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Northumberland; and the neighbouring county of Durham 

 can only boast of two instances in which it lias been met 

 with, namely, at Whitburn, by Mr. John Hancock, on July 

 23rd, 1858, and by Mr. J. Sang, at Darlington.— f^F. Maling ; 

 22, Jesmond Road, Newcaslie-on-Tyne, March 21, 1874. 



Description of the Larva of Zygcena Trifolii. — Early in 

 July last I received a number of cocoons and three larvae of 

 tiiis species from the Rev. A. C. Hervey, of Pokesdown. The 

 latter were of the usual Zyga^na shape; when at rest about 

 five-eighths, but when crawling nearly an inch in length. 

 Ground colour yellowish green; the head black and shining, 

 with a streak of gray above the mandibles. There are two 

 longitudinal rows of black marks on the dorsal area, each 

 segment containing four of these marks; there is another 

 row of similar, but smaller, marks between the subdorsal and 

 spiracular regions; and an interrupted smoky stripe along 

 the region of the spiracles. The segmental divisions are 

 yellow, and expand into conspicuous yellow marks along the 

 sides, these marks being on the posterior [part] of each 

 segment, between the two rows,of black marks. The ventral 

 surface is dingy, yellowish green, with smoky central line. 

 Skin soft, and clothed sparingly with very short gray hairs. 

 Moths emerged during the latter part of July. — Geo. T. 

 Porritt ; Hiiddemjield, Jamiary 9, 1874. 



[Will Mr. Porritt kindly inform the readers of the 'Ento- 

 mologist' how these larvae may be preserved through the 

 winter ? I have often hatched the eggs of a five-spot burnet, 

 and have watched iheir entrance into this world, and found 

 they will immediately distribute themselves over the leaves of 

 any leguminous plant provided for them ; this lasts for a few 

 days only : if you hold up the food on which they are feeding 

 and give it a sharp tap, the infant larvae fall about five or six 

 inches, but always secure themselves by a thread, and thus 

 swing suspended like a family of recently-hatched spiders. 

 They soon regain their standing, and nibble little holes in the 

 leaves ; but 1 have always lost them in the winter. — Edward 

 Newi/uni.^ 



Halo)iota Grandcevana at Hartlepool. — A few months 

 ago Mr. Gardner, of Hartlepool, sent a box of Micro- 

 Lepidoptera for my acceptance: among them was a speci- 

 men of Grandaevana; it appears rather an old one, and 

 no doubt it has been in existence before the species was 



