THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



No. 70.] OCTOBER, MDCCCLXIX. [Price Od. 



Description of the Larva of Acronycta Myrica. — It rolls 

 in a ring on being tonclied, and remains in that position for 

 a minute or more. The head is glabrous, slightly narrower 

 than the 2nd segment, and not perceptibly notched on the 

 crown : the division of the body into segments is clearly 

 marked, and the segments themselves are very slightly wrinkled 

 transversely ; each segment has also a transverse series of 

 ten warts, and each wart emits a radiating fascicle of stiff 

 bristles ; these warts form longitudinal as well as transverse 

 series, and the two series nearest the middle of the back are 

 considerably larger than the rest, and are rendered more 

 conspicuous by their paler colour. The colour of the head 

 is black, with a Y-shaped white mark on the face, the stem 

 of the Y pointing towards the back and separating the two 

 lobes of the head ; there is a transverse gray line on the 

 labrum, and the basal joint of the antennal papillae is also 

 gray : the body is intensely velvet-black, the warts generally 

 slightly paler, and the two dorsal series of larger warts gray; 

 immediately behind the head is a narrow transverse red line, 

 and on each side, passing through the fourth longitudinal 

 series of warts, is an interrupted and most indistinct series of 

 amorphous red spots ; the legs and claspers are black ; the 

 bristles are either gray or black, the latter predominating. 

 1 am indebted to Mr. Eedle for a specimen of this larva, 

 found on the moors near Rannoch during the past summer : 

 he is unable to say exactly the plant on which it feeds in a 

 state of nature, but in confinement I found it eat lilac and 

 willows very freely. It was full-fed on the 24th of August. — 

 Edward Newman. 



Descriplioa of the Larva of Acronycta Menyanthid is. — 

 It rolls in a ring when touched, and remains in that position 

 a minute or more. The head is glabrous, slightly navrowpr 

 than the 2nd segment, and not perceptibly notched on the 



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