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plenty of Coleophora gryphipennella blotching the leaves. The 
pretty little Cidaria fulvata larva was feeding upon the same plant. 
I crossed over to Grange, and found a colony of Depressaria 
pimpinella larva, from which I bred about thirty, and a few 
D. capreolella. One thing I especially noticed was that I could find 
no larva of Nepticula eneofasciella among the agrimony. The 
larve from the first brood ought to have shown in plenty, but 
they were absent; whereas in October they were in profusion 
on the same plants. Query, had the eggs lain over from some 
cause? Altogether the season was a strange one; flowers in 
profusion, but such a remarkable absence of insect life. Some- 
times in former years I could not sweep without getting a net 
full, while in 1878 I swept several nets away to no purpose. 
(To be continued.) 
ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, CAPTURES, &c. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE LARVA OF HMMELESIA ALCHEMILLATA.— 
The larve from which the following description was taken were 
sent to me at the end of September, 1877, by Mr. J. B. Hodgkinson, 
of Preston. He had found them feeding on the seeds of the 
common dead-nettle. Length nearly half an inch, and tolerably 
plump in proportion; head highly polished, it has the lobes 
rounded, is a trifle narrower than the second, but wider than the 
third segment; immediately behind it, on the second segment, is 
an equally polished half-circular plate, and there is also a 
similarly polished plate on the anal segment. Body cylindrical, 
of tolerably uniform width, tapering a little posteriorly ; segments 
plump, the divisions well defined; there are a few scattered short 
hairs. Ground colour of the dorsal surface, a rather pale but 
warm purple; the head, and frontal and anal plates, intensely 
black. A broad pale yellow stripe extends throughout the dorsal 
area, dividing the black frontal plate into two sections; there is 
also a similarly coloured but much narrower line along the 
subdorsal region, and another one between this and the spiracles. 
Spiracles and tubercles minute, black; the hairs gray. Ventral 
surface uniformly pale yellowish green, with a few minute black 
tubercles.—Gro. JT. Porrrrr; Highroyd House, Huddersfield, 
April, 3, 1879. 
