84 [September. 



Larva stout, cjlindripal ; incisions slightly compressed. Head hemispherical, 

 shining, rather flattened in front. Colour dull greenish-brown with an ochrcous tinge, 

 the sides darker, all the markings faintly indicated. An indistinct grey dorsal chain 

 pattern, each ring enclosing a grey spot. A wide, reddish-ochreous, spiracular band, 

 the sides above it broadly shaded with grey, spiracles white, edged with black, 

 usual spots tohUe surrounded ivith grey. Head reddisli-ochreous or pinkish-brown, 

 reticulated with dark brown, a sepia-coloured dash on the inside of each lobe. Belly 

 dull greenish, the sides dusted with greyish-brown. When young, the larva has a 

 prominent orange spiracular band. Feeds on Lotus coiiiiculatus, Polygonum aviculare, 

 and various low plants, and is full-fed towards the end of June. — ^C. Fenn, Lee : 

 July, 1875. 



Description of the larva, Sfc, of Cleora glabraria. — For some acquaintance with 

 this species in the larval state I have been indebted to Mr. B. Lockycr, who, on the 

 1st of June last, kindly sent me a larva, and on the 10th six others ; and to these 

 were added four more on the 22nd, from Mr. Tate of Lyndhurst ; all of these having 

 been found by him feeding on Usnea barhata growing on oaks in the New Forest. 



With the exception of the first individual, which died the morning after its 

 arrival, these larvre were very active, and fed well on the extreme points of the lichen, 

 eating them down rapidly for about an eighth of an inch, and sometimes eating off 

 the nodes, and more rarely the cuticle from the lareer branches. I was attentive to 

 keep their food changed, and to moisten it with water thrice a day, as I soon found, 

 if it became at all dry, they were unable to. feed. 



One larva was contracting for its final change when it ari*ived, but had not 

 strength to complete it ; on the 16tli of the month another had apjmrently ceased 

 to feed, and would no longer remain on the lichen, but would mount to the gauze 

 cover of its cage, persistently returning to it as often as removed ; various substances 

 and soils were supplied to induce it to spin up, but in vain, — however, after the lapse 

 of some days, the mystery of its strange behaviour was cleared up by the appearance, 

 close by it, of an ichneumon cocoon, or rather batch of four or five small cocoons 

 spun on the gauze : another, later on, was victimized in precisely the same manner, 

 while three others proved hcallhy and vigorous, retiring, when full-fed, into the Avct 

 tree-moss kept beneath the lichens, where I observed they had each hollowed out a 

 small cavity, which was kept in an oval shape by help of a few threads, rather far 

 apart, spun across the opening ; but these could scarcely be called cocoons, for, when 

 looking about a week afterwards, on the 28th, for the pupa?, two of them rolled out 

 into my hand on taking up the moss, so little coherence had these slightly-made 

 puparia. 



Of the remaining four larvse, two pupated as above described, and two proved 

 to be ichneumoned, one of these dying quite rigid, and the other lingering on, attached 

 to the cocoon of its parasite, for some time after the pupa; had disclosed the moths, 

 which proved fine specimens, appeai-ing from July 11th to 21sfc. 



The full-grown larva is nearly one inch in length, moderately slender, and of 

 about uniform substance throughout, the head, a trifle less than the second segment, 

 is a little flattened in front ; the segments of the body very well defined, the thoracic 

 ones as usual, each of the others having a wrinkle across the back at the distance of 



