1882. 59 



On aspen, feeding between the leaves, which it unites flatly- 

 together, and does not roll or fold, but eats away the parenchyma. 

 June. Pupa light brown, between the leaves. 



All the perfect insects were certainly typical cinerana. 



Flitheocliroa riigosana. — In July last, I received from Mr. W. H. 

 Fletcher larvae of this species, found feeding in berries of Bryonia 

 dioica, at Worthing, Sussex. They were restless, but not very active, 

 fairly cylindrical, with wrinkled and rather swollen segments, pale 

 yellowish-green, wdth delicate hairs arising from barely visible spots ; 

 head chestnut-brown, edged with blackish behind, dorsal and anal 

 plates green, feet also green. Eating out the pulp and also the hard 

 seeds, and leaving only the skins of the berries, which they fastened 

 together, and sometimes the shells of the seeds. These larvfe spun 

 tough, opaque, whitish cocoons, attached to the covering of the vessel. 

 The ^iupas were light brown. A moth emerged June 3rd. 



Von Heyden describes the lai*va, " very thick, slightly glossy, 

 somewhat wrinkled with whitish raised dots, each bearing one short 

 hair, unicolorous green, head somewhat narrower than the neck-plate, 

 which is of a darker green than the rest of the body. In July 

 and August it spun together leaf and flower-bunches, feeding in the 

 green seeds. Pupating in a hollowed-out part of the stem, closed with 

 a leaf. Pupa yellowish-green, tolerably thick." It would seem, there- 

 fore, that the pupa, as well as the larva, varies in colour. 

 Pembroke : litk, June, 1882. 



FURTHER TROPICAL NOTES. 

 BT W. B. PETER, C.M.Z.S. 



I note with considerable interest Mr. Champion's remarks, in 

 your February number, on my Tropical notes. General descriptions 

 of a country's Natural History are always interesting, and Mr. 

 Champion might well have given us a more lengthy account of his 

 experiences. AVith regard to his comparisons with my "notes," I 

 must say that ] always have understood that the Western tropics and 

 South America are richer in number of specimens of birds, butter- 

 flies, and beetles, than this part of the world. 



I should not like to be misunderstood in the meaning I wished to 

 convey in my former letter. In stating that most travellers over- 

 loaded their descriptions of every-day tropical scenery with astonishing 

 birds, troops of monkeys, wonderful butterflies, shining beetles, 

 goi'geous flowers, many coloured lizards, glittering snakes, &c., &c., 



