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not far from the spot where Chrysomela menthastri may be picked off the heads of 

 Mentha, and Bledius subterraneus extracted from tlie sandy soil beneath, if one 

 has any eyes left for insects when surrounded by the enchanting scenery of the 

 banks of the Wye between Monmouth and Symond's Yat. — A. E. Hodgson, 

 Coleford : December 4th, 1882. 



Captures at Deal. — In the early part of August last I had two or three days' 

 collecting at the above mentioned watering place. Among the insects taken may be 

 enumerated Licinus depressus and L. silphoides, Xantholinus tricolor, Synealypta 

 hirsuta, Hypera fasciculata, and a fair number of DianthoecicB larvae from Silene 

 maritima and S. injlata. Along the cliffs between Walmer and St. Margaret's 

 LyccBna Corydon made good show, being the only butterfly that one could not fail 

 to notice and admire. — Id. 



Description of the larva of Pterophorus pentadactylus. — On the 4th of July of 

 last year, I received eggs of this species from Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher, deposited by 

 a moth he had taken at Worthing. Five days later they hatched, and the newly- 

 emerged larvra were white, and clothed with long white hairs. They fed for a short 

 time on convolvulus, but hibernated early, when still very small. In April, they 

 recommenced feeding, but by the 15th, were only a little over a quarter of an inch 

 in length. From that time they grew rapidly, and, by the 5th of May, the largest 

 was nearly full-grown. 



Length, nearly three quarters of an inch, and of average build. Head polished, 

 it has the lobes rounded, and is a little narrower than the second segment. Body 

 cylindrical, and fairly uniform, tapering only a very little towards the extremities. 

 Segmental divisions clearly defined, the tubercles prominent, and from each of them 

 springs a tuft of moderately stiff hairs : in the tuft of hairs from the tubercles on 

 segments 2, 3, 4, 12, and 13, is a single hair, much longer than the rest, which stands 

 out very conspicuously. Skin soft and smooth, but only very slightly glossy. 

 Ground-colour of a median shade of dark green, exactly the colour, indeed, of the 

 convolvulus leaf, on which it feeds. On the dorsal area, however, the ground-colour 

 only appears as a large lozenge-shaped mark on each segment, except the ninth, the 

 remaining space on each segment, and the whole of the ninth segment, being filled 

 ■with bright lemon-yellow. The darker green alimentary canal shews through as the 

 dorsal line ; there are no perceptible dorsal lines, but there are long and continuous 

 whitish streaks along the posterior half of the spiracular region. Head bright yel- 

 lowish-brown, the mandibles reddish-brown, and the ocelli black and distinct. 

 Tubercles intensely black, the hairs greyish. The imago from this larva was out on 

 the 31st of May.— Geo. T. Poeeitt, Huddersfield : December 9th, 1882. 



Note on Crambus furcatellus. — About the middle of June we went to one of our 

 old resorts in the Highlands. The first ten days rain, rain, then came a fine day 

 and I ascended a hill nearly 2000 feet high. On the way I looked in on the Scopula 

 decrepitalis haunt, and took three, and one Asthena luteata, they were almost the 

 only insects to be seen in the place, every thing being in a great state of soak. Higher 

 up I took one Antithesia Staintoniana, the utter absence of insect life on most promis- 

 ing ground being quite remarkable. About 1000 feet up and flying over a beautiful 



