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its old haunt in this county. The last specimen seen here was 

 in September, 1868, although the locality has been yearly 

 worked. — [Mrs.] E. S. Hutchinson; Grantsfield, Leominster, 

 Herefordshire. 



Description of the larva of Pterophorus pterodactylus, 

 Linn, (fuscodactylus, Haw.). — On the 13th of June last, Mr. W. 

 H. B. Fletcher found, feeding on speedwell growing on a bank at 

 Worthing, a good supply of larvae of this species, which he at 

 once kindly forwarded to me. It was, however, a late batch, for 

 at the time Mr. Fletcher was breeding the moth freely from 

 larvae he had collected some weeks previously. Length about 

 five-eighths of an inch, and scarcely so stout as seems usual in 

 the genus. Head small, and narrower than the second segment ; 

 it is polished, rather flat in front, but rounded at the sides. Body 

 cylindrical, of fairly uniform width, but tapering a little at the 

 extremities; segmental divisions well defined; the skin, with a 

 soft and half-transparent appearance, is sparingly clothed with 

 short hairs. There are two varieties, which are perhaps about 

 equally numerous. Li one of them the ground colour is a bright 

 grass-green ; in the other it is equally bright yellow-green ; in 

 both forms the head is pale yellowish brown, very prettily reti- 

 culated with intense black. The dark green, or in some of the 

 yellow specimens dark brown, alimentary canal forms the dorsal 

 stripe ; subdorsal lines rather indistinct, grayish white ; below 

 there is a still more indistinct waved line of the same colour; 

 there is, again, a similarly coloured faint line along the spiracular 

 region ; and the segmental divisions also are of this pale colour. 

 In some specimens the hairs are gray ; in others brown. Ventral 

 surface uniformly of the same colour as the ground of the dorsal 

 area: the legs reticulated, and the prolegs tipped, with black. 

 The pupa is attached by the tail onl}^ is rather long, but slender. 

 The head, which is the thickest part, is abruptly rounded, and 

 has the snout very prominent; thorax and abdomen rounded 

 above, rather flattened beneath, and attenuated strongly to the 

 anal point; eye-, leg-, and wing-cases fairly prominent, the last 

 prolonged a considerable distance over the abdominal segments. 

 As in the larva, there are two varieties ; in one form the ground 

 is bright green, and there is little of any other colour, the pale 

 gray abdominal divisions, and two indistinct pale lines on the 

 dorsal area, with several faint purplish spots behind the thorax 



