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both Mr. Edleston and Mr. Wright have never met with it, 

 but Mr. Doubleday assures me it is of common occurrence, 

 and he has now examples feeding which exhibit the stripe 

 in the ch nrest manner : the transverse s-kinfold at each seg- 

 mental division is yellowish, and over the entire surface of 

 the body are scattered minute .white warts, each of which 

 emits a slender hair, and is surrounded by an area slightly 

 darker than the prevailing ground colour : anal processes 

 generally tipped with rose-colour, and the legs and claspers 

 tipped with dull purple. When full-fed it spins a leaf toge- 

 ther with a few slight threads, in the manner of a spider's 

 web, and in this flimsy retreat turns to a delicately green 

 semitransparent pupa. The moth is on the wing in May and 

 August. I am indebted to Mr. Huckett and Mr. Wright for 

 a suppl}' of the larvae, — Edward Newman. 



Life-Jiistory of Cidaria iuimanala. — This species is uni- 

 formly single-brooded : the eggs are laid in August, on the 

 leaves of Fragaria vesca (wild strawberry) ; they are rather 

 flat, and of a primrose-yellow colour, in some instances with 

 a reddish tinge : the young larva? emerge towards the end of 

 March of the following year, and are then yellow, but after 

 the first moult acquire a green tint, and the colour continues 

 to change as the spring advances, until the end of May or 

 beginning of June, when they are full-fed, and then are 

 almost precisely of the same colour as the leaf on which they 

 are feeding : when young they drill small circular holes in 

 the strawberry-leaf, but when older feed in the usual manner 

 at the edges. The position in which the adult larva rests is 

 usually perfectly straight, but on being annoyed it raises the 

 anterior part of its body and tucks in its head, which is 

 brought into contact with the legs, and the whole crowded 

 together : if the annoyance is continued the anterior part of 

 the body is curled into a compact volute. Head about the 

 same width as the 2nd segment, not notched on the crown, 

 slightly hairy ; body almost uniformly cylindrical, but some- 

 what restricted immediately behind the 4th segment, which 

 is produced ventrally into a lump, on the summit of which 

 are seated the third pair of legs : the 13th segment below the 

 anal flap is produced into two parallel " bluntly"-pointed 

 processes directed backwards. Colour of the head uniform 

 dingy green, the ocelli black and conspicuous ; body apple- 



