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with three chalybeous bands. Legs black; knees and four 
anterior tibiz dingy testaceous; tarsi piceous. Wings 
pellucid; veins black, testaceous towards the base. Halteres 
testaceous. Length of the body 4—4} lines. Tajura. 
FRANCIS WALKER. 
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Entomological Notes, Captures, &c. 
Description of the larva of Acidalia rubricata. —On the 
18th of August last I received, through the kindness of the 
Rev. J. Hellins, a young larva of this species. It fed on 
Polygonum aviculare, growing slowly until the early part of 
October, when it began to hybernate. On the 15th of that 
month IJ took a description as follows :—Length nearly half an 
inch, slender, but of average Acidalia proportions; head 
larger than the second segment, notched on the crown; body 
cylindrical, and of nearly uniform width, but slighly thicken- 
ing posteriorly; segmental divisions distinct, each finely 
ribbed transversely, which gives the skin a rather rough 
appearance, being also rough to the touch; general colour 
grayish brown; head gray, marked with smoke-colour, 
medio-dorsal line indistinct to the tenth segment, faint 
rust-colour; on the remaining posterior segments broad and 
distinct, dull black. When seen through a lens, however, the 
faint rust-coloured dorsal line seems to run very narrowly 
through the broad black of the posterior segments; on each 
of the other segments the black appears in the shape of two 
short parallel black marks, one on each side the dorsal line; 
there are no perceptible subdorsal lines; spiracular lines 
puckered, lighter than the ground colour: ground colour of 
the belly similar to the dorsal surface ; it is bordered on each 
side by a conspicuous dark-smoky subspiracular line. When 
at rest the food-plant is grasped by the claspers, and the 
body bent in a curved position, more so than in any other 
Acidalia larva I have noticed. In this position my larva 
remained a great part of the winter, but the very severe 
weather we had appeared to have been too much for it, as I 
found it dead on examining my hybernating larve in the 
