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A. Atropos brongbt to me. One singular trait of this year 

 which my iViend and self" commented upon was the absence 

 of moths at sugar : 1 have sugared both in my own garden 

 and in a wood near on several occasions, and have had a nil 

 return : have any of your correspondents been blessed with 

 a like result? — M. T. IVliite; Steyning, Sussex, Sept. 18. 



Name of a Caterpillar. — Colour apple-green corded trans- 

 versel}' with white, the cords so interrupted on the back as 

 to form a medio-dorsal stripe of green. The head is round 

 and whitish, with the ocelli black and distinct; the segments 

 of the body not apparent. When at rest the caterpillar is 

 rolled up in a compact ring, holding on firuily by its feet 

 alone ; and when annoyed and made to move, eight pairs of 

 claspers are seen, the terminal segments alone wanting them, 

 these being depressed and curved inwards. It was found on 

 Sept. 4th, on willow (Salix aurita), and in a few days spun 

 an oval cocoon of a close texture, glossy and semitransparent, 

 between its leaves. — IVm. Cameron ; Bnlquliidder, Crieff y 

 September 15, 1869. 



[The larva is that of Tenthredo Capreae, an insect hitherto 

 undescribed as British. — E. Netvman.] 



A Musical Larva. — On September 10, 1868, during one of 

 our regular Monday morning excursions, I captured on a 

 beech tree, a short distance froui London, a larva which 

 I judged to belong to the genus Smerinthus. Its chief pecu- 

 liarity, to which I wish to call attention, was its power of 

 emitting a singing noise when handled or disturbed. The 

 noise was similar to that produced by that pretty little beetle 

 so common in our gardens, Lema trilineata. This is the 

 only instance of a musical larva that I have met with, nor do 

 I remember to have ever seen any mention in entomological 

 books of a similar case. I should be glad to know, Mr. 

 Editor, if you, or any of your correspondents, have ever 

 noticed this musical power in any larva, or if you can ex- 

 plain the manner in which the noise is produced. My spe- 

 cimen was full-grown, and in a couple of days duly passed 

 into the pupa stage under the earth in a flower-pot, which 

 I duly deposited in my winter box that 1 kept buried 

 in my garden, but to my great disappointment it shared the 

 fate of most of the Smerinlhian larvae I have ever attempted 

 to rear, and although it survived the winter it failed to reach 



