortrice3 in this 

 Magazine (vol. x, p. 65), Mr. Barrett, speaking of Coccyx distinctana, says that Prof. 



