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Chcerocampa Celerio at Cromer. — A few days ago, some insects captured last 

 autumn, by a lady, at Cromer, were brought to me for names ; among them were 

 four specimens of C. Celerio, but in wretched condition. The same lady took, also 

 at Cromer, a specimen of Vanessa Antiopa. — W. H. Haewood, Colchest«r : 

 January, 1873. 



Descrij)tlon of the larva of Anisopteryx cescularia. — On the 3rd of April last, 

 I received from Mr. W. J. Skelton, of Faversham, eggs of this species. Some of 

 the young larvae had emerged on the way, and the remainder of the eggs hatched 

 immediately. The larvse grew rapidly on hawthorn, and by the middle of May 

 were going down. The fidl-gi-own caterpillar may be described as follows : — Length 

 about an inch, slender, cylindrical, and of uniform width throughout ; head glo- 

 bular, shghtly broader than the second segment ; skin soft and smooth. Ground 

 colour bright green, strongly tinged with yellow ; head uniformly green. A dark 

 green line, very narrowly edged with grey, forms the dorsal stripe ; the sub-dorsal 

 and spiracular lines greyish-white ; and between the sub-dorsal and spiracular lines 

 is a very fine pale grey line. The segmental divisions yellow, and the spiracles black. 

 Ventral surface uniformly bright green, with the segmental divisions yellow. 



By the end of May all the larvae had gone down, and the imagos from them are 

 now emerging ; nineteen males had emerged when the first female put in an appear- 

 ance.— Geo. T. PoEEiTT, Huddersfield : March Wth, 1873. 



Occurrence in Britain of Halonota grandcevana, Zeller.- — The fortunate captor 

 of this fine species is Mr. C. Bales, of South Shields, who took a single specimen on 

 July 6th, 1872, flying over " ballast heaps " near that place. It is a small, pale 

 variety of the species, being only one inch in expanse, and having the markings 

 obsolete, except a faint indication of the outer edge of the basal blotch. The brown 

 dots along the costal and hind margins are, however, rather distinct. Mr. Bales 

 tells me that when flying it bore a close resemblance to Tortrix icterana, for which 

 he at first took it. I have submitted it to Professor Zeller, to whom I am indebted 

 for its name, and also for fine and well-marked specimens from the Alps, from which 

 the following description has been taken : — 



Halonota geand^vana, Zeller. — Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen pale 

 browuish-gtey, antennfe brown, eyes black ; fore-wings broad, ashy, miich irrorated 

 with minute, pale brown streaks and "dots ; markings, when present, very pale brown, 

 consisting of the strongly angulated outer edge of the usual basal blotch, and a 

 narrow, broken, oblique central fascia, interrupted above the inner margin ; costal 

 and hinder margins spotted with pale brown, cilia ashy ; hind-wings pale grey, 

 darker at the apex, cilia whitish. Alar. exp. 1 — 1^ in. 



It seems to be a widely distributed species, occurring in Northern and Western 

 Germany, and on the shores of the Baltic. Its larva feeds in the roots of Fetasitis 

 albus and Tiissilago farfara, and probably also in those of Fetasitis vulgaris. 



Wocke places this species in a separate section of his genus Grapholitha, the 

 nearest British species being Mixodia Hawkerana on one hand, and Catoptria 

 expallidana on the other. It is, however, in spite of its broad wings, closely allied 

 to Halonota turhidana and inopiana, near which it is placed by Heinemann. — 

 Chas. G. Baerett, Norwich : March, 1873. 



