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middle of the hind margin ; besides its larger size will se- 

 parate it from Medusa ; and Curtula is well distinguished 

 by the entire tip of the anterior wings being chocolate. 



The larva (according to Treitschke) feeds on willow and 

 poplar from June to October ; it is yellowish-grey or flesh- 

 coloured, with interrupted, blackish, longitudinal lines, and 

 with alternating black and yellow spots on each side ; on 

 the twelfth segment is a small reddish hump, and on the 

 fifth segment a larger one, with a white spot on each side. 



Bryophila Alg^:, Fabricius. 



Mr. Edleston sent in September last the following com- 

 munication to the Intelligencer (Int. vii. p. 11): — "Two 

 specimens of this pretty species (B. Algce) were taken in this 

 district last July." 



This species is rather smaller than B. pej'la, and is varied 

 with green and brown, only the inner and elbowed lines 

 appearing white towards the inner margin; from its dark 

 colour and its habit of reposing on the trunks of lichen- 

 covered trees it is difficult to detect. It is not rare in the 

 neighbourhood of Paris, and is a species one might have 

 anticipated would at least have occurred in the southern 

 counties of England. The Lancashire collectors have, how- 

 ever, been beforehand with us. 



Leucania extranea, Guenee. 



(Fig. 2.) 



At the October meeting of the Entomological Society of 



London, Mr. Bond exhibited a specimen of this insect from 



the Isle of Wight, and Dr. Allchin exhibited a specimen 



taken near Lewes on the 9th of September. The insect had 



not previously been recorded as European, though occur- 



1860. k 



