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marks unite in forming a sinuous and imjierfectly connected 

 lateral stripe, which is seated on a slightly dilated skinfold : 

 viewed laterally the larva seems transversely striped with 

 pale oblique lines, the last of which on each side terminates 

 in an anal clasper; the ventral is darker than the dorsal area, 

 and has four narrow stripes extending from the legs to the 

 ventral claspers ; these stripes are dark brown, but divided 

 and bordered by a paler brown ; the dilated 5th segment is 

 as conspicuous when viewed from below as from above : the 

 legs and claspers have the same tints of colour as the body. 

 — Edward Newman. 



Description of the Larva of Enpithecia consignata. — 

 Towards the beginning of May, Mrs. Hutchinson, of Grants- 

 field, kindly sent me seven eggs of Enpithecia consignata, 

 laid by a female taken in Herefordshire by her youngest 

 daughter. All the eggs hatched, and I have reared six larvae, 

 which have spun up during the last hw days. I have great 

 pleasure in giving a description of this hitherto almost un- 

 known larva : — Long, slender, tapering slightly towards the 

 head. Ground colour dark grass-green, slightly tinged with 

 yellow. Segmental divisions yellowish. Central dorsal line 

 very slender, dark purplish, enlarged at the base of each seg- 

 ment into a large spearhead-shaped blotch. These blotches 

 become confluent on the capital and caudal segments, and 

 are slightly bordered with yellow. Head somewhat broad, 

 green slightly marked with purplish red. Spiracular line 

 puffed, rather paler green than the rest of the body; blotched 

 with purplish red on a few of the central segments, and more 

 or less edged with straw-colour. Central ventral line whitish. 

 Body somewhat wrinkled, and sparingly studded with a few 

 short slender whitish hairs. Fed on leaves of apple. Full- 

 fed June 11th— 17lh, Some years since I beat two of these 

 larvae from oak in Suffolk, and one from hazel in Hampshire. 

 I suspected at the time that they were the larvae of E, con- 

 signata, but as they died in the pupa state I was unable to 

 verify my suspicion. This larva closely resembles that of 

 E. exiguata. — {Rev.) H. Harpur Crewe; Drayton- Beau- 

 champ, Tring, June 17, 1868. 



