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crown : the division of the body into segments is clearly 

 marked ; the segments themselves are very slightly wrinkled 

 transversely ; each segment has also a transverse series of 

 ten warts ; on each side are five, three of which are above 

 and two below the spiracles ; each of these warts emits a 

 radiating fascicle of stiff bristles. The colour of the head is 

 black, the basal joint of the antennal papilla) being very pale 

 gray : the colour of the body is velvet-black, and the warts 

 concolorous ; the spiracles are white and very conspicuous, 

 and immediately below them is a bright red side-stripe inter- 

 rupted at each interstice of the segments and again below 

 each spiracle ; it might perhaps be described more exactly 

 as a lateral series of somewhat crescentic red spots ; the 

 bristles are black or brown, some of each colour, but the 

 latter predominating ; the legs and claspers are black. I am 

 indebted to Mr. Eedle for a supply of this larva, which he 

 found in some plenty at Rannoch : it feeds freely on willow 

 in confinement, and on the 1st of September my specimens 

 spun loose silken cocoons among the leaves. — E. Neitman. 



Larv(C of Acronycta Myricce and A. Menyanthidis. — I 

 incline to think that both of these, in a state of nature, feed 

 on the dwarf willows which always abound in the subalpiue 

 regions where the moths have been found : the names of the 

 sweet gale and bogbean, which have been applied to them, 

 rather indicate the botanical character of the locality than 

 the exact food-plant. The structure of both larvae is almost 

 precisely similar to that of those of Arctia Menthastri and A. 

 lubricipeda, but I offer no opinion as to the desirability of 

 approximating these two distant genera. — Id. 



Entomological Noieft^ Captures, Sfc. 



Concerning phytophagous Hymenopfera icliose Larva; are 

 concealed. — The two great groups of sawflies whose larvae 

 consume the parenchyma of leaves, leaving both the cuticles 

 intact, may be distinguished by another economic character 

 which 1 find combined with a structural difference in the 

 fore wings. The divisions I will call Druida) and Euuraj, by 

 no means insisting on these names, but employing them 

 under the impression that my names Druida and Euura were 



