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the end of the month : the second brood of larvse are first 

 noticeable at the end of Ano-nst and the beginning of Sep- 

 tember, producing imagos the following spring. The larva 

 of this species occurs abundantly at Shirley in Surrey, Put- 

 ney Heath, Bishop's Wood, Hampstead, &c. — CJias. Healy ; 

 74, Napier Street^ Hoxton, N. 



Description of the Larva of Eiiholia lineolata. — It rests 

 on the food-plant in nearly a straight position, but attached 

 only by the claspers, the anterior extremity being raised ; 

 when annoyed it bends itself nearly double, forming a loop, 

 and it eventually falls from the food-plant thus bent, the two 

 extremities not approaching, but the remainder of the ventral 

 surface closely approximating. The head is quite as wide as 

 any part of the body, rather wider than the 2nd segment, and 

 beset with scattered bristles ; it is held prone and touching 

 the legs : the body is transversely wrinkled, and beset with 

 scattered and rather stiff" bristles ; the colour of the head is 

 dingy brown, with a pale yellowish stripe down each cheek ; 

 the dorsal area of the body is ornamented with stripes of dif- 

 ferent colours ; the ventral surface is gamboge-yellow ; there 

 is a narrow medio-dorsal stripe of dingy brown, and on each 

 side of this a broadish yellow stripe, intersected throughout 

 by a narrow faint red stripe ; on each side, just above the 

 spiracles, is a broadish brown stripe, which shades off 

 gradually into the ochreous-yellow of the back ; the feet and 

 claspers are dingy ochreous. It feeds oti Galium verum 

 (lady's bedstraw), and is full-fed about the middle of Septem- 

 ber, when it spins a slight cocoon among the twigs of its 

 food-plant, and therein changes to a pupa. I a,m indebted 

 to the unceasing kindness of Mr. Moncreaff for a supply of 

 these larvae. — Edward Newman. 



Description of the Larva of Hadena glauca. — Rests in a 

 nearly straight position, but falls off" its food-plant and rolls 

 in a compact ring when disturbed : the head is narrower 

 than the 2nd segment, porrected and glabrous ; the body 

 cylindrical and velvety. The colour of the head is pale tes- 

 taceous-brown reticulated with darker brown ; of the body 

 umber-brown, also reticulated ; there is a narrow and some- 

 what interrupted medio-dorsal stripe, and a double series of 

 oblique markings on each side of this; each marking has a 

 portion darker and a portion lighter than the ground colour ; 



