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dorsal surface of abdomen, white tinged with yellow. The 

 butterfly appeared on the 29th of Jnly. I am indebted to 

 Mr. Buckler for specimens of these larvce. — Edward Newman. 

 Description of the Larva of Satyr im Hyperantlius (Ring- 

 let). — This species has but one brood in the year. The egg 

 is laid singly, in July and August, on several species of grass, 

 of which Milium effusum, Aira caespitosa, and Poa annua 

 have been more j^articularly observed, but Tiiticum repens is 

 the species which the specimen described below selected, by 

 preference, for food in confinement. It attains but a small 

 size during the autumn, and hybernates at the roots of the 

 various grasses on which it feeds, but crawls out and begins 

 feeding again very early in the year, and by the end of March 

 is often half-grown ; it feeds during the night, and cannot 

 readily be found, unless diligent search be made with a 

 lanthorn among the long grasses so commonly growing along 

 our hedgerows and ditches, more especially in the neigh- 

 bourhood of woods. The individual specimen which I have 

 described was full-fed on the 4th of July : it then rested in a 

 straight position, was very quiescent, and indeed exhibited a 

 great reluctance to motion of any kind : when disturbed it 

 fell off its food-plant, feigning death and assuming a cres- 

 centic form, but the two extremities never touched ; in this 

 form it secretes itself at the roots of grasses, and does not 

 reascend until the apprehended danger has past. Head ex- 

 serted, wider than the 2nd segment, covered with minute 

 bristle-bearing warts, which make it rough and scabrous : 

 body fusiform, the sides dilated, the dilatation fringed with 

 strong bristles ; the anal extremity terminating in two points 

 directed backwards ; the dorsal surface wrinkled transversely, 

 each segment being thus distinctly divided into sections. Co- 

 lour of the head pale wainscot-brown, each cheek having three 

 slightly darker but faint broad stripes ; ocelli crowded together 

 and intensely black : body very pale wainscot-brown, with a 

 niedio-dorsal darker stripe, in which are still darker and ob- 

 scurely quadrate spots at the interstices of the segments ; 

 from the 10th segment to the 13th, both inclusive, the medio- 

 dorsal stripe is continuously of the darker brown ; the lateral 

 dilated skinfold is almost white ; the spiracles intensely 

 black ; the rest of the dorsal surface is marked with very irre- 

 gidur brown lines. Towards the end of June it attaches itself 



