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duly figured, was reared ; when very young their colour is 

 glaucous-green, with longitudinal stripes, assimilating closely 

 to the under side of the almost cylindrical blades of their 

 food-plant; after April they leave their hiding-places, and 

 burrow beneath the sand, having, by this time, considerably 

 increased in size, and having, also, become much paler in 

 tint, some individuals being almost whitish green, others of a 

 pale flesli-colour." 



Mr. Buckler also describes the larvae of five species of 

 Lithosia and of Xylophasia scolopacina, which I should 

 mention more at length were it not intended that descrip- 

 tions, somewhat more extended, should shortly appear in this 

 Journal. 



Mr. Edmunds, of Worcester, has bred two specimens of 

 Xylina conspicillaris, the pupae obtained by digging. 



Mr. Gregson has bred a specimen of Agrotis cinerea; he 

 gives no description of the larva. 



Mr. Edward Hopley has taken Eupithecia lariciata at Ash- 

 down Forest and Leith Hill ; the date the last week in May. 



Mr. Meek has bred Eupithecia fraxinata from larvae beaten 

 from the ash in August ; they emerged on the 19th of May ; 

 and also Cymatophora fluctuosa from larvae beaten from birch 

 last autumn. 



Mr. Piffard has found Paedisca oppressana on the trunks 

 of poplars at Edmonton ; he thinks the larvae feed on the 

 bark of the poplar, having found the pupa-cases sticking out 

 of the bark : the moth has a peculiar jumping flight, and in 

 bright sunshine jerks itself from the tree to the collector's 

 coat or the adjacent herbage, and as suddenly returns, after 

 a short interval, to the tree-trunk. 



Mr. Horn mentions that a bred' specimen of the puss moth 

 did not acquire wings of their full dimensions until the after- 

 noon of the second day after emergence. 



The number concludes with a Report of a Meeting of the 

 Entomological Society of London. 



' Young England.^ — The June and July numbers are be- 

 fore me, and 1 can truly say of the entomological portion of 

 this periodical that it improves with every number : the price 

 is raised to sixpence, so that we have now three monthly 

 periodicals engaged in a friendly competition as to which 



