1867.] 137 



When full grown, the broad dorsal stripe of dirty whitish appears faintly 

 continuous, and widest in the middle of each segment, and margined at each seg- 

 mental division before and behind with short thick black curves. 



On the anal extremity a thick cruciform black mark. 

 - Its perfect assimilation to the crevices in the bark of ash trees accounts partly 

 for its remaining so long undiscovered, or at least undescribed, in this country. — 

 Wm. Buckler, Emsworth. 



Description of the larva of Miana furuncula. — In April last I had the pleasure 

 to receive several larvae of this species, for which I am greatly indebted to the most 

 kind exertions of Dr. Knaggs, who baa thus brought another unknown larva to light. 



These larvse were found feeding in stems of Festuca arundinacea, the interiors 

 of which they entirely devoured, leaving only the outer cuticle, in which, towards 

 the end of June, they spun a very slight envelope of silk, and changed to the pupa 

 state ; the moths appearing from July 9th to 19th. 



This larva, when two-thirds grown, is about three quarters of an inch in 

 length, very smooth and shining, cylindrical, and plump, but tapering a little at 

 both extremities, and the head very small and slightly flattened. The ground 

 colour is a yellowish flesh-tint, and it is marked on each segment with three trans- 

 verse bands (the widest in front) of dull mottled reddish or dingy pinkish, very 

 distinct on the back, but paler on the sides, and through them run the dorsal and 

 sub-dorsal stripes of the clear ground colour. The spiracles are minute and black. 

 The head dark reddish-brown ; a small pale reddish-brown plate on the 2nd and anal 

 segments. The anterior legs dark brown, and the prolegs tipped with dark brown. 



As the larvae became full grown their markings faded away, until they 

 appeared uniformly of a yellowish-white, with a dark grey pulsating vessel showing 

 through some of the anterior segments. — Id. 



Note on Coleophora albicans. — Mr. N. Greening has succeeded in finding the 

 larva of this species on the seeds of the Artemisia vulgaris, near Warrington ; the 

 larva uses a flower, of which it has already devoured the interior, as a case, and thus, 

 like " a wolf in sheep's clothing," so exactly resembles the other flowers on which 

 it afterwards feeds, that it is extremely difficult to detect. 



We were aware that the species occurred in this country, but I am not aware 

 that a British larva had previously been noticed. — H. T. Stainton, Mountsfield, 

 Lewisham, October 5th, 1867. 



Note on Lasiocampa querc{ls — A female has just made its appearance in a 

 friend's breeding-cage. The larva was taken with two others last September, and 

 they spun up about the middle of the month. Is it not an uncommon occurrence, 

 for the insect to remain in the pupa state a full year, and to emerge at this season ? 

 The two other pupae are awaiting their change : when will they appear ? — Richaed 

 Tyrer, Grove House, Mansfield, September 21st, 1867. 



Captures at Witherslack. — On the 28th of May I visited this locality, and met 

 with Nemitriaviridata, 12 ; Corycia temerata, 3 ; Eriopsela qiiadnma, 1 ; Anchylopera 



