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its darker margin coming in immediate proximity with the 

 pale skinfold, makes the latter more conspicuous : spiracles 

 pale, with black rings : minute dorsal warts black : ventral 

 slightly paler than the dorsal surface ; a rather broad medio- 

 ventrai stripe still paler, and a narrower pale stripe on each 

 side between this and the skinfold: legs andclaspers of 

 nearly the same colour as the ventral surface. Changes to a 

 pupa on the surface of the earth among dead leaves. I am 

 indebted to Mr. Hardy, as above mentioned, for a supply of 

 this larva. — Edward Newman. 



244. Slerrlia Sacraria near Worthiiig and near Brighton. 

 — We learn from the ' Entomologist's Monthly Magazine ' 

 that Mr. Alfred Kirby took a specimen in the salt-marsh at 

 Hove, near Brighton, on the 18th of July ; and Master W. J. 

 Wilson another, a rather damaged female, at West Tarring, 

 near Worthing, on the 19th of August. — Id. 



245. Sterrha Sacraria at Piymoulh. — I had the pleasure 

 of capturing, on the 6th of September, a specimen of Sterrha 

 Sacraria. I found it in a waste place overrun with thistles, 

 about 3 P.M. : the weather at the time was very fine. — 

 G. C. Biynell ; 8, Clarence Place, Slonehouse, Plymouth, 

 September 18, 1865. 



246. Bomby.v Trijolii at Morice Town, Devon. — I beg to 

 offer a few remarks "regarding the food-plant of Bombyx Tri- 

 folii. The larvae used to be very plentiful on the slopes of 

 Whitsand cliff's, Bovisand, &c., in April. The young, bright 

 yellow larva is most commonly found on fine grass, eating, as 

 you say (Entom. 291), from the top downwards; but as they 

 grow to about two-thirds their size they leave the grass, and 

 feed almost exclusively on Oinithopus perpusillus (bird's-foot 

 trefoil). 1 have bred great numbers of them, and find they 

 will eat oak, willow, bramble, furze and grass ; but I was 

 always, without exception, more fortunate in breeding the 

 imagos from those that were fed on bird's-foot trefoil than on 

 any other plant. I am acquainted with a person, living near 

 this place, who, from feeding them on diff"erent grasses, 

 starved them to death, as when trefoil failed he did not pro- 

 cure more. They will not thrive on clover of any sort. — 

 John S. Dell ; 121, Navy Row, Morice Town, Devon, Octo- 

 ber 2, 1865. . 



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