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small, and narrower than the second segment, both it and the 
frontal plate highly polished. When the larva is crawling the 
body appears to be cylindrical and fairly uniform in width, taper- 
ing only slightly at the extremities, but when at rest it seems to 
taper much more abruptly from the 11th segment forward to the 
head. Skin smooth, but each segment having four depressions, 
two transverse in the centre, and one on each side, together with 
the clearly defined segmental divisions, give it a somewhat 
puckered appearance. Ground colour dark olive-green, with 
faint purple tinge on the dorsal area; head, frontal and oval 
plates black—in some specimens dark sienna-brown ; the alimen- 
tary canal, of a darker shade than the ground colour, shows 
through as the dorsal line; but there are no perceptible sub-dorsal 
or spiracular lines; spiracles black. Ventral surface uniformly 
olive-green, some specimens showing a more decidedly green 
tinge than others. Anterior legs of the same colour as the head, 
but very indistinctly ringed with white. Feeds in the flower- 
heads of ragwort, drawing together the clusters of flowers with 
silken webs; and when full-fed forms a toughish silken cocoon.— 
Gro. T. Porrirr; Huddersfield, July 6, 1886. 
Nores FROM CHRISTCHURCH AND THE New Forsst, &c.—I 
arrived down here to begin my midsummer collecting about the 
middle of June this year. Sugaring regularly up to the eud of 
the month proved tolerably successful, having turned up at least 
forty species of Noctue. Among the most important are :— 
Neuria reticulata (sapponarie), Dipterygia scabriuscula ( pinastri), 
Rusina tenebrosa (common), Leucania conigera, L. lithargyria, 
L. comma, Mamestra sordida (anceps), Miana arcuosa, Grammesia 
trigrammica (trilinea), Cucullia wmbratica, Noctua trianguluin, 
Dianthacia capsincola, Hecatera serena, Agrotis porphyrea, and 
Phytometra viridaria (enea), at Bournemouth. Geometre :— 
Phibalapteryx vittata (lignata), Hupithecia rectangulata (at light), 
Larentia decolorata (at dusk), Metrocampa margaritaria (common). 
Bombyces:—Aretia villica (several found at rest), Spilosoma 
mendica (one at rest), Nemeophila russula (at Bournemouth and 
Brokenhurst). Sphinges:—Charocampa porcellus (one at rest), 
Smerinthus popult (at rest), S. ocellatus (bred), Sphinx ligustri 
(several bred). On July Ist I went to the New Forest (Broken- 
hurst), remaining there till the 8th. The first two days I did not 
see or take very much; but on the following three or four days I 
