860 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
is erroneously stated in ‘ British Moths,’ that the food-plant 
of this species is Stachys sylvatica (hedge wound-wort), an 
error copied from Freyer, and a humiliating instance of 
the folly of copying without acknowledgment.—Edward 
Newman. 
Description of the Larva of Acidalia remutata.—Egegs 
were obtained from a specimen of this insect, I captured on 
June 15th, 1870: these were red in colour, and hatched on 
the 27th of the same month. By August 9th the larve had 
attained to an inch in length, when I described them as 
follows :—Body rather rough to the touch, slender, uniformly 
cylindrical, and of nearly uniform thickness throughout; 
head the same width as the second segment, and notched on 
the crown; the face flat; skin finely ribbed transversely, 
both dorsally and ventrally ; segmental divisions not very 
conspicuous; ground colour dark olive-brown, approaching 
to dull black ventrally; head light brown, variegated with 
darker, and with a black V-shaped mark, the apex of which 
is pointed upwards, on the upper part of the face; the 
medio-dorsal stripe is composed of a very narrow, interrupted 
and indistinct grayish line; there are no perceptible sub- 
dorsal lines, but along the spiracles are several grayish white 
marks, which are most conspicvous on the posterior seg- 
ments ; on the eleventh segment, at each side, between the 
medio-dorsal and spiracular line, is a black spot; usual dots 
minute, black; a slaty gray stripe extends along the centre 
of the belly, gradually shading off into the blackish ground 
colour. My larve fed on Polygonum aviculare, and, when at 
rest, the food-plant was grasped by the claspers, and the body 
stretched out at full length, with the head raised a consider- 
able height; when disturbed they fell to the ground at full 
length rigidly stiff, not attempting to roll into a ring.—Geo. 
T. Porritt; Huddersfield, July 12, 1871. 
Entomological Notes, Captures, &c. 
Entomology in Lreland.—Waving recently returned from a 
five- weeks’ journey through the West, North-west and South- 
west of Ireland, a little account of what I did, and what I 
thought of Entomology in that country, might not, perhaps, 
