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7lh, 8th and 9th segments, clasper-bearmg segments in the 

 Nocturni, and hence these warts are doubtless the homologues 

 of claspers. Head reddisli brown : body gray, marbled with 

 various darker shades, the variety sometimes very pleasing, 

 and greatly resembling cortical lichens ; the summits of dorsal 

 and lateral protuberances reddish brown; ventral surface 

 nearly the same colour as the back, except between the ven- 

 tral and anal claspers, where it is pale glaucous-green : legs 

 reddish brown ; ventral claspers gray ; anal claspers and anal 

 flap reddish brown. The full-fed larva descends the trunk of 

 the oak in June, and, creeping into the earth, changes to a 

 short obese pupa just beneath the surface, and remains in 

 that state until the following February or March, when the 

 moth appears. 1 am indebted to Mr. Wright for this larva, 

 and for interesting information respecting its parent. — 

 Edward Newman. 



Description of the Larva of Anticlea ruhidata. — The eggs 

 are laid at the end of June or beginning of July, on Galium 

 Mollugo and other species of the same genus; they are 

 hatched in ten or twelve days. The larvae are full-fed in 

 August, and then rest in nearly a straight position. Head 

 semiporrect, of almost exactly the same width as the body : 

 body of uniform thickness throughout and cylindrical. Co- 

 lour of the head smoky brown, with a brown V-shaped mark 

 on the face pointing backwards, and several black dots and 

 hairs. Body red-brown or gray, but in either case beauti- 

 fully variegated ; on the body is a median series of five 

 lozenge-shaped or arrow-head markings, each having a dark 

 centre, a pale disk, and a slightly darker margin ; beyond 

 and in continuation of these, and extending liom the 9lh 

 segment to the anal flap, is a medio-dorsal black stripe ; the 

 entire back may be described as having five longitudinal 

 stripes; of these the medio-dorsal passes through and partly 

 comprises the arrow-shaped markings and the black stripe 

 already described : the remaining stripes are somewhat 

 sinuous, of a red-brown colour, and bordered on each side by 

 black dots ; the legs are paler, the claspers slightly darker. 

 The larva in figure and njarking follows the type of Mela- 

 nippe fluctuata, M. Galiata, &c. It goes to the ground to 

 change to a pupa, and forms a small earthen cocoon. I am 

 indebted to Mr. Buckler for the opportunity of examining 



