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anal flap ; each wart emits a single erect bristle ; below the 

 anal flap, and attached to each anal clasper, is a short conical 

 point directed backwards. Colour of the head pale plumbeous- 

 brown, irrorated with black spots : body plnmbeous-brown, 

 with twelve red-brown stripes situated at nearly regular in- 

 tervals, eight of them being dorsal or lateral and extending 

 the whole length, and four ventral and extending only from 

 the legs to the ventral claspers ; their margins are sinuous, 

 and interrupted and bordered by a delicate, narrow, but also 

 interrupted and sinuous, black line ; in some specimens the 

 contrast between the colour of the reddish stripes and 

 plumbeous interspaces is very striking, in others the two 

 shades of colour are less distinct, but the delicate black in- 

 tervening lines are always conspicuous ; the anterior margin 

 of the 2nd segment is gamboge-yellow, as also are the warts 

 on the 5th, 6tli, 7th, 8th and 9lh segments ; those on the 

 12th and lyih segments are brown ; spiracles oval, reddish 

 brown, surrounded b}' a black ring ; ventral surface between 

 each pair of legs gamboge-yellow, between the claspers pale 

 yellow ; legs reddish brown, black at the extremities ; claspers 

 of the same colour. At the end of June or beginning of July 

 it undergoes pupation on the surface of the earth or just 

 below it, and remains in the pupa state until the following 

 April. — Edward Newman. 



Entomological Notes and Captures. 



183. Inquiries respecting Avherontia Atropos. — During 

 the last fortnight I have had five larvae of Acheroutia Atropos 

 brought me at different times. I placed them in a vessel 

 half-filled with baked earth, and supplied them with potato- 

 leaves. The first went down on tlie 20lh, two on the 22ud, 

 one on the 25th, and the last on the 28th. Your description 

 in 'Young England' says, "The caterpillar is found in Au- 

 gust, the perfect insect in October ;" Mr. Stainton, in his 

 ' Manual,' states, " Larvae from middle of July to beginning 

 of October," perfect insect "from August to October." Now, 

 after reading these remarks I am puzzled to account for the 

 appearance of the full-fed larvae during the middle of July, 

 and the following queries have suggested themselves to me : 



