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the hinder edge of the bilobed head through its substance ; 

 legs concolovous with the body. Aug. 17th. [leads of the 

 larvae dark brown or cbesnut : they spin white webs upon 

 the surface of the leaves under which they live, Sept. 28th. 

 About lOj lines in length ; green, with a very transparent skin, 

 through which the yellowish dorsal vessel is plainly seen ; 

 the segments are divided by a white line ; head in shape and 

 colour very like a chesnut; labrum chesnut, with a white 

 base ; legs concolorous with the body : they coumienced to 

 hybernale about the first week in October. — JoJtn Peers ; 

 64, Bulteri/tarket Sireei, Warring I on, June 15. [Please 

 say what is the food-plant.] 



Entomological Notes and Captures. 



163. Abundance and Disappearance of Vanessa Vrtica. 

 — I cannot understand the sudden disappearance of Vanessa 

 Urticaj. They were more numerous last week than I ever 

 before saw them. I believe 1 could have taken a dozen at 

 once in the net off the privet-flowers, and now they are nearly 

 all gone. I have only seen two or three this week. It is a 

 very curious circumstance if they have retired for the winter. 

 — Henry Doubled ay ; Epping, June 30, 1865. 



164. Ac/ieroniia Atropos in Jreland. — 1 forward you a 

 note of the capture of a very fine specimen of Acherontia 

 Atropos, which I have in my possession, taken on the 3rd of 

 June, in a chalk-pit at the end of the village of Glenarm. — 

 Thomas Bruuton ; Glenarm Castle, Lame, Co. Antrim, 

 Ireland, June 6, 1865. 



165. Acronycta Myricae, S^c, in Ireland. — I captured at 

 sugar, last night, a fine specimen of Acronycta Myrica?, and 

 during the week Hadena contigua, H. Pisi and H. Cheno- 

 podii. We also have Chortobius Davus in great numbers, 

 and Hypena crassalis not uncommon. — W. G. Battersby ; 

 Carrag/i Lodge, Carra Post-office, Killnrney, Co. Kerry. 



166. Death of Larrm in a ^tate of Nature. — I have ob- 

 served several Lepidopterous larva^ in the Hackney Marshes, 

 attached to culms of various grasses and quite dead : can 

 you explain this phenomenon ? — Harland Coultas ; Lecturer 

 on Botany at Charing Cross Hospital. 



