>-i(l(;;o bearing a pair of warts : in some specimens, also tlie foiivlli bears a pair of three- 

 lobcd, transverse, sub-dorsal humps ; tlie front pairs of legs on segments three and 

 four are -n-ell developed, as well as the ventral and anal pairs ; the aiial flap triangular, 

 somewhat rounded at the tip, the 13th (under the flap) ending in two bhmtish points, 

 with a shorter, sharper one between them ; the skin glossy, but wrinkled on the 

 hinder part of each segment. 



The ground colour is generally purplish-brown, sometimes more cinnamon-brown, 

 the folds and humps dai'k brownish-grey ; there is not much pattern, and different 

 individuals vary in the amount of patches of paler colouring, some having broad 

 patches of cream colour in the spiracular region of the fifth and tenth segments ; the 

 sixth sometimes tinged with rust colour ; the dorsal line appears as a palish dash on 

 the front of each segment, and a spot just at the end ; similar pale spots ai'e some- 

 times seen where the sub-dorsal line should be on the sixtli and ninth segments ; the 

 head brownish ; the spiracles dirty-white, outlined with black. The whole appearance 

 of the larva, both in outline and colour, is exti-cmely suggestive of an oak twig, and it 

 jireserves the resemblance under one or two changes of attitude ; sometimes standing 

 stiflly out, with the body in a straight line up to the eighth segment, then the seventh 

 bent slightly upwards from tliis, and then from the sixth to the head again in one line ; 

 the head and thoracic segments and legs more or less " bunched " together ; some- 

 times standing off at a wider angle from a twig, and then with the whole front of 

 the body from the sixth to the head inclined — in a stiff line — towards the twig again ; 

 in this position, it looks like what had been a forked twig, with one of the forks 

 broken off : in walking, its humps lose much of their prominence, and then it looks 

 much like other stout Greometers. 



The pupa is enclosed in a slight cocoon, placed just on the surface of the soil, 

 aud formed by drawing together moss, &c. ; it is about three-quarters of an inch 

 long, cylindrical, the thorax and upper part of abdomen stoutish, the lower part 

 tapering off I'apidly ; the wing cases granulated and dull, the abdomen glossy ; tho 

 wliole pupa skin sparsely set with fine bristles ; the anal spike triangular, flattened, 

 and ending in a long fine spine, barely bifurcated at the tip ; colour a very dark 

 brown, with the abdominal rings reddish. — John IIelltns, Exeter : 30t/t May, 187-1'. 



Jiritiah Jlemiplera : memoranda for residents and fourisf.i. — 



Cafi/p/ono/ns qitadratu.t, a terrestrial species. 



Lygaosoma ]}unctatogiiltala, gregarious at the roots of the foxglove. L. reficu- 

 lata, also gregarious about several low plants. 



These are all common in the Channel Islands. The first is very rare in England, 

 the other two not hitherto found in Britain, but all may reasonably be expected to 

 occur in (he Southern Counties. 



Nyxius jacohem, Sehill. (fragarla, Boh.), which is found throughout Europe, 

 and frequents the wild strawberry ; should surely be found in Britain. It usually 

 occurs in the brachypferoua form, and in tliis slate was once found numerous in 

 Switzerland by Meyer-Diir, who, at the time, tliinking the examples were only un- 

 developed y. thymi, took only a few, and did not find out his mistake until it wa3 

 too late to get more. 



JKremocorii plebeius is only known as British by a solitary example from Scot- 

 land. It is found in Germany and the North of Europe among tho roots of heather 

 (CaJhina vulyarisj. 



