136 LEPIDOPTERA. 



Leucania littoralis. Description of larva of Leuca- 

 7iia littoralis [condensed from a paper by M. P. Mabille in 

 Annales de la Societe Ent. de France, 1863, page 75]. — Flat- 

 tened, grey ^vitll more or less i-eddish hue, dorsal line usu- 

 ally ashy with reddish dots, divided by a dorsal vessel which 

 is fine and whitish, edged with brown on each side ; below 

 this run dingy white streaks, the junction of which form 

 another line parallel with it; the subdorsal line is white, 

 cleft below, and surmounted by a broad brown band, the 

 spiracular line is broad and white, the small blackish brown 

 spiracles being placed in the upper part of it, the underside 

 greenish white ; the feet hyaline and marked on the inner 

 side with blackish streaks ; head testaceous, divided by a 

 deep furrow of v.hitish colour; mandibles black. Hatched 

 during winter ; lives up to May at roots of Culamagro&tis 

 arenaria; then it buries itself to a considerable depth in the 

 sand — a singular habit for a Leucania larva : it eats the 

 leaves and sheaths — is a nocturnal feeder — is difficult to rear — 

 in captivity will eat Car ex ripai^ia and sylvatica. When full 

 fed, at the beginning of May, it fornjs an oval cocoon of 

 agglutinated sand, a little larger than a parti'idge's egg, 



Tapinostola Bondii. The larvae, fi-om M^hich my un- 

 fortunate description in the W. E. was drawn, produced M. 

 Fu.runcula ; at the same time, however, Mr. Nicholls took 

 pitpcB from which he bred the species, so that all that is re- 

 quired is, that the larva of ^' Bondii" should be looked for 

 a little earlier in the season. 



The two following descriptions are extracted from an un- 

 publishd MS., the joint production of the Rev. J. Hellins 

 and Mr. William Buckler, and will be perused with interest 

 by many readers of ^' The Annual." 



