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13. G. Plantarum, Germ. (1825), Schh. — Oblong-ovate, 

 black, sparingly cinereo-pilose ; thorax nearly as long as 

 broad; elytra pnnctate-sulcale ; posterior fen)ora siibdentate. 

 14- line. Enrope, on Linaria, Lotus, &c. Generally common. 

 The more elongate form will readily separate it from its con- 

 geners. 



Description of the Larva of Chelonia villica. — The egg 

 is laid in July, on the stems of Stellaria media (chickweed), 

 and the young larva emerges in about fifteen days, when it 

 begins eating the leaves, which it continues nibbling at inter- 

 vals throughout the winter, and until the following May, when 

 it is full-grown ; it has no regular period of hybernation. 

 When full-fed it rests in a nearly straight position, but falls 

 off its food-plant and rolls itself in a ring if disturbed. Head 

 rather ^narrower than the 2ud segment, seuiiporrect ; body 

 obese, the insterstices of the segments deeply incised ; the 

 2nd segment has, immediately adjoining the head, a series of 

 wart-like excrescences, from which emanate arcuate bristles 

 bending over the head ; the 3rd and 4th segments have each 

 ten scabrous warts, one of which on each side is very small 

 and placed immediately behind a larger one ; the 5th and 6tli 

 segments have each fourteen such warts; the 7th to the 10th, 

 both inclusive, have twelve warts; the 11th fourteen, the 12lh 

 twelve, and the l3th seven ; each of the warts is surmounted 

 by a fascicle of stiff bristles of various length ; most of these 

 bristles are curved, and the curvature directed backwards ; 

 the longest are on the 12th segment. Colour of the head 

 pitchy red ; of the dorsal surface of the body intense velvety 

 black ; the warts also being black, but not velvety, and the 

 bristles ferruginous : belly smoky black : legs and claspers 

 pitchy red. Spins a very slight cocoon among the weeds on 

 hedge-banks, and therein changes to a blackish pupa : the 

 moth makes its appearance about Midsummer. I am in- 

 debted to Mr. Moncreaff for a liberal supply of this larva, and 

 for the particulars of its history. — Edward Newman. 



Description of the Larva of Epione apiciaria. — The eggs 

 are laid in August and September, on Salix capraja (sallow), 

 on the leaves of which the larva feeds, but has not hitherto, 

 so far as I am aware, been observed in the autumn : it is full- 



