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plum to all the rest. — John T. Boswell (formerly Syme)\ 

 Balmuto, Kirkcaldy, N.B., June 1, 1875. 



[Mr. Doubleday, also, in a private letter dated 3rd June, 

 says that it feeds in Park Hall Woods on hornbeam, birch, 

 sallow, aspen, &c. ; and in his own garden, at Epping, on 

 plum, apple, whitethorn, rose, &c. In this matter I have 

 made a palpable and inexcusable blunder, but it arose from 

 infirmity of memory and haste rather than ignorance. In 

 an old number of the old series of the ' Zoologist,' I have told 

 the marvellous life-history of this moth, and I think for the 

 first time in this country ; but as my observations have not 

 hitherto appeared in the 'Entomologist,' I hope I shall be 

 excused for the decided egotism implied in reprinting my 

 own lucubrations ; it will be seen that so far from giving oak 

 as the only food-plant of Pilosaria, I have omitted the forest 

 monarch altogether. — Edward Newman.'\ 



Description of the Larva of Phigalia pilosaria. — The 

 eggs are laid in crevices of the bark of Carpinus betulus 

 (hornbeam), and some other forest trees, very early in the 

 spring, and are hatched before the leaves begin to expand. 

 The young larvae find their way to the buds, and continue to 

 feed on these until the leaves expand, previously to which 

 they grow very slowly, but no sooner are young leaves 

 available than the larvae feed on them voraciously, and are 

 full fed by the end of May or beginning of June, when they 

 rest in a nearly straight position, but with the back slightly 

 arched; they neither fall off the food-plant nor feign death 

 w^hen disturbed. The head is prone, of less circumference 

 than the body, and notched on the crown. Body of uniform 

 circumference, beset with numerous conspicuous warts, 

 scarcely amounting to humps; each of these warts emits a 

 strong, but short bristle, which terminates in an extremely 

 fine point : the situation of the warts I will describe : — On the 

 2nd, 3rd and 4th segments they are small and insignificant ; 

 on the 5th segment are two placed transversely on the back, 

 and one on each side, but these are still inconspicuous, 

 although manifestly larger than those on the preceding 

 segments; on the 6th and 7th segments, in the same position, 

 are two dorsal and two lateral warts, all much larger; the 

 same number and arrangement of warts obtains on the 8th, 

 9th, 10th and 11th segments, but all these are small, as 

 on the 5lh segment; on all these segments, that is. 



