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In April they attaiiaed their full growth, when I took the following descrip- 
tion: — Length Ij inch ; stontish, cylindrical, tapering slightly towards the extre- 
mities ; head round ; dorsal plate on segments two and thirteen : the warts large, 
conspicuous, raised, and emitting bristles ; skin (not velvety, but) shining. Ground 
colour, usually, an olive-brown, darker all over the back as low as the sub-dorsal 
line ; dorsal and sub-dorsal lines fine, ochreous ; side below tho sub-dorsal line 
paler than the back, but deepening towards the spiracles, which are placed in a 
dark line ; below the spiracles the colour is a dull purplish-brown ; head pale 
brown; the plate on segment two pale yellow (very conspicuous) edged behind 
with black. 
There were varieties which retained a great deal of their juvenile greenness to 
the last, the side between the sub-dorsal line and the spiracles being more green 
than brown, and the belly pale greenish ; and there was one larva which remained 
quite green all over, the back being deepest in tint, just as in the broivn variety ; 
the warts in this larva were not so conspicuous, but in every case the pale yellow 
of the second segment is very striking. — Id. 
Description of the larva ofAcronycta aiiricoma. — During last summer, by the kind- 
ness of that industrious and expert collector Mr. Meek, I had the opportunity of 
figuring and rearing a larva of this species, which well deserves its name of auricoma. 
It was taken on oak, and both oak and bramble were given to it for food, and 
at length it seemed to prefer the latter ; and on the 13th July it spun its silken 
cocoon on the underside of a bramble leaf, and the moth emerged on the 3rd of 
August. 
The fall-grown larva was about one inch and a-half in length, and cylindrical, 
but the head smaller than the second segment. Ground colour of the body and 
ventral legs a dark slaty-grey ; head and anterior legs black and shining ; a black 
plate on the second segment ; all the segments divided by very narrow black 
bands ; a broad velvety black transverse band across the middle of the back of 
each segment, on which are placed four orange tubercles in the usual order, the 
anterior pair being much the largest, excepting on the third and fourth segments, 
where they are of equal size, and placed in a transverse row ; all the tubercles are 
furnished with bright golden-yellow silky hairs, which give the larva a very beautiful 
appearance. 
The spiracles white, ringed with black. The sides of the body slightly garnished 
with hairs of a pale drab colour.— Wm. Buckler, Emsworth, January, 1867. 
Note on Mr. Kirh/s paper on the European 8phingidce.—ln the Zoological 
Record for 1865 p. 601, I observe, in the notice of my paper on European Spldngidas 
(Ent. Mag. I.) the following sentence :— " Following Walker, he divides Macroglossa 
into two genera, retaining that name for the clear-winged species, and applying 
the name of Sesia to the group including M. stellatariun" As this is scarcely 
correct, I take the liberty of explaining it, in justice both to Mr. Walker and myself. 
My words were — " Walker's arrangement of the genera is here adopted, and that 
portion of his table of genera which refers to those of Europe is translated." With 
respect to species, I followed Staudinger ; and his arrangement can be compared 
with mine by means of the table in Ent. Mag., p. 255. But I followed Walker in 
