isso.] 93 



During June the larva attains full growth of half an inch in length, or a trifle 

 more, the skin of the body is still a light flesh colour, but the head, plates, and spots 

 show more distinctly from it of a light warm cinnamon glossy brown, the spots not 

 quite so large in proportion as with many of the genus, the parts of the mouth are 

 outlined with darker brown, and each lobe on the crown of the head is margined by 

 a short blackish-brown streak, and has besides a few other spots and streaks above ; 

 the plate on the second segment bears a few minute black-brown dots and a larger 

 pair on the hind margin ; each tubercular spot bears two dots of darkish brown, one 

 small, the other larger, furnished with a fine hair, the minute spiracles are round and 

 black. It travels forwards or backwards equally well, and from the middle of June 

 converts its tubular residence into a cocoon of oval shape from three-eighths to half 

 an inch longest diameter, smoothly lined with pale grey silk and externally covered 

 with frass or particles of moss, or with both. 



The pupa is three-eighths of an inch long, of the usual contour but rather plump, 

 the head and thorax moderately produced, the form tapering very slightly towards 

 the widest part of the body at the ends of the long wing-covers, from thence the 

 abdomen tapers a little more towards the rounded-off tip ending with a rather pro- 

 minent boss ; in colour it is a light warm shining brown, the lower part of the wing- 

 covers paler brownish-yellow, the terminal boss dark brown. — William Buckler, 

 Emsworth : August 12th, 1880. 



Batrachedra prceangusta. — In my letter to Mr. Stainton which he has published 

 in the Magazine for this month, I stated that having found a larva in the lining of 

 a gold-finch's nest, it was not until I saw what the nest was lined with that I 

 recognised the species to which that larva belonged. Mr. Stainton seems to me to 

 go somewhat out of his way in suggesting that the reverse of this mental process 

 was what actually occurred. He writes, "No doubt the larva itself helped to 

 " explain to Lord Walsingham of what materials the lining of the nest was 

 " really composed, for the larva of Batrachedra prceangusta is so remarkably con- 

 " spicuous that any one who has once seen it can hardly fail to recognise it wherever 

 " met with." 



Had this been the case I should not have expressed myself in exactly the 

 opposite sense. 



I gave to Mr. Stainton two or three years ago the only two preserved specimens 

 of this larva which were in my collection, together with the information which 

 seemed to be of some interest to him, that they were found living in the down of 

 sallow catkins. 



The curious position in which this larva has now been found, although confirm- 

 ing my previous observation as to its habits, affords perhaps a sufficient excuse for 

 my having failed to recognise it, until by chance I saw that the gold-finch's nest was 

 not lined with the usual thistle-down, but with that of sallow catkins. — Walsing- 

 ham, Eaton House : July 16th, 1880. 



Capture of Dyschirius angustatus, Ahr., at Hayling Island. — I was at Hayling 

 Island for two days about the end of last June, and captured about half-a-dozen of the 

 above-named species on the Sandhills, to the West of South Hayling. I did not 



