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men was taken by Mr. Sawyer, late of Hull, but now residing 

 in York. He found it on some waste ground near Hull." 

 Referring to Herrich-Scba3frer, p. 122, I find be considers 

 Extensaria as synonymous will) Prolongaria of Zeller, pub- 

 lished in the ' Isis' for 1846, p. 198. Guenee is of the same 

 opinion, but adopts the name Prolongata. He gives Livonia, 

 Southern Russia, Altai, as the localities where the species 

 occurs. (Uran. et Phal. ii. 336.) I add below Herrich- 

 Schaeffer's specific description and Guenee's observations, 

 both of which are interesting. ^'■Extensaria, m., Suppl. 124, 

 125. Large, cinereous, with three simple, narrow, sharp- 

 pointed, whitish fasciae; the first and second sharply angled 

 before the anterior margin, the third united at the tip of the 

 wing with an undulated line." (H.-S. Geom. p. 122.) "A 

 fine species, which cannot be confounded with any other, 

 whether we regard its size and the very lanceolate form of its 

 fore wings, or their nearly straight white bands on a yellow- 

 gray ground ; the first and second elbowed on the subcostal 

 ray ; the third forming a letter Y at the costa, whence it 

 unites with the subterminal line, a gray band, acutely pointed 

 at the extremity, intervening between them. The female is 

 smaller than the male, and has still narrower wings. The 

 specimens from Livonia are larger, and have a yellower tint, 

 than those from the Altai." (Guenee, Uran. et Phal. ii. 336.) 

 This is indeed a fine addition to our list of British Eupithecise, 

 and I most heartily congratulate both Mr. Sawyer and Mr. Prest 

 on the discovery. The latter gentleman has kindly given me 

 more particulars of the locality where it was taken, but wishes 

 me not to publish them at present. — Edward Newman.^ 



Eupitliecia minutaia LarvcB feeding on Achillea mille- 

 folium. — Fearing some collectors think that E. minutata is 

 entirely a heath-feeder, a few years ago 1 took three or four 

 larvae i'eeding on the fiowers of the yarrow, and as they had 

 every appearance of a pug-larva I took very great care of 

 them, in the hope that they might turn out to be a new pug, 

 but to ray disappointment they proved to be E. minutata. 

 The larva was quite a dirty white colour; not pink, as when 

 feeding on heath. These larvai were collected nearly a mile 

 from any heath. — George Baker ; 47, Kedleslon Street, Derby. 



Description of the Larva of Coremia Quadrijasciata. — 

 The caterpillar is clearly divided into two colours by a line 



