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cbrysidiforme at Folkestone, near the end of the tramway in 

 "The Warren." When first seen it was flying slowly, but it soon 

 settled on some plant, which, in ray anxiety to secure the 

 insect, I regret I failed to take note of. The sun did not 

 shine very brightly at the time, as misty clouds were floating 

 about and rather obscured it. — H. Nic/iolls, 2, St. Peters 

 Street, Essex Bond, Islington, in Ent. Mo. Mag. 



242. E.vtraordinory manner of Ov/posilion in lodis ver- 

 varia. — My friend Mr. Wright, who is one of our most ex- 

 perienced and successful rearers of Lepidoptera, has called 

 my attention to the very singular manner in which the female 

 of lodis vernaria deposits her eggs, which are somewhat ob- 

 long in circumscription, and very flat. The first is deposited 

 on a twig of the food-plant, and then another laid on this, 

 and others still above this, until a little pile of twelve or four- 

 teen stands out at right angles with the twig, like a spur or 

 thorn : under a lens they much resemble a stack of cheeses 

 carefully piled one on another; in some instances these piles 

 consisted of only three or four, and twelve or fourteen was 

 the highest number observed. — Edward Newman. 



243. Description of t lie Larva of Fidonia carhonaria. — 

 The eggs are laid in Betula alba (l)irch), Salix cinerea, and 

 perhaps some other species of Salix, on the leaves of which 

 the larvae feed : the eggs were obtained by Mr. James Hardy, 

 of Hubne, from an impregnated female taken by his son in 

 the Rannock district. The larvae were full-fed on the 12th 

 of July, when they rested in a nearly straight position on the 

 leaves, preferring the under surface : if annoyed they fell 

 from their food-plant, and remained motionless, still retain- 

 ing a nearly straight position. Head subporrect, slightly nar- 

 rower than the 2nd segment, but never received into it : body 

 uniformly convex above, somewhat dilated at the sides, 

 where it has a very distinct undulated skinfold below the 

 spiracles : it has no prominent humps, but a double series of 

 minute dorsal warts, each of which emits a bristle ; there are 

 other bristles on the side below the spiracles. Colour of the 

 head dull brown, the face variegated with whitish brown : 

 body with the dorsal surface dingy wainscot-brown of two 

 shades, disposed in very obscure rivulet stripes ; this dorsal 

 surface is bounded on each side by the skinfold, which is 

 very pale, and where it meets the skinfold it is much darker; 



