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it was full-grown, when I described it as follows : — Length, when 

 at rest, about five-eighths of an inch, and stout in proportion. 

 Head polished and rather small, narrower than the 2nd segment. 

 Body uniform and cylindrical, tapering a little posteriorly. 

 Segmental divisions well defined and deeply cut ventrally ; each 

 tubercle emits a tuft of short but rather strong hairs. Ground 

 colour bright yellowish green, more decidedly green on the back; 

 head pale yellow, the mandibles light brown. A fine but clear 

 yellowish white line forms the dorsal stripe ; there is a much 

 broader stripe of the same colour along the spiracular region, 

 and the space between it and the spiracles is prickled with streaks 

 and spots of the same colour. Spiracles black, hairs greyish. 

 Ventral surface, legs, and prolegs uniformly pale green. The 

 pupa, although attached by the tail only, was laid flat along the 

 top of the cage. It produced a fine imago on September 14th.— 

 Geo. T. Porritt; Highroyd House, Huddersfield, Feb. 3, 1882. 



Collecting near Coventry. — One afternoon in the woods of 

 Bubbinhall, near Coventry, convinced me that it was a locality 

 by no means to be despised by collectors. In about two hours, 

 besides many more common species, a friend and myself took 

 about half a dozen Erastria fuscula, Phorodesma hajularia, and 

 Geometra papilionaria, which latter was very common. This was 

 in the middle of July, and the weather was all that could be 

 desired. — H. Rowland Brown ; Oxhey Grove, Stanmore. 



Fixity of Tenure by a Moth. — For the last three days a 

 specimen of Tceniocampa gothica has occurred in a similar 

 position outside one of the window-frames of my dining-room, 

 which has been unoccupied each evening, when presumably 

 the moth was absent on business. To-day it is not there. 

 This habit may be general in the insect world, but I never 

 remember noticing it before ; Piepers instances it as a mark of 

 retentive memory in an East Indian butterfly (Entom. x. 270). — 

 Edward A. Fitch ; Maldon, Essex, March 21, 1882. 



Fungus growing on Dead Larva. — I found on March 11th, 

 about two inches below the surface of the earth, when digging for 

 pupse at the trunk of an ash near Curraghmore, a lepidopterous 

 larva attacked in a similar manner to that figured in the ' Ento- 

 mologist,' vol. xi., p. 121. The fungus, which is well developed, 

 appears to be a species of the genus Torrubia, as described by 



