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are red, with a black semilunar mark at the junction of the 

 claspers with the body. On the top of the 12th segment 

 there are two warts, one on each side of the blue line before 

 mentioned, which, as it passes between them, is marked by a 

 dilatation. These warts are red at the upper part, and emit 

 hairs. The head is either bluish green or light yellowish 

 green. The ocelli black. A short black line extends hori- 

 zontally on each side of the mandibles, which are red, 

 bounded with black. The head emits hairs. Var. 2. — 

 Ground colour light greenish yellow, becoming more de- 

 cidedly green underneath. Otherwise similar. Var. 3. — 

 Head a light pinkish brown, emitting not nearly so many 

 hairs as ordinarily. Body, above the spiracles, creamy 

 white between the segments, and with a saddle of pink across 

 the middle of each segment. Warts, legs, and claspers, not 

 so red as in the ordinary varieties. Line down the back and 

 the lines on each side, instead of blue, are pink. Spiracles 

 and inter-spiracular line the same as usual. Beneath the 

 spiracles the colour is very light yellowish brown, darker 

 between the claspers. Var. I is the common condition of the 

 larva, and var. 2 is also very generally found ; but var. 3 is, 

 I believe, rather scarce. 1 have only seen it once, when I 

 beat it, then quite small, from oak, 5th September, 1873. I 

 have bred all the moths this year, and there is no perceptible 

 difference between them. — E. B. Poulton ; Victoria Villa, 

 Reading, July 8, 1874. 



Diavlhoecia Albimacula and Acronycta Leporina. — I had 

 the pleasure of taking a very good specimen of Dianthcecia 

 albimacula, on Tuesday, June 23rd, as it was flying over a 

 small bed of Silene nutans, on the Lower Road, Folkestone. 

 Two collectors were present, and one of them — himself the 

 captor of two specimens of this insect, at Folkestone — pointed 

 out the value of my capture. 1 also caught a fine specimen 

 of Leporina at sugar, in a wood about three miles from 

 Folkestone, about a week after the capture of Albimacula. — 

 Id. 



Larvce of Dianthcecia Albimacula. — I have taken during 

 the last week several larvae ol the above species, feeding on 

 Silene nutans: this plant is not so local as it is supposed to 

 be: I have found it in many parts of Kent; also in the Isle 

 of Wight.— £;. G. Meek: 56, Brampton Road, S.W. 



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