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9. A. Rubi, Herhst. Black, sparingly clothed with a gray 

 pubescence ; rostrum elongate, opaque ; femora with a very 

 minute tooth: length 1 — 2 lines. Extremely variable in 

 size, and generally distributed. A permanently small form 

 of this species occurs in various parts of the kingdom, espe- 

 cially in Scotland, but always in marshy boggy places, with 

 Comarum paluslre, and in localities where the type-form 

 never occurs. I fail to see any difference between them, 

 except in the size and the colour of the elytra, which is 

 generally rufo-piceous, but it may be distinguished as var. ? 

 Comari. 



G. R. Crotch. 



Description of the Larva of Lohophora liexapteraia. — 

 The head is prone, of very nearly the same width as the 2ud 

 segment ; it is slightly notched on the crown, and the cheeks 

 are slightly swollen ; the body is almost uniforudy cylindrical 

 and rather obese, the divisions of the segments distinctly 

 marked, and each segment, in addition, is transversely 

 wrinkled ; the 13th terminates in two acutely conical aj)- 

 proximate points directed backwards. The colour of the 

 head is pale apple-green, with black ocelli and pitchy man- 

 dibles ; the body is pale apple-green, with an indistinctly 

 defined and rather slender niedio-dorsal stripe of a rather 

 darker hue; this stripe is due to the presence of food in the 

 alimentary canal; and on each side of it is a paler stripe, 

 equally indistinct, and approaching to glaucous-white in 

 colour : the legs are concolorous with the body, and tipped 

 with three or four strong brown s])ines, and the claspers are 

 of the same colour, and tipped with a series of shorter spines 

 of the same brown colour as those of the legs : the ventral 

 and dorsal surfaces are almost concolorous : it feeds on 

 Populus treuuda (aspen), and is full-fed at the end of July. 

 I am indebted to Mr. Porritt, of Huddersfield, for a supply 

 of these larv.-E, sent me purposely for description. — Edward 

 Newman. 



