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larva is remarkably sluggish in its habits, and decidedly 
objects to undertake a journey if food can be got otherwise. 
So, on this luckléss bush, the swarm settled down, for to it, 
in the poet’s words,— 
“they rolled in heaps, and up the tree 
Climbing, sat thicker than the snaky locks 
That curled Megeera.” 
Left undisturbed, by way of experiment, they swept off 
leaves, buds, blossoms, and finally devoured the bark and 
even the wood of the young twigs. It was only when this 
bush was nearly bare that the larve began to file off towards 
other bushes; and a process of hand-picking, at this crisis, 
resulted speedily in the destruction of several hundreds. It 
was noticeable, however, that in some other places, as, for 
instance, at Clapham, in Surrey, only a few miles off, there 
were rather fewer than usual of grossulariata about.—J. R.S. 
Clifford. 
Description of the Larva of Eupithecia irriguata.—Long, 
slender, and tapering slightly towards the head; ground 
colour dull yellowish green; skin rather rough and wrinkled ; 
central dorsal line dull rusty red, very indistinct, except on 
the capital and caudal segments, enlarged on the centre of 
the median dorsal segments into a somewhat conspicuous 
elliptic blotch; subdorsal and spiracular lines yellowish, 
the latter very faint; head rusty red; belly greenish, without 
markings. Feeds on oak; full fed middle of June. Much 
resembles the larva of E. exiguata and consignata, being 
exactly intermediate between the two. I am indebted to the 
kindness of Mrs. Hutchinson, of Grantsfield, and Mr. Buckler, 
of Emsworth, for the opportunity of describing this almost. 
unknown larva. It was bred from the egg by this most 
indefatigable of fair entomologists ; and Mr. B. has, with his 
usual skill, secured a life-like figure. A few years since my 
friend Mr. Wratislaw, of Bury St. Edmunds, bred several 
perfect specimens of this beautiful pug from larve beaten 
from oak, at Hunstanton, in Norfolk—H. Harpur Crewe ; 
The Rectory, Drayton-Beauchamp, Tring, June 19, 1871. 
Acronycta Alni at Birmingham.—On the 31st of July, last 
year, my brother had the good fortune to take the larva of 
A. Alni. A friend of ours, Mr. W. R. Shrosbree, gave us 
