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pointed streaks, with their broadish bases separated only by a mere line on the middle 

 of the bacJc, and rather close behind them four round dots, which range in a transverse 

 row between the hinder j^air of the tubercular spots ; along the spiracular region the 

 paler colouring of the lower part of the body is generally well contrasted with that 

 above ; the spiracles black, sometimes grey outlined with black ; the upper lip greyish- 

 brown, anterior legs the same colour though often spotted and tipped with black ; 

 the black spots on the side of the third and fourth segments occasionally vaiy both 

 in number and shape. — William BtrcKLER, Emsworth : November 28th, 1874. 



Description of the larva of Ifocfua rubi. — On the lltli of July last, I received 

 from Mr. Owen Wilson, of Carmarthen, half-a-dozen larvae of this species about 

 half-an-inch in length. They grew rapidly on dock, and by the 23rd of the month 

 were full-grown, when I took down a description as follows : — Length about an inch 

 and a quarter, and rather stout in proportion. The head has the lobes rounded, but 

 the front rather flattened ; it is slightly narrower than the second, and considerably 

 narrower than the third, segment ; body cylindrical, and distinctly tapering towards 

 the head ; segmental folds distinct, but not very conspicuous ; the skin soft and 

 smooth. 



The ground colour is pale olive-brown freckled witli darker brown ; head smooth 

 and shining, of two shades of wainscot-brown; a smoky-brown pulsating line, inter- 

 cepted through its centre by a distinct pale line, forms the medio-dorsal stripe ; a 

 pale line, edged above and below with smoky -brown, forms the sub-dorsal lines ; and 

 along the spiracles, a pale line extends, edged above with smoky-brown, and below 

 with a broad pale yellowish-brown band ; the spiracles are distinct, black. The 

 venti-al surface, legs, and prologs, are a semi-translucent dingy yellowish-green, 

 freckled with minute brown dots. 



The larvae of several species of the genus Noctua seem very closely allied, but 

 rubi is without the usual dark transverse marks characteristic of a number of them. 



When this description was taken, several of the larva) had already spun slight 

 cocoons at the bottom of their cage, and changed to smooth shining-red pupse, 

 and on the 9th of the following month the first imago emerged, the others soon 

 followed. — Geo. T. Poehitt, Huddcrsfiold ; January 8th, 1875. 



Additional captures of Deiopeia pulchella at FolJcestone. — I have a very good 

 specimen of Deiopeia pulchella captured in the Warren, in the latter part of Sep- 

 tember, 187 i. The captor (a mere beginner) took two, and several others were seen. 

 The second specimen is that referred to by Mr. Briggs, in Ent. Mo. Mag., No. 127. 

 — Henkt Ulltett, Folkestone : January lilh, 1875. 



.At the request of several entomologists, I record the capture of a fine 



male Deiopeia pulchella ; it was taken in the Warren on the 26th October last, and 

 came into my possession alive the day of capture ; it is pronounced by Messrs. 

 Briggs to be the darkest British specimen they have seen, the crimson spots on 

 the fore-wings being particularly deep. — Waltee Blackall, 8, Guildhall Street, 

 Folkestone : January, 1875. 



