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which in eating move horizontally, and even vertically. 



(f) Heniiptera, or bugs, who live by suction, their organ 

 of raanduration being so feeble that they have no power to 

 gnaw or bile hard substances. These insects seem under a 

 general ban ; their very name is offensive to ears polite. 



4. Besides these there is still a fourth primary class, — 

 Heteromorpha, — which, from its earliest situation in the 

 World of Insects, possesses some characters of all the rest, 

 as well as some peculiar to itself These are the Neuroptera, 

 which cannot be differentiated by any character common to 

 them all, yet in distinction of the class. Two very different 

 sub-classes are comprised in this heterogeneous group: — 



(g) Slegoptern, which have a necromorphoiis pupa, (h) Neu- 

 roptera proper, or dragonflies, which have an active and 

 voracious pupa, yet totally different from that of all other 

 insects. The dragonflies have four equally large wings, and 

 hawk for insects on the wing, which they seize and devour. 



(To be continued.) 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, CAPTURES, &c. 



Description of the Larva of Acidalia interjectaria. 

 — At the time Mr. Alfred E. Hudd, of Bristol, sent me the 

 eggs of Acidalia incanaria (Entom. xi. 18), he also forwarded 

 a few of J. interjectaria. They were globular in shape, and 

 of a pale salmon-colour. On the 3rd of August the young 

 larvae emerged, and were dark purplish brown ; the head 

 black. Until autumn they fed on Polygonum, aviculare, but 

 after hibernation, on withered dandelion leaves, &c. Only 

 one reached maturity, and it I described on April 18th, 

 as follows: — Length nearly half an inch, stout, and rather 

 stumpy in appearance ; the head has the face flat, and is 

 distinctly notched on the crown ; it is rather narrower than 

 the 2nd segment. The body has a more uniform appearance 

 than many of the species in the genus, but, like its congeners, 

 the segments gradually widen from the 2nd to the 9th ; the 

 next three are of nearly uniform width, but narrower than the 

 9th, and the 13th is still narrower. Like all others of the 

 genus 1 have seen the segments overlap each other, rendering 

 the divisions distinct, and each segment is also transversely 

 ribbed, and is clothed with very inw, scattered, short, bristly 

 hairs. Ground colour a dirty, dull, smoky brown, marbled 

 and variegated with ochveous-yellow, the darker colour 



