THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



No. 146.] SEPTEMBER, MDCCCT.XXV. [Prick, ('..l. 



SmERINTHUS TiLI;E (VARIEtv). 



Variety of SmerintJias Tilice. — This beautiful variety 

 chiefly differs from the typical colouring in the entire absence 

 of the median transverse fascia of the fore wings. This fascia 

 is of various shapes ; sometimes entire, but as frequently 

 interrupted, and forming two conspicuous blotches, the 

 upper situated about the middle of the costal margin ; the 

 lower about the middle of the inner margin. The specimen 

 is in the rich collection of Mr. J. A. Clark, to whose courtesy 

 T am indebted for the loan of the specimen. — E. Newman. 



Description of the Larva of Cleora glahraria. — On the 

 29th of June last I found two larvae on lichens on oak-trunks 

 in the New Forest, which I suspected were Cleora glabraria; 

 and a fine imago of that species, which emerged last Sunday, 

 proved that I was correct. As there is no description of this 

 larva in 'British Moths,' perhaps the following attempt at one 

 may interest some of the readers of the 'Entomologist:' — 

 VOL. VIII. 2 c 



