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and two stripes of the paler brown colour running through 

 each lobe are very conspicuous; a pale grayish line, finely 

 edged with dark green, forms the dorsal stripe ; the sub- 

 dorsal lines are of the same colour, but waved throughout 

 their entire length ; the whole of the spiracular region, 

 including the space between the subdorsal and ventral 

 regions, is in some specimens entirely white, but in others is 

 very delicately and beautifully marked at regular intervals 

 throughout the entire length, with blotches of pink or bright 

 pale purple. On each side of the 5th, 6tb, 7lb, 8th, and 9lh 

 segments, is an oblique smoky mark, each mark commencing 

 on the front of the segment, and extending backwards into 

 the pale spiracular area ; the usual dots and spiracles are 

 distinct, black. The ventral surface is green, with five 

 longitudinal white stripes, — a central one, and two on each 

 side outside it; the usual dots distinct here, too, and also 

 black ; the prolegs tipped with pink. Feeds on sallow ; and 

 when full fed, like others in the genus, affixes itself to a leaf 

 by the anal claspers, and spins a band or belt round the 

 middle of the body, exactly in the same manner as the 

 PieridcB amongst the butterflies. The pupa varies from half 

 to three-quarters of an inch in length, and is of the usual 

 Ephyra shape and position. Head square and blunt, and 

 from it the body is attenuated gradually and evenly to the 

 anal point; the front and back are rounded, but are distinctly 

 divided by a lateral ridge, which extends a little beyond the 

 head on each side, forming two short blunt points ; the back 

 is also slightly arched. Ground colour of the pupa grayish 

 white, with the leg- and wing-cases veined with smoke- 

 colour; there is a pale gray longitudinal line through the 

 centre of the back, and on each side of it a series of black 

 dots. Two iraagos emerged about the middle of August; 

 the remainder of the pupae stand over until spring. — Geo. T. 

 Porritt; Highroyd House, Huddersfield. 



Food of Lobophgra viretata. — I am enabled to add 

 two others to the published list of (bod-plants of Lohophora 

 viretata : they are B/iammis frangula (alder buckthorn) 

 and Vihurnum opttlus (guelder-rose). Those recorded are 

 Liffustrum viilgare (privet), Acer Pseitdo-platainis (sycamore), 

 and Hedera Helix (ivy). — G. C. Bignell; Stonehouse, 

 Plymouth, 



