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ginal band less, distinct than in the majority of specimens. On the upper-side the 

 body is equally divided, being a little lighter on the male side that the other. On 

 the under-side, however, the difference in colour on the body is most distinct, the 

 male side being a light buff and the female a deep chocolate ; the line dividing the 

 tvFO colours is so distinct that it has the appearance as of tvFo specimens having 

 being cut in two, and the right hand side of the male joined on to the left hand side 

 of the female. The extremity of the abdomen looks decidedly peculiar with the 

 fluffy tail of the male on the right, and the plain roundness of the female on the 

 left.— R. A. Fkaser, Seaficld, Abbotsford Road, Crosby : September, \SS2. 



A Lepidopteroiis larva destrvctive to rice in Panama. — In a letter lately received 

 from Chiriqui, from Mr. G-. C. Champion', he says that immense numbers of a larva 

 had recently appeared suddenly in the rice plantations of the district, and were 

 doing a great deal of mischief, so much so, that for the past week the natives had 

 been holding prayer-meetings nearly every evening on this account, rice being the 

 staple article of food in Chiriqui, far more so than bread in England. 



Mr. Champion enclosed a sketch of the larva, and an imago. The larva is very 

 like that of Hadena pisi in general appearance, and about the same size when full- 

 grown, it is pale yellowish-white in colour, with two broad, longitudinal black stripes 

 along the back, and a few fine dark longitudinal lines mixed with the yellowish 

 ground-colour. 



The pupa is enclosed in a slight silken cocoon between the leaves of the rice, 

 and remains only a few days in this state. — W. W. Fowler, Lincoln : Sept., 1882. 



[Mr. Butler informs us that the moth is a species of Remigia, Guenee {Noc- 

 tuidce), near " Ophiusa delinquens," Walker, but much darker. — Eds.] 



Notes on Micro-Lepidopteea. 



Lavcrna Hellerella and atra distinct species. — -In reference to Mr. Douglas' 

 remarks on the distinctness of the two species of Laverna, the one from apple 

 shoots feeding in spring and the other from hawthorn berries in autumn, I have no 

 doubt whatever of the fact that they are two species. I have bred both, and neither 

 form varied in the slightest degree, nor were they in any way associated together. 

 L. EellerelJa, the larvae of which feed in autumn in hawthorn berries, always 

 emerged with me as the light species, and the one we call L. atra from apple always 

 the dark one, and how they could have been confounded I cannot understand. 



Qelechia maculiferella bred from Cerastiuin. — I bred this insect freely last year 

 from a small plant on the sand hills at Lytham, which I believe to be Cerastium 

 semidecandrum. The larvae fed in the flower shoots and seeds, and spun up in sand 

 cocoons. 



Oelechia ligulella, voriicella, tcenioleHa, and Sircomella. — I feel sure that three 

 of these species are only forms of one, viz. : ligulella, tceniolella, and Sircomella. I 

 took a large quantity of them this year, and they were swept from Lotus coriiicttla- 

 tus, different sexes in the different forms being freely paired. This is, I think, a 

 convincing proof of their unity of species. Voriicella is also so like the others (the 



