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seemed drawn about the base of the stem of tlie plant, over 

 the moss which was potted with it, under a glass cylinder, 

 and placed in a sunny window : I cannot affirm that the web 

 was spun by the larva. In April, 1862, it appeared again on 

 the plant, about four lines in length, and continued to feed 

 well ; and on May 5th it had attained about an inch in 

 length, when I took it out to figure, and to change the plant 

 for another. On the 18th of May it had arrived at its full 

 growth, when 1 took a second figure of it, and two days later 

 it had attached itself to the side of the glass cylinder, and 

 became a chrysalis, brown, with burnished gold spots ; and 

 tlie imago, a male, appeared on the 30th of June, 1862." — 

 Edivard Newman. 



Description of the Larva of Vanessa C-Alhum (White C). 

 • — The egg is laid on Humulus lupulus (hop), in May, by 

 females that may have hybernated, but of this I have no evi- 

 dence, never having seen a hybernated butterfly of this species, 

 which certainly appears three times during the year, namely, 

 in May, end of July, and throughout September, and remains 

 on the wing during the greater part of October : there is of 

 course a probability that these autumnal insects hybernate. 

 The larva is full-grown by the 10th of June, and then is 

 obese in its form and slow in its movements. The head is 

 slightly porrected, scabrous and furnished with two con- 

 spicuous compound spine-like horns, one of which originates 

 in the upper middle of each lateral plate of the head ; these 

 horns are quinquefid at the extremity, one division pointing 

 directly forwards, the others ranged round the base of the 

 first and pointing in four different directions; the ocelli are 

 crowded together at the mouth, and each stands at the ex- 

 tremity of a short pedicel. Body very stout; the 2nd segment 

 no wider than the head; the 3rd and following segments 

 twice that width, very robust, and the interstices between 

 them very deep and clearly defined ; the 2nd segment is 

 without prominent spines, but has several minute bristle- 

 bearing warts ; it is black, with ])ale red-brown lines ; these 

 are somewhat transversely disposed on the back, but longitu- 

 dinally on the sides : there are seven rows of strong branched 

 spines on the body ; four of these row^egin on the 3rd seg- 

 ment, the other three, namely, the medio-dorsal and the 

 lowest on each side, begin on the 5lh : the medio-dorsal 



