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use of its legs, and crawls with considerable rapidity. Head 

 of nearly the same width as the body, semiponected in 

 crawling; body velvety, of uniform substance throughout, 

 and perfectly without humps. Colour of the head dull green, 

 of the body delicate apple-green, with an extremely slender 

 medio-dorsal stripe almost white, and a somewhat broader 

 and much more distinct lateral stripe, also nearly white ; 

 there are, besides, a few white dots on the dorsal surface, 

 each eniitting a short and slender hair : on the 2nd and 3rd 

 segments six of these dots form a straight transverse series ; 

 on each of the following segments, namely, the Sth to the 

 12th, both inclusive, are four of these dots, forming some- 

 what of a quadrangle : as the larva moves a transverse skin- 

 fold becomes conspicuous at the interstices of the seg- 

 ments, and. these skinfolds assume the appearance of eva- 

 nescent yellow rings ; the spiracles are very pale, almost 

 white, and each is surrounded by a black margin ; behind 

 each spiracle there is often a jet-black spot, and Mr. Buckler 

 has most kindly sent me a specimen in which these spots 

 occur on the 3rd and 4th segments, which never bear spi- 

 racles ; the whole of the dorsal surface is moreover freckled 

 with minute amorphous markings, scarcely differing from the 

 general ground colour : ventral surface and claspers apple- 

 green ; legs paler. " It spins a very tight neat earthen 

 cocoon, in which it remains some weeks before assuming the 

 pupa state : the cocoon, when kept dry, becomes exceed- 

 ingly brittle." The moth appears in iVugust and September. 

 — Edivnrd Newman. 



Descriptio7i of ilie Larva of Scopelosoma satelUlia. — The 

 egg is laid in March, on twigs of Qnercus Robnr (oak), by 

 females which have hybernated ; the larva makes its appear- 

 ance in May, and spins together the leaves of the oak, form- 

 ing a retreat from which it sallies forth in quest of its living 

 prey, the larva) of any other Lepidoptera which maj' happen 

 to have the misfortune to be located in its vicinity : to the 

 Entomologist who, like myself, indulges in the rearing 

 of larvae, they often prove most determined enemies. Mr. 

 Buckler writes pathetically on the subject: — "It happens 

 sometimes that in gathering food for other things, one 

 ol' these wretches, then quite small, lurks among the leaves, 

 and is unconsciously introduced to his prey : au instance of 



