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danger has passed. Head rather narrower than the body, 

 slightly notched on the crown, the two lobes slightly tumid : 

 body of unilbnn substance throughout, without humps, but 

 having the skin delicately shagreened ; there is a manifest 

 skinfold on each side, and the skin is also transversely 

 wrinkled ; the 1.3th segment has below the anal flap two long, 

 conical, acute points directed backwards. Head and body 

 putty-coloured, with numerous narrow, waved, longitudinal 

 stripes of a darker tint ; of these the more conspicuous are 

 five in number and approximate, constituting a dcftsal orna- 

 mentation ; the middle one, double during a part of its 

 course, is more conspicuous and darker-coloured towards the 

 head, where the others are less conspicuous and paler ; the 

 spiracles are dark brown. On or about the 1st of August it 

 changes in a very slight cocoon among the leaves of its food- 

 plant ; the pupa is rather slender, and much attenuated at 

 the anal extremity ; it is beautifully variegated with two 

 colours, wainscot-brown as the ground colour, and dai'k um- 

 ber-brown approaching to black for the ornamentation ; this 

 is disposed in oblique stripes on the wing-cases, leg-cases 

 and antenna-cases; in rings on the abdominal segments, and 

 in diversified uiarkings on the thorax and back. The moths 

 appeared on the wing on the 14th of August, and the females 

 deposited eggs on the 20lh, the young larvae emerging on 

 the 29lh ; they are now very small, and appear likely to hj'- 

 bernate : thus it appears that in confinement the moth breeds 

 twice in the year. I am indebted for specimens of this larva 

 both to Mr. MoncreafF, of Southsea, and Mr. Wright, of Lon- 

 don, ISlr. Wright and I have succeeded in rearing it on 

 Polygonum aviculare (connnon knotgrass), on which it feeds 

 with great relish. — Edward Newman. 



Observations on the MonUiny, Economy and Pupation of 

 the Larvae of Antispila Treitsclikiella. — The larvae of the 

 genus Antispila have two distinct modes of mining their food, 

 Cornus sanguinea (dogwood), some making narrow mines 

 along the margin of their food, whilst others, directly after 

 their birth, form small dark blotches more near the centre of 

 the leaf. As soon as the larva emerges from its dark blotch 

 or narrow track, it makes a small greenish blolch in the leaf. 

 Its first two segments are black; body whitish; the under 

 side of each of the segments (excepting the penultimate) has 



