21 J. [February, 



tlio tail rather rounded, pale hrown in colour, the head darker brown ; it lies in a 

 wlutish silken hammock, a little longer than itself. — Wm. Buckler, Emsworth : 

 December, 1873. 



Descrij^tion of the larva, S{c., of Bliodophaa marmorea. — On the 23rd of May, 

 1873, Mr. J. B. Hodgkinson, of Preston, kindly sent me a larva of this species, 

 which, with more than a dozen others, he had obtained by beating from dwarfed 

 and stunted miserable-looking sloe bushes, scattered, over the side of Whitbarrow, 

 in Westmoreland. 



Mr. Hodgkinson informs me that he can always tell at a glance whether this 

 larva is on a bush, and that he finds invariably the principal indications of its pre- 

 sence to be the stunted appearance combined with the circumstance of sheeps'-wool 

 sticking in the twigs. 



The individual sent to me arrived in a loosely spun web on the stem of a twig 

 of dwarf sloe, and I noticed that each time I changed its food it spun for itself a 

 fresh web uniting some of the leaves together ; when disturbed it was nimble and 

 eager to escape, but invariably spun a thread while walking a« a measure of security 

 for regaining its place on a stem. It fed on the sloe leaves, though somewhat 

 sparingly, and on June Ist I found it had spun, during the previous night, a cocoon 

 of brownish-gi'ey silk, attached to the end of the hammock-like web in which it had 

 been living and to the stem and two or three leaves of its food, the outside of it 

 covered with leaf gnawings and frass ; it did not become a pupa till the 6tli, and the 

 moth came forth on July 7th. 



This larva was five-eighths of an inch in length, moderately slender, nearly of 

 equal size throughout, the last two segments being a little tapered, and the head, 

 though full and with rounded lobes, rather less than the second segment ; the ven- 

 tral legs moderately developed, but placed much beneath the body ; each segment 

 beyond the fourth sub-divided by one transverse wrinkle, which, though slight on 

 the back, was deep on the side, unless when the head and front segments were 

 thrown back, forming a concave line above, when these wrinkles would appear 

 deeply indented as well as the segmental divisions ; but when the body was bent 

 downwards, giving a convex outline to the back, these wrinkles disappeared ; the 

 sides were deeply wrinkled and dimpled, with an inflated sub-spiracular ridge almost 

 linear in its course. The colour was a very dark chocolate-brown, the skin being 

 without any gloss ; the head and plate behind it were of a dingy, rusty, red colour, 

 the former marked with a thick crescent of black on the crown of each lobe, the 

 latter blotched with black, and both shining ; the tubercular dots were also polished, 

 most of them being very small, each bearing a fine hair ; in the sub-dorsal region of 

 the third and again of the twelfth segment was an ocellated spot of flesh colour, 

 with minute black centre bearing a hair ; the tip of the anal segment a little paler 

 than the rest of the colouring, and rather shining ; the spiracles were small, circular, 

 and flesh coloured ; the anterior legs marked with black ; the ventral legs dingy 

 flesh colour, tipped with dark brown hooks. 



The deep reddish-brown pupa, three and a quarter lines in length, was of 

 moderate stoutness and of the usual contour, but with the abdomen terminating 

 in a knob, furnished with three extremely minute, curved-tipped bristles. — Id. 



