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running from the head to the extremity of the last pair of 

 claspers ; the spiracles lie in this line of division. The dorsal 

 space is brown, variegated in shade from a light smoky brown 

 to almost black, by interrupted lines running throughout its 

 length, interspersed with numerous light-coloured blotches ; 

 four rows of minute warts run down this space, from each of 

 which a short bristle is emitted. The head is slightly smaller 

 than the 2nd segment, and of two shades of brown. The 

 spiracles are black. The ventral space is of a very light brown, 

 having a tinge of pink, and variegated, like the back, with 

 blotches of a much lighter shade. The caterpillar thickens 

 towards the middle, tapering gradually to each extremity. 

 It assumes the form of an Ionic volute when annoyed. 

 These larvae were hatched on the 28 ih July from eggs 

 deposited by a female captured a day or two previously. 

 They have fed at various intervals throughout the winter on 

 Galium Mollugo ; and moulted for the last time about the 

 middle of March. — \Itev.] P. H. Jennings; Lo7i(^eld Rectory, 

 Gravesend, April 13, 1875. 



Leucania unipiincta or extranea at Lyndhurst. — I have 

 received this morning from a son of Dr. Parker, of Lyndhurst, 

 a fine specimen of Leucania extranea, which he says he took 

 there last month. There is something very singular in the 

 occurrence of a few specimens of this species here. Are they 

 imported in any stage ? It swarms in America, from Canada 

 to Brazil ; and a Leucania is also very common in Brazil, 

 which appears but a slight variety of it. — Henry Douhleday. 

 (In a letter to E. Newman.) 



[The larva of this moth is the formidable "army-worm" of 

 the United States. A great deal of information respecting it 

 will be found in the ' American State Entomologist,' p. 47; 

 reprinted in the 'Entomologist,' v. 91, with an editorial note 

 by myself, stating that it was first described by Haworth, 

 p. 174, under the name of Noctua unipuncta, or " white 

 speck." Prior to this there appeared an extract from the 

 ' Liverpool Mercury,' together with an enquiry by my friend 

 Mr. Birchall (Entom. iii. 167), and a reply by Mr. Muller 

 (Id. iii. 215), who gives several references to its occurrence in 

 Europe, but refers it to the genus Heliothis and the species 

 Armiger, a mistake both as to genus and species, which had 

 previously appeared in the first volume of the ' Zoological 



