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Bipterygia pbiastri near Alverstoke. — As I do not see Hampshire mentioned by 

 either Stainton, Newman, or Morris, as a locality for D. innastri, you may think it 

 Avorth while to make known that I have, during the last few days, taken eleven 

 specimens of this moth within a short distance of Alverstoke Church. 



Last Friday night I took a single specimen of Secatera serena flying over 

 some water hemlock, and also some Axylia putris, a moth I have not seen for many 

 years, it being absent in Staffordshire, where I have hitherto collected. Anticlea 

 rubidata, another stranger to me, has been abundant. The weather, however, has 

 been as much against entomological captures as possible. 



I announced to you last year the capture here during the autumn of 1877, of 

 three specimens of Ennomos ahiiaria by a young friend of mine, two of which are 

 now in my collection. I cannot hear of any being taken last autumn. I diligently 

 searched the gas lamps up to the middle of October, when I went North for 

 some time, without success, the weather being anything but favourable for moths 

 being attracted to light.— E. F. Heath, Brooklands, Bury Road, Gosport : Uh 

 July, 1879. 



Description of the larva of Nephopteryx angustella. — On the 22nd of October 

 last, I received a box of larvae of this species from Mr. J. P. Barrett, of Peckham. 

 He had collected them about a fortnight before from the red seed-berries of the spindle ; 

 and at that time they were very small, though there were evident traces of an earlier 

 brood in some of the berries, apparently of full-fed larvae. They were plentiful 

 wherever a bush could be found with berries on it, but in exposed situations there 

 were very few bushes. Those found grew rapidly, and when I received them many 

 were apparently full-fed. 



Length, about half an inch, or a little over, and of moderate bulk in proportion ; 

 head highly polished, has the lobes rounded, is slightly narrower than the second, 

 and clearly narrower than the third segment. Body cylindrical and nearly uniform, 

 tapering a little posteriorly : frontal plate polished, the anal one not so conspicuous : 

 segments tolerably well-defined ; the skin soft, and sparingly clothed with very short 

 hairs. There are two forms. Var. I has the ground colour dull dingy green ; head 

 brown, marked with still darker brown : a dark green pulsating vessel forms the 

 dorsal stripe ; on each side, and on each segment, between the dorsal stripe and 

 spu-acular region, is a large rust-coloured mark, — in some specimens a double mark, 

 as it is divided transversely in the middle : there is also a less conspicuous series of 

 rust-coloured marks on the spiracular region. The frontal plate corresponds with 

 the ground colour, but has a smoky mark in the centre behind, divided by the dorsal 

 stripe, which is there distinctly paler ; on each side this plate is a rather large 

 intensely black spot : anal plate darker than the ground colour : spiracles black, they 

 are very minute, except those on the second and third segments, which are larger. 

 Ventral surface uniformly pale green. Var. II has the ground colour ochreous- 

 yellow ; head wainscot-brown, the mandibles darker ; dorsal stripe brown, and the 

 lai'ge marks between it and the spiracular region rather bright reddish-purple : 

 frontal plate wainscot-brown, divided by a pale mark as in Var. I, and on each side 

 of it is also the large intensely black spot : spiracles black. Ventral surface 

 uniformly very pale greyish-yellow. 



When first hatched, the young larva evidently eats its way into the seed-berry, 



