Its THfe ENTOMOLdGISt. 



no description lias appeared in entomological journals, and 

 no record of its habits lias been supplied for the benefit of 

 entomologists. During the present summer I have been able 

 to search in the locality where Dr. x-Vllchin and Mr. Chaney 

 first captured this species twenty years ago, and I succeeded 

 in finding a sufficient number of larvae to take descriptions 

 from, and to enable me to observe the method of pupation. 

 Jjcngth half an inch when at rest, longer when crawling. 

 Width one-fourth the length, nearly uniform ; this gives the 

 larva a short and stout appearance. Ground colour, — two 

 very distinct varieties, — (1) pale yellowish green ; (2) bright 

 orange. There are six raised tubercles on each segment, 

 forming two rows on the dorsal area, and two rows on each 

 side; from each tubercle springs a tuft of long whitish hairs. 

 Tiie tubercles themselves are usually of the ground colour, 

 but an intermediate variety of the larva occurs with the 

 ground colour pale yellowish green and the tubercles orange. 

 The markings are confined to the dorsal area. There are two 

 rows of irregular-shaped black marks, forming in some 

 instances well-defined lines, and in others merely rows of 

 dots, each row being placed between the dorsal and second 

 row of tubercles. In addition, the 7lh and 11th segments 

 possess a black band joining the two rows of markings 

 together. The above markings vary much in distinctness. 

 The head is small, sometimes of a pale brown colour, and in 

 other instances almost black. Food-plant the dewberry. 

 When full fed the larva selects a dry twig or culm of grass, 

 upon which it spins its cocoon, formed of silk and portions 

 of bark or grass interspersed. It commences by spinning 

 the base of the cocoon in the shape of a flat boat, and when 

 of sufficient size the edges are drawn together as a covering, 

 fitting very closely round the larva. In this cocoon the 

 change to pupa takes place, and the imago is prepared to 

 emerge within the space of three weeks, or thereabouts. — 

 J. Plait Barren : 34, Radnor Si reef, Peckhaiu, July I'i, 

 1876. 



Descrlpiiou of iJie Larva of Slrenia claihrala. — Last 

 year, at the end of May, the Rev. P. H. Jennings, M.A., of 

 Longfield Rectory, kindly sent me a few eggs of this species : 

 they were oblong-oval, and indented on the upper surface ; 

 the colour grass-green. On the 8th of June they hatched, 



