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and the newly-emerged larvae were dingy green, with the 

 extremities tinged with yellow, and the head pale brown. 

 On being supjalied with the common white Dutch clover, 

 they fed well until July 19lh, by which time they were full 

 grown, and description taken as follows: — Length about 

 three-quarters of an inch, and of average bulk in proportion; 

 the head has the lobes globular, is shining, rather hairy, and 

 slightly notched on the crown ; body cylindrical, and of 

 nearly uniform width throughout; skin smooth, clothed with 

 a few, almost imperceptible, very short hairs; segmental 

 divisions distinct. The ground colour is bright green, 

 darkest along the sides; the head green, with the mandibles 

 brown ; two parallel white lines extend through the centre of 

 the dorsal area, enclosing between them an almost hair-like, 

 white dorsal line through the centre of a band of the ground 

 colour; the subdorsal lines are also white, as are also the 

 broad spiracular lines, and there is another finer white line 

 between the dorsal and subdorsal ones; segmental divisions 

 yellowish ; the spiracles very minute, black ; ventral surface 

 green, longitudinally striped with numerous very fine darker 

 lines. Changes to pupa below the surface of the ground. 

 The pupa is three-eighths of an inch long, rather stout, but 

 tapering sharply towards the anal segment, which finishes 

 with a fine point; the eye-, leg-, and wing-cases prominent; 

 colour dark mahogany-brown. Part of the iraagos emerged 

 in the middle of the following month (August), but most 

 remained over the winter, appearing as moths at the end of 

 May and beginning of June last. — Oeo. T. Porritt ; Hud- 

 dersfield, July 10, 1876. 



Life-history of Agrotera nemoralis. — The eggs of this 

 beautiful species are deposited on the twigs of its food-plant, 

 Carpinus Betulus, singly or in small batches, about the first 

 week in June, and are extremely flat and inconspicuous; on 

 first seeing them one could hardly imagine them capable of 

 containing life. Even when deposited on a smooth surface, 

 like a pill-box, they are difficult to see, and when on the 

 stem of the food-plant would almost defy the best pair of 

 eyes to detect. The young larvae hatch in about ten days, 

 and at first feed on the under side of the leaves, beneath a 

 loosely-spun web. After the second moult they gnaw little 

 round holes in the leaf, just large enough for them to crawl 



