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and greon, varying in diameter from a quarter to threo-eighths of an inch, and about 

 fourteen to sixteen inches in length, and more or less sheathed with green leaves ; 

 the sign of a stem being tenanted with this larva was a small circular hole about a 

 line in diameter, situated about five inches above the joint of the sheathing leaf ; 

 the stems which I cut open for the purpose of examining the larva, had, I found, 

 been mined to the extent of at least twelve inches. 



The full-grown larva of neurica is one and a-half inches in length, remarkably 

 slender, cylindrical, and of uniform size, excepting that the two first and the two 

 last segments taper a little ; the lobes of the head well defined on the crown ; the 

 anal extremity a little flattened above, and rounded in outline ; all the legs well 

 developed, the anal pair extending beyond the anal tip and slightly divergent, so 

 that the hinder segments are brought close to the surface on wliicli it may happen 

 to be ; by contrast the ventral legs appear rather long ; the segmental divisions and 

 Bub-divisions not very strongly defined ; the skin soft, smooth, of a waxen texture, 

 flesh coloured, sometimes inclining to pinkish above with paler flesh colour below ; 

 the head reddish-brown, aud very shining, mouth dusky-browu ; a shining plate on 

 the front of the second segment of similar flesh colour to the rest of the body, 

 another polished plate on the anal flap of greyish-brown, and sometimes margined 

 behind with darker brown : the dorsal pulsating vessel can just be seen a little paler 

 than the other parts of the back, with a darker patch or two in its course sometimes 

 visible ; a delicate thread-like paler line appears along the spiracles, which are small, 

 of deeper flesh colour, finely edged with black ; the tubercular dots are small, of a 

 darker flesh colour or brownish, and polished in texture, each with a very fine hair; 

 the anterior legs of the same colour as the body, the ventral and anal legs rather 

 more transparent aud shining, tipped with rather darker hooks. — Id., Emsworth : 

 December 31st, 1873. 



Sericoris irriguana and Daleana. — A series (including both sexes) of S. irri- 

 guana has been lately sent to me in the hopes that I should consider it distinct from 

 S. Daleana. How any one can doubt its distinctness I cannot imagine. As for 

 S. Daleana I have taken considerable numbers, and never saw any specimens with 

 any similarity to S. irriguana ; besides, the habits are totally different, and I am 

 informed that the last-named species occurs on grassy slopes at a considerable 

 altitude, whereas S. Daleana is most plentiful amongst bilberry, &c., in tlie fir wood 

 close to the saw mill at Eannoch. — J. B. Hodokinson, 15, Spring Bank, Preston : 

 March lUh, 1874. 



Kotes on Lepidoptera from South Wales. — March 27th, took Brephos parthe- 

 nias for the first time, though I think I once saw it on the wing. Good Friday 

 (April 3rd) was an awful day with wild storms of hail, and thunder and lightning 

 at night. Curiously enough, it seems to have wakened up the moths, for a fine 

 specimen of Macroglossa stellatarnm, after wildly flying round my house for some 

 time, went into the dining room through the open window, and was captured. 

 Later in the day my gardener (R. Stafford) took a fine specimen of Xylina conformis 

 at rest upon a bircli-trunk ; the Glamorganshire locality from which tlie first British 

 examples were recorded in the Entomologist's Annual for 1862 (p. 108) is 30 miles 



