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known as British. Mr. Doubleday,.witb his usual acumen, 

 discovered it in a collection of insects made by Mr. G. King 

 at Torquay, and both Mr. Bircball and Mr. Barrett have 

 tal^en it near Dublin. — Edward Newman. 



Deficripfion of the Larva of Cori/cia temeraia. — The egg 

 is laid on the leaves of Prunus sjnnosa (blackthorn) and P. 

 padus (bird-cherry), at the end of May or beginning of June, 

 and the larva emerges towards the end of June, and is full- 

 fed at the end of July, when it rests in a nearly straight po- 

 sition, wilh the head porrected on a plane with the body. 

 Head flat, narrower than the 2nd segment, not notched on 

 the crown ; body smooth, velvety, uniforml}^ cylindrical. Co- 

 lour of the head pale green, seniitransparent, with a large 

 pear-shaped spot on each cheek, the smaller extremity of 

 which approaches the mouth, the larger extremity the crown; 

 this spot is orange-red in the centre, and black on the mar- 

 gin ; dorsal surface of the body grass-green, with a medio- 

 dorsal series of elongate orange spots, which occur at the 

 interstices of the segments, and are continuous only on the 

 3rd and 12th segments ; these spots are bordered on both 

 sides with rich brown ; the 2nd and 13th segments are not 

 thus decorated ; the dorsal surface is also sparingly dotted 

 wilh glaucous-green, approaching to white : on the sides are 

 a series of spiracle-like black dots, the spiracles themselves 

 being brown, and each surrounded by a glaucous ring : the 

 ventral surface is pale glaucous ; the legs pale transparent 

 green ; the claspers grass-green, with pink extremities : spins 

 a slight cocoon, and remains in the pupa state throughout the 

 winter and until the following May, when the moth emerges. 

 I am indebted to Mr. Wright for this larva, which was bred 

 from the egg by the Rev. J. Hellins, of Exeter ; I have also 

 beaten it, during the yjast summer, from the blackthorn in 

 Epping Forest. — Id. 



Description of the Larva of Aspilates citraria. — The egg 

 is laid in May, on the petiole of Daucus Carota, Plantago co- 

 ronopus, and several other plants : the young larva emerges 

 about the 17th of June, and is full-fed at the end of July : it 

 rests in a slightly bent posture, with the anterior extremity 

 raised, and on being touched or annoyed it suddenly tucks iu 

 its head, and the anterior extremity assumes the form of an 

 Ionic volute ; in this posture it remains until the apprehended 



